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Two squares, star and ship

Medium. Two-square. Left keyword STAR, right keyword SHIP. I/J share.

The grille turns

Medium. Turning grille. 4×4, four holes, clockwise.

Spiral off the pad

Easy–medium. Route cipher. Fill a 3×4 grid row-major, read clockwise from the outside in.

Six dots on the pad

Easy. Grade-1 Braille. Six-dot cells, o is raised.

Myszkowski, steel

Medium. Myszkowski. Keyword STEEL. Repeated letters share a column number.

Morbit on the chopsticks

Medium. Morbit. Morse, then pairs of . - x turned into digits 1–9.

Four squares, rail and ship

Medium–hard. Four-square. Keywords RAIL and SHIP. I/J share.

Amsco, three one two

Medium–hard. Amsco. Irregular columnar. Groups of 1 then 2 letters, left to right, repeating. Key 312.

Terranigma gets its first official North American release

Clear River announced Terranigma — Rebirth at Pixel Arcadia on 24 August 2026, for early 2027. The 1995 Quintet game never had an official U.S. release. Kamui Fujiwara is back. Pixel art stays.

Captain Tsubasa 2: World Fighters launches on four platforms

Bandai Namco Europe dated World Fighters 28 August 2026 on Switch, PS5, Xbox and Steam. 22 nations, 110-plus characters, 150-plus new specials. $59.99 on last week’s Nintendo Download.

NASA’s Starling swarm finds its orbit without GPS

NASA’s 17 August FALCON demo on the Starling CubeSat swarm matched star-tracker sightings to a ~20,000-object catalog, fixed its own orbit, and refined more than 200 others in three days. EraDrive’s Era-Core flew the software.