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Hitchhiking across the galaxy with Arthur Dent
Answers for Globle, Metazooa, Elemingle and more from May 26 - June 1
Abe Train
June 02, 2025
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This week, we have…
Coming soon: Metazooa Live!
A fun fact inspired by Fictogram
Answers to last week's games
Reader survey
Attention all Torontonians! 🇨🇦
Turn your phone into a nature detective tool at Toronto’s High Park! Metazooa: Live is a scavenger hunt where you photograph plants, animals, and fungi around you. The app instantly identifies each species and builds your personal Tree of Life in real-time.
How many of High Park's 1,000+ species can you discover? Snap, identify, and watch your evolutionary tree grow with every shot.
Hitchhike across the galaxy with Arthur Dent
Which Mario Kart character would be most likely to pick up a hitchhiker?
The answer to life, the universe, and everything: 42. But what's the question? So wonders Arthur Dent (Fictogram guest for May 28), the bewildered protagonist of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This 1979 novel, first in a comic science fiction series, follows Arthur as he's swept into an intergalactic adventure when Earth is destroyed by bureaucratic aliens building a hyperspace bypass. The story satirizes human nature and our treatment of the planet, becoming a pop culture phenomenon through its wit and philosophical absurdity.
Adams' inspiration came during a night lying drunk in a field, gazing at stars and thinking someone should write a guidebook to the Milky Way. Starting as a comedy writer who said he only ended up in science fiction through his love of exaggeration, Adams first created Hitchhiker's as a successful BBC radio show filled with wit and philosophical humor. This success led to five novels, a television series, and additional radio programs.
Hitchhiker's references appear everywhere in popular culture. Google named its AI research lab DeepMind after Deep Thought, the novel's reality-calculating supercomputer. Phrases like "Don't Panic" and the number 42 show up in Doctor Who, Lost, and Star Trek. Fans declared May 25 as Towel Day to honour Adams, celebrating the book's claim that a towel "is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have."
Trivia
What was Arthur Dent’s name supposed to be originally? |
Answers to last week's games
Monday, May 26 to Sunday, June 1.
Globle
| Globle: Capitals
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Chronogram
| Fictogram
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Metazooa
| Metaflora
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Linxicon
The following are the shortest paths from last week:
#468 personal → human → biological → mechanism
#469 shake → party → funeral → estate
#470 legitimate → authentic → special → highlight
#471 infant → preschool → education → math → calculate
#472 dig → miner → prospect → individual
#473 still → later → tomorrow → weekend
#474 path → shortcut → simple → effectively
#475 Play now!
Elemingle
#124 Palladium
#125 Sodium
#126 Bohrium
#127 Actinium
#128 Rutherfordium
#129 Lead
#130 Potassium
#131 Play now!
That’s all for this week. Thanks for reading!
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