Russian Arch Tzar Inititi - ruled until the coronation arch fell on him four eggtimer turn-overs into the ceremony.

Oh. That is a shame :/

Intuitirr Zithaarsacs - not to be confused with the zither, the intuitirr zithaar is a hybrid instrument comprising elements of both the harp and the bagpipes, where each string is attached to resonating bags called intuitirr zithaarsacs either end. These vibrate in ways akin to the throat of carousing bullfrogs and produce music that is considered to be an act of war.

:)

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No clues until at least after the Tuesday outrage.

And which outrage would be that? Third Tuesday 2017?

AAACHIIINRRRSSTTTUZ

Could you at least tell us if the Z is always a Z ... or is it a Z that non-American speakers might insist on depicting in an S format? :)

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oh...and did we say we like humans too? Well we do :)

Could you at least tell us if the Z is always a Z ... or is it a Z that non-American speakers might insist on depicting in an S format? :)

Yes!

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No clues until at least after the Tuesday outrage.

And which outrage would be that? Third Tuesday 2017?

AAACHIIINRRRSSTTTUZ

Could you at least tell us if the Z is always a Z ... or is it a Z that non-American speakers might insist on depicting in an S format? :)

Yes, the Z is always a Z. You silly Brits would not make it an S (although I found myself wondering about that same issue with the current word at Einstein today).

Also, your first guess has at least one letter in the correct place. Maybe more, but I'm too tired to further analyze it right now. Been busy at work this week, but I'll see if I can squeeze in some time to work on it tomorrow.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Interesting there's no e in there.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Interesting there's no e in there.

In fact, it's so interesting, Gordon - it's full blown run for the furthest horizon and don't stop interesting.

:)

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Interesting there's no e in there.

For what it's worth, there's also no O.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

No clues until at least after the Tuesday outrage.

And which outrage would be that? Third Tuesday 2017?

AAACHIIINRRRSSTTTUZ

Could you at least tell us if the Z is always a Z ... or is it a Z that non-American speakers might insist on depicting in an S format? :)

Yes, the Z is always a Z. You silly Brits would not make it an S (although I found myself wondering about that same issue with the current word at Einstein today).

Also, your first guess has at least one letter in the correct place. Maybe more, but I'm too tired to further analyze it right now. Been busy at work this week, but I'll see if I can squeeze in some time to work on it tomorrow.

Okay, on wakeful analysis, I find that your first guess in fact has three letters in the correct places, not adjacent to each other.

Your second guess, besides having too many letters, has none correct.

Your third guess has only one letter too many, and has one correct, not the same as any of the three in the first guess.

I will let you cogitate on that for a while.

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I realize that's not really much to cogitate on, so I will try to make the cogitation period brief before I expand further on the clue-giving. Well, okay, here's a bit: of the four letters you have correct (three in one guess and one in the other) the correct positions are 2, 8, 10, and 19. I will withhold for now which one of them is from the single-correct guess.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I realize that's not really much to cogitate on, so I will try to make the cogitation period brief before I expand further on the clue-giving. Well, okay, here's a bit: of the four letters you have correct (three in one guess and one in the other) the correct positions are 2, 8, 10, and 19. I will withhold for now which one of them is from the single-correct guess.

Okay, a tad bit of mercy for you. The guess with the single correct letter has it in the last proper position in the word. Ponder that for a while.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

HOLD IT!

A wee error on my part. Strike one R from the whole mess.

It is now AAACHIIINRRSSTTTUZ.

Now, let's see what that does for the given clues...

Okay, the letter in position 2 is still correct. The 8, 10, and 18 are not. However, 17 is.

Rather than try to straighten out all the vague clues about the third guess, I will just give you that the last letter is C. The guess with way too many letters still has nothing right.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

A A A
C
H
I I I
N
R R
S S
T T T
U
Z

So like that then?

And the last letter is C

and some other stuff I will go away and look at :)

Thank you! :)

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HOLD IT!

Strike one R from the whole mess.

It is now AAACHIIINRRSSTTTUZ.

Good. I don't have 3 Rs on my Perquackey dice.

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Good. I don't have 3 Rs on my Perquackey dice.

heh heh :) After seeing what my dice did with that second word they produced - I'm taking the precaution of treating them as if they are... well... to be frank... possessed...

A A A C H I I I N R R S S T T T U Z

Zarathustrianastic - As far as I can tell *stare distantly at end of nose* it's what happened to Zoroastrianism when those somewhat chilled-out 1960's lot got psychedelic all over the place you know who you are :) and embraced the triadic philosophy of thesis, antithesis and synthesis to become Zarathustrians. Finding the superlative "Zarathustric" insufficiently ecstatic for some of their more ecstatic experiences, they began to use the superlative-superlative:- Zarathustrianastic instead.

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Good. I don't have 3 Rs on my Perquackey dice.

heh heh :) After seeing what my dice did with that second word they produced - I'm taking the precaution of treating them as if they are... well... to be frank... possessed...

A A A C H I I I N R R S S T T T U Z

Zarathustrianastic - As far as I can tell *stare distantly at end of nose* it's what happened to Zoroastrianism when those somewhat chilled-out 1960's lot got psychedelic all over the place you know who you are :) and embraced the triadic philosophy of thesis, antithesis and synthesis to become Zarathustrians. Finding the superlative "Zarathustric" insufficiently ecstatic for some of their more ecstatic experiences, they began to use the superlative-superlative:- Zarathustrianastic instead.

How the aitch ee double hockey sticks did you get that so quickly?

(I may have taken liberties with suffixes.)

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

How the aitch ee double hockey sticks did you get that so quickly?

*blink (beg your pardon mode)*

I think we'll find it's your fault, David, not mine. Your... *pause to distort truth* ... banging on about there being no O's at about the time Gordon and I were quietly absorbing there were no E's - and I was trying to work out what you do with a Z when there are none apart from throw them away - made something in my head fall over with a clunk - and suddenly all I could think of was Zooastrianism which isn't even a thing. For that I blame einstein for, and the oort cloud *outraged blink* and the proliferation of apogee-perihelion-effigies in quantum mechaniacal astrophysics.

I thought it was a meditative religion ... *furrow brows ready for planting* Is that any wonder? For the surprised and bewildered who began - afflicted only by a difficulty to get back to sleep - then found themselves crashing round the internet under the curse of the dreaded AAEIILMNNOORRST - your... *flick eyes at David's hockey sticks* bashing implements are welcomed. And anyway, I'm just as flabbergasted as you :)

Oh... and your liberties with suffixes - were most most excellent :)

Okay - new word to unjumble is....

A H I I I L N O O P R R T

:)

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Scratches head and behind ears. Feel steam pressure building in ears. Corks still tight.

horripilation: hôˌripəˈlāSHən,hə-/ noun literary
the erection of hairs on the skin due to cold, fear, or excitement.

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Scratches head and behind ears. Feel steam pressure building in ears. Corks still tight.

horripilation: hôˌripəˈlāSHən,hə-/ noun literary
the erection of hairs on the skin due to cold, fear, or excitement.

*roll one eye parabola-ly* your wizardry is impressive, Admiral :) Well done. My apologies for keeping you waiting considerably longer than it took you to form goosebumps. I had an unfortunate tangle in a local shop this afternoon, with what I didn't know at the time was a really quite disturbingly disturbed disabled pensioner. I suspect she's disturbed most other afternoons too. Anyway. I lost :/ but never mind :)

Your turn!! :)

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I have a fun word. Ari Cech Svetz. These are your letters. It is one word. Plural. So e and s are at the end of the word.

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I have a fun word. Ari Cech Svetz. These are your letters. It is one word. Plural. So e and s are at the end of the word.

ScratchZieve - opening quote from the famous rebellion call: "Scratchzieve! Get me a tea strainer inztead" Believed to have been said at the Boston tea party (possibly by a Bostonian of German or Russian extraction) in response to a demand to: "pick that lot up or else". What transpired was an ever more fruitless search for a small enough tea strainer to strain the harbour with, whilst several thousand people added to the chaos by scratching themselves (and, obligingly, each other) with sieves that had already been determined not fit for purpose.

Oh. By the way...you may have noticed I ignored this bit:

e and s are at the end of the word.

Just thought you should know.

I will do so again, in case you missed it the first time :)

*throw away z*

Cesarevitch - name of a horse race held at Newmarket in England

Czaret Chives - little known, little-statured, and short-reigned ruler during the first awkward days of the Russian revolution who declared his field of chives neutral, only to see them get eaten by a passing mule, whereupon he gave up politics and disappeared from the history records.

That time, I ignored this bit:

It is one word.

You probably noticed :)

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Getting darn close with that last one.

Edit--The one above the last on was starting to glow radioactively.

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