The solution to the puzzle is a sequence of five letters.

Let's say you're submitting an answer on November 5th, and you wanted to submit "XABDU" as your solution, you would write a comment: "11/5/25: XABDU".

Please do not try to brute-force this. Each user gets one guess per calendar day, I'm not going to check every single time stamp diligently so don't abuse this rule or I will block you from the market and be sad.

I will check the market once per day (don't worry if I forget or skip a day, I'm human) at a random-ish time. If the value of the market is below 50%, I will give a single hint, which I will compile in the description over time. If the value of the market is above 50% (inclusive), I will not give a hint.

I think this puzzle will be hard. The more time that passes without hints, the less likely you will be to solve it. I anticipate that you will need at least ten hints to solve it, possibly far more. You might need to collaborate. You have until the end of the year!

11/3 Hint 1: Portugal

11/4 Hint 2: harbor

11/5 no hint today

11/6 no hint today

11/7 no hint today

11/8 no hint today

11/9 no hint today

11/10 no hint today

11/11 no hint today

11/12 Hint 3: Nazareth

11/13 no hint today

11/14 no hint today

11/15 Hint 4: [VPP]

11/16 Hint 5: 9gag

11/17 no hint today

11/18 Hint 6: [O-MBRV]

11/19 no hint today

11/20 no hint today

11/21 Hint 7: herring

11/22 Hint 8: [L-MBRV]

11/23 Hint 9: Setúbal

11/24 no hint today

11/25 no hint today

11/26 no hint today

11/27 no hint today

11/28 no hint today

11/29 no hint today

11/30 no hint today

12/1 no hint today (but it is my birthday 🥳, that's not a hint)

12/2 no hint today

12/3 no hint today

12/4 no hint today

12/5 no hint today

12/6 no hint today

12/7 no hint today

12/8 no hint today

12/9 no hint today

12/10 no hint today

12/11 no hint today

12/12 no hint today

12/13 no hint today

EVERYTHING BELOW THIS LINE IS AI SUMMARY GIBBERISH

• The creator will not reply to every guess. If there is no reply to a guess, assume it is not correct.

• Incorrect guesses will be acknowledged with a like from the creator (rather than a written reply). If there is no response to a guess, assume it is incorrect.

• If no one guesses the correct solution by the market close date (midnight on 2025-12-31), the market will resolve NO.

• The market can resolve YES immediately upon a correct guess being seen by the creator, prior to the market close date.

• The solution must consist of five letters from the English alphabet (the 26 standard letters A-Z). Non-English characters are not valid.

• Guesses containing non-English alphabet characters (such as accented letters like Í, Ó, etc.) will be treated as their unaccented English equivalents (e.g., SÍTIO will be treated as SITIO).

• The creator will not trade on this market.

• All guesses must include a date in the submission. The format can be flexible as long as it's legible. This is to avoid ambiguity about which comment constitutes a user's daily guess.

• Guesses will not be invalidated based on timezone differences between the guesser and the creator. Users may use their local timezone when dating their guesses.

• If the creator misses announcing a hint/no-hint on a given day, they will apply that day's result (based on whether the market was below/above 50%) the morning after they next check the market, rather than skipping that day entirely.