I just realized that top-to-bottom also solves the problem with smearing discussed in another comment. Your hand is moving down, away from the fresh characters. By the time you move over to the next line, the top is already dried. (Especially with the time it takes to fill a line with kanji, which are denser than Latin script.)

Isn’t RD canonically gay with AJ? I haven’t watched beyond S5, so I only heard the memes, but I thought some people freaked out about the butch rainbow horse being the gay. (Though maybe they freaked out because RD+Rarity is OTP as Faust intended.)

I tell myself that RD is bisexual so I have a shot with her, but I’m delusional, or so the doctors tell me.

Estimate Me: 2025-07-08 (Shreds of cheese) Rank #26 of 85 🟨🟩🟩

Should have corrected for the pile a bit better, went over because I assumed it was about 3 shreds thick everywhere.

Isn’t that Bugs’ sister from Albania?

Justwatch reliably tells me “this isn’t available for streaming in your region”. Sonarr tells me it’s an AMZN Webrip and I can Just Watch™

Edit: But like, no shade on Justwatch, it works as intended. It’s the streaming services who get worldwide licensing rights and then don’t bother targeting my little region.

Estimate Me: 2025-07-06 (Pips on dominoes)
Rank #11 of 92
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This one was very regular, I could see the exact number of tiles and the only guessing involved was the distribution of the pips. Though I did mess up by assuming every side had at least 1 pip, which I later noticed wasn’t true.

I try to find all four groups before locking anything in, then I guess which group is which color.

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Estimate Me: 2025-07-05 (Chain links)
Rank #24 of 179
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I’m surprised I only got #24, though if 23 other people used my method, they’d already perform the same or better of course. Still have to get lucky enough to hit the correct answer.

If you liked every one of those shows, I can guarantee you that you’ll like the rest of B99. Early seasons focus a lot on Jake, Holt and Amy, but later seasons get more variety in leads and storylines. There’s a bunch of very good recurring concepts too, comparable to the Community paintball episodes. The series only gets stronger as it progresses imo.

Estimate Me: 2025-07-04 (Cornflower seeds face)
Rank #45 of 108
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Was looking forward to a new one, after practicing yesterday. I somehow skipped right over the answer again on the third guess, but not far off either way.

Took me a while before I saw the trick. Still messed it up on the yellow.

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New challenge unlocked: hit the target first try.

I tried a few of the previous puzzles to practice and I think I’m getting better, especially at large numbers of small uniform items. This could be useful when trying to win a jar of jellybeans!

Estimate Me: 2025-06-30 (Chocolate-covered raisins)
Rank #4 of 170
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🔗 https://estimate-me.aukspot.com/

Estimate Me: 2025-07-03 (Letters in container)
Rank #11 of 96
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Ooh, got pretty close, though my first guess was still way too low. Is that bowl bigger on the inside?

Didn’t get it :(

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Tsk, true left-to-right writing would do the crossbar second.

Estimate Me: 2025-07-02 (Bowl of oats)
Rank #10 of 81
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Wow, I got closer than I thought on the first guess, wildly overcorrected up (went about 3 times over) and then took the average of the two.

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Purple were my leftovers, green was the most fun to find.

I think the engineering would be so complex and so particular to a window type/size, that it’s just not worth it. At some point, installing an external unit and wiring/ducting through the wall is actually the simpler solution.