The Ace Magpie

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Game Changer

I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole of Dropout and specifically their show Game Changer. I could not help myself but channel my inner Sam ever so slightly. Heads up, you’ll want to be very familiar with Game Changer.

If you get stuck, there’s some hints at the bottom of this page.

I gotta give a big thanks to Maeve G, Val Kelner, Tau and Darantius for playtesting and making this an infinitely better puzzle.

The clues:

  1. Will Grant meet someone? (8)
  2. Not Brennan Lee Mulligan (9)
  3. Rigged to fail yes or no (7)
  4. Random podium inspection! (5)
  5. Sam, where are you from? (9)
  6. Formerly __ (12)
  7. Cool as a __ (8)
  8. The magician could be called the amazing __ (6)
  9. The most wholesome episode (7)
  10. The platform (7)
  11. Who came to show what’s on Sams phone (6)
  12. __ the greenroom (6)
  13. Sam says don’t __ (6)
  14. Got surprised on like my coffee both times (5)
  15. Brennan’s something we’ll have to bleep (7)
  16. Who ‘the lady said buttholes’ refers to (4)
  17. I’ll take sea serpent for 800 episode (8)
  18. Clemmons, Mckenna and Ross (4)
  19. The murder victim (4)
  20. The immunity idol (10)
  21. ‘We spun it off unchanged’ (13)
  22. Welcome to __ (the official cast recording) (9)
  23. Feeding this on Nom Nom Nom (5)
  24. Ify (7)
  25. A defendant stupidly interrupting his lawyer’s closing remarks (5)
  26. __ down (7)
  27. The circle? (7)
  28. My name is Sam __ (5)
  29. Adjustable side table, walnut (5)
  30. In a game most changed and karaoke (4)
  31. Not Simon says (7)
  32. Secret __ (3x) (5)
  33. One noise boy’s signature sound (7)
  34. __ place (6)
  35. Joey, Ross and Blaine improvise __ (11)
  36. Story of __ (not by Tom Waits) (8)
  37. Next __ please (5)
  38. Not Grant O’Brian is getting ready for a marathon with this (9)
  39. It’s a Roseate __ (9)
  40. Battle royal inspiration and two parter in an earlier season (8)
  41. ‘Tell me about yourself’ reveal (8)
  42. Everybody do the __ (5)

The printer friendly version:

Hints:

Maybe my universal hint might help you

Hint 2

Having a look at the order of the clues and their answers might be helpful

Hint 3

Are there any letters leftover?

spreadsheet mug

In my defence, I was given an idea, procreate, and shenanigans spoons

me

You know that feeling where you see something done kind of poorly and you think ‘I can do that better’. I was already ordering at a print on demand store that day and-

Anyway, story aside, I now have a very nerdy mug

Some nerd facts about this:

  • The green is halfway between excel and google sheets, since I use both and couldn’t pick one
  • Similarly, the spreadsheet has elements from both excel and google sheets. It is not a screenshot, but I drew it in procreate from scratch

As soon as I posted the picture of said mug, several people said they’d want one of their own. Now I’m not about to open a shop or deal with shipping mugs all over the world, so instead here is

Please don’t use for reselling/commercial use. If you do get it on something for yourself (or as a present for a friend) I’d love to see it

A little house

Totally not me procrastinating and designing this just because

Or if you have a plotter cutter get the svg files here

Whose line is it anyway – wordsearch

I had some fun mixing a quiz and a wordsearch.

  • In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.
  • Call me Ishmael.
  • There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
  • You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
  • Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were-Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.
  • It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen
  • In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in the Times.
  • It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
  • WHEN I was four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by himself. This is how I looked at the time.
  • The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
  • Marley was dead, to begin with.
  • If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.
  • Jack Torrance though: Officious little prick.
  • Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and what is the use of a book, thought Alice without pictures or conversation?’
  • The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.
  • All children, except one, grow up.
  • The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play, so we sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day. I sat there with Sally. We sat here we two and we said ‘How we wish we had something to do.
  • The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.
  • The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
  • When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
  • It was a pleasure to burn.
  • Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
  • I’m pretty much fucked.

(you should have a final answer of two words at the end)


Rather have it in pdf form?

need a hint?

Finally, a little thank you to the people in the etp discord for testing it for me.

Enigmarch day 31: meta

Enigmarch day 30: phantom

Enigmarch day 29: note

Enigmarch day 28: map

Enigmarch day 27: suit

Enigmarch day 26: name

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