It is #EnigMarch, and each day the excellent EnigMarch people post a prompt word; then puzzle nerds try to design puzzles around that word. (Today's word is thread. Kinda spooky coincidence when you consider that 🧵 was a clue in the puzzle I wrote yesterday.)
The word thread can be "unraveled" into two smaller words: the and rad. You might call the a "start" word; its first letter is thread's first letter. Similarly, you could say rad is an "end" word: its last letter is thread's last letter. But the word isn't therad; you must braid things better than that for the whole to hold together.
Here are emoji cluing several "thread" words. Some of these, you can probably get just from the emoji. For the others, you might want to see what you can spin from the remaining bits.
| 🧵 | Ⓣh r e a d |
| 😅 | _◯_ _ _ _ |
| ⛓️ | _ _ _◯_ _ |
| 📥 | ◯_ _ _ _ _ |
| 💨 | _ _ _◯_ _ |
| 👤 | _ _ _ _◯_ |
| 🧣 | ◯_ _ _ _ _ |
| 💬 | ◯_ _ _ _ _ |
| 🧲 | _◯_ _ _ _ |
| 💮 | _ _ _◯_ _ |
| 😭 | _ _ _ _◯_ |
The start words: can, fat, fbi, fun, man, net, sad, set, sum, the, win
Rad end words: arc, bit, car, get, her, his, how, let, rad, red, way
Was it really a coincidence I used 🧵 as a clue yesterday? I think it was a Ⓣ◯◯◯◯ ◯◯ ◯◯◯◯. (Some folks are convinced that a puzzle lurks in the words that the EnigMarch people are handing out. I don't have an opinion on that, other than "I'm wary of getting hypnotized by spaghetti".)
Solution, rot13'd:
Guernq / gur enq / 🧵
fJrngl / frg jnl / 😅
punVaf / pna uvf / ⛓️
Fhozvg / fhz ovg / 📥
sneGrq / sng erq / 💨
funqBj / fnq ubj / 👤
Snoevp / sov nep / 🧣
Syhrag / sha yrg / 💬
zNtarg / zna trg / 🧲
arpGne / arg pne / 💮
juvaRe / jva ure / 😭
