okay which of you did this

not hard to be honest

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@kuriko @RinaVolpina I assume they're amused, but the mask and lighting combine to make her look annoyed, which is kinda funny.
@kuriko this is a bit sloppy but I love this
@diz @kuriko yea, I don't see what's so hard, I see fof and foooof several times around
@kuriko damn, you can get some really low effort shitposts published these days
@kuriko That word search reads like Dylan Beattie's description of the dog amplifier. My brain just keeps going "fox! no, fo- no..."
@kuriko I showed this post to my wife and she immediately went "found it!" and pointed to the word "fox" on the cover ​
@hazelnoot This is the kind of out-of-the-fox thinking we need.
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@kuriko hey i saw this guys videos

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@kuriko I'm having flashbacks to when Ashens released a book called "Fifty Thousand Shades of Grey", which was just the phrase "shades of grey" written over and over. XD
@Bowsette @kuriko There also was a note taking book with blank pages in fifty shades of grey coloured paper...

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😱 I was thinking, "How bad can it be? Endless word search until you find F-O-X in a row somewhere?"

I didn't realize that F, O, and X were the only letters used! 😂 😱 😭

@ColesStreetPothole @kuriko I was hoping they'x use Q and E a bit to give false positives
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One hopes that different print runs have the word in different places.
@kuriko the world needs the audiobook version
@kuriko @halcy I need one
@eta @kuriko @halcy Foxes are free, you can just take one home with you.
@KatS @eta @kuriko i keep saying this but my SO has weird and frankly absurd objections about „rabies“ and „the cat would not be happy about this“
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Dunno but they deserve an award - genius.
Sadistic Genius, but...
@kuriko ooooh! shortly after my covid stroke, my speech therapist gave me an "impossible" word search puzzle to do! it was just like some of these! very fun but difficult!
@kuriko Not on these two pages. Next pages please.
found it
its on the cover
@kuriko another fine publication of Rand corporation

@phooky @kuriko

Ah, "One Million Random Digits", the book which states in the foreword that it was not proofread, because it was felt that occasional transpositions and similar errors would not substantially reduce the randomness.

this seems like something @pushcx would have a hand in….

@binford2k Hah, what an obnoxious book.

For a lovely puzzle along these lines check out LOK (print or on steam).

@kuriko It would be funny if it was on Page 69.
@kuriko would you not just go along each row and for each f scan around it. Fox is a short word.

@econads @kuriko

Based on the photo, every page is a variation of the three letters, and those three letters only.

And I suppose the correct answer may be vertically too. Or sideways!

@iju @econads @kuriko Or diagonally, or backwards

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Yeah I mean each F, look at each letter around it too see if any are Os and then the next to see if it's X. Ignore the other letters. It's boring but you could mentally automate it so you're doing it subconsciously pretty quick I think.

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@kuriko who needs a fox when there's so many oxen. 🐂
@kuriko @ariadne That’s one present for 2026 sorted out >:-)
@kuriko This is the kind of challenge where I'd get more satisfaction from figuring out a way to cheat (e.g. scanning the whole thing to OCR and using my own software to solve it) than actually doing it the way they intended.
@macronencer @kuriko Analog approach could be even more fun. Make a filter to slide over that gives 3 black squares in a row only when aligned with solution.