Hints

Plot-hole #144 · August 10, 2026 · Today

Difficulty: Medium · 72% of 18 players solved it.

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Hint 1 — One-word hint

"Revenge"

Hint 2 — The Setup

A bleak industrial city in Victorian England.

Hint 3 — The Character

A barber returns after being wrongfully imprisoned for years.

Hint 4 — The Conflict

He seeks revenge on the judge who destroyed his family.

Hint 5 — The Twist

He kills his customers and his landlady bakes them into pies.

Final hint (names names)

Johnny Depp sings and slits throats in Tim Burton's musical about the demon barber of Fleet Street.

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Sweeney Todd

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