"Rhombporphyry... I just didn't think MBP would be in a word..." *less than a microsecond passes* "Oh Thumbprint I suppose..." Dude stop, you are too smart.
@davidalderson3 жыл бұрын
Half thinking Mark is a genius. Half thinking Mark is just making words up and I am too stupid to realise.
@mceajc3 жыл бұрын
The speed at which Mark came up with "Thumbprint" as a couter-example for is low confidence in "MBP" appearing in an answer - that shows me so clearly how quickly his brain can pattern-match. Fascinating to watch the clues being unpicked with all the niche knowledge required!
@mjkluck3 жыл бұрын
Cryptic solving is why I started following this channel. More pease.
@sotek27843 жыл бұрын
Your ability to solve this is jnanas!
@lordpye3 жыл бұрын
Almost spit out my drink reading this. Needs more upvotes!
@terracottapie2 жыл бұрын
JNANA is one that I know simply from it being on "weird consonant slide" Scrabble tourney study lists.
@Tahgtahv3 жыл бұрын
Enqueue is a fairly common term in technology, meaning to add to a queue. (Compare with Dequeue, to remove from a queue.)
@juliannicholls3 жыл бұрын
Also, a Deque (pronounced deck) which is a double-ended queue.
@StorymasterQ3 жыл бұрын
@@juliannicholls I propose Eueuqueue (pronounced "yuu-kyuu") for a double-ended queue.
@michaelhill40913 жыл бұрын
Crossword makes for a great day. I’ve prob seen every crossword video from Mark and this may be the best. How he pulls unusual words out of his mental inventory is amazing.
@elrichthain3 жыл бұрын
"Maybe this is 'tickle-bobbins'" gave me a tickle. Bobbins, I wasn't looking for a pun!
@Sam_weiqi3 жыл бұрын
Seriously amazing. I can't imagine ever being able to do this.
@sh4dowchas3r3 жыл бұрын
Wow Rhombporphory takes me back to school and glaciation, it's an erratic rock we get in the UK carried from Norway by the glaciers. It feels odd hearing Mark say a word you know and then back away from it to something even he isn't convinced by.
@sh4dowchas3r3 жыл бұрын
than again I got the spelling of the right word, I thought I knew, wrong.
@SnowTheJamMan3 жыл бұрын
These are so confusing to me (as a non native), once you or Simon explain it, the logic (mostly) makes sense, but i have NEVER managed to do a clue on my own, still love watching these.
@josephmarrow55983 жыл бұрын
As a native speaker, I've never managed it either, you're not alone
@joaoricardo91743 жыл бұрын
I think it's like any game, you kinda have to know the "rules" to play. If you give a Sudoku puzzle to someone who has never seen one before, and just say "solve it" without telling them the rules, they will have no idea what to do either
@mycroft640893 жыл бұрын
As an American, I would never attempt a British cryptic crossword. I mean we can't even spell offenses properly.
@andrewzmorris3 жыл бұрын
I can tell you that as a native speaker, the only 2 words that a native speaker would recognise are "offences" and "secession". Every other word is either foreign, someone's name or some obscure technical jargon.
@idannen3 жыл бұрын
I'm not a native speaker and I managed about 2 clues when I tried several cryptics... I feel you.
@mattbargeable3 жыл бұрын
Pata Pata is the great song & dance by Miriam Makeba!
@theoryjoe14513 жыл бұрын
Every word spoken was from the English language, the only language I know, yet I understand nothing. I am watching with confusion and admiration.
@andrewzmorris3 жыл бұрын
Most of the words aren't really English. They're mostly Latin, French, Greek, Hindu, people's names .... Very little English.
@FireSiku3 жыл бұрын
"I understood all of those words individually" does sum up my feeling as well.
@mightymaniac87123 жыл бұрын
@@andrewzmorris If a word is/has been used by a sufficient number of english speaking people, it’s english. By that logic, there are almost no english words since almost all can be traced back to greek/latin/indo-european etc.
@andrewzmorris3 жыл бұрын
@@mightymaniac8712 you think a sufficient number of people are saying jnanas?
@joelmartin25493 жыл бұрын
Mighty Maniac, I understand your point, the question then is, what makes a word “English”? Some words we use are letter for letter the same as their, Latin, French, Greek origins, and then some are Englishafied. Where does one draw the line?
@Jablicek3 жыл бұрын
A braid of hair is sometimes called a queue. This was eye-wateringly difficult. Well done you!
@sotek27843 жыл бұрын
and "enqueue" in the sense of lining up for execution is a computer science concept, so...
@f.w.78433 жыл бұрын
Faire la queue is french for lining up
@MasterdoMagic3 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy videos of Mark solving the Cryptic puzzles. Sudokus and most other puzzles I want to attempt to solve, those videos I can just marvel at the skills on display, really entertaining. Following on Patreon to get more of those too :)
@martynichol26003 жыл бұрын
Chimo from Canada! That was about the only word I'd heard of before. Amazing that anyone can get a single clue, let alone the entire puzzle.
@VeritasUnae3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely astounding! I loved how you bounced around the clues, trying to figure out the words they created like chemical reactions creating unknown compounds from base elements. A little like ciprofloxacin maybe.
@Morphior3 жыл бұрын
I got Ciprofloxacin because I have a bottle of it in my room and randomly looked at it when watching this video. What a coincidence.
@kevinthurlow80553 жыл бұрын
I never thought I would be shouting "ciprofloxacin" at the computer... My career in chemistry helped for a change. I only heard of Friml as he is mentioned in a Tom Lehrer song. Awesome solve as usual of an incredibly difficult puzzle.
@thebestspork3 жыл бұрын
Omg same
@Morphior3 жыл бұрын
@@thebestspork crazy coincidence, right?
@Ercster3 жыл бұрын
I wish more people liked these cause they're fun to watch. Sudoku just has the advantage that it's more approachable and you can kind of play along :/
@fulltimeslackerii82293 жыл бұрын
The unused coin is a reference to Abraham Lincoln on the American penny worth 1 cent hence nobody uses it
@peterdunlop76913 жыл бұрын
I always love getting a crossword video. This was a treat and just makes me marvel at Mark’s intelligence.
@stuartharris21653 жыл бұрын
oh wow, it's a crossword, yes yes yes, more please!
@kilimanjarocruz6603 жыл бұрын
Sorry to hear about your computer, but happy for the crossword content! Amazing as always.
@bevstarrunner94723 жыл бұрын
I'm putting jnanas in the memory bank for my next game of Scrabble...
@joelmartin25493 жыл бұрын
It won’t work, you competition won’t recognize it and will argue with you. Edit, they will say you are bananas!
@Taikoubou073 жыл бұрын
It's amazing that you can think of words that you never heard of.
@danielfarney16503 жыл бұрын
As a pharmacist, I was screaming for 10 minutes! ROFL! So fun!! More please!
@Stephen-Fox3 жыл бұрын
Watching you do crosswords is always a treat.
@AmaranthRBY3 жыл бұрын
These clues are completely absurd, I'm stunned by this. Great video
@Anne_Mahoney3 жыл бұрын
Sorry about your computer disaster -- I've been there: I know how miserable it can be! Good luck.
@jovi_al3 жыл бұрын
What an incredible solve, Mark! 😍😍
@catnip4203 жыл бұрын
No sudoku?! I feel cheated! What is this, cracking the cryptic or something?! Seriously though, as a foreigner these will never make any sense to me. Numbers are universal, language quirks are not. But I'm glad fans of crosswords have something to be hapy about tonight :)
@Wouter101233 жыл бұрын
Don't necessarily think like that! I'm not a native speaker either, but when I first found this channel a year or two ago, I started practicing English cryptics myself, and I was surprised by how quickly I could go from not understanding anything to being able to solve quite some clues in not a lot of time. Obviously not at this level (I usually don't know any of these), but I found an app where I can solve most of most puzzles in less than an hour now.
@catnip4203 жыл бұрын
@@Wouter10123 Thanks! But you can't mention an app and not reveal its name! :)
@livedandletdie3 жыл бұрын
Recondite Recherché... Pardon my French as the Brits say... but oh lord, didn't I expect to see those words in the description... Arcane and esoteric perhaps, but Recondite or Recherché... not in a million fortnights.
@nickloader31843 жыл бұрын
Just wow! Incredible solve. Have heard of hardly any of these. Technically got SMEUSE before Mark but only because I actually know the word use lol and there was no reversal indicator for flipping hose - had no idea it was a word though. Also realised we were deleting Ds to make definition 'remains' and CIA as agents slightly faster but completely blown away by how hysterical = rofl. Maybe the best wordplay there.
@gordonglenn20893 жыл бұрын
Another example of amazing crossword solving, thank you!
@joelmartin25493 жыл бұрын
ciprofloxacin (Cipro) is a fairly common antibiotic used in the US for infections, I wonder what they call it in the UK and if they use it.
@stevieinselby3 жыл бұрын
Well it took until the 14th answer you wrote in before it was even a word I'd heard of, and then I still didn't understand how you got it (and I like to think I'm pretty literate, but I guess I don't know enough obscure and pointless words that are never used anywhere except cryptic crosswords). I'll stick to sudoku...
@henrymarkson37583 жыл бұрын
This is way beyond challenging. Impossible is nearer the mark.
@Gentenstation3 жыл бұрын
When he wrote Jnanas I thought there was no way that's a word. But now I just feel stupid.
@emdes543 жыл бұрын
Jnanas?!? He's making that up. Maybe it's the wine he's drinking :)
@daconor913 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this. I must be in a minority but I am only subscribed for your crossword context and only watch your crossword videos. Would love to see more regular cryptic crossword stuff
@PH34RB3 жыл бұрын
Chimo is a native american greeting indeed, I heard it from a sapper from the corps of engineer for which IIRC this was the motto. It roughly translates to 'friend'.
@andrewgrant65163 жыл бұрын
Upturns can be ticks, maybe?
@JohnWalker-hk5pg3 жыл бұрын
More please
@b34z473 жыл бұрын
more crossword content lets gooooo
@1fosters3 жыл бұрын
LENDERS! The one part, with all of Mark's clues, that I was able to guess.
@tabularasa06063 жыл бұрын
Here I thought my English was pretty decent. I've never even seen most of these words.
@carteryott77103 жыл бұрын
This was incredible! JNANAS only word I knew (from playing scrabble)
@arlenejenkins11273 жыл бұрын
Ciproflaxin, shortened as cipro for antibiotic
@kellwillsen3 жыл бұрын
Copper is not a coin for "abram", it's a colour.
@thebestspork3 жыл бұрын
Looks at packet of antibiotics I'm taking... Ciprofloxacin... Omg
@d4r4butler743 жыл бұрын
Too bad about the hardware problems, but YAY Crossword!!
@alexjohnson24733 жыл бұрын
Love the crosswords!
@Mitrasmit3 жыл бұрын
Echec is a French word meaning failure. Quite close to the word you initially made up for 20 across.
@mycroft640893 жыл бұрын
Having taken cipro as an antibiotic several times, it was a bit painful to watch.
@d4r4butler743 жыл бұрын
I have had it, but I couldn't spell it! Although that might be easier now knowing there is a ROFL in it, lol.
@jcbohn39813 жыл бұрын
English is not my native language, so i don't feel bad when i say that i don't know a single word from the final grid
@LednacekZ3 жыл бұрын
So.... what language is he speaking in?
@m.f.m.82903 жыл бұрын
Can someone explain how does this work? These definitions sound like gibberish to me
@missioncardiac75993 жыл бұрын
This is just crazy level of cryptic crossword solving! Though I did get Pata-pata before Mark, (Miriam Makeba kzbin.info/www/bejne/on_IgWaep9KSlc0 ) Also I was screaming ciprofloxacin at him, but it's still amazing he got it without having heard of the antibiotic. Long may he not need such stuff!
@Thebrooky123 жыл бұрын
this is cool
@tomsweldinganddesign97633 жыл бұрын
What are you drinking?
@nicknick67883 жыл бұрын
Not a single answer in this puzzle is in my vocabulary. 🙄
@igronus3 жыл бұрын
B.R.U.T.A.L.
@KarasuGamma3 жыл бұрын
Zero of these clues make anything resembling sense.
@Bssa1253 жыл бұрын
The only site that works for me is Gamecrookso you might want to give it a try.