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Happy Wednesday! As always, the midpoint of the week means just one thing: today's Tightrope quiz has a hidden theme! Today's theme is somehow connected to an event that happened on this day in history. Inquiring minds want to know: when you attempt to suss out the hidden theme, do you briefly review events that happened on this day before, during, or after the quiz? Do you try to figure it out off the dome before thumbing through the history books? Any way you choose to play works for us! Once you've got it figured out, reply to this email—and include your theme-finding methodology if you'd like!


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Happy Wednesday! As always, the midpoint of the week means just one thing: today's Tightrope quiz has a hidden theme! Today's theme is somehow connected to an event that happened on this day in history. Inquiring minds want to know: when you attempt to suss out the hidden theme, do you briefly review events that happened on this day before, during, or after the quiz? Do you try to figure it out off the dome before thumbing through the history books? Any way you choose to play works for us! Once you've got it figured out, reply to this email—and include your theme-finding methodology if you'd like!
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June 03, 2026

Happy Wednesday! As always, the midpoint of the week means just one thing: today's Tightrope quiz has a hidden theme! Today's theme is somehow connected to an event that happened on this day in history.

 

Inquiring minds want to know: when you attempt to suss out the hidden theme, do you briefly review events that happened on this day before, during, or after the quiz? Do you try to figure it out off the dome before thumbing through the history books? Any way you choose to play works for us!

 

Once you've got it figured out, reply to this email—and include your theme-finding methodology if you'd like!

Tightrope / DAILY TRIVIA GAME

The smallest bones in the human body, the incus, stapes, and malleus are known as the ossicles and are located where?

a
Wrist
b
Ear
c
Spine
d
Ankle
Reunion / TODAY'S PUZZLE
Reunion
The right words bring them together.
Play Reunion
Revealed / TODAY'S PUZZLE
Revealed
Play Revealed
Quordle / TODAY'S SCORES

70%

SOLVE RATE

8.0

AVG. GUESSES

Can you beat Quordle?
Octordle / TODAY'S SCORES

88%

SOLVE RATE

11.1

AVG. GUESSES

Can you solve Octordle?
Blossom / TODAY'S PUZZLE
Pick your 12 best words!
LEVEL
Mild
28%
OF PLAYERS
BLOSSOM BOSS
300+ PTS
47%
OF PLAYERS
MEGA BOSS
350+ PTS
Beat Today's Blossom Scores
The Missing Letter / Wednesday
12 Down
VERB: "to read messages without contributing on an Internet discussion forum"
4 letters
Find Today's Missing Letter
Pilfer

Create words — 
and steal them! —
before your opponents do.

Play Pilfer

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