Phil R
toxicmonkery.bsky.social
Phil R
@toxicmonkery.bsky.social
Middle aged functioning alcoholic.
Been building pc's since they came out and playing games.

Still playing Quake 2 jump mod. I host a server and have made many maps for it using Quark.
Strands #572
“As old as time”
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Half expected to find my name in there :)
September 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Connections
Puzzle #837
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First completion in about a week. Still went to the wire :)
September 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Strands #571
“Simply divine”
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September 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
September 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Strands #568
“Find an opening”
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September 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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September 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Strands #567
“Stand by me”
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Eeeee :)
September 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Strands #566
“Dire straits”
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Money for nothing
September 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Strands #565
“Pour it on”
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Jesus wept, that took all day 🤪
September 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Wordle 1,548 4/6*

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September 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Strands #534
“Dash it!”
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Tricky one today.

Connections
Puzzle #800
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Always fun.
August 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Connections
Puzzle #795
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One small mistake here. I'm ok with that.

Strands #529
“Honest-to-goodness”
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^^ This was easy today, once the Spangram was established everything else just fell into place.

Did a 5 on Wordle. That's a bugger of a word :)
August 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Strands #526
“Find the remainder”
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Spangram word was pretty obvious given that clue.

Connections
Puzzle #792
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Painless today :)

I scored 3 on Wordle but play that in Discord and can't copy results here :)
August 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Strands #525
“A rip-roaring good time”
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Annoyingly again there were two Spangrams and I got the wrong one first.

Connections
Puzzle #791
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Purples were stupidly obscure today :)
August 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Connections
Puzzle #790
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Very shaky start but got there in the end.

Strands #524
“Gastronomic gadgets”
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Last couple of words had me going for a bit here.

How did we all do?
August 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Strands #519
“Cutting it close”
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Easy one today.
August 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Strands #517
“Pretty as a picture”
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Connections
Puzzle #783
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That was tricky
August 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Reposted by Phil R
August 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Strands #516
“Slithering away”
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Another nice easy one :)
August 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Reposted by Phil R
Fact: The President of the United States has a worse criminal record than 99% of the people he is deporting.
July 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Got lucky with a birdie.
July 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Strands #514
“You've got that right”
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Another nice easy one
July 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Strands #513
“You got that right”
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Pretty sure one of those words doesn't even exist.
July 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Strands #512
“Inch by inch, row by row”
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Great fun today. Spangram is huge :)
July 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Strands #511
“That's a good look”
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Wurd puzzels!
July 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM