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pkfox1-Aug-23 0:38

1-Aug-23 0:38

YAUT

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OriginalGriff1-Aug-23 0:49

1-Aug-23 0:49

Good little clue! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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pkfox1-Aug-23 1:00

1-Aug-23 1:00

Easy one I'm trying to encourage more people to participate in the CCC

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Richard MacCutchan1-Aug-23 1:30

Richard MacCutchan

1-Aug-23 1:30

Well, I thought of ABNORMAL but couldn't get the reason. Quite embarrassing really since my first few years of employment were working on a merchant ship.

pkfox1-Aug-23 1:35

1-Aug-23 1:35

Usual being a synonym of normal and the no inverting the answer I thought would give the game away, I often get the solution and post it before breaking it down to justify it

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter1-Aug-23 2:10

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

1-Aug-23 2:10

However abnormal is not exactly the same as not-normal...

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pkfox1-Aug-23 2:47

1-Aug-23 2:47

Agreed, but near enough for our purposes

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter1-Aug-23 2:50

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

1-Aug-23 2:50

Of course - I just noted that because lately me wife calls me abnormal, but in the past I was called not normal... Big Grin | :-D

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Rich Leyshon1-Aug-23 4:07

Rich Leyshon

1-Aug-23 4:07

Mine just calls me a ****. Removes any such confusion. Smile | :)

OriginalGriff1-Aug-23 3:19

1-Aug-23 3:19

"Close enough for Government work." Big Grin | :-D

FreedMalloc1-Aug-23 7:18

FreedMalloc

1-Aug-23 7:18

That's how I arrived at the solution. Usual = NORMAL, No = take the opposite => ABNORMAL. I wasn't sure about that result being a rating but went with it anyway. AB as a naval rating didn't occur to me, even though I have seen it before in the CCC.

Re: CCC 01-08-2023

DerekT-P1-Aug-23 11:51

DerekT-P

1-Aug-23 11:51

rating usual = Abnormal I get. But then the "definition" would need to be just "no", and I don't think of "no" as being "abnormal".
In this case the clue word "usual" is used twice - once as a synonym for part of the answer, and again as the answer's definition. That seems at odds with the customary rules for CCC, no? Wouldn't a "cleaner" clue be rating usual, rare? or similar?

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Re: CCC 01-08-2023

OriginalGriff1-Aug-23 12:10

1-Aug-23 12:10

Easier, yes - but the clue as presented is clever - the "No", negates the previous word to provide the definition, while the other two provide the "basics" for the clue.

I like it (and not just because I got it Laugh | :laugh:

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Wordle 773

StarNamer@work31-Jul-23 14:39

StarNamer@work

31-Jul-23 14:39

Wordle 773 3/6

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Re: Wordle 773 (6/6)

musefan31-Jul-23 15:08

musefan

31-Jul-23 15:08

Wordle 773 6/6*

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Amarnath S31-Jul-23 15:17

Amarnath S

31-Jul-23 15:17

Wordle 773 3/6

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Shane010331-Jul-23 18:59

Shane0103

31-Jul-23 18:59

Wordle 773 4/6

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GKP199231-Jul-23 19:11

GKP1992

31-Jul-23 19:11

Wordle 773 4/6*

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Since past 3 wordles I am choosing the wrong option out of only two possibilities. Sniff | :^)

musefan1-Aug-23 3:01

musefan

1-Aug-23 3:01

Start choosing the other one then Laugh | :laugh:

OriginalGriff31-Jul-23 20:04

31-Jul-23 20:04

Wordle 773 4/6*

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GuyThiebaut31-Jul-23 20:49

GuyThiebaut

31-Jul-23 20:49

Wordle 773 5/6

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― Christopher Hitchens

Re: Wordle 773 - 4 4 me

pkfox31-Jul-23 21:56

31-Jul-23 21:56

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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

Sander Rossel31-Jul-23 22:21

Sander Rossel

31-Jul-23 22:21

Wordle 773 5/6

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Best,
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ChandraRam1-Aug-23 0:19

ChandraRam

1-Aug-23 0:19

Wordle 773 4/6*

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