#643 - "Listen Till the End"

[hashbrown]

This week's contest answer is a 10-letter word I hope you've heard of.

Good luck for Week 4 everyone!

[FrankieHeck]

I haven't even looked at the puzzle yet, but popping in to claim those cute boys on Matt's page as my own.

[Cindy]

It's hard!

[RPardoe]

What's with the "10" and "50" after some solvers IDs?
From the other leaderboard - might be some sort of level of related to current streak?

[Al Sisti]

What's with the "10" and "50" after some solvers IDs?
From the other leaderboard - might be some sort of level of related to current streak?

Hmmm... yeah, it does look like it corresponds.

[docison]

I've submitted... now waiting anxiously for the updated leaderboard.

EDITED - #9 on the board. This one is worth it!

[Laura M]

I haven't even looked at the puzzle yet, but popping in to claim those cute boys on Matt's page as my own. :-)

I was going to ask! So cute! My daughter watched pretty much nothing else for about two years around age 5 (and she had a little notebook too--but not the chair). I wrote "Team Steve!" in my comment with the solution :-)

[Cindy]

Solved - unless the leaderboard update says otherwise.

[FrankieHeck]

I haven't even looked at the puzzle yet, but popping in to claim those cute boys on Matt's page as my own.

I was going to ask! So cute! My daughter watched pretty much nothing else for about two years around age 5 (and she had a little notebook too--but not the chair). I wrote "Team Steve!" in my comment with the solution

I was so glad that my son was over the show by the time Joe came around. Team Steve all the way.

[Cindy]

Solved - unless the leaderboard update says otherwise.

On the board but missing my fancy 100!

[Al Sisti]

Solved - unless the leaderboard update says otherwise.

On the board but missing my fancy 100!

[Meg]

I enjoyed that!

[Laura M]

Beam me up! (Pending leaderboard update.) Been a while since I got a whole month!

Edit: Confirmed!

[BarbaraK]

I wonder if the different colors of the streak logos are based on solo or group solves. Or just the same info as the streak tab.

[RPardoe]

I suspect the colors are just default for the available icons with those numbers. Standard emoticons.

And yes, having more luck understanding the emoticons / numbers then the puzzle.

Fear the puzzle this week involves a solve method I really don't enjoy.

[ChrisKochmanski]

Beam me up!

Great puzzle! I must say, though, I only got there with a couple of nudges. Which makes me feel very guilty about my MGWCC streak. I don't think I'd have gotten there, on this one, on my own. Maybe, but probably not. My solo-solve streak, up to this puzzle, was probably only 8 or 10, maybe 10 or 12. I hope Matt is distinguishing, somewhere in his data banks, between all-solo-solve streaks and some-group-solve streaks.

But please be sure, I'm not saying that other group solvers should feel guilty. This is ME. It may be my raised-a-Catholic guilt. Sister Edwina could unfailingly take the wind out of our sails every time one or another of us thought we were hot stuff.

[MajordomoTom]

grid, done. NW corner was the last to come together.

possible step 1.

no obvious path to step 2. no nudges (yet) please.

[Hector]

Good one, with one perhaps clunky bit. Multiple nice ahas. Warming up here, so maybe G&Ts later.

[cherikee]

I think I see the entry point, but leading me nowhere. Happy to at least have that to work on though.

[hashbrown]

I think I have an entry point too, will happily field any PMs so I can explain my way of thinking with a gentle nudge if I'm on the right lines.

EDIT: Beam me up! Thanks to Hector for some friendly nudges and Orsys for aiding discussion (hope to see you on the board soon!).