Not sure we can restrict things to only your most recent list unfortunately. Could be something random like loch ness.

I might not be able to look at this closely for an hour or so.

need 3 carstar, 1 bull and 1 unclued

i don't think it'll be loch ness or he joins that with minotaur instead of whatever the other bull word is

i already removed all the words that I don't think it could be; tho that doesn't mean i'm right...

Bug - I guess this could be a car word?
Cleopatra - How did you eliminate this word?
Copper - Car?
Drawing - No
Hole - Weak pencil connection
Loch ness - Would be hooked into minotaur? Maybe
Magazine - Has words, pencil connection
Mummy - Maybe same logic as Loch ness?
Shoulder - Road?
Slip -
Spike - Probably no
Spring - I suppose so
Taste - ?

Spike and writing not being blue is the only thing I feel super strongly about.

Hole + magazine next tier not blue.


I think the elimination of Loch Ness is a bit dubious. And I don't see how you eliminated Cleopatra and taste.

I think we're basically always going to end up saying spring, I'll probably fire that off in a couple minutes.

spring

wtf is the other bull word

bug? Horsefly? Also an animal? idk

I think I'm at

bug
shoulder
copper
?????

???? = something random, not spike or writing obv.

I think the order very rarely matters here, but mine would be above.

You have my blessing to bold whatever. Going to bed in a couple minutes.

Spring is blue

I like bug for the Bull equity and the carstar equity

Eliminated taste because wasn’t capitalized Bull for Red Bull

Eliminated Cleopatra for similar to mummy and Loch Ness

Bug is blue

Taste is probably the safest elimination of those 4 I think.

As I said, I'm not super convinced that he would have been compelled to link minotaur to any of Cleopatra/Mummy/Loch Ness. There could be several reasons he didn't

On the other hand, we don't have much to go on, so we may need to make some thin assumptions.

It is probably not worth spending this much time given our very slim chances here.

Let's try shoulder.

Pencils do have the little metal thing at the end. Is that a reason to eliminate copper?

Copper seems super thin for car stuff. A bull's nosering?

Cleopatra - minotaur link
Copper - Car?
Drawing - No
Hole - Weak pencil connection
Loch ness - Minotaur
Magazine - Has words, pencil connection
Mummy - Minotaur
Slip -
Spike - Probably no

If shoulder is correct, we need 2 more. If these eliminations are correct, we only have copper and slip.

I think I missed why you cut slip, Nich.

Shoulder

Is shoulder for bull?

Like you lower your shoulder and bull rush someone?


Or is it for car because wrecked cars pull over to the shoulder to wait for tow truck?

Some call police coppers and they come to the scene of accidents

Both of those occurred to me. Could be either.
I think it being car is more likely. Fits with the mechanic theme.

We are lost and he went for a 0 clue after my list rather than an additive clue so I think our best chance is to eliminate pencil from that list and guess the others

That leaves copper then bubble then slip in order on my list

We need 2 words

Let’s see which he eliminated with drawing and see if better clues or ones that give us info

If we do this, its exactly copper and slip, no?

Spring - ours
Spike - maybe no from pencil plus not horn clue
Hole - maybe no from pencil?
Copper - ?
Bug - ours
Drawing - no, pencil
Shoulder - ours
Bubble - ?
Slip - ?


So spike + hole + drawing = ??? Pencil seems pretty good. charcoal or caricature gets drawing without spike and hole

Maybe spike is ours then spike+drawing-hole=????? Is there a comic strip with a character named spike?

Copper could be gone from pencil? Maybe pen gets spike drawing hole but stays away from copper more? Or with metal pens maybe pencil is because copper is ours and he didn’t want us going away from copper pens?


Slip you write on a slip of paper

I think copper and bubble seems best maybe? But if so then bubble is our unclued word and copper has to do with carstar or bull

Slip has more carstar equity than copper or bubble but who knows at this point