On Wed, 9 Nov 2022, xwindows wrote:

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Subject is an object, which its name has two words and *11* letters total.

Wait what? No one managed to answer this!? I thought this was so obvious.

Some hints:

- This is a household object, which is commonly found in a toilet.
- It is a disposable item.
- The name I have chosen to use has no "toilet" in its name.

Last call for answers: it would be revealed 7 days after this
if no one managed to come up with the right answer.

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On Wed, 9 Nov 2022, xwindows wrote:

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Subject is an object, which its name has *8* letters.

Maybe I was too detached from mainstream culture and was still
thinking that this was a familiar item in average home;
while it might possibly no longer be the case in some places?

Some hints:

- This is a living room (or sometimes bedroom) furniture.
- It is used for storing/displaying a specific kind of item
which usually reflects intellectual or poetic nature
of the owner of such dwelling.
- The furniture itself, as well as the items inside
are depicted in the drawing. (As if it was not obvious already...)
- There are also intentionally-fake versions of this furniture,
which do not actually store aforementioned items;
but are placed there solely to make an (fake) impression
to visitors, that the owner really had such items
and/or really had aforementioned personal qualities.
- The drawing might look misleading, because it represents the smallest
kind of this furniture-- the kind you place on an existing desk,
or short cabinet, rather than directly on the floor.
- The term I have chosen is an alternative one: the one you
are probably more familiar with would have 9 letters,
but it shares the first 4 letters with this term anyway.

Last call for answers: it would be revealed 7 days after this
if no one managed to come up with the right answer.

Regards,
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xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:

On Wed, 9 Nov 2022, xwindows wrote:

,-----.
( | O )
`....\-'
)____)


Subject is an object, which its name has two words and *11* letters total.

Wait what? No one managed to answer this!? I thought this was so obvious.

Some hints:

- This is a household object, which is commonly found in a toilet.
- It is a disposable item.
- The name I have chosen to use has no "toilet" in its name.

I hadn't counted on that last one, but now I see GVFFHRCNCRE. I
tend to think of that as something softer, but you're probably
technically correct.

My grandfather drove in a time trial race around the perimeter of
Australia in the 1950s, and was in part sponsored by "Hardy's
Toilet Paper", a brand that somehow hasn't lasted.
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xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:

On Wed, 9 Nov 2022, xwindows wrote:

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|+-'-'-'-'---`--+|
'----------------'


Subject is an object, which its name has *8* letters.

- The drawing might look misleading, because it represents the smallest
kind of this furniture-- the kind you place on an existing desk,
or short cabinet, rather than directly on the floor.

That's what got me, I'm used to wrestling much larger ones around
and through doors. Actually a small OBBXPNFR like that has a lot of
arguments in its favour!

I was actually thinking of something even more antiquated now:
encyclopedia.
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On Thu, 24 Nov 2022, xwindows wrote:

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:_____________;

Subject is an object, which its name has 2 words and *11* letters total.

Some hints:

- This object often come in orange or red color,
usually also with white stripes on it.
- You probably have seen one (or more) of this on the street.
- Some well known libre multimedia playback software package
used this as its logo.

Last call for answers: it would be revealed 7 days after this
if no one managed to come up with the right answer.

Regards,
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On Thu, 24 Nov 2022, xwindows wrote:

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Subject is an object, which its name has 2 words
and *8* letters total.

Some hints:

- This is a used-to-be common home electrical equipment.
- The name I was choosing for this challenge came from its size,
weight, and where one would commonly stick this equipment at.
- This kind of equipment is still actually in common use,
but its form-factor have changed to be either:

A. Much smaller and much lighter.
B. Placed at the middle of the wire rather than at the end.

Both of which made the name in the question no longer fit
for referring to modern incarnations of this thing.

Last call for answers: it would be revealed 7 days after this
if no one managed to come up with the right answer.

Regards,
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2022, xwindows wrote:

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The drawing is an object, which its name has *4* letters.

Some hints:

- This may look like wheel, but that can both put you on track
and sidetrack you at the same time.
- This object can be soft or hard depending on the amount
of stuff it got inside.
- This object is usually colored black.
- Don't roll it over sharp objects;
doing so can cause you problems down the road.
- There are multiple ways to spell the name of this object;
and the one you're familar with might not be the one
this challenge asked for.

Last call for answers: it would be revealed 7 days after this
if no one managed to come up with the right answer.

Regards,
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On 2023-08-17 Thu 07:59 GMT, xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:

On Thu, 24 Nov 2022, xwindows wrote:

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,|' """ '|,
/`-_______-'\
:_____________;

Some hints:

I'd thought it either some kind of cake or a device for lifting heavy
objects. But now I see it, genssvp pbar?
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On 2023-08-17 Thu 07:59 GMT, xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:

On Thu, 24 Nov 2022, xwindows wrote:

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-==-"

Some hints:

Ha, I'd thought that was paper coming out. Now I see it I think, jnyy
jneg?
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poisoned coffee, n.:
Grounds for divorce.
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Is it: 7e685455cc6aa46d7b3607a2a31e8f3a65f76fc356098c46fe5bebe33b3d2a23 ?

On Fri, 18 Aug 2023, barnold wrote:

On 2023-08-17 Thu 07:59 GMT, xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:

On Thu, 24 Nov 2022, xwindows wrote:

_
| |
|=|
|' '|
|=_=|
|''"''|
|##n##|
,|' """ '|,
/`-_______-'\
:_____________;

Some hints:

I'd thought it either some kind of cake or a device for lifting heavy objects. But now I see it, genssvp pbar?
--
barnold
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
-- Adlai Stevenson

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On 2023-08-17 Thu 07:59 GMT, xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:

On Wed, 30 Nov 2022, xwindows wrote:

,-,-.
; ; :
| | ()) |
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`-`-'

- There are multiple ways to spell the name of this object;

I know only two and I'll go with... gver? I'd offer the other but that
might be considered tiresome.
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2023, xwindows wrote:

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Subject is a object, which its name has *5* letters.

Some hints:

- A more specific category would be "Electrical works".
- This is a common eletromechanical energy conversion device.
- It came in many shapes and sizes. Some type work directly on DC power
(like the one depicted here), some types work directly on AC power,
some type requires power to be applied in specific pattern and sequence,
some type require specific control signal.
- You probably have at least one in your room,
in the computer in front of you,
and/or deep inside certain gadget in your pocket--
which you might already have forgotten about its presence
inside that gadget already... until someone actually phoned you.

Last call for answers: it would be revealed 7 days after this
if no one managed to come up with the right answer.

Regards,
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2023, xwindows wrote:

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r\ \ /
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It's a ZBGBE?
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Since this is more than half a year without answer now,
let there be hints!

On Sun, 24 Dec 2023, xwindows wrote:

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Subject is an object. The word has *5* letters.

Maybe this is a fault on my part regarding a substantial disconnect
between the word choice and the imagery depicted. Anyway:

- It is likely what you think it is.
- But the word this challenge uses rather refers to a variant
of this object that is commonly used for inspecting jewelry,
amulets, and such; rather than the more common kind for layman uses.

Last call for answers: it would be revealed 7 days after this
if no one managed to come up with the right answer.

Regards,
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On Sat, 11 Oct 2025, xwindows wrote:

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Subject is an object, which its name has *5* letters.

Since this one is sitting still for a while, here are some hints:

- This very challenge could have been filed under Material or Stationery
category, and would still bear the same answer.
- This object comes in various colors, but the most basic one is white.
- A main way to use this object is to scratch its end onto a flat dark object
(which is usually either black or dark green).
- One common way naughty kids (or even adult supervising them)
misappropriated this object was to snap it in half and throw
the snapped pieces (or even the whole object) at each other.
- People younger than certain age have grown up without having ever seen
this object in use.

Last call for answers: it will be revealed in 1 month of no one managed
to come up with a correct one.

Regards,
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