#595 - "This and That" - October 25, 2019

[Hector]

This week's contest answer is one way to solve metas.

[Hector]

Pretty amazing.

[TMart]

Fun one. Not sure it was a week 4, though. But next month has five Fridays.

[itsgioyall]

Beam me up! Matt went definitely easy on us this week. I was lucky to find the right rabbit hole early on.

[LesY]

Beam me up as well! Agree this didn't seem like a week 4, but sometimes I just see it and the mind flows.

[damefox]

Submitted like 5 min after the update, but I'm pretty sure I got it. I haven't been doing these long enough to judge what "week level" this is. It seemed not too bad, but I think it's possible I'm just getting better at this. (Pretty sure I have PGWCC to thank for that.) Don't think I would've seen the answer if it was the first meta I'd ever done.

Edit: On the board! That was a quick update.

[ChrisKochmanski]

Beam me up!

Agree, not Week 4-level. But fun!

[FrankieHeck]

Since I started Matt's puzzles in April, my goal has been to have a perfect month with no nudges. Finally met that goal!

[Meg]

I really enjoyed this one!

[Cindy]

Nice. Submitted first and solved later.

[Streroto]

Beam me up!! I had the answer long before I knew how to get there. But not a backsolve-just validation I was right once I figured out the meta. Super puzzle and meta.

[JJD]

With a bit of help from my son, got it.

[hcbirker]

Beam me up! I don't have official confirmation yet, but I'm pretty confident. (Heidi)

Edit: Confirmed!

[ky-mike]

Done.

[Laura M]

See, this is what I was talking about last week, I still don't have a glimmer of an idea on this one! I suspect I know what the answer is, but no clue how to get there.

[BarbaraK]

Beam me up, please.

I solved on Friday afternoon, but I wasn't totally sure if the last bit was meant to be deduced or discovered. I did the former, and it felt plenty solid, but just in case there was some other piece of coolness that I hadn't seen yet, I decided to wait and take another look. So last night, I went over it again, didn't find anything new (at least nothing relevant, several empty rabbit holes) and went ahead and submitted.

[hcbirker]

See, this is what I was talking about last week, I still don't have a glimmer of an idea on this one! I suspect I know what the answer is, but no clue how to get there.

I was right where you are now until I tried something new. Funny that it was one of the first things I looked at, then discarded it when I didn't know what to do with it. Then I figured out how to make it work. Keep digging! (Heidi)

[Leslie]

Beam me up, please.

I solved on Friday afternoon, but I wasn't totally sure if the last bit was meant to be deduced or discovered. I did the former, and it felt plenty solid, but just in case there was some other piece of coolness that I hadn't seen yet, I decided to wait and take another look. So last night, I went over it again, didn't find anything new (at least nothing relevant, several empty rabbit holes) and went ahead and submitted.

I went through the exact same process. I was afraid to submit right away because I didn't have it completely nailed down, but after a few hours nothing else had occurred to me so I jumped ship (wrong metaphor for this board, I know).

[Orsys]

Done and Done.

[David R]

Just got to it tonight and liked it very much, played like a Week 3 as far as difficulty for me but I understand why it is running as a Week 4.