A place to discuss the weekly Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzle Contest, starting every Thursday around 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. Please do not post any answers or hints before the contest deadline which is midnight Sunday Eastern time.
FrankieHeck wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 9:34 am
I started out by looking at the letters above the Ns, below the Ss, etc. Same strategy I had tried incorrectly in a PGWCC last month. Then I had the great idea to color in every N, S, E, and W to see if they revealed something. That was a lovely mess. Fortunately I thought of the correct strategy after I put it away for a while, before I did more damage to my puzzle and brain.
In my seemingly never-ending quest to ignore Occam's Razor, I started traversing squares in every direction -- not just N,S, E and W, but U, D, R and L -- to see where that would lead me... until I told myself "Not even my ex-wives would be that mean!"
Ditto, plus I found enough NEs and SEs to try all 4 intercardinals. Of course to no avail. Thankfully, I finally saw one of the "marked" letters and the rest was...eddyfying?
MikeMillerwsj wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 3:11 pm
Congratulations to everyone who cracked this ingenious puzzle (and to Mike who performed an amazing feat of construction). We had an impressive 1073 entries and fully 90% were correct. Incorrect answers were quite a grab bag, including SWEEP, RESOLUTION, SWIPE, SWIPE RIGHT, PERPETUAL, TREMORS, and many others.
And congrats to this week's winner: Kathleen Reilly Graves of Briarcliff Manor, NY.
Love the posts of incorrect answers, and aspire to have many of my mightily thunk-thru clunkers posted publicly in the Miller's Tale.
Commodore wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 6:55 pm
Love the posts of incorrect answers, and aspire to have many of my mightily thunk-thru clunkers posted publicly in the Miller's Tale.
Congratulations, Kathleen!
Probably better odds than actually winning the mug. Love how we find our victories where we can.
FrankieHeck wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 9:34 am
I started out by looking at the letters above the Ns, below the Ss, etc. Same strategy I had tried incorrectly in a PGWCC last month. Then I had the great idea to color in every N, S, E, and W to see if they revealed something. That was a lovely mess. Fortunately I thought of the correct strategy after I put it away for a while, before I did more damage to my puzzle and brain.
In my seemingly never-ending quest to ignore Occam's Razor, I started traversing squares in every direction -- not just N,S, E and W, but U, D, R and L -- to see where that would lead me... until I told myself "Not even my ex-wives would be that mean!"
I tried both of those paths, too! Anti-Occam’s Razor indeed.