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Episode #236 Contest: "But First, This!"

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:20 pm
by LesY
New puzzle is up on the Fill Me In podcast site. The answer is “a movie (or its titular character).”

Re: Fill Me In #236 Contest of Now

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:20 pm
by LesY
Enjoyed this one! I went down a couple of rabbit holes then saw the light.

Re: Fill Me In #236 Contest of Now

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:51 pm
by FrankieHeck
I enjoyed this, too, and got it pretty quickly. Made it slightly harder than it was. I almost forgot to include the password in my submission, though. Just not used to doing that.

Re: Fill Me In #236 Contest of Now

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:05 pm
by ChrisKochmanski
Got it!

Also made it harder than it needed to be. I can see where some, who are better at metas, would get this one very quickly.

Re: Fill Me In #236 Contest of Now

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:54 pm
by Hector
A wee bit of the old back-solve got me there.

Re: Fill Me In #236 Contest of Now

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 9:46 am
by Beth Tyrpin
I was so close to an answer the wrong way that I was getting a little discouraged. Found the right way. Sleep and coffee often do the trick.

Re: Fill Me In #236 Contest of Now

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 7:53 pm
by BarbaraK
I still haven't figured this one out. I finally realized that something I'd assumed was the first step was in fact meaningless, and I've now got what I'm quite confident is the starting point. But it's a subject that I know very very little about - had to google just to get this much. Will keep googling and see if I can find something that leads to “a movie (or its titular character)”.

Edit: just found a pretty obscure movie that will work well enough to be my guess if I don't figure out anything better in the next 10 days.

Re: #236 - "But First, This!"

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 10:14 pm
by damefox
Got this one yesterday. Wound up being much easier than I was trying to make it. Brian definitely has an interesting constructing style. (That'd be a fun contest by itself: try to guess which constructor made any given meta.)

Re: #236 - "But First, This!"

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:33 pm
by Laura M
The answer is what I would have guessed, but I really took the long way around figuring out why! (Not submitting, just in for the fun of it.)

Re: #236 - "But First, This!"

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:21 am
by Al Sisti
Finally got it, after chasing my tail for too long. Good meta...

Re: #236 - "But First, This!"

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 6:31 pm
by BarbaraK
Got back to this now that MGWCC is done, and realized it wasn't nearly as complicated or esoteric as I tried to make it.

Re: #236 - "But First, This!"

Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 9:57 pm
by BarbaraK
Disney princesses are not my strong suit, so this probably took me longer than most others. My first idea was that "But first, this" meant to use the sounds of the first syllables of the theme entries, so sin, miss, poke, maybe jazz, but then what?

Once I did realize that those were Disney characters, I had to google to find the others. Then had no idea what to do with them and got way too deep in the google before backing out and noticing the clues. And, as I'm getting used to with Brian's puzzles, I then saw how nicely everything fit together.

In my googling, I did learn that there was a 2008 TV movie called Princess. If I hadn't found the answer, that was going to be my guess.

Re: #236 - "But First, This!"

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:28 am
by FrankieHeck
Congrats, Beth!

Re: #236 - "But First, This!"

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 10:24 am
by damefox
Yay Beth!

Is anyone else having trouble downloading the new Contest of Now (ep. #238)? The link at http://bemoresmarter.libsyn.com/fill-me ... what-it-is doesn't seem to work. What am I missing?

Re: #236 - "But First, This!"

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 10:49 am
by BarbaraK

Re: #236 - "But First, This!"

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 12:32 pm
by bcimmet
As you've all figured out by now, the solution to the Contest of Episode 236 was MULAN.

Five Disney princesses were in the grid, clued in other ways. The first letter of each clue (hence the title, "But first, this") spell out MULAN.

Thanks for playing ... and check out the new post for the Contest of Episode 238!

Re: #236 - "But First, This!"

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 12:34 pm
by bcimmet
Huh. I can't make a new post ... Maybe someone will see this and give me permission to make a new post for Episode 238?

Re: #236 - "But First, This!"

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 2:41 pm
by Al Sisti
bcimmet wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 12:34 pm Huh. I can't make a new post ... Maybe someone will see this and give me permission to make a new post for Episode 238?
You're up there now, Brian...

Re: #236 - "But First, This!"

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 3:12 pm
by bcimmet
Yup, it got fixed (and I don't know how to delete the previous post!)

Re: #236 - "But First, This!"

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:11 pm
by Beth Tyrpin
Thanks for the congratulations. 🎉 I listened to the podcast and was cracking up when my name was mispronounced because they talked a lot about pronunciations today.