#25 - "How Are You?"
- Al Sisti
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- Al Sisti
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- FrankieHeck
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- TMart
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Got it. Not an easy one - needed lots of Google help for the final answer, but I like the gimmick.
- Hector
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Yeah, some help from Google for me, too, for one piece in particular. A clever mechanism, though. Challenging! BTW, 46A should probably read, "Jamaica's former Chief Justice" (thanks to Google for that info, too).
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Oh - so it should. I think my fact-checking didn't go past the first sentence of the Wikipedia article, which is (erroneously) in present tense.
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Done x2. I don't think I knew any of the people in the grid at all, and there were a lot of crosses that I was unsure about, but I gave it my best shot and got all of the boxes filled before Googling. Then I found that 22A was slightly wrong and 46A was a lot wrong, but still, I think I did pretty well (for me). Nice meta, as usual!
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- Toby
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Got it, with help. Too much Googling for my taste, especially since I have already forgotten what I briefly learned.
- Anita
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Solved, and agree the mechanism was great. Major kudos to anyone who didn’t use a search engine for any of it - the range of knowledge required here is huge.
I backed into the meta through pattern recognition for the last 2 pieces, but needed Google to finish one section of the grid. Learned a lot of new stuff there (Jamaica, objectionable dudes, belaying...).
I backed into the meta through pattern recognition for the last 2 pieces, but needed Google to finish one section of the grid. Learned a lot of new stuff there (Jamaica, objectionable dudes, belaying...).
- FrankieHeck
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I Googled the heck out of every aspect of this puzzle.
- Meg
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Backsolved parts of this. Finally the title makes sense.
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- Beth Tyrpin
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- ChrisKochmanski
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I've submitted my answer, which works to the description in the "The answer to this meta puzzle is ..." line -- and which, using the mechanism I found for the puzzle, delivers a completely appropriate answer.
But I must say, the puzzle's title, "How Are You?", seems only weakly connected to where I got.
Any other solvers feeling this way?
But I must say, the puzzle's title, "How Are You?", seems only weakly connected to where I got.
Any other solvers feeling this way?
- Hector
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I found the title only slightly useful in solving, and only at the very end stages. I do think there's a sense in which it's solidly apt to the theme. Still, I'll be interested to read pgw's explanation.
- ChrisKochmanski
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I too will look forward to PGW's explanation next week.
He shouldn't take my unsteadiness on the title as a criticism of the puzzle. I enjoyed it very much.
He shouldn't take my unsteadiness on the title as a criticism of the puzzle. I enjoyed it very much.
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I have to disagree: the title (in combination with one other thing) is the only reason that I had any clue what to do with this one! (But everybody's approach is different, and someone with a more extensive knowledge base than me might not have even noticed the title.)ChrisKochmanski wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2019 6:25 pm I've submitted my answer, which works to the description in the "The answer to this meta puzzle is ..." line -- and which, using the mechanism I found for the puzzle, delivers a completely appropriate answer.
But I must say, the puzzle's title, "How Are You?", seems only weakly connected to where I got.
Any other solvers feeling this way?