Six Feet Under

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1In any[2] state! I think I learned my lesson about being overly demanding the third[3] time[4] around, what with all that last second[5] rushing[6]. I probably should have loosened up[7] a bit[8] in the first[9] place. Anyway, for now[10], if you could write some hunt[11] puzzle content to replace those placeholder[12] words[13], that would be very[14] much appreciated. Okay, that's the last[15] of it! Thanks for reading this quick[16] note. 

2Well, not quite any state. I have some words[17] about what happened last year. 

3Well, I guess depending on your definition of "time[18]", this could be inaccurate. But there's never a need to get pedantic over words[19]

4Read[20] as "I'm slowly losing any[21] hope of bringing this writing phase to an end[22]". 

5Literally! That timeline was wild, even by our hunt[23] standards. 

6Sometimes it feels like all of life is a rush, really. Apart from the one third[24] of my day that's spent unconscious, the rest is just pure[25] rushing. 

7I mean, it's just a hunt[26], right? 

8I suppose it is only inevitable that mankind's quest for perfection must carry over into the realm of the hunt[27]

9I guess I was pretty uptight about[28] wanting everything in the hunt[29] done a certain way at first, but I've definitely had to eat my words[30] since then. 

10Okay so. The transitory nature of time is actually pretty cool. I know you have a puzzle[31] that needs solving, but first[32] isn't it cool how I'm writing of a "now" that has ceased to exist in the future? 

11Read[33]: "anything with an extraction". As a last[34] resort we can just stick in a random crossword or something, I guess. 

12That is just placeholder text, right? I didn't read[35] it wrong? 

13Huh, that placeholder's a bit[36] oddly-phrased. 

14I mean this genuinely! I'm really grateful to everyone who's chosen to spend their time working on this hunt[37] with me. 

15Wow, looking back now[38] those footnotes got a bit out of hand. Sorry you had to hunt[39] through them! 

16One last sting in the tail of this note! (Okay, this is just pure[40] mean.) 

17For example, don't send in a "puzzle" which is just a completely blank[41] page other than the answer right in the middle. Right when we're rushing[42] to finish writing puzzles before the hunt deadline[43] (and running out of time[44], too). 

18Here I'm defining "time" as an instance of the writing process leading up to a large hunt. I guess you could also define it as instances of the rushing of an individual puzzle[45]. (…in which case this would be far, far past the third time.) 

19"Actually," I hear you say, "sometimes there is in fact a need to get pedantic over words." Please educate yourself on hyperbole first[46]. (I know! Maybe these helpful footnotes can help us out.) 

20Present tense, mind you. (It's a bit[47] ambiguous in the end[48], I guess, but what can one do?) 

21Ahh, reading back on the hopeful words[49] of my past self are enough to break a man. 

22I've actually been cursed to live in a neverending cycle of writing more and more words. 

23If anyone has any[50] good deadline-planning tips for writing a hunt[51], feel free to share them. 

24Well, on a good day I get this much unconscious time[52]. Otherwise I'm lying in bed scrolling through words and words[53] of meaningless mutter on social media. 

25Sometimes I take a pause in the middle of the rush and look out a window. It's really quite remarkable how beautiful life[54] can be sometimes. 

26A hunt where every puzzle you write will be read[55] by hundreds of people!! 

27Ah, that every piece of story I write could read[56] as a melody of words to the audience! But it is a fruitless quest without end[57]

28As compared to now[58], when I have given up and am on the verge of reverting to my primitive Google Sheets Hunt Writing Management methods. (Do not recommend.) 

29Yeah, probably put a bit too much emphasis on that end[59]

30Ultimately, I learnt the lesson that any[60] puzzle[61] tools[62] are just that and shouldn't be suffocating to your processes. 

31Whoa, calm down! Not like this hunt's gonna end any time soon. (Unless you're reading this soon before the hunt's end[63].) 

32I guess this depends on your interpretation of existence, which is definitely not something I could reasonably fit into this particular section of footnotes before they end[64]

33Some tough logic puzzles would also be appreciated, I don't think we have many of those and they would be nice to bump the difficulty up[65]

34NOTE TO SELF: Remember to delete that bit, so people won't read[66] it and get the wrong impression about the hunt. 

35Nah, of course. No hunt[67] puzzle could look like that, right? 

36Actually, now[68] that I think about it, I don't recall those placeholder words existing for the other templates. 

37You might doubt how pure[69] my intentions are, but I really do mean it. 

38At first[70] it was like "oh, putting this in parentheses would be a bit confusing, let's just put it at the bottom". 

39So, find any[71] fun footnotes while you were looking through them? 

40Alright, that's all I wanted to say. Have fun working on this puzzle[72] now! 

41And, uh, in this hypothetical situation, don't pretend that's just part of the puzzle and that it's just "a puzzle of few words[73]". 

42Oh, man, that was so awful. We were like a third[74] done with the hunt with like three weeks to go before it started. Man. 

43Again, any resemblance to existing hunts is pure[75] coincidence. 

44Actually, come to think of it, this is the exact state we are in right now. That's a bit[76] unfortunate. 

45There's obviously some discussion of what constitutes an individual puzzle, and this certainly isn't the first[77] place it's been brought up, but this is mostly orthogonal to our point. 

46Hyperbole is the use of exaggerations in speech. It is often used to emphasize a point or to some other end[78]

47More than a bit, really. I could really go on a rant about how silly the English language is! (Don't worry, I won't start. It wouldn't end[79].) 

48Not like I'd have time to deal with language ambiguities with all this rushing! 

49But all innocence must come to an end[80]

50Or at least for getting to the end[81] of the hunt-writing process. 

51At first[82] it's like "oh it's all fine we have 5 months!" and then suddenly we don't quite have 5 months anymore. 

52And I actually feel good the next morning when I get up[83]

53It's amazing how time[84] seems to contract when you're on Discord. 

54Not just nature! Even the busy crosswalks are an intricate tapestry of human life[85] that can be beautiful to observe. 

55As they say, first[86] impressions count!! 

56I'm starting to suspect no one actually reads the story, or really much of puzzle flavor, since there's too many words[87] in there and it'd be too slow. 

57*unsheaths pen of bad fanfic-style writing* This ends now. 

58Puzzles are for fun! No need to turn puzzle[88] writing into work. 

59Administrative efforts can get in the way of the fun of the puzzle! 

60It's like the freedom of a blank[89] check that you can fit to your needs, rather than stress out over having to fill it in correctly! 

61Ah, you know, the usual lineup of tools. Real first[90] rate stuff here. 

62I really do wonder what our first[91] hunt would have looked like if we'd known about these tools at the time! 

63In which case: woops, my bad. Good luck with this puzzle! 

64Nor, for that matter, is it something that I actually know anything about. 

65Speaking of difficulty, I guess the main difficulty in writing logic puzzles is that they don't naturally come with any words[92] from which to extract letters. 

66…I forgot to delete it in the end[93], didn't I. 

67Yeah, no, of course not. What kind of last[94] resort puzzle would that be? 

68First[95] of all, those are in fact placeholders, right? 

69In the end[96], I'm really happy that there's any[97] people working towards this same goal. 

70Not quite sure about[98] how it got so out of hand though. 

71Honestly, I went a bit[99] off the rails when I was writing them. I can't remember half of what I wrote. 

72Well, depending on how you're reading these footnotes, you may have some others to read first[100], I guess. 

73Or "it's actually themed around the song Blank[101] Space". 

74I'm still surprised we managed to finish writing everything in time[102]

75Well, almost. I had to write a ton of words[103] for this puzzle and had nothing else to base them on. 

76Very[104]

77Oh, man, like every time a hunt has an endgame at the end[105] with steps on separate titled pages no one knows how many puzzles the hunt had anymore. 

78In casual communication, it is often used in a fairly careless manner, especially when the speaker assumes that the person they are communicating with does not take things at face value. (Like I did at first.) 

79Plus, there's many other things I'd rant about first. 

80All hope has been swallowed as I continue to pad out this puzzle with more words. 

81Puzzle excellence need not be guaranteed; sanity preservation is prioritized first. 

82I feel like you've probably read[106] enough of this in this puzzle, so maybe I should stop before I start repeating myself. 

83I rarely actually get this much sleep, of course, with how actions are separate from words[107]

84Relativity jokes aside, perhaps this is one puzzle[108] science may never solve. 

85Playing the third[109] person to this dizzying maelstrom of life can be a rather fantastic distraction from one's own. 

86I'm sure most people are really not judgmental at all about puzzles, but it's hard not to judge oneself sometimes when one is working on fill or choosing words[110]

87But you're reading this now, huh? Or maybe this is after the end[111] of the hunt and you're revisiting puzzles to check out their flavor. 

88Ahh, puzzle writing is so much more fun when you're less concerned about the tail end[112] of the marginal gain curve. 

89Now[113] everything works great! 

90Well, there's Puzzlord to manage puzzle writing, and this site runs on the excellent gph-site, and then there's this tool called "GoodSafeHuntTool" that I got from the shady puzzle[114] dealer who hangs out in the alley two blocks down. 

91Almost certainly not that much better, since they're just for facilitating the process and don't really affect the end[115] result in terms of puzzle content. 

92Unless you stick a grid with letters in it at the end[116], but that's kinda boring. 

93Well, this is a first. A rather... unique first, but still a first. 

94Anyway, remember to get rid of that definitely-a-placeholder text at the end[117]

95Wait, am I trapped inside a puzzle in a hunt[118]

96It's been great seeing everyone pitching in in the metaphorical final third! 

97I hope in the end[119] we'll all be able to look back on our work with pride! 

98Honestly, with how unreadable this is, I might end[120] up having to reformat everything. 

99Like a lot off the rails, really. Some of them are still a bit of a puzzle[121] to me. 

100But this is the end[122] of this one! 

101All characters and events in this particular footnote are purely fictional[123]

102Well, technically, if you include the one we put up[124] after the hunt started, we didn't actually finish in time. But I'm happy to ignore that one. 

103There are, like, over 3000 words in this puzzle[125]

104Yeah, not sure how this one's going to end[126]

105To be fair, with puzzles coming in all forms, it really is quite difficult to know which to include and which to exclude. 

106So, how's this hunt[127] going? You doing okay? Drinking water? 

107Experts recommend about[128] 7-9 hours of sleep a night! Listen to the experts!! 

108Perhaps "enigma" is a better choice here. It's one of those words[129] I really like using. 

109The quiet remarkableness of life… I'm sure someday I will find words[130] which can express it in terms I find satisfactory. 

110It's like when a writer tries to read[131] their own piece! The writing sounds all weird to them. 

111That's quite nice! Feels good to be appreciated. Let us know which one was your favorite puzzle! 

112And also when you have time! 

113Yep! Just great! You don't have to read[132] any further down this footnote chain! 

114Yes, of course it's safe and legitimate. He also sells real good solid hunt[133] content, like namystics and all that. 

115NOTE TO SELF: Okay, that was pretty silly. Delete this before it gets read. 

116I guess not everything can be super elegant, and I guess that's just life. 

117Oh, hm. Looks like that placeholder text is still here. Wonder why it wasn't deleted. Ah well, that's life. 

118Someone help! I'm stuck in a puzzle! Any[134] readers there?? 

119NOTE TO SELF: Hmm, fellow writers might think I'm sappy if they see this. Do not let them read. 

120Looks like my attempt to leave the main paragraph pure and clear of sub-clauses may have left it a bit too pure. 

121I'm not sure where most of them start or end[135]

122At last! 

123The words[136] in this puzzle are not intended to reflect real life occurrences and should not be taken as such. 

124I don't think this is going to happen this year, at least. (Famous last words[137].) 

125And most of them are useless! Which is not something you'd be able to tell at first[138]

126Well, since you're presumably reading this while doing the hunt, perhaps you're finding out now? 

127Assuming this actually gets published first[139], ha. 

128Health comes before hunt[140], both in the dictionary and in real life!!! 

129I dunno, it just has a ring to it. Pretty rare for a common word to have an A at the end[141], maybe? Also it looks like it should anagram but doesn't, which is quite neat. 

130Ah, it seems I have spoken for too long. Come, let us end[142] this footnote and send you to your next. 

131Like when I'm desperately trying to produce a draft of an essay that I know I'll get back to, but my brain wants everything to sound right on the first[143] go. 

132Really? Save yourself some time[144] and go check out some other footnote! 

133In fact, I used it to generate about a third[145] of the puzzles in this hunt! 

134Oh no… this might be the end[146] for me… I'll never see my family again… 

135I should probably read them over again to figure out what I wrote? Nah, hard pass. 

136Any[147] resemblance to existing people or events is purely coincidental. 

137Hope everything works out okay in the end[148]

138Which is probably why you're reading through these now[149]

139Don't stay up too late though! When the words[150] on the screen start blurring, it's probably time to sleep. 

140About a third[151] of the dictionary comes before hunt, actually. 

141I have just been informed it anagrams to INGAME. I think I like it less now. 

142Perhaps seeking meaning in life is itself the greatest puzzle. 

143Even if they weren't great on the first go, those essays always turn out alright in the end[152]! There's definitely a moral to be had here. 

144Hey, this is the third[153] sign telling you to go read something else… take a hint? 

145It made some nice solid word puzzles, but unfortunately there was some weird corruption[154] in the file we couldn't get rid of. 

146Please… I have one dying wish… please don't let me die in a shell meta. This meta better be pure… 

147Turns out embedding legal clauses in footnotes makes people less willing to read all the way to the end[155]

148If you're reading this, then it at least worked out okay for this puzzle. 

149Say, the longer I drag these out, the more you'll have to read[156]

150No puzzle[157] is worth sacrificing your health! 

151Yea okay maybe this dictionary prioritization thing is a bit[158] off. 

152Or even the second! 

153Well, this footnote is almost at its end[159], and there'll be nothing there. Bet you feel silly! 

154Also, a bunch of the words[160] seemed to be in some foreign language, but when I looked them up, they didn't match anything I found. 

155Like, I could put "by solving this puzzle you agree to say nice things about this hunt" and no one would have any idea! In fact, I could probably embed a whole bunch of clauses and no one would read any. 

156I guess that's a pretty mean thing to do, huh[161]

157Good luck getting to the end[162] of the hunt! 

158I probably should have suspected something when it told me violence came before words[163]

159HELP EVERYTHING IS BROKEN SEND HELP WE NEED MORE STAFF NO DON'T ABANDON— 

160Also, the text editor I had it open in wouldn't let me delete the words, and then crashed when I tried overwriting the puzzle[164] file. 

161Don't worry! We're almost at the end[165] of this one particular footnote chain! 

162Wow, what a friendly footnote chain. I hope it doesn't get ignored! 

163Ooh, nerd snipe time! Find a set of English words such that for any[166] two words in the set, the alphabetically earlier one is also more essential in a taxonomy of human needs. 

164Yeah, so we deleted all the files in the end[167] and burned the tool in the backyard. Still a fun tool to try out, though! 

165So how much of this puzzle do you have left to get through, maybe like a third? 

166Hm, maybe save that one for after the end[168] of the hunt, though. 

167Plus he said he hadn't heard any bad reviews of it, so I guess we were just unlucky with our words! 

168Like, that task isn't part of this puzzle, to be clear. Wow, I really have to be careful about what puzzle-like stuff I say in these footnotes! Otherwise you might read some meaning where there isn't any. 

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1 In any[2] state! I think I learned my lesson about being overly demanding the third[3] time[4] around, what with all that last second[5] rushing[6]. I probably should have loosened up[7] a bit[8] in the first[9] place. Anyway, for now[10], if you could write some hunt[11] puzzle content to replace those placeholder[12] words[13], that would be very[14] much appreciated. Okay, that's the last[15] of it! Thanks for reading this quick[16] note. ↩
2 Well, not quite any state. I have some words[17] about what happened last year. ↩
3 Well, I guess depending on your definition of "time[18]", this could be inaccurate. But there's never a need to get pedantic over words[19]. ↩
4 Read[20] as "I'm slowly losing any[21] hope of bringing this writing phase to an end[22]". ↩
5 Literally! That timeline was wild, even by our hunt[23] standards. ↩
6 Sometimes it feels like all of life is a rush, really. Apart from the one third[24] of my day that's spent unconscious, the rest is just pure[25] rushing. ↩
7 I mean, it's just a hunt[26], right? ↩
8 I suppose it is only inevitable that mankind's quest for perfection must carry over into the realm of the hunt[27]. ↩
9 I guess I was pretty uptight about[28] wanting everything in the hunt[29] done a certain way at first, but I've definitely had to eat my words[30] since then. ↩
10 Okay so. The transitory nature of time is actually pretty cool. I know you have a puzzle[31] that needs solving, but first[32] isn't it cool how I'm writing of a "now" that has ceased to exist in the future? ↩
11 Read[33]: "anything with an extraction". As a last[34] resort we can just stick in a random crossword or something, I guess. ↩
12 That is just placeholder text, right? I didn't read[35] it wrong? ↩
13 Huh, that placeholder's a bit[36] oddly-phrased. ↩
14 I mean this genuinely! I'm really grateful to everyone who's chosen to spend their time working on this hunt[37] with me. ↩
15 Wow, looking back now[38] those footnotes got a bit out of hand. Sorry you had to hunt[39] through them! ↩
16 One last sting in the tail of this note! (Okay, this is just pure[40] mean.) ↩
17 For example, don't send in a "puzzle" which is just a completely blank[41] page other than the answer right in the middle. Right when we're rushing[42] to finish writing puzzles before the hunt deadline[43] (and running out of time[44], too). ↩
18 Here I'm defining "time" as an instance of the writing process leading up to a large hunt. I guess you could also define it as instances of the rushing of an individual puzzle[45]. (…in which case this would be far, far past the third time.) ↩
19 "Actually," I hear you say, "sometimes there is in fact a need to get pedantic over words." Please educate yourself on hyperbole first[46]. (I know! Maybe these helpful footnotes can help us out.) ↩
20 Present tense, mind you. (It's a bit[47] ambiguous in the end[48], I guess, but what can one do?) ↩
21 Ahh, reading back on the hopeful words[49] of my past self are enough to break a man. ↩
22 I've actually been cursed to live in a neverending cycle of writing more and more words. ↩
23 If anyone has any[50] good deadline-planning tips for writing a hunt[51], feel free to share them. ↩
24 Well, on a good day I get this much unconscious time[52]. Otherwise I'm lying in bed scrolling through words and words[53] of meaningless mutter on social media. ↩
25 Sometimes I take a pause in the middle of the rush and look out a window. It's really quite remarkable how beautiful life[54] can be sometimes. ↩
26 A hunt where every puzzle you write will be read[55] by hundreds of people!! ↩
27 Ah, that every piece of story I write could read[56] as a melody of words to the audience! But it is a fruitless quest without end[57]. ↩
28 As compared to now[58], when I have given up and am on the verge of reverting to my primitive Google Sheets Hunt Writing Management methods. (Do not recommend.) ↩
29 Yeah, probably put a bit too much emphasis on that end[59]. ↩
30 Ultimately, I learnt the lesson that any[60] puzzle[61] tools[62] are just that and shouldn't be suffocating to your processes. ↩
31 Whoa, calm down! Not like this hunt's gonna end any time soon. (Unless you're reading this soon before the hunt's end[63].) ↩
32 I guess this depends on your interpretation of existence, which is definitely not something I could reasonably fit into this particular section of footnotes before they end[64]. ↩
33 Some tough logic puzzles would also be appreciated, I don't think we have many of those and they would be nice to bump the difficulty up[65]. ↩
34 NOTE TO SELF: Remember to delete that bit, so people won't read[66] it and get the wrong impression about the hunt. ↩
35 Nah, of course. No hunt[67] puzzle could look like that, right? ↩
36 Actually, now[68] that I think about it, I don't recall those placeholder words existing for the other templates. ↩
37 You might doubt how pure[69] my intentions are, but I really do mean it. ↩
38 At first[70] it was like "oh, putting this in parentheses would be a bit confusing, let's just put it at the bottom". ↩
39 So, find any[71] fun footnotes while you were looking through them? ↩
40 Alright, that's all I wanted to say. Have fun working on this puzzle[72] now! ↩
41 And, uh, in this hypothetical situation, don't pretend that's just part of the puzzle and that it's just "a puzzle of few words[73]". ↩
42 Oh, man, that was so awful. We were like a third[74] done with the hunt with like three weeks to go before it started. Man. ↩
43 Again, any resemblance to existing hunts is pure[75] coincidence. ↩
44 Actually, come to think of it, this is the exact state we are in right now. That's a bit[76] unfortunate. ↩
45 There's obviously some discussion of what constitutes an individual puzzle, and this certainly isn't the first[77] place it's been brought up, but this is mostly orthogonal to our point. ↩
46 Hyperbole is the use of exaggerations in speech. It is often used to emphasize a point or to some other end[78]. ↩
47 More than a bit, really. I could really go on a rant about how silly the English language is! (Don't worry, I won't start. It wouldn't end[79].) ↩
48 Not like I'd have time to deal with language ambiguities with all this rushing! ↩
49 But all innocence must come to an end[80]. ↩
50 Or at least for getting to the end[81] of the hunt-writing process. ↩
51 At first[82] it's like "oh it's all fine we have 5 months!" and then suddenly we don't quite have 5 months anymore. ↩
52 And I actually feel good the next morning when I get up[83]! ↩
53 It's amazing how time[84] seems to contract when you're on Discord. ↩
54 Not just nature! Even the busy crosswalks are an intricate tapestry of human life[85] that can be beautiful to observe. ↩
55 As they say, first[86] impressions count!! ↩
56 I'm starting to suspect no one actually reads the story, or really much of puzzle flavor, since there's too many words[87] in there and it'd be too slow. ↩
57 *unsheaths pen of bad fanfic-style writing* This ends now. ↩
58 Puzzles are for fun! No need to turn puzzle[88] writing into work. ↩
59 Administrative efforts can get in the way of the fun of the puzzle! ↩
60 It's like the freedom of a blank[89] check that you can fit to your needs, rather than stress out over having to fill it in correctly! ↩
61 Ah, you know, the usual lineup of tools. Real first[90] rate stuff here. ↩
62 I really do wonder what our first[91] hunt would have looked like if we'd known about these tools at the time! ↩
63 In which case: woops, my bad. Good luck with this puzzle! ↩
64 Nor, for that matter, is it something that I actually know anything about. ↩
65 Speaking of difficulty, I guess the main difficulty in writing logic puzzles is that they don't naturally come with any words[92] from which to extract letters. ↩
66 …I forgot to delete it in the end[93], didn't I. ↩
67 Yeah, no, of course not. What kind of last[94] resort puzzle would that be? ↩
68 First[95] of all, those are in fact placeholders, right? ↩
69 In the end[96], I'm really happy that there's any[97] people working towards this same goal. ↩
70 Not quite sure about[98] how it got so out of hand though. ↩
71 Honestly, I went a bit[99] off the rails when I was writing them. I can't remember half of what I wrote. ↩
72 Well, depending on how you're reading these footnotes, you may have some others to read first[100], I guess. ↩
73 Or "it's actually themed around the song Blank[101] Space". ↩
74 I'm still surprised we managed to finish writing everything in time[102]. ↩
75 Well, almost. I had to write a ton of words[103] for this puzzle and had nothing else to base them on. ↩
76 Very[104]. ↩
77 Oh, man, like every time a hunt has an endgame at the end[105] with steps on separate titled pages no one knows how many puzzles the hunt had anymore. ↩
78 In casual communication, it is often used in a fairly careless manner, especially when the speaker assumes that the person they are communicating with does not take things at face value. (Like I did at first.) ↩
79 Plus, there's many other things I'd rant about first. ↩
80 All hope has been swallowed as I continue to pad out this puzzle with more words. ↩
81 Puzzle excellence need not be guaranteed; sanity preservation is prioritized first. ↩
82 I feel like you've probably read[106] enough of this in this puzzle, so maybe I should stop before I start repeating myself. ↩
83 I rarely actually get this much sleep, of course, with how actions are separate from words[107]. ↩
84 Relativity jokes aside, perhaps this is one puzzle[108] science may never solve. ↩
85 Playing the third[109] person to this dizzying maelstrom of life can be a rather fantastic distraction from one's own. ↩
86 I'm sure most people are really not judgmental at all about puzzles, but it's hard not to judge oneself sometimes when one is working on fill or choosing words[110]. ↩
87 But you're reading this now, huh? Or maybe this is after the end[111] of the hunt and you're revisiting puzzles to check out their flavor. ↩
88 Ahh, puzzle writing is so much more fun when you're less concerned about the tail end[112] of the marginal gain curve. ↩
89 Now[113] everything works great! ↩
90 Well, there's Puzzlord to manage puzzle writing, and this site runs on the excellent gph-site, and then there's this tool called "GoodSafeHuntTool" that I got from the shady puzzle[114] dealer who hangs out in the alley two blocks down. ↩
91 Almost certainly not that much better, since they're just for facilitating the process and don't really affect the end[115] result in terms of puzzle content. ↩
92 Unless you stick a grid with letters in it at the end[116], but that's kinda boring. ↩
93 Well, this is a first. A rather... unique first, but still a first. ↩
94 Anyway, remember to get rid of that definitely-a-placeholder text at the end[117]! ↩
95 Wait, am I trapped inside a puzzle in a hunt[118]? ↩
96 It's been great seeing everyone pitching in in the metaphorical final third! ↩
97 I hope in the end[119] we'll all be able to look back on our work with pride! ↩
98 Honestly, with how unreadable this is, I might end[120] up having to reformat everything. ↩
99 Like a lot off the rails, really. Some of them are still a bit of a puzzle[121] to me. ↩
100 But this is the end[122] of this one! ↩
101 All characters and events in this particular footnote are purely fictional[123]. ↩
102 Well, technically, if you include the one we put up[124] after the hunt started, we didn't actually finish in time. But I'm happy to ignore that one. ↩
103 There are, like, over 3000 words in this puzzle[125]. ↩
104 Yeah, not sure how this one's going to end[126]. ↩
105 To be fair, with puzzles coming in all forms, it really is quite difficult to know which to include and which to exclude. ↩
106 So, how's this hunt[127] going? You doing okay? Drinking water? ↩
107 Experts recommend about[128] 7-9 hours of sleep a night! Listen to the experts!! ↩
108 Perhaps "enigma" is a better choice here. It's one of those words[129] I really like using. ↩
109 The quiet remarkableness of life… I'm sure someday I will find words[130] which can express it in terms I find satisfactory. ↩
110 It's like when a writer tries to read[131] their own piece! The writing sounds all weird to them. ↩
111 That's quite nice! Feels good to be appreciated. Let us know which one was your favorite puzzle! ↩
112 And also when you have time! ↩
113 Yep! Just great! You don't have to read[132] any further down this footnote chain! ↩
114 Yes, of course it's safe and legitimate. He also sells real good solid hunt[133] content, like namystics and all that. ↩
115 NOTE TO SELF: Okay, that was pretty silly. Delete this before it gets read. ↩
116 I guess not everything can be super elegant, and I guess that's just life. ↩
117 Oh, hm. Looks like that placeholder text is still here. Wonder why it wasn't deleted. Ah well, that's life. ↩
118 Someone help! I'm stuck in a puzzle! Any[134] readers there?? ↩
119 NOTE TO SELF: Hmm, fellow writers might think I'm sappy if they see this. Do not let them read. ↩
120 Looks like my attempt to leave the main paragraph pure and clear of sub-clauses may have left it a bit too pure. ↩
121 I'm not sure where most of them start or end[135]. ↩
122 At last! ↩
123 The words[136] in this puzzle are not intended to reflect real life occurrences and should not be taken as such. ↩
124 I don't think this is going to happen this year, at least. (Famous last words[137].) ↩
125 And most of them are useless! Which is not something you'd be able to tell at first[138]. ↩
126 Well, since you're presumably reading this while doing the hunt, perhaps you're finding out now? ↩
127 Assuming this actually gets published first[139], ha. ↩
128 Health comes before hunt[140], both in the dictionary and in real life!!! ↩
129 I dunno, it just has a ring to it. Pretty rare for a common word to have an A at the end[141], maybe? Also it looks like it should anagram but doesn't, which is quite neat. ↩
130 Ah, it seems I have spoken for too long. Come, let us end[142] this footnote and send you to your next. ↩
131 Like when I'm desperately trying to produce a draft of an essay that I know I'll get back to, but my brain wants everything to sound right on the first[143] go. ↩
132 Really? Save yourself some time[144] and go check out some other footnote! ↩
133 In fact, I used it to generate about a third[145] of the puzzles in this hunt! ↩
134 Oh no… this might be the end[146] for me… I'll never see my family again… ↩
135 I should probably read them over again to figure out what I wrote? Nah, hard pass. ↩
136 Any[147] resemblance to existing people or events is purely coincidental. ↩
137 Hope everything works out okay in the end[148]! ↩
138 Which is probably why you're reading through these now[149]! ↩
139 Don't stay up too late though! When the words[150] on the screen start blurring, it's probably time to sleep. ↩
140 About a third[151] of the dictionary comes before hunt, actually. ↩
141 I have just been informed it anagrams to INGAME. I think I like it less now. ↩
142 Perhaps seeking meaning in life is itself the greatest puzzle. ↩
143 Even if they weren't great on the first go, those essays always turn out alright in the end[152]! There's definitely a moral to be had here. ↩
144 Hey, this is the third[153] sign telling you to go read something else… take a hint? ↩
145 It made some nice solid word puzzles, but unfortunately there was some weird corruption[154] in the file we couldn't get rid of. ↩
146 Please… I have one dying wish… please don't let me die in a shell meta. This meta better be pure… ↩
147 Turns out embedding legal clauses in footnotes makes people less willing to read all the way to the end[155]. ↩
148 If you're reading this, then it at least worked out okay for this puzzle. ↩
149 Say, the longer I drag these out, the more you'll have to read[156]. ↩
150 No puzzle[157] is worth sacrificing your health! ↩
151 Yea okay maybe this dictionary prioritization thing is a bit[158] off. ↩
152 Or even the second! ↩
153 Well, this footnote is almost at its end[159], and there'll be nothing there. Bet you feel silly! ↩
154 Also, a bunch of the words[160] seemed to be in some foreign language, but when I looked them up, they didn't match anything I found. ↩
155 Like, I could put "by solving this puzzle you agree to say nice things about this hunt" and no one would have any idea! In fact, I could probably embed a whole bunch of clauses and no one would read any. ↩
156 I guess that's a pretty mean thing to do, huh[161]? ↩
157 Good luck getting to the end[162] of the hunt! ↩
158 I probably should have suspected something when it told me violence came before words[163]. ↩
159 HELP EVERYTHING IS BROKEN SEND HELP WE NEED MORE STAFF NO DON'T ABANDON— ↩
160 Also, the text editor I had it open in wouldn't let me delete the words, and then crashed when I tried overwriting the puzzle[164] file. ↩
161 Don't worry! We're almost at the end[165] of this one particular footnote chain! ↩
162 Wow, what a friendly footnote chain. I hope it doesn't get ignored! ↩
163 Ooh, nerd snipe time! Find a set of English words such that for any[166] two words in the set, the alphabetically earlier one is also more essential in a taxonomy of human needs. ↩
164 Yeah, so we deleted all the files in the end[167] and burned the tool in the backyard. Still a fun tool to try out, though! ↩
165 So how much of this puzzle do you have left to get through, maybe like a third? ↩
166 Hm, maybe save that one for after the end[168] of the hunt, though. ↩
167 Plus he said he hadn't heard any bad reviews of it, so I guess we were just unlucky with our words! ↩
168 Like, that task isn't part of this puzzle, to be clear. Wow, I really have to be careful about what puzzle-like stuff I say in these footnotes! Otherwise you might read some meaning where there isn't any. ↩