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Happy Friday! Today's lead-off Tightrope question concerns those "weird little marks" known as quotation marks. Here at the Games Newsletter, we love all punctuation, period. With that in mind, here's a bonus question: Which typographical symbol was formed by merging the letters "e" and "t"? Think you know the answer? Reply to this email and let us know!

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June 05, 2026

Happy Friday! Today's lead-off Tightrope question concerns those "weird little marks" known as quotation marks. Here at the Games Newsletter, we love all punctuation, period. With that in mind, here's a bonus question:

Which typographical symbol was formed by merging the letters "e" and "t"?

Think you know the answer? Reply to this email and let us know!

Tightrope / DAILY TRIVIA GAME

Promoting his book The Road, who told Oprah Winfrey he doesn’t use quotation marks for dialogue, saying there’s no need to “blot the page up with weird little marks”?

a

John Grisham

b

Tom Wolfe

c

Stephen King

d

Cormac McCarthy

Reunion / TODAY'S PUZZLE

Reunion

The right words bring them together.

Revealed / TODAY'S PUZZLE

Revealed

Quordle / TODAY'S SCORES

90%	SOLVE RATE
7.4	AVG. GUESSES

Can you beat Quordle?

Octordle / TODAY'S SCORES

85%	SOLVE RATE
11.4	AVG. GUESSES

Can you solve Octordle?

Blossom / TODAY'S PUZZLE

Pick your 12 best words!

	LEVEL Mild
17% OF PLAYERS	BLOSSOM BOSS 300+ PTS

34% OF PLAYERS	MEGA BOSS 350+ PTS

Beat Today's Blossom Scores

The Missing Letter / Friday

13 Across

NOUN: "a usually metal piece that attaches a door, gate, or cover to something and allows it to open and close"

5 letters

Find Today's Missing Letter

Pilfer

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

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