"Herd Mentality"
- norrin2
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- whimsy
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Solution confirmed --good thing --- I'm running out of couch pictures.
Pleasant day here earlier -- worked on the puzzle out on the porch in the hammock.
For a while things were taking a bad turn ..........
Pleasant day here earlier -- worked on the puzzle out on the porch in the hammock.
For a while things were taking a bad turn ..........
- FrankH
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- BrianMac
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Mid-week update:
21. Dplass
22. Schmeel
23. hashbrown
24. Abide
25. sps (please welcome our 1,000th member)
26. KayW
27. Bird Lives
28. norrin2
29. whimsy
30. FrankH
31. Djquimby
Also, here is the first of three hints for Wednesday Nudgeday:
I will provide another hint later in the day. Maybe.
21. Dplass
22. Schmeel
23. hashbrown
24. Abide
25. sps (please welcome our 1,000th member)
26. KayW
27. Bird Lives
28. norrin2
29. whimsy
30. FrankH
31. Djquimby
Also, here is the first of three hints for Wednesday Nudgeday:
I will provide another hint later in the day. Maybe.
- DrTom
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COUCHLESS! Fun puzzle and a bit of a earning experience, Perhaps a bit easier than some of Brian's others but a novel mechanism and a nice AHA. Liked it lots.
By the way, muggling on an IPhone is just not for an early Boomer. I have to type 3 times as much just to correct mistakes. Be glad when I get back to my PC.
By the way, muggling on an IPhone is just not for an early Boomer. I have to type 3 times as much just to correct mistakes. Be glad when I get back to my PC.
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!
- Dannyvee
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New to the board but have been enjoying these Monday Metas. Quite sure Iโm off the couch.
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- BrianMac
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Final additions to the leaderboard:
32. DrTom
33. Cindy N
34. Dannyvee
35. markhr
Thanks everyone for solving. The answer to the puzzle is GIRAFFE, which I think everyone figured out without too much trouble. Pretty standard mechanism. The title, along with the clues and answers at 1-Across and 71-Across, is intended to help you notice that the ends of each of the theme entries is the collective noun (or I should probably say "a" collective noun) for a group of animals. Some are more well known than others, and some are outright obscure (I know no one calls a group of owls a STARE, it's a parliament - sorry about that). Taking the initials of the animals represented by the collective nouns (and hopefully without too much Googling) gives you T O W E R, which is the collective noun for a group of giraffes.
The winner of the NYT book of Thursday puzzles is randomly drawn from the 35 correct entries is: BarbaraK!
Congrats, Barbara, and thanks again everyone who solved. New puzzle tomorrow from TMart!
32. DrTom
33. Cindy N
34. Dannyvee
35. markhr
Thanks everyone for solving. The answer to the puzzle is GIRAFFE, which I think everyone figured out without too much trouble. Pretty standard mechanism. The title, along with the clues and answers at 1-Across and 71-Across, is intended to help you notice that the ends of each of the theme entries is the collective noun (or I should probably say "a" collective noun) for a group of animals. Some are more well known than others, and some are outright obscure (I know no one calls a group of owls a STARE, it's a parliament - sorry about that). Taking the initials of the animals represented by the collective nouns (and hopefully without too much Googling) gives you T O W E R, which is the collective noun for a group of giraffes.
The winner of the NYT book of Thursday puzzles is randomly drawn from the 35 correct entries is: BarbaraK!
Congrats, Barbara, and thanks again everyone who solved. New puzzle tomorrow from TMart!
- ReB
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Oh well, I never heard of any of these collective animal groups (including TOWER), and so the mechanism eluded me, especially as I was led astray by thinking homonyms (DEAR for DEER, HEARD for HERD) - which of course led me into many dead ends. Ironically, giraffe was at the top of my wild-guess list of 7-letter animals.
- Hector
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I've always wondered where these nouns come from. Surely they are not organically-evolved. Some wit(s) must have sat around dreaming them up.
- KayW
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I actually knew "wisdom of wombats" and that was the one to tip me off (especially once posters here started mentioning the need to google). I liked the alliteration when I first heard the phrase and thought it sounded like the groupthink of committees.
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- whimsy
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I initially fell into the old vertical trap again, thinking that a 7 letter answer had to involve the 2 long downs as well as the obvious 5 across theme entries. I was deviously encouraged in that by finding such a thing as "a call (sign) of vireos" in my googling (but of course nothing for "step" or "aside" -- "A side of fries"? ) So trying to fit that V into the T-O-W=E=R business was a "barrel of monkey wrenches" for me for a bit.
Enjoy your puzzles, Barbara!
And thanks very much, Brian!
Enjoy your puzzles, Barbara!
And thanks very much, Brian!
- BarbaraK
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- Joe Ross
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For several years, I was the PA announcer for varsity sports at my kids' high school. Job #1 was giving credit to players who made positive contributions (while properly pronouncing their names).
In football games, it was often hard to credit individuals, particularly on defensive stops, so I did research on the varied opponents' mascots' group names to use. The odder the names, the better, and the more likely I'd crack open a window in order to hear the crowds' reactions.
In football games, it was often hard to credit individuals, particularly on defensive stops, so I did research on the varied opponents' mascots' group names to use. The odder the names, the better, and the more likely I'd crack open a window in order to hear the crowds' reactions.
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Interestingly enough, we found that in Africa a tower of giraffes is when they are standing still. When they are moving they are called a Journey.BrianMac wrote: โSun Oct 11, 2020 2:47 pm Final additions to the leaderboard:
32. DrTom
33. Cindy N
34. Dannyvee
35. markhr
Thanks everyone for solving. The answer to the puzzle is GIRAFFE, which I think everyone figured out without too much trouble. Pretty standard mechanism. The title, along with the clues and answers at 1-Across and 71-Across, is intended to help you notice that the ends of each of the theme entries is the collective noun (or I should probably say "a" collective noun) for a group of animals. Some are more well known than others, and some are outright obscure (I know no one calls a group of owls a STARE, it's a parliament - sorry about that). Taking the initials of the animals represented by the collective nouns (and hopefully without too much Googling) gives you T O W E R, which is the collective noun for a group of giraffes.
The winner of the NYT book of Thursday puzzles is randomly drawn from the 35 correct entries is: BarbaraK!
Congrats, Barbara, and thanks again everyone who solved. New puzzle tomorrow from TMart!
Bob Stevens
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