I’ve been puzzling over it for sure. Particularly what could be the significance of 
(unless it’s “double French”, like in a high-school lesson timetable? chiz chiz)
Would it help if I added 
to it?
The Legend of the Missing Hat?
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This makes me think of Known Unknowns.
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Everybody Dies?
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You got it!
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Correct!
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Probably time to give some hints for mine that are hanging around unguessed…
(Hints are of uniform format. None of them give away the answer directly. If you use them to guess, I’d be interested to know which / how many, to inform how unfair / obscure my setting of these clues was…)
| Clue | Hints |
|---|---|
51.   |
2022 / parser / Spring+Thing / single room |
53.     |
2017 / choice / IF+Comp'tion / dragon |
55.   |
2009 / parser / IF+Comp'tion / Golden Banana of Discord winner |
58.    |
2021 / parser / IF+Comp'tion / game within a game |
59.   |
2017 / parser / IF+Comp'tion / minimalist |
67.    |
1998 / parser / NotInAComp++ / product is product |
69.     |
2011 / parser / IF+Comp'tion / puppy NPC |
77.   |
2008 / parser / IF+Comp'tion / terrorism |
79.        |
2010 / parser / TWIFcomp++++ / source is part of experience |
81.         |
2020 / parser / RVExposition / source is part of experience |
84.            |
2011 / choice / NotInAComp++ / procedural generation |
| 101. |
2022 / choice / Spring+Thing / skeleton protagonist |
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Oh this must be The Dragon Will Tell You Your Future Now.
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!
The Bones of Rosalinda?
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Yes! 
(I haven’t actually played it past the start, so slightly worried by the boldness of my single-emojum clue… but I thought adding 
would be a dead giveaway)
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It’s a Japanese word, so the plural and singular are the same. 
Ok, here are hints for these games:
38: 
72: 
74 73: 
75: 
77 76: 
Below are short quotations from the games, in no particular order. (I’ve tried to choose excerpts that might help jog people’s memories, but that wouldn’t be total spoilers.) (But it’s hard to gauge! Probably some are more spoilery than others!)
“You feel like a nice rock on the rocking chair would relax you before you go anywhere.” (This has now been guessed! For future reference, it’s from Daddy’s Birthday by Ruth and Jonathan.)
“You tried to tell the professor that bringing a harpoon into an inflatable lifeboat was a bad idea.” (This has now been guessed! For future reference, it’s from Untold Riches by Jason Ermer.)
“Your roundness is perfect and exquisite, your color a sweetly deep cerulean. In your cross-plane eight points mark a square.” (This has now been guessed! For future reference, it’s from Marble Madness by Emily Short.)
“One wrong move and you will either end up in la Bastille or on the block.” (This has now been guessed! For future reference, it’s from Secret Agent Cinder by Emily Ryan.)
“You are just a soft lattice of nerves, after all” (This has now been guessed! For future reference, it’s from the sea god by christine mi.)
And here are some more hints (not quotations this time).
Authoring systems used (in no particular order):
One Twine game
One Bitsy Game
Two Inform 7 games
One Inform 6 game
Miscellaneous hints (mostly in no particular order):
won an IFDB award
adaptation of a non-IF game
won an XYZZY award
Further hint related to above hint: for best multimedia
part of “IF Arcade”
ParserComp game
child co-author
IFComp 2015
Emily Short
(Edited to add hints, correct mistakes, etc.)
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Long shots:
Coloratura? (not convinced – I looked at the hints, and the quote that looked promising doesn’t show up in transcripts I looked at)
Le comte et la communiste? (again, not very convinced, and I think the quote would have had to be translated)
No and no, sorry!
A hint for these:
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
106.   |
|
108.      |
|
114.    |
They’re all written within four years of each other, and before Photopia.
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Just had a flash of insight on this one:
Do not let your left hand know
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I’ve edited my most recent hint post to add more hints for the unguessed clues.
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Is 72 Secret Agent Cinder?
I remember 77 maybe from your hints. Was it released in 2015? Some game in the top 15. I’ll go check IFDB. I swear it was written by some students and a teacher.
Ah yeah, it has to be: Untold Riches. It was the professor line that jogged my memory.
Okay, looking at systems, 74 must be that beautiful Bitsy whalefall game. Searching it up, it’s The Sea God. I knew it was highly rated; I just searched Bitsy and it’s the top-rated game.
That leaves only 38 and 75.
For 38, it seems likely to be an if arcade game. Is there a snakes and ladders game? Ah, maybe it’s Marble Madness by Emily Short. That must also be the cross-plane thing.
That leaves 75, which must be associated to the rocking chair. and the system must be Inform 7. It must have a child co-author. I suspect it’s that recent game where the parent and kid collaborated on a birthday surprise game for either IFComp or parser comp. But I can’t find that one. Or maybe I’m mixing it up with that Harry Potter game with the map or with hand Me Down.
Edit: Is 75 The Last Christmas Present?
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