Word Restoration Game

@Arkturos said
I got PARANOIA immediately (and also from time to time) and PA RAN, but would you mind explaining the rest of the clue?

You're correct with PA and RAN for father and managed respectively.
oddly comical is every other letter in comical = OIA

@Arkturos said
I got PARANOIA immediately (and also from time to time) and PA RAN, but would you mind explaining the rest of the clue?

Every other letter in cOmIcAl.

Probably should have said "... even comical delusion" to be pedantic.

@orangutan said
You're correct with PA and RAN for father and managed respectively.
oddly comical is every other letter in comical = OIA

Oh! Hahaha. Thank you. However, if you are not a pro cryptic setter already, maybe that's a good thing for the people of Earth, because we have enough other things driving us mad already. 😉

@Paul-Martin said

_ O _ _

Station, river, road.

It'll be a job getting this afterwards.

@Arkturos said
Hmm, it cannot be HOULT, so

probably TOLL

Not TOLL


_ O _ _

Station, river, road.

@orangutan said
It'll be a job getting this afterwards.

Better out than in.

@Paul-Martin said
Probably should have said "... even comical delusion" to be pedantic.

... don't want to make it easy.

@Paul-Martin said
Every other letter in cOmIcAl.

Probably should have said "... even comical delusion" to be pedantic.

Who should have said? Do you thing paranoia is funny?

And it seems that we are back to my observation that recently only orangutan and Paul can solve each other's posers.

How clever are they?!!!

Clap clap clap!

@Arkturos said
Who should have said? Do you thing paranoia is funny?

Paul is pointing out the flaw in my clue.
Where I said "oddly comical", strictly speaking that should have yielded CMCL (the odd letters). "Even comical" correctly gives the OIA.
Still. It's just a word game.

@orangutan said
Paul is pointing out the flaw in my clue.
Where I said "oddly comical", strictly speaking that should have yielded CMCL (the odd letters). "Even comical" correctly gives the OIA.
Still. It's just a word game.

Oh, thank you, and I'll try to keep that in mind despite my luckily not-too-frequent errors of reference.

However, after I had sent my apologies to you and Paul by PM, with a fuller apology to Paul re: why his poser seemed to involve my family name, he made no private response to me before his "even comical" post, and now I regret that I have disclosed my family name to him, because I have even less reason to trust him now.

Just a word game? One that involves unusual interpretations?

Which spy agency are you two working for?

@Arkturos said
And it seems that we are back to my observation that recently only orangutan and Paul can solve each other's posers.

PARANOIA was solved by Ghost of a Duke

You asked for an explanation for the OIA and I kindly supplied it.

@Paul-Martin said
PARANOIA was solved by Ghost of a Duke

You asked for an explanation for the OIA and I kindly supplied it.

You have perhaps provided more information than you might have intended.

"slight smile"