#608 - "Illegal Activity"
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Laura M
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Laura M
- Posts: 1393
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I'm stunned to be #3 on the leaderboard! Are people not getting the puzzles again?
(Addendum: Just to clarify, by "getting" I meant "receiving via email," since there was a problem a couple weeks ago.)
(Addendum: Just to clarify, by "getting" I meant "receiving via email," since there was a problem a couple weeks ago.)
Last edited by Laura M on Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:22 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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ky-mike
- Posts: 1983
- Joined: Thu Apr 11, 2019 4:22 pm
- Location: Near Louisville Ky
Got my email from Patreon right at noon. I have a preliminary answer, but am not totally happy with it, so I am going to continue to noodle on it.
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damefox
- Posts: 484
- Joined: Fri Aug 23, 2019 2:18 pm
Depends what you mean by "getting"... I have the puzzle, but I'm not getting it.
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docison
- Posts: 414
- Joined: Wed Apr 10, 2019 1:18 pm
- Location: Brookline, MA
Mine did end up in my spam folder, but I was at lunch when the email went out anyway. #7 on the leaderboard! This one felt more like a week 3 than a week 4 to me.
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FrankieHeck
- Posts: 839
- Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2019 8:57 pm
- Location: West Virginia
Well shoot. I thought this *was* week 3. No wonder I haven't solved it yet.
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tonyrobots
- Posts: 149
- Joined: Sun Dec 22, 2019 1:48 pm
- Location: Portland, Oregon
- Contact:
Hmmm. Have one lead, but it's not clicking just yet. Seems like a toughy to me.
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BarbaraK
- Posts: 2612
- Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2019 2:37 pm
- Location: Virginia
You're just that good! Congratulations!
I've beamed up too, but way down at #21 - which still ain't bad for a week 4 for me.
I see that two people submitted wrong answers. I'd say that this one is no-doubter, so if you've got something but are not sure, you might want to keep looking.
And for those still working on it, keep at it - it is doable.
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CrossedPurposes
- Posts: 33
- Joined: Tue Nov 26, 2019 10:12 am
This one clicked quickly for me. Definitely no doubt about the right answer, either, to echo BarbaraK's point.
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burak
- Posts: 246
- Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2019 8:15 pm
I see a couple of things that I want to build on, but I don't know how. Well, I got time I guess.
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Orsys
- Posts: 190
- Joined: Thu May 02, 2019 5:48 pm
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hcbirker
- Posts: 2016
- Joined: Thu Apr 11, 2019 7:24 pm
- Location: Studio City, CA
I see what I need to see, just trying to figure out how to get a seven letter phrase out of it.
Heidi
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Tina
- Posts: 394
- Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2019 5:56 pm
Posting here for post-enlightenment. Not seeing it (yet), but still hoping to get it on my own. Does it still count as a solo solve if I only ask for good vibes, not an actual hint? LOL.
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Meg
- Posts: 2161
- Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2019 1:41 pm
- Location: St. Petersburg, FL
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BarbaraK
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- Location: Virginia
Sending good vibes now. You'll get it! You've solved harder ones than this.
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oldjudge
- Posts: 1633
- Joined: Fri Apr 19, 2019 4:16 am
- Location: Pasadena, CA
Feel like I am on the right track, but I have felt that since Friday. As a change of pace, does anyone who is in a similar state want to work as a team? I have always done these alone, but it could be an interesting change of pace (and it might put both of us out of our misery).
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Hector
- Posts: 1297
- Joined: Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:15 pm
- Location: San Francisco
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Whew, finally got it, and it felt like it wasn't really reasoning that got me there but more like luck. Possibly it will seem more logically inevitable when I see Matt's explanation. Neat construction, in any case.
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ChrisKochmanski
- Posts: 2194
- Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:51 pm
- Location: Saline, Michigan
You can beam me up, but it's sorta like when the teleporter went on the fritz and Kirk or Spock kept getting caught half-particle-ized in between. Not a smooth ride.
It took a fairly good-sized nudge from a solver. I don't feel too guilty claiming beam-me-up rights because I had been on the right track earlier. I just wasn't quite seeing it through. The nudge put me back on the track.
Good puzzle!
It took a fairly good-sized nudge from a solver. I don't feel too guilty claiming beam-me-up rights because I had been on the right track earlier. I just wasn't quite seeing it through. The nudge put me back on the track.
Good puzzle!
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damefox
- Posts: 484
- Joined: Fri Aug 23, 2019 2:18 pm
Got it! Finally! I'm with Hector in sort of lucking into the mechanism. A little bit of educated guessing/fuzzy reasoning at the end there, but I'm with everyone else who says the eventual answer is a no-doubter.
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burak
- Posts: 246
- Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2019 8:15 pm
Just got it. Wow. It's always a great idea to sleep on a meta puzzle that you're stuck on and let your subconscious (or whatever part of the brain) do the work. I kinda had the right idea but was obsessing over some rabbit holes for the past two days. One fresh look before I went to bed tonight after a 24 hour break from it and boom. Just like that.