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LAHosken 🇺🇸👀

It is March and the lovely @enigmarch people have challenged puzzle designers to write a puzzle inspired by today's word: "joker", as in "clown."

Oh no! The USA *clown* President Trump (egged on by his buffoonish adviser Elon Musk) has decided to run the USA like a business. After all, all businessmen know that once you learn how to run one business, you can run anything, sort of like how you might use a Joker to form different poker hands depending on what other cards you have. Alas, Trump never even learned how to run one business, unless you count "ran it into the ground." (How many bankruptcies is he up to now?)

Here are clues to some word pairs. In each pair, the words differ by one letter; we got a 🃏 to stand in both places. Write the letters that 🃏 stands for in the two blanks off to the side. But what to write in the very left-hand blank? Look at the table down below. Using the two 🃏 letters, look up a single letter in the table. We filled in the first row already: hoUse and hoRse have the 🃏 letters U and R. We look up U and R in the table and get W. (Don't worry; if we swizzled the order and looked up R and U instead, we'd still get W; you can't get that wrong.) When you're done, the letters in that left-most column should spell out a word for "joker".

Full puzzle text, hints, and solution at lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/n

text of puzzle from linked puzzle page. There are clues. There are blanks. There are joker-card emoji amongst the blanks.
a code table: if you look up a pair of letters in the table, you get one letter back
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Christian Lawson-Perfect

UPDATE: I misunderstood! The rods have to be in the order 1 ... n, so the solutions in my picture aren't really solutions! This makes the puzzle a lot harder.

A fun question to start the day from Ali Sada on the math-fun mailing list:

"What are the triangular numbers, ( T(n) ), such that a chain of rods with lengths 1, 2, ..., ( n ) (connected by hinges) can be arranged to form a rectangle with a perimeter exactly equal to ( T(n) (i.e. using each rod exactly once without any loss or overlap)?"

If I've understood it correctly, here are two solutions to get started:

Rectangles made of rods. The one on the left has sides 3+5+6+7, 10+2, 4+8+9 and 11+1. The one on the right has sides 2+5, 7, 4+3 and 6+1.
#Puzzle#IDontHaveASolution
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Algot

#WordSlant is a visual word challenge in which a word has been sliced diagonally into smaller pieces. The pieces have been moved around to mix up the word.

Mentally rearrange the pieces to reform the correct word.

If you submit a #Puzzle answer, please use CW or DM.

WordSlant A word starting with a capital letter ha been cut diagonally into pieces. Those pieces have been mixed around, but all the parts are still there. Mentally rearrange the pieces to try to figure out the original word. reference to the date published
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