As you all probably know, Gish is ending, which also means that there won’t be Gishmas. If you want to do something fun during (1st-23rd) December and you also enjoy puzzles (and tv shows), I might have something for you.

For the past 10 years, this one Czech web about tv shows has been doing an advent calendar, but instead of a chocolate every day, there's a puzzle. It’s a very simple puzzle - if you describe the picture correctly, you will get a title of a TV show. The hard part is finding the right words to describe what you see in the picture. Some days you look at it and immediately see the answer, sometimes it takes a few hours, occasionally even almost the whole day.

Here is an example/teaser they posted last month:

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Since it’s a Czech site, they are also doing puzzles in Czech. So, about half the puzzles is in Czech and the other half is in English (and sometimes it works in both languages).

If anybody wants to play, on the days when the puzzle is in Czech, I can post puzzles from previous years that are in English. Or if anybody wants try to solve the Czech ones, here's the link.

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Is there an archive of previous items somewhere? I'd love to do some of the things I missed this time during the off-season, or some items from previous years for funzies and charity.

First one, if you colored as directed, it was a picture of a door. The password was “DOOR.” But it glitched at first, so you may have had to try it again later.

The constellations were Aquila, Bootes, Cassiopeia, Draco, and Reticulum. If you put the photos in chronological order and grabbed the first letter of each constellation in the photo, you got “ABRACADABRA.” That’s the password.

The word ladder went Star, Scar, Scat, Scot, Soot, Hoot, Host, Post, Posh, Push, Gush, Gish. If you took the substituted letters in numerical order from the positions with numbers, you got “CHORUS.”

The planets were the first seven notes of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.” The password was “TWINKLE.”

Since it was supposed to be posted on social media, but not all are posted on Twitter, I thought I would start a thread to get all the links so we can enjoy the shower show!

Here is my attempt: https://twitter.com/i/timeline

Let's rant! Haha. I already have a headache, here is a place to damn Misha even more!

Please don't give out the answer! We're here to discuss and figure it out. In the spirit of GISH, let's have fun!

Friends, I promise it's a common word! Look at the big picture! Musical goodness.

My teammate in Nashville, TN, needs to find another teams book so that we can finish item number 40! If anyone is in that area and hasn't had their book found yet, please LMK!

I need more parameters! How long should it be? Where should I post it? The instructions are just to share it as an image on Twitter and tag the folks from the zoom… but I feel like even a basic short story is going to be longer than something that fits in a single image?

I'm not gishing this year. I see a lot of people complaining about this item. Can someone tell me what the task is?

Has anyone gotten the password yet? I'm pretty confident in my steps before but am not getting anything that makes sense as a password

Thank you!

EDIT: I was able to get it with different combinations

EDIT: I’m a bit tapped out on donation now. But please. Check below many still need donations and may still be able to trade!

Hi! I know there was a post for this yesterday, but I find it hard to wade through all of the comments sometimes. So, I thought that I would make another one for today!

I can do up to 10 donations.

https://give.randomacts.org/team/439837

Hi fellow GISHers! Has anyone had any luck connecting with international GISHers for #93? I’ve reached out to a bunch of random people on the app, but so far have gotten no replies. Any suggestions for more successful collaborations? Thank you and happy GISHing!

Please tell me I'm not crazy

Hi all, every gish I set aside some funds to match any donations that anybody makes to my team. This year I decided in advance to not buy any more art supplies in order to make more donations to Change A Life. It's easy, donate to my team & I'll donate to yours! This year I can do up to ten trades. If anybody else wants to participate, you can put your team fundraiser link below, and sort out the trades in the comment replies.

My team, btw, is OffGridGishers and our team link is: https://give.randomacts.org/team/439489

Let’s change some lives!

Our local minor league hockey team has a fan-designed jersey competition each year and I've made the top ten! I have a real shot at winning this year I think, but I'd feel even better with a little help from my GISH friends!

https://www.kwings.com/news/cast-your-vote-k-wings-fan-designed-jersey-contest

My entry is the one that has bright green on the logo and sleeves. You have to click the link, scroll to my entry, hit the select button below the picture, and then click to submit your entry. I appreciate you so much! My entry is shown below:

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I attempted to do number 19 as my first Gish. I did the color by picture and then clicked the “next step” button. It prompted me for a password. I can’t tell if the password is part of the challenge or if it should be my Gish account password.

My account pew didn’t work after resetting. All of the obvious things I could think of based on the color by picture didn’t work.

I don’t get it. Feeling a bit frustrated by my inability to figure out what to do.

This year we have a lot of new folks on the team, and I'm trying to help prepare them.

I've shared all our previous submissions, and given the "expect the unexpected" talk.

As I started to explain that there are item types that are repeated every year, realized it would be great to compile a crowdsourced list. (if there isn't one already!)

For example:

Make some kind of art out of skittles

make clothes out of paper

team fund raising

at least one stormtrooper item

at least one swimming pool/underwater item

What are some other regularly seen items?

I've been out of the GISH loop for several years and wanted to make sure that my team would eventually combine with other teams or singletons up to 15. I set the "team size" to 15 because I want my team of 6 to combine with other random people, but that "team size" feature is new to me (I think the last time I participated was 2016?) so I wanted to make sure that's actually what's going to happen. If people select a smaller team size and fill that up, does that just mean they won't get partnered with other teams?

Hey everyone! Team RiskyGishness has had a rough year or two, like most people, and we are trying to rebuild our roster and take our team to the next level! While we are a "For fun" team, we generally try to make our items the best we possibly can and have a really great community. Some of us have been together since the very beginning and it's honestly a really warm, kind, generous team. We are looking for some other like minded gishers who don't have a team, or another team with small numbers willing to merge with us! I'm the team captain, and I'm based in Las Vegas, NV, but we have team members from all over!

We've had team mates in Scotland, Nova Scotia, China, Netherlands, the Philippines and more. We are a very welcoming group, willing to walk newbies through the process, or willing to exchange ideas with fellow veterans. I've also just recently started a Discord server for our team, since many of us are moving off of Facebook for mental health reasons, and we would more than welcome you there as well. And if you don' t know how to use Discord, no worries! I am more than willing to help you set it up and learn how to use it! DM me if you have questions or just hit me up on the GISH app! Username is the same as here!

I‘m captain of an in it to win it team and I’m searching for team members. Been in this for about six years now.

I'm going to be volunteering at AnimeFest this year, which just so happens to be during Gish week :D

Maybe some sort of meetup can be arranged on a day/time that works for everyone interested? And if there's any multi-teamed items that can be done there? Even better :D

Started the team in...2013 I think, and it's been 'active' for all but two of the years since then (years I couldn't participate, but might have been used by a returning team member).

Really excited to be able to participate again, and see how I'm going to be teamed up with :D