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Tall and Hungry

Played on May 7, 2026 · Puzzle #79

The voice

I'm what they keep feeding. I grow when they feed me right.

The scenario

I am hungry. They keep feeding me, though some of what they give me makes me hiss and shrink back. The ones with the pale soft things on long sticks arrived a while ago. I was glad for the company.

About this puzzle

This is a Everyday puzzle of easy-medium difficulty with one hidden answer. Players had up to 5 questions to ask the constrained voice before having to commit to an answer.

Everyday puzzles describe ordinary objects or moments through the eyes of someone who lacks the words for them, turning the mundane briefly strange and then suddenly obvious.

How players scored

  • Perfect score (100)1%
  • Above 7515%
  • 50 to 7519%
  • Below 5019%
  • Gave up47%

Distribution across all production attempts.

How constrained voices work

Every 5Qs puzzle is built around a constrained voice. The voice knows the answer but can only communicate within a specific perspective — a doorman new to the city, a dog who only thinks in smell and crunch, an empty lot that has never been occupied before. The voice will not name the answer outright. The fun is figuring out what to ask so that the lens reveals enough for you to put a name on what the voice is describing.