Round 3652 KLINKI results

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Mike Shefler

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May 30, 2026, 11:07:27 AM (yesterday) May 30
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Tony Abell is the runaway winner and next dealer with 6 natural points.

1.  A Jamaican name for a grackle, _Quiscalus niger_.
  Submitter: Keating                  Votes: [1] & *2*    2 + 2 =   4
  Voted for by: [Keating]; Naylor; Widdis

2.  A conifer, _Araucaria hunsteinii_, native to the mountains of Papua
New Guinea.                                                                  
  Submitter: Shefler                   Vote: N/A                   D3
  Voted for by: Keating; Madnick; Widdis

3.  Bells traditionally attached to reindeer to make them easier to
locate.                                                                      
  Submitter: Bourne                   Votes: 4 & 10       0 + 2 =   2
  Voted for by: Embler; Mallach

4.  A sickle-like tool of South Asia, used for harvesting rice.
  Submitter: Lodge                    Votes: 9 & 10       0 + 1 =   1
  Voted for by: Bourne

5.  A small woody outgrowth occurring low on the stem of many climbing
plants.                                                                      
  Submitter: Madnick                  Votes: *2* & 10     2 + 1 =   3
  Voted for by: Naylor

6.  [Old Norse] The noise an empty bowl makes when tapped.
  Submitter: Embler                   Votes: 3 & 10       0 + 1 =   1
  Voted for by: Boxer

7.  A palm-muted, distorted guitar chug, esp. in metal music.
  Submitter: Boxer                    Votes: 6 & 10       0 + 0 =   0
  Voted for by:                                                          

8.  A pole vault attempt in which the athlete's trailing foot
inadvertently dislodges the bar.                                              
  Submitter: Mallach                  Votes: 3 & 10       0 + 0 =   0
  Voted for by:                                                          

9.  Building bricks, also known as engineering bricks  made of sintered
clay; fired at a high temperature of around 1200ºC.                          
  Submitter: Barrs                     Vote: DQ           DQ + 1 =   1
  Voted for by: Lodge

10.  Fine gravel.
  Submitter: Abell                     Vote: N/V          0 + 6 =   6
  Voted for by: Bourne; Lodge; Madnick; Embler; Boxer; Mallach

11.  [Obs.] A two-man tent [named for Austrian cavalry officer Walter
Klinki]                                                                      
  Submitter: Naylor                   Votes: 1 & 5        0 + 0 =   0
  Voted for by:                                                          

12.  [slang, hist.] A guillotine, so called from the imagined sound of its
blade falling.                                                                
  Submitter: Widdis                   Votes: 1 & *2*      2 + 0 =   2
  Voted for by:                                                          

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