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Jay Seaver
@jayseaver.bsky.social
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I watch and write about movies, obsess over the Red Sox, take 3D pictures, and wish certain things had been cooler when I was 13. He/him. www.jaysmovieblog.com, https://letterboxd.com/JaySeaver/, https://www.pillowfort.social/JaySeaver
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · Jan 1
Pinning some 2025 goals:

* At least one #FilmRolls blog per week, helping to get through the Blu-ray backlog
* > 400 seen on @letterboxd.social
* Do at least one maker-mart thing with ViewMaster reels
* Christmas-set Jazz Age body-swap ebook by Christmas
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 5h
Vulture Cinematrix No. 565: Oct 12, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2623 (top 3%)

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Play at:
vulture.com/vulturecinem...

Yeah, pretty good

Daily Walkoff ⚾️
Red Sox #408

"It's Go Time"
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dailywalkoff.com

Decent recovery
Completed Cinematrix - rows Bryce Dallas Howard, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brendan Gleeson; columns double letter, 2010-2020, Oscar nom Row 1: Argylle (11%), Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom (32%), The Village (15%) Row 2: The Book of Clarence (2%), Penguins of Madagascar (2%), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (5%) Row 3: The Secret of Kells (1%), The Guard (17%), Song of the Sea (1%)
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 5h
Movie Pyramid - 10/12/2025:
10/10 Correct
Score: 1160 (top 46%)

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www.moviepyramid.io

Really? Thought I did better

Movie Snake - 10/12/2025:
9/9 Correct
Score: 1322 (top 2%)

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www.moviesnake.io

Feels good to score so high with these two!
Completed Movie Grid Row 1 (Danny Devito/3+ words): War of the Roses (14.5%) Row 2 (Glen Powell/A-H): Everybody Wants Some!! (12.5%), Hit Man (24.7%) Row 3 (Dakota Johnson/2010-2025): The materialists (10.5%), Madame Web (16.6%), Fifty Shades Freed (12.8%) Row 4 (Adam Driver/2005-2025): Inside Llewyn Davis (2.6%), 65 (5.4%), house of Gucci (8.2%), Ferrari (5.2%) Completed Movie Snake - Emma Thompson/Alan Rickman and... 1980-2000: Truly Madly Deeply (4.6%) 4+ words (Eye in the Sky): 1.2% Oscar nom: Brave (1.1%) 2000-2010: Nanny McPhee Returns (1.8%) 2 words: Late Night (6.7%) 2010-2020: Eye in the Sky (3.8%) Character Name: Missing Link (0.9%) 1 word: Wit (4.8%) Real Person: Henry V (8.1%)
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 5h
Movie Grid - 10/12/2025:
9/9 Correct
Score: 2605 (top 13%)

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www.moviegrid.io

Pretty fair

Movie Grid - Deep Cut 135:
8/9 Correct
Score: 2304

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www.moviegrid.io/deep-cut

Oof, drop-down induced The Duelist/The Duelists err
Completed Movie Grid - rows Daniel Day-Lewis, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum; columns Oscar nom, Q-Z, 1980-2010 Row 1: My Left Foot (14.6%), The Bounty (1.4%), The Last of the Mohicans (13.5%) Row 2: Dead Man Walking (32.1%), Stepmom (17.6%), Lorenzo's Oil (2.4%) Row 3: Independence Day (5.4%), Transylvania 6-5000 (1.9%), Earth Girls Are Easy (10.6%)
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 5h
#Worldle #1360 (12.10.2025) X/6 (98%)
🔥 Current Win Streak: 0 days
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worldle.teuteuf.fr/share

Ouch

nerdlegame 1362 4/6

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Should've been 3
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 5h
Minute Cryptic - 12 October, 2025
"Antique rocking chair in empty attic" (7)
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🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (61,780 solvers so far).
www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

Pretty quick
Minute Cryptic
Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
www.minutecryptic.com
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 5h
🟠 Align 10/12/2025
⏰ 01:59
🔄 15
globe.com/align

Decent

🍋 Squeezy #621 🍋
Wheezy Mode
EZ: 😎 🍋
PZ: 😎 🍋
LS: 😎 🍋
ImSqueezy.com

OK
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 5h
Wordle 1,576 6/6*

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2 others left, so lucky

Pips #56 Hard 🔴
1:49

Pretty good

Strands #588
“Follow suit”
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Not bad at all

Connections
Puzzle #854
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Yeah, did okay

Par 6 Letter Boxed in 4
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
Breaking: 40% of Americans enjoy messing with pollsters.
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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d
They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...
Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune
New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.
fortune.com
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
Daily Walkoff ⚾️
Red Sox #407

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dailywalkoff.com

Iffy on a couple

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 923 6/9:
Rarity: 341
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Play at:
immaculategrid.com/play

Oof
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
Movie Snake - 10/11/2025:
9/9 Correct
Score: 1266 (top 9%)

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www.moviesnake.io

What connects these two guys?

Vulture Cinematrix No. 564: Oct 11, 2025
I got 6/9 Correct
Score: 1701

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Play at:
vulture.com/vulturecinem...

Expected to blank on Duff, not Lohan
Completed Movie Snake - Tobey Maguire/Delroy Lindo and... 1 word: Babylon (7.5%) 2010-2025: Da 5 Bloods (18.5%) Oscar nom: The Cider House Rules (18.2%) 2000-2010: Wonder Boys (4.8%) 3+ words: The Harder They Fall (1.3%) $100M+: Spider-Man 3 (14.1%) 1990-2000: The Cider House Rules (18.5%) Double letter: The Harder They Fall (1.5%) Real Person: The Harder They Fall (3.2%)
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
Movie Grid - 10/11/2025:
9/9 Correct
Score: 2553 (top 17%)

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www.moviegrid.io

Feel like I should know AS from more

Movie Pyramid - 10/11/2025:
10/10 Correct
Score: 1216 (top 6%)

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www.moviepyramid.io

NGL, kind of guessed on that top one
Completed Movie Grid - rows Amanda Seyfried, Jeremy Renner, Michelle Williams; columns $100M+, 3+ words, 2005-2025 Row 1: Mean Girls (28.5%), Mamma Mia! 2 (63.1%), Chloe (6.8%) Row 2: Thor (9.6%), The Bourne Legacy (12%), Wind River (15.5%) Row 3: Venom 2 (7.6%), Wendy & Lucy (6.9%), Take This Waltz (1.3%) Completed Movie Pyramid Row 1 (Christian Slater/Q-Z): Windtalkers (2.4%) Row 2 (Octavia Spencer/1 word): Spider-Man (4.6%), Ma (34.7%) Row 3 (Elizabethe Olsen/2010-2025): Eternity (1.4%), Wind River (8%), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2.5%) Row 4 (Christopher Walken/1990-2025): Scotland, PA (0.2%), Balls of Fury (2.7%), The Prophecy 3 (0.8%), The Prophecy II (1.2%)
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
#Worldle #1359 (11.10.2025) 1/6 (100%)
🔥 Current Win Streak: 2 days
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worldle.teuteuf.fr/share

Pretty okay

nerdlegame 1361 3/6

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Decent
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
Minute Cryptic - 11 October, 2025
"Brunette’s first two AirPods Pro lost in hair, possibly?" (6)
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🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (54,495 solvers so far).
www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

Pretty quick
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
Connections
Puzzle #853
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The most 1/5 I've seen in a while

Par 4 Letter Boxed in 4, notable because it allowed "pukey"

🟠 Align 10/11/2025
⏰ 01:12
🔄 17
globe.com/align

Okay

🍋 Squeezy #620 🍋
Wheezy Mode
EZ: 😎 🍋
PZ: 😎 🍋
LS: 😎 🍋
ImSqueezy.com

Could almost see the 1st listed out
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
Wordle 1,575 5/6*

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Would've been hilarious if I didn't get it

Pips #55 Hard 🔴
2:13

A bit tricky

Strands #587
“That's branding”
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(Me trying to get last six letters into a word) "How Iconic can they be, really?"
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
Aw, man, it's Google alerts for completely hypothetical trades season already? Not waiting until after the World Series?
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
The new Dropkick Murphys album is fine, but I'm always disappointed when there isn't a song about 100-year-old baseball.

Obviously, a very specific thing to expect, but it's happened twice!
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
Daily Walkoff ⚾️
Red Sox #406

"Evens"
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dailywalkoff.com

Not tough once you've got pitchers & hitters sorted
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
Movie Snake - 10/10/2025:
8/9 Correct
Score: 1024

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www.moviesnake.io

Knowing Eden didn't go as far as I'd hoped

Vulture Cinematrix No. 563: Oct 10, 2025

I got 8/9 Correct
Score: 2292

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Play at:
vulture.com/vulturecinem...

–sigh– No "the" allowed here, Seaver
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
Movie Grid - 10/10/2025:
8/9 Correct
Score: 2299

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www.moviegrid.io

Why do studios think folks like Leto? I barely remember him!

Movie Pyramid - 10/10/2025:
10/10 Correct
Score: 1234 (top 6%)

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www.moviepyramid.io

Not bad
Completed Movie Pyramid Row 1 (Melissa McCarthy/1 word): Ghostbusters (6.2%) Row 2 (Hugh Jackman/1 word): The Prestige (9.4%), X2 (3.6%) Row 3 (Susan Sarandon/1985-2015): Lorenzo's Oil (2.2%), Bull Durham (13.1%), Robot & Frank (0.1%) Row 4 Jack Nicholson (1970-2010): the Last Detail (1.7%), The Evening Star (0.5%), Goffa (0.7%), The Two Jakes (2.5%)
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
#Worldle #1358 (10.10.2025) 1/6 (100%)
🔥 Current Win Streak: 1 days
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worldle.teuteuf.fr/share

Not terrible tough

nerdlegame 1360 4/6

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Fair
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
Minute Cryptic - 10 October, 2025
"Critic rewound stream featuring female, sheepishly?" (8)
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🏋 4 hints – 1 over the community par (77,320 solvers so far).
www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

Staring at the cryptic at the end, cursing them having uncrossed squares
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
Eh, okay

Par 5 Letter Boxed in 4

🟠 Align 10/10/2025
⏰ 01:44
🔄 16
globe.com/align

Pretty good

🍋 Squeezy #619 🍋
Wheezy Mode
EZ: 😎 🍋
PZ: 😎 🍋
LS: 😎 🍋
ImSqueezy.com

Not bad
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
Wordle 1,574 3/6*

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My initial choice for guess 2. Not just saying that

Pips #54 Hard 🔴
2:31

Glad I didn't have to go back and try plan B

Strands #586
“I'm a ladle hungry”
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Three separate spanners

Connections
Puzzle #852
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Eh, okay
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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d
Also, I don't think he's ever pushed into pop culture as a personality. Folks know what Spielberg and Scorsese look like, and I don't have any mental image of PTA despite just looking at his IMDB page.
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