#634 - "Foursquare"

[Richard B.]

Beam me up! A second look today and there it was. Funny how that works.

[pamster]

I guess Matt figured that last week's was really a Week 4, so this one is a Week 3. There was a path that I very quickly sensed was a dead end, but I spend a lot of time on it anyway. Then I realized the general strategy -- a familiar one in these puzzles -- and kicked myself for not going there sooner.

That was exactly my experience.

[Orsys]

Got it! And just realized we will have a week 5 this month. Yikes!

[Thurman8er]

Beam me up!

[LesY]

Beam me up! Really enjoyed this one. Brought back memories of youth.

[rexthree]

Beam me up! I see why people are saying it's on the easy side, but it took my brain a while to come up with the second step. Very cool when I got there though.

Solved, but the same thing happened to me. Yesterday I knew I was on the right track but couldn't see the finish line. Today I finally had my "a-ha" moment.

[Joe]

Got it! I'll take it as consolation for FAILING the WSJ this week.

[spotter]

Well the number of correct entries has exceeded Matt's goal of 375 on this one (397 at the time of this posting). I found this one hard, until I didn't. Interesting to let the numbers speak for themselves.

[MajordomoTom]

ok, I've submitted my guess, so if anyone wants to PM me and show me the correct path, much appreciated.

unless I somehow got it right, but there are 8 letters and I'm only using 4 of them. So probably not correct.

EDIT: thanks BarbaraK - wow, I had parts of the mechanism, I just didn't take my tools and apply them very well.