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BLOOD (5) 1 day, 8 hours from now madjaqk
CANDOR (6) 1 day, 11 hours from now koha____
TOMODACHI (9) 1 day, 16 hours from now Haxegons
I ❤ NY (1 1 2) 1 day, 18 hours from now Zimodo

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BRAVADO (7) 22 hours from now
REALLY (6) 1 day, 5 hours from now
BAZOOKA (7) 1 day, 8 hours from now
AI SLOP (2,4 OR 1,1,4) 1 day, 9 hours from now

The current champion is dohz, with 334 wins! All hail dohz! Full stats


Recent Clues

Contest Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted
TOMODACHI (9) Time wasted, doom endless, ache beginning: it's a digital kind of life (9) T (time) + (wasted) DOOM* + (endless) ACHe + (beginning) It's = TOMODACHI (a digital kind of life, in reference to Tomodachi Life) 3 hours ago
BLOOD (5) Extremely bad if coating bathroom! (5) BaD (extremely) coating LOO (bathroom) -> BLOOD (it would be extremely bad if it was coating your bathroom!) 4 hours ago
CANDOR (6) Four below zero, falling for one's sincerity (6) CONDOR (four below, as in golf), O (zero) replaced by (falling for) A (one) -> CANDOR (sincerity) 4 hours ago

Past Contests

Contest Winning Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted By
RANDO (5) (ended 21 hours, 52 minutes ago) Someone and/or somehow (5) ANDOR* biocuriousgeorgie
BUGBEAR (7) (ended 21 hours, 54 minutes ago) Annoy hairy gay man (e.g. Marcid the Typhoon) (7) BUG + BEAR; Marcid the Typhoon is a Bugbear in Dimension 20 manofsteele
SPINACH (7) (ended 2 days, 16 hours ago) What gets Popeye going in his can, cartoonishly! (7) P_ in (HIS CAN)* &lit koha____
UNITE (5) (ended 5 days, 15 hours ago) It's in the middle of a French bridge (5) UN(IT)E wolf
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