Slylock Fox, 7/24/25

I gotta say, it's probably pretty annoying to have to write Slylock Fox at this point, because doing cute little animal mysteries attracts lots of "um, ACTUALLY"s of both the "um, ACTUALLY, the pedantic fact you used as the solution for this mystery is more nuanced than you're implying" and "um, ACTUALLY, the animal you're using as a character in this mystery doesn't work like that" variety. Thus you get puzzles like today, where you're preemptively anticipating this kind of feedback in the solution. "[heavy sigh] Besides telling us that the gloves were not worn by a snake [closing eyes, briefly resting thumb and forefinger on either side of bridge of nose] or other handless animal..." Honestly someone is probably penning a furious email about "um, ACTUALLY, some invertebrates aren't bilaterally symmetrical and could have two right hands and maybe they also became sapient along with all the other animals? can you prove they didn't???" as we speak.

Pluggers, 7/24/25