It is March and the lovely EnigMarch people have challenged puzzle designers to write a puzzle inspired by today's word: "staff".
Oh no! The USA clown President Trump and his buffoonish adviser Elon Musk are halting a huge-yet-arbitrary chunk of research at the NSF, NIH, and possibly other science agencies I overlooked!
Alas, our puzzly chemists' supplies were disrupted. They tried to make some words,
but each word is missing two chemical symbols. For example, they tried to make
"staffers", but were missing flourine (F) and iron (Fe), so they got
staFFers = stars. Can you reconstruct the other words they were trying to make?
Each is missing two symbols. Despite what you might think from that "staffers" example,
the symbols might not be right next to each other.
When you're done, the circled letters should spell out the general character of the disruption.
| Organization people | stars | s t a Ⓕ F e r s |
| Assocation | many | _◯_ _ _ _ _ |
| Without reason | ram | _ _ _ _◯_ |
| Not precipitate | soon | _ _◯_ _ _ _ _ |
| Resistance | option | _ _ _ _ _◯_ _ _ _ |
| America's pastime | bell | _ _◯_ _ _ _ _ |
| Device | mine | _ _ _◯_ _ _ |
Missing chemistry symbols: Ac, As, Ba, Co, F, Fe, H, Lu, Nd, O, P, Po, Si, Ti
Some hints, rot-13'd:
- Pbonyg naq cubfcubehf tb gbtrgure.
- Arbqlzvhz naq bkltra tb gbtrgure.
- Npgvavhz naq Ulqebtra tb gbtrgure.
All the puzzle data, rot013'd:
fgnef / fgnSsref / Sr S / Betnavmngvba crbcyr znal / pBzcnal / Pb C / Nffbpngvba enz / enaqBz / Aq B / Jvgubhg ernfba fbba / fbYhgvba / Yh Gv / Abg cerpvcvgngr bcgvba / bccbfVgvba / Cb Fv / Erfvfgnapr oryy / onFronyy / Nf On / Nzrevpn'f cnfggvzr zvar / znpUvar / Np U / Qrivpr
