Smugle or Strugle? – Dispatches From Smegle

[Flap Jack]

Howdy doodly do, folks! As we’ve now had 2 weeks of the Difficult Daily, I thought it might be prudent to move discussions of the day’s puzzle and our scores to a dedicated thread, so we’re not just bloating the comments of the “Reintroducing Smegle” post all the time. Let that be for more general feedback (or bug reports).

And of course, if you get any share-worthy frames in Casual Continuous, feel free to post those here too!

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To start us off,

01/05/2022

5/6

Somewhat tricky, but once I’d got the right series I felt confident I could narrow it down enough not to fail.

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Also, what do you think: should this thread be spoiler-free, or not? I’m leaning towards not – because I generally prefer to do the Difficult Daily myself before hearing about others’ scores anyway, and it would be cool to speak openly without having to wait until the next day – but only if there’s consensus on it.

Topic

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 11/05/2026 


Entangled, Fathers and Suns

[Dave]

11/05/2026 

BTE1.

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 11/05/2026 

BTE1, T, F&S

[Unrumble]

Fathers & Subs

[Turk Thrust]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 11/05/2026 

A rare moment of luck as I went for the blackest episode I could think of.

[clem]

11/05/2026 

[FutureEchoes]

12/05/2026 

Blue, The Inquisitor, Legion

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 12/05/2026 

The Inquisitor, White Hole, Bodyswap, Psirens, oh it could be anything, oh i got it

8

[Moonlight]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 12/05/2026 

Demons & Angels, Epideme

[Dave]

12/05/2026 

White Hole, Ouroboros, The Last Day.

Didn’t have a clue what I was looking at until the fourth reveal.

[Moonlight]

I figured out the series on the third reveal and had a lucky guess on the episode.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 12/05/2026 

Psirens, Legion, Emohawk

[Unrumble]

12/05/2026 

I was about 10 away from a new best streak. 20 weeks down the drain… 

[clem]

12/05/2026 

Ouroboros, Thanks for the Memory, DJ

[Unrumble]

13/05/2026 

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 13/05/2026 

BitR II

9

[FutureEchoes]

13/05/2026 

BITR I-III, Only the Good, Pete Part II 

Curse you, Series VIII!

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 13/05/2026 

BitR3,2,1 Krytie TV

[Dave]

13/05/2026 

BitR 3, 2, 1.

[Turk Thrust]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 13/05/2026 

A lucky guess as I had no clue what it was.

[clem]

13/05/2026 

BITR1, 3, 2

[Moonlight]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 13/05/2026 

I finally recognized the scene on the last clue but I couldn’t remember what episode it was stapled onto. I guessed Cassandra.

[Unrumble]

14/05/2026 

Samsara, Twentica 

[FutureEchoes]

14/05/2026 

Samsara, Can of Worms, Officer Rimmer 

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 14/05/2026 

not Can of Worms.

Have emojis broken for anybody else?

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 14/05/2026 

Can, Officer

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 14/05/2026 

Officer Rimmer, Samsara

[Dave]

14/05/2026 

Samsara, Officer Rimmer, Can of Worms.

[Moonlight]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 14/05/2026 

Samsara, Can of Worms

[Flap Jack]

Have emojis broken for anybody else?

They look fine to me…

[Turk Thrust]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 14/05/2026 

[clem]

14/05/2026 

[Flap Jack]

15/05/2026 

X/5 

Jesus Christ, I think I would have had a better chance of getting this one by just choosing Red Dwarf episodes purely at random than by actually trying to understand what I was looking at. I would have got the same result if it were a Casual Continuous.

[Unrumble]

15/05/2026 

[FutureEchoes]

15/05/2026 

Gunmen, Marooned, DNA, Confidence and Paranoia, Ouroboros 

… I’m still not sure what exactly I’m looking at

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 15/05/2026 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 15/05/2026 

Hey Ian…

[Dave]

15/05/2026 

Feels obvious in retrospect, I’m kicking myself.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 15/05/2026 

[Ian Symes]

This is Cappsy’s fault. Look:

[Jonathan Capps]

He’s photoshopped that, what I actually said was “No, don’t be so cruel! Think of the streaks, Ian. THE INNOCENT STREAKS!”

[Unrumble]

I don’t know if I would’ve preferred losing my streak like I did, to a generic VI cockpit shot 3 days ago, or this…

it’s this, isn’t it.

[Dave]

Haha, you bastard Cappsy.

[Turk Thrust]

I guess I should feel pretty good that I got anywhere near:

#RedDwarf #Smegle 15/05/2026 

BITR1, BITR2, BITR3, Pete 1, Pete 2

[Frank Lewis]

#RedDwarf #Smegle

🟩

I got Back To Earth (Earthprime, Earthlike?!?)

[clem]

15/05/2026 

Timeslides. Just guessed really. 

[Moonlight]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 15/05/2026 

Cappsy will pay.

[FutureEchoes]

16/05/2026 

Blue, BiTR Part III, Psirens, The Inquisitor 

Back to sanity, it seems

[Moonlight]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 16/05/2026 

Nanarchy (is it the buggy?)

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