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Trip Payne

@puzzletrip.bsky.social
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Professional puzzle creator and editor. Into immersive theater, the Oscars, Eurovision, and Scrabble. Expect lots of pimping of my Sporcle quizzes.

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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 11h
To those who use VPNs to watch foreign shows (such as GBBO or Traitors UK) before they air in the US: you are basically seeing a sneak preview, so please don't say much about the episodes before they air in the US. (I know that's a long time for Traitors; that's just the downside of watching early.)
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another word ladder: www.sporcle.com/games/Qaqaq/...
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Word Ladder: Epidermal Beauty
Can you name the 4-letter words in this themed word ladder?
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A new word ladder: www.sporcle.com/games/Qaqaq/...
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Word Ladder: Vacation Fill-Ins
Can you name the 4-letter words in this themed word ladder?
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Alison is Big Bird, though
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I impeach it, I tell you!
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m disappointed that “Conveyor Belt of Love” wasn’t good enough for you.
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Or, as I have always insisted on calling it, “Nanookie of the North”.
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Two of my books were as well, so I suspect a whoooole lotta books made the cut.
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Short word ladder about an upcoming movie: www.sporcle.com/games/Qaqaq/...
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Word Ladder: Jessica Chastain Movie
Can you name the 5-letter words in this themed word ladder?
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's been a minute since I made a word ladder for Sporcle. Pardon the dumb pun. www.sporcle.com/games/Qaqaq/...
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Word Ladder: 'Egrets, I've Had a Few...'
Can you name the 5-letter words in this themed word ladder?
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
BOMP
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Who’s the other one? (I take Matt as a given.)
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I have never liked a post faster in my life.
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I mean … I just wanted more ring action. Basically all the power in the universe and all we get is a bottle opener?
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Never expected to see Now You Know performed live!
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
That is one very specific theme
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
But you can’t! Nobody can!
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Who among us hasn’t, etc etc
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The way he sings it makes it sound more like the cute version, though, IMO.
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Every time I hear “and she said, aw it’s you” I cannot stop myself from screaming at the radio, “NO SHE DID NOT”
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Who was in the finals?
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Sure. “Cstm” is an everyday word in Dutch.
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
CStM is my favorite terrible movie ever.
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
What a rhetorical question
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I’m in Virginia for a Scrabble tournament, and I just had a very Southern meal at the hotel restaurant: shrimp and grits, buttermilk biscuits, sweet tea. LA, I love ya, but why can’t you do a meal like this properly?
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
static.klipy.com
Nervous Man Sweating in Headphones
ALT: Nervous Man Sweating in Headphones
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Sweat and regret
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
These are my 10 favorite Eurovision winners ever, determined after a ridiculous amount of self-debate. Songs that came very close include both Johnny Logans, 1955's Refrain, 1991's Fangad av en stormvind, and a couple of guilty pleasures (Ding-A-Dong and A-Ba-Ni-Bi).
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
1. RISE LIKE A PHOENIX (14, AUS) 2. Molitva (07, SRB) 3. Nous les amoureaux (61, LUX) 4. Waterloo (74, SWE) 5. Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi (88, SUI) 6. Dansevise (63, DEN) 7. Poupée de cire, poupée de son (65, LUX) 8. Un banc, un arbre, une rue (71, MON) 9. Euphoria (12, SWE) 10. Zitti e buoni (21, ITA)
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
At least you didn't say "Everybody"
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
You are a deeply weird human being
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I am currently attempting to decide on my 10 favorite Eurovision winners of all time. Man this is brutal. Pray for me.
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sounds like something in a Richard Scarry book
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A smallish crossword for the Pokemon fans: www.sporcle.com/games/Qaqaq/...
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Quick Crossword: Celebrity Pokémon
Can you solve this themed crossword?
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A new word ladder: www.sporcle.com/games/Qaqaq/...
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Word Ladder: Kiddie Kitchen
Can you name the 4-letter words in this themed word ladder?
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
With today's news, I went to update one of my Sporcle quizzes ... and to my surprise, discovered I had never written it! So here it is. www.sporcle.com/.../last-ten...
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
You don’t think I’m besties with Hugh Jackman?
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Always nice when I can include a friend in a Sporcle quiz: www.sporcle.com/games/Qaqaq/...
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Get the Picture: Which Detective?
Can you choose whether each fact refers to the movie
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A new Sporcle word ladder: www.sporcle.com/games/Qaqaq/...
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Word Ladder: Sarcastic Support
Can you name the 4-letter words in this themed word ladder?
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Bill Pad Thai
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It is bizarre to me that all of a nation’s journalists are incapable of determining whether a politician is alive or dead. Of all the indictments of the US press, this has to be high on the list.
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
*puts white strip of correction paper into typewriter, types over my typo*
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
PCHH is just waiting to get out its conservative small town so it can go to college, major in drama, and finally come out of the closet.
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
And they will … because of you.
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I don’t care about team sports, so for the US v Belgium soccerball event, I’m going to root for “best ever version of The Mole” over “godawful Netflix version of The Mole”.
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Hopefully to a mama in ‘Bama
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I just learned that the genus and species of llamas is LAMA GLAMA, and damned if that's not the most fun fact I've read in a while.
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I hope that your team’s members come through.
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I’m reminded of the time I added the official pronunciation (according to the website’s FAQ) of “TWOP” to its Wikipedia article. It kept getting removed because “that’s not how *I* say it!”
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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I have a new cryptic puzzle available ... but it's not a crossword! Check it out: dailybaffle.com/morphology/2...
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The Daily Baffle
A new frontier in daily puzzles.
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