#609 - "How Did You Know?"

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#609 - "How Did You Know?"

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This week’s contest answer is a familiar verb.
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#2

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Is it tomorrow? Hardly a week 5... But funny.
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#3

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Beam me up! Clever, and easier than the WSJCC (also Matt's) this week--he even says so on his site.
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#4

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Finally, a solve this week. Still stumped on WSJ, PGWCC and Aries...
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#5

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Hey I finally got a Week 5! :)
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#6

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Got it, with quite a chuckle.
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#7

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I've been on a roll this week, so I was just a *tiny* bit disappointed not to get a real Week 5 today. But then I remembered last week, and I'm not complaining.
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#8

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Done, submitted and confirmed. Now back to his WSJ puzzle which is proving to be quite a puzzler for me this week.
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#9

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What a relief! Not a week 5 difficulty and I have my weekend!
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#10

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This one felt easy compared to WSJCC....now, back to Isaac.
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#11

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Thanks for the easy Week 5, Matt. It makes up for that monster from last week.
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#12

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Quick solve, but a fun and funny puzzle. Thanks Matt for giving me a free Super Bowl weekend.
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#13

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Very fun puzzle and I appreciated the easiness because I’m traveling and had to do it on my phone, which I’m not very good at. I actually had the answer less than a quarter of the way through the grid. I don’t think I’m going to be able to get Matt’s WSJ meta this weekend though.

Edited to add: My first post-enlightenment! After posting here I took another look at the WSJ and saw the rabbit ears immediately.
Last edited by Leslie on Fri Jan 31, 2020 5:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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There is not a single thing I could say about this amusing puzzle, and my effort to solve it, that would not be a spoiler.
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#15

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Got it! Cute. Another one where the answer is a no-doubter, but I expect there will still be some debate about the mechanism.
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Very fun. Last week was just one long asymmetrical headache!
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Beam me up!

Amusing. Nice, too, to have a not-so-hard one, after last week's MGWCC.

I'm still feeling guilty about taking a pretty big hint from another solver last week. I feel like I don't deserve my current MGWCC streak!
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found this week's solution as well - what a relief after last week's MGWCC which had me going in circles endlessly.
hoping now for some post-enlightenment for WSJ just like Leslie says she got in her post above :-)
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ChrisKochmanski wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 5:54 pm Beam me up!

Amusing. Nice, too, to have a not-so-hard one, after last week's MGWCC.

I'm still feeling guilty about taking a pretty big hint from another solver last week. I feel like I don't deserve my current MGWCC streak!
I’m feeling the same way Chris. I did my first group solve last week and don’t feel right about it.
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#20

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Yay, my mojo has not totally deserted me. Had this one figured out before finishing the grid. Beam me up, please.
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