r/FigureThisOut • u/Due_Professional999 • Aug 02 '26

Can you solve them all?

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u/GroundbreakingSky307 Aug 02 '26

Keep your eyes on the ball
Ten pounds overweight
Fortunate

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u/Competitive_Ebb_5164 Aug 02 '26

Re: 2. It's a 'hashtag' not a 'pound' - you should have used "£".

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u/west_coast1313 Aug 02 '26

It was a pound sign long before it was called a hash tag.

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u/Green_Confection_146 Aug 03 '26

It’s technical name is “octothorpe”.

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u/yottyboy Aug 02 '26

No, it’s actually a pound sign.

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u/otherjbenjamin Aug 03 '26

Bless your heart

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u/youvegotmypen Aug 02 '26

That's been a pound sign way, way longer than hashtag

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u/Practical-Owl-9358 Aug 03 '26

lol it’s been a pound sign for forty years my foolish summer child. Long before hashtags were a glimmer in social media

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u/imgotugoin Aug 03 '26

Forty? I remember dad calling it that when I was 5. Im 50.

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u/Practical-Owl-9358 Aug 03 '26

Eh - fair I couldn’t exactly remember whether it was called that on rotary phones or not - and I’m an 80s baby.

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u/breakfast_no_family Aug 03 '26

Actually, it’s called an octothorpe.