Round archive · September 29, 2026
A neighborhood diner at breakfast
The text, mistakes revealed
Here is the text as players saw it, with its 6 mistakes highlighted and corrected.
The bell chimed loudly, announcing my arrival at the only diner that seemed to posesspossess a decent coffee machine. Sliding into a familiar booth, I found it surprisingly comfortiblecomfortable despite the peeling red vinyl and sagging springs. On this freezing morning in early januaryJanuary, the large front windows were completely fogged up from the grill. Behind the counter, exactly thirty fivethirty-five minutes before the rush, the weary cook was flipping golden pancakes. At a corner table, there was threethere were three regular customers murmuring over the newspaper and steaming mugs of tea. They barely glanced up from thiertheir reading when the waitress hurried past with a stack of buttered toast. I unbuttoned my coat, finally feeling the biting cold melt away in this warm sanctuary of eggs and bacon.
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The traps in this round
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posess →possess
“Possess” has two pairs of s.
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comfortible →comfortable
“Comfortable” ends in -able: “comfort” is a whole word on its own.
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january →January
Months always take a capital letter.
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thirty five →thirty-five
Compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine take a hyphen.
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there was three →there were three
The verb agrees with what follows: three regular customers.
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thier →their
“Their” takes e before i.