The puzzle

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Final answer

The finished sentence

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the Wuchang Uprising begins

October 10, 1911 — read the story.

Every clue, solved

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ClueAnswer
Pa's partnerMa
__ ✖️ 2 🟰 excellent toy / __ ✖️ 2 ➕️ Ma 🟰 excellent cellistYo
type of leaf for Adam and Eve (post-apple)fig
one on the literal ⚽️ or figurative 😉 fieldplayer
flip 🪙 or mix 🥗toss
you might turn over a new oneleaf
a back one is a very cool way to enter a poolflip
varieties include highball, lowball, and magnifyingglass
The House of the ___ Sun 🌅rising
what the sleepless do, with tossturn
type of glasses useful to poker playersSun
York that's not in Englandnew

About this Bracket City

The Saturday, October 10, 2026 puzzle nested 12 clues inside one sentence, written by Madeline Weinstein. Bracket City is solved from the inside out: each innermost [bracket] is a clue whose answer replaces it, which turns the next bracket around it into a solvable clue, until a single sentence is left — usually tied to something that happened on this date.

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