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@john ezra Personal biases will trip you up. Several most definitely means three.

@Andrzej Elphaba is a play on the initials of the creator of Oz, L. Frank Baum. LFB

@Rebecca The dots on a die are called pips. Each O in the shaded box represents a pip on a die face. From left to right, top to bottom are the faces 3, 6, 2, 1, 5, 4. Hope this helped!

@Prithwiraj The first two letters, which is how you solve the whole puzzle. A CAMEO is the carved part of jewelry, not curved.

@Stephen 1:07 here. 19 min. over average! Not happy! Haha

@Anne My car sat in the parking lot while I went into the store.

@Geoff Offermann I thought a long hyphen was an EMDASH. A sure fire way to tell if something is AI generated. . No one uses it in everyday occurrences.