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Think the t rex might be too specific? Tyrannosauridae or Tyrannosaurids, perhaps?

Mimicing what Wiz just said in the warrior thread: T-Rex related, possibly not EXACTLY Tyrannosaurus.

What do you make of my Tetris & Relic related postulations?

capitalization is irrelevant to the portal. It switches all letters to their lowercase version on entry. It does the same to the answers I've provided it to compare against, since last year I accidentally capitalized a few things.

The russian name for Tetris is most definitely a good direction to try next, as well as the relic.

This portal is strange, because we can have things as off-beat as firefly-is-over as an answer, to actual relics and artifacts.

But, to be clear, it cares very much about punctuation and spacing between words (but spaces before and after are irrelevant, I believe). You've encountered a few answers that this was a point of confusion on.

I counted this as a part of RPR history, since it's really the only RPR specific emoticon and it was super popular when introduced. The rest of our emoticons are canned and came with the BBCode system.

On the theme of Tetris, the answer could potentially also be the creator, Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov.

Oh, of course! Good idea, Dragonfire!

Hi Folks, I appear to have unlocked the last clue for the Fang Seal - completely by accident, I swear! it is "How much they could curl." So baffling!

And a quick Google later and we get the figure of 430 lbs!

Let's hope it doesn't want the metric conversion.

http://www.blastr.com/2009/10/science_proves_t_rexs_wim.php

"430 Pounds"

"T. rex’s supposedly wimpy arms ... “The bicep alone—and this is a conservative estimate—could curl 430 pounds,” he said. http://mentalfloss.com/article/55390/12-things-you-might-not-know-about-t-rex

Thank you so much, EBG!

I think our answer is either 430 pounds or 860 pounds. Here's why.

Edit: Beat me to it!

So my guess for the Fang Seal is "430 pounds."

Wizard, you and I nailed this thing, I bet!

And Swagnakor. And Dragonfire. Cool.

rofl

Stand by, portallers! One goblin remains!

I'm going to try to crack the Cube seal since I think we know what the Fang seal's answer is! Hold off on trying to solve that one for a few minutes so we can try some guesses for Cube.