The Citadel

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I don't like being back in the Netherlands already. My Scottish vacation was too short and I must return to the Highlands. And so does the missus, so we're already looking for a place where we can do a second stint of the Haggis lands.

Wordle is not dead yet. NYT suggested I make a puzzle and share it. So here goes

You're invited to play a puzzle created by ThePossum.
The clue is: "Betraying my passion hobby"
https://www.nytimes.com/games/create/wo ... jsOOhThJTo

Thank you for the puzzle.

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I'm rubbish at these and am not a huge fan of repeated letters. Just saying...

Mikey wrote: Mon Nov 10, 2025 8:58 pm Thank you for the puzzle.

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I'm rubbish at these and am not a huge fan of repeated letters. Just saying...

I tried to make it as hard as possible

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Just too many options. Also I play where you have to make a guess that could win at every step (hardcore I think it is called).

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road_dogg33j wrote: Mon Nov 10, 2025 11:43 pm Wordle puzzle created by ThePossum 4/6

That was pretty much my expression after completing it .

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https://www.nytimes.com/games/create/wo ... jsOOhThJTo

Interesting science news with significant implications involving the discovery of sugars, a mysterious “gum-like” substance, and an unusually high abundance of supernova dust in samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.

The sugars, including ribose and glucose, are essential for life on Earth, suggesting that the building blocks of life may have originated in space.

Where did this stuff come from? The likely story, according to my AI assistant, is that primitive organics in Bennu probably formed before planets existed, through chemistry on icy dust grains exposed to cosmic radiation in interstellar space. These molecules were later incorporated into an early asteroid, where mild heating and water helped assemble more complex compounds. Asteroids like Bennu then acted as delivery systems, bringing life’s ingredients to young planets like Earth.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-re ... u-samples/

I'm sure I'm not saying something that each of you don't already know and suffer where you live. But I absolutely HATE holiday traffic!!!!!!

I get to leave work at 4:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays and once every three weeks I stop and pick up a pizza to take home. The pizza place is 2.5 miles away from work. It's to the west of us which is the heavy traffic direction so it usually takes me a little longer anyway but I'm usually back home by 5pm. Tonight it took me 55 minutes!!!! Even the back roads that I take to get back home were packed.