SmartLess Presents ClueLess

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SmartLess Presents ClueLess episodes

April 17, 2025 145 - Do Not Pass Go! (w/ Scotty Icenogle)
On this special Monopoly-themed episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes invite Sean’s husband Scotty Icenogle to play a new game where the instructions are very simple: Do Not Pass Go! Elliott will give a series of clues, and every answer ends in the letters G-O. The questions increase in difficulty, leading to a MegaClue round where they are worth five points each!

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
Puzzles in this episode are by Josh Richmond and Jason Reich.
Script by Elliott Kalan.
Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant.
22 min
April 14, 2025 144 - Bot Bops (w/ Jeff Max)
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes welcome back Sean’s good friend, actor Jeff Max, to attend another recital of Bot Bops! Elliott’s non-branded digital assistant will regale you with five classic songs in its own cold, inhuman style, name the song for one point and the artist for another point! Keep track of your answers in order to solve the MegaClue!

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
Puzzles in this episode are by Kevin Leman and Devon Torrey Bryant.
Script by Elliott Kalan.
Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant.
18 min
April 10, 2025 143 - Stuck In The App Store (w/ Jeff Max)
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes welcome back Sean’s good friend, actor Jeff Max, to grapple with a scrappy new game, Stuck In The App Store! We’ll give you a series of clues, and the correct answer will always feature the letters A, P, and P, in that order, try to answer them faster than Sean and Jeff. And once you’ve got the hang of it, the MegaClue will ask you to replace five words in a sentence with more APP words!

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
Puzzles in this episode are by Jason Reich and Kevin Leman.
Script by Elliott Kalan.
Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant.
17 min
April 07, 2025 142 - Odd One Out (w/ Jeff Max)
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes welcome back Sean’s good friend, actor Jeff Max, to see if he can help spot the Odd One Out! New Kids On The Block (NKOTB to their friends) are reuniting for an autograph signing, but they got so excited they each brought one item too many! See if you can identify which item doesn’t fit the group and why, and try to do it faster than Sean and Jeff. Keep track of your discarded items, you’ll need them to solve the MegaClue!

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
Puzzles in this episode are by Jason Reich and Kevin Leman.
Script by Elliott Kalan, additional material by Maddie McCann.
Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant.
15 min
April 03, 2025 141 - Bizarro TV Guide (w/ Scotty Icenogle)
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes welcome back Sean’s husband Scotty for another flip through the Bizarro TV Guide! A copy of the TV listings has fallen into Elliott’s possession from an alternate universe where things are pretty opposite, can you make heads or tails of the titles in their Prestige Drama section, and translate them back into our world? Keep track of your answers, you’ll need them to solve the MegaClue!

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
Puzzles in this episode are by Josh Richmond, Devon Torrey Bryant, and Kevin Leman.
Script by Elliott Kalan.
Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant.
15 min
March 31, 2025 140 - Linkuistics (w/ Scotty Icenogle)
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes invite Sean’s husband Scotty Icenogle back for another spin through the chain of Linkuistics! We’ll give you one word which starts a two-word phrase or compound word, and the first letter of the second word, all you have to do is guess the correct phrase to keep the chain going. Once you get the hang of it, the MegaClue will ask you to create your own links between words on the chain!

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
Puzzles in this episode are by Josh Richmond and Jason Reich.
Script by Elliott Kalan, additional material by Maddie McCann.
Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant.
20 min
March 27, 2025 139 - Word Centipede (w/ Scotty Icenogle)
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes invite Sean’s husband Scotty Icenogle back to tangle with the many limbs of the Word Centipede! What word can you put before or after the three words we give you to make three new compound words, and can you do it faster than Sean and Scotty? One word per round will point you towards a connection for today’s MegaClue!

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
Puzzles in this episode are by Kevin Leman.
Script by Elliott Kalan, additional material by Maddie McCann.
Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant.
18 min
March 24, 2025 138 - It’s A Numbers Game (w/ Jeff Max)
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes invite Sean’s good friend Jeff Max to tackle a new round of an old favorite - It’s A Numbers Game! This time, Elliott will be giving you simple math equations in the form of famous song titles with the numbers removed, can you solve the clues faster than Sean and Jeff, and can you answer in the form of a song title? Keep track of your answers to solve the MegaClue!

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
Puzzles in this episode are by Devon Torrey Bryant and Kevin Leman.
Script by Elliott Kalan.
Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant.
19 min
March 20, 2025 137 - Word Workout (w/ Jeff Max)
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes invite Sean’s good friend Jeff Max to hit the gym for Word Workout! Each of the words we give you wants to slim down by one letter, and the remaining letters can be rearranged to answer the given clue. Keep track of all discarded letters to defeat the MegaClue!

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
Puzzles in this episode are by Josh Richmond.
Script by Elliott Kalan.
Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant.
15 min
March 17, 2025 136 - Bizarro Concert Guide (w/ Jeff Max)
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes invite Sean’s good friend, actor Jeff Max, to contend with a new twist on an old game - Bizarro Concert Guide! A copy of this week’s concert schedule has fallen into Elliott’s possession from an alternate universe where things are pretty opposite, can you make heads or tails of these band names, and translate them back into our world?

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
Puzzles in this episode are by Jason Reich and Kevin Leman.
Script by Elliott Kalan.
Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant.
16 min

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SmartLess Presents ClueLess is a bite-sized, biweekly podcast (10-12 minutes an episode), in which our host, Emmy-winning writer Elliott Kalan, guides the listener through different puzzles,…