It is March and the lovely EnigMarch people have challenged puzzle designers to write a puzzle inspired by today's word: "psychic".
Oh no! The USA clown President Trump and his buffoonish adviser Elon Musk don't understand gender and it's led to a bizarre pronoun-phobia! Pronouns are handy referential-ish words; it's hard to communicate clearly without them. The first word of the US Consititution is a pronoun. (Then again, those guys do their best to ignore the Constitution…)
They removed the pronouns from several words and names below. Fortunately, we kept track of the pronouns, so now we can add them back in. We figured out that MAPSYCHCGRL was really Mai the Psychic Girl. Can you fill in the others to restore clear communication? When you're done, the circled letters should spell out a referential-ish word, itself made up of four pronouns.
| 1980s manga | MAPSYCHCGRL | he, i, i, it | MⒶi t h e p s y c h i c g i r l |
| Uncanny, Death, or Ohio | V | all, ey | _ _◯_ _ _ |
| Sounds like "Lost Wages" | LG | as, as, ve | ◯_ _ _ _ _ _ _ |
| Audio art | MC | i, us | _◯_ _ _ |
| ÷ | DON | i, i, vis | _ _ _ _◯_ _ _ |
| Legacy | AGE | her, it | _ _ _◯_ _ _ _ |
| Body of water | R | i, ver | _ _◯_ _ |
| A republic, if you can keep it | ARCA | i, me | _ _◯_ _ _ _ |
Some hints, rot-13'd:
- I nyy, rl naq E v,ire ner nyernql va beqre.
- Na nantenzzvat gbby yvxr Ahgevzngvp pbhyq fher uryc jvgu gur gbhtuvrf.
- NTR ure, vg jbhyq or va beqre vs lbh fjnccrq gur pbyhzaf nebhaq.
- 'Fbhaqf yvxr "Ybfg Jntrf"' vf n pnfvab pvgl.
All the puzzle data, rot-13'd:
zncflpuptey / zNv gur cflpuvp tvey / vg, ur, v, v / 1980f znatn i / inYyrl / nyy, rl / Hapnaal, Qrngu, be Buvb yt / Ynf irtnf / nf, nf, ir / Fbhaqf yvxr "Ybfg Jntrf" zp / zHfvp / hf, v / Nhqvb neg qba / qvivFvba / ivf, v, v / ÷ ntr / ureVgntr / ure, vg / Yrtnpl e / evIre / ire, v / Obql bs jngre nepn / nzRevpn / zr, v / N erchoyvp, vs lbh pna xrrc vg
