Post making contest 5.0

This is update #257.

Day two of mezzacotta incomplete - 2D remains unsolved:

• qwerx was the first person in the competition to solve 2B what the fuck
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• (just before starting extraction) [12:16 PM] Sruixan: I had scarcely even looked at the actual puzzle image tbh
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• [12:59 PM] qwerx3: the heck could the chicken be though
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• [1:22 PM] Sruixan: I am literally surrounded by mathematicians I could send out a distress call maybe
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• [2:05 PM] Sruixan: some of these have stopped looking like words
  [2:06 PM] Sruixan: by which I mean I spent too long staring at GIGGLE going "that is definitely a word yep and not just a sequence of squiggles"
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• [2:53 PM] Sruixan: OKAY I DON'T FEEL AS AGGRIEVED AS I THOUGHT I WOULD
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• [2:54 PM] Akumu: hooray
  [2:54 PM] Akumu: i helped
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• [2:56 PM] Sruixan: WAIT FUCK WE'RE FIFTH
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• we discover that the team in second contains Sean Gardiner and collectively flip our shits
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• [3:50 PM] Akumu: I can say with pretty high confidence that the answer will end with LE
  (the jury is still out on this one)
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• [6:52 PM] DragonFogel: Argh, this is the second most frustrating word ladder puzzle I've ever seen.
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• [7:37 PM] Sruixan: oh no please continue flaliling
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• [9:30 PM] Akumu: I am pretty sure there are no pins in football
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• *insert five minutes of atrocious cricket puns with Kieros here*
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• [10:59 PM] qwerx3: hello i'm back
  [10:59 PM] qwerx3: had a dream that it was solved
  [10:59 PM] qwerx3: oh well

End of message.