Bracket City Answers: Nov 8, 2026
The puzzle
[alternative [tiny cut or [essential nachos ingredient] 🎅]name for a guy called [[[when reversed, a young [you get a lot of ["___ taken" (touché)]s if you hit its eye] 🐄👦]'s tool] or [___ing the ___ is [[Mos ___ (multi[-]ate artist) 💯]inition]less if you don't 🚶♀️➡️ the 🚶♀️➡️]]dy]dosius I prohibits all forms of pagan worship
The finished sentence
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November 8, 392 — read the story.
Every clue, solved
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| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "___ taken" (touché) | point |
| - | hyphen |
| Lasso or Talk | Ted |
| Mos ___ (multihyphenate artist) 💯 | def |
| ___ing the ___ is meaningless if you don't 🚶♀️➡️ the 🚶♀️➡️ | Talk |
| alternative nickname for a guy called Teddy | Theo |
| cowboy's tool | Lasso |
| definition | meaning |
| essential nachos ingredient | chip |
| tiny cut or chip 🎅 | nick |
| when reversed, a young bull 🐄👦 | cowboy |
| you get a lot of points if you hit its eye | bull |
About this Bracket City
The Sunday, November 8, 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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