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tyke51

29th December 2020, 21:21
XXXX This Year! (6-6)

👍 BBM2
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bigbadmarty2

29th December 2020, 21:55
The value of x0x0 such that x0x0 (in base 10) = (x^y + y^x) in base y

where x, y and of course 0 are whole numbers
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mattrom

29th December 2020, 21:56
One for the locals, inspired by Tyke's post

Half and half beer put on at the Gabba? (6-6)

XX-XX (XXXX is a brand of beer brewed in Queensland, also home of the "Gabba" cricket ground)
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bigbadmarty2

29th December 2020, 22:29
oops that doesn't work , please ignore
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bigblind

30th December 2020, 00:19
Do I see double, or perfectly? (6-6)
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bigblind

30th December 2020, 00:22
Mister or Miss, I do not know. But one embraces the other this year. (4)

(Mx around Mx)
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fieryjack

30th December 2020, 15:22
Return 2nd of February this year (6,6)
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buddy

30th December 2020, 17:39
The clock is ticking on 2020 and also on the time allotted to get your winning clue in. So far 33 clues from 18 setters.
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buddy

30th December 2020, 18:40
We have 33 clues from 18 setters. Loads of great clues to choose from, and 17 people to annoy with my final decision. So here we go:

Honorable mentions to paul @24, aristo @26 and dorrien @35 who had nice container clues. Among the "cricket" clues I liked granama @7 and @12 and paulh @10 (concise!). tyke produced a nice acrostic @16, which I wouldn't have thought possible.

In the "2020 sucked" category special mentions to mattrom @13 and tyke @41 (the latter for perfectly summing up the year while getting it past the censors).

As for the podium, I found it very difficult to pick the winner from these three:

jono @4: Looks sharp, but some might see nothing at all
Brilliant move to interpret the hyphen as a minus sign

mathprof @6: "I Can See Clearly Now" singer died this year.
Topical and ingenious

bigblind @46: Mister or Miss, I do not know. But one embraces the other this year.
"Embraced" the challenge to work with Roman numerals, and I learned about "Mx" (not commonly used over here).

However, for reasons as ineffable as they are indescribable, I feel that the winner this week is:

jono @4: Looks sharp, but some might see nothing at all

Congrats jono. Thanks for participating and Happy New Year to one and all.

Prizes:

Appropriately, a video about nothing (or zero, to be precise):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y7gAzTMdMA

From mathprof's clue, a hopeful song for 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_rB4v75jqU

And a special yearend bonus featuring another reggae great (perhaps the greatest reggae great) who passed away in 2020:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQxTmPqGFF0
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tyke51

30th December 2020, 19:00
Well done Jono - richly deserved win! Thanks Buddy - it was a good competition - Happy New Year all ! (socially distanced of course!) 🎈🍾
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