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   Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 22:48:59 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

   • Algot

   @Algot FLIBBERTIGIBBET, which I only found because "flibber" looked like the only arrangement of letters that didn't seem *too* weird, and when I asked Google if "flibber" was a word, it decided to be friendly and point me to the whole thing (not as a first result, mind you, but still, on the first result page).

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     Algot (algot@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 23:02:51 JST Algot

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     @aaribaud

     I had hoped to be difficult with this puzzle.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 23:22:54 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     • Algot

     @Algot You were!

     Had English been my mother tongue, I'd have kept on trying to match words I knew to the grid, confident that I *would* know the secret word.

     But English is not my mother tongue, so I was aware that I might not know the word I was looking for.

     Thus instead of relying on my own vocabulary, I quickly switched to looking for 7-letter sequences which looked like an English word or a part of one.

     The only contenders were HITFLIB and FLIBBER.

     Google did the rest…