"2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

A place to discuss the weekly Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzle Contest, starting every Thursday around 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. Please do not post any answers or hints before the contest deadline which is midnight Sunday Eastern time.
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Just finished the grid and nothing is popping out immediately.

I'll try to get to it tomorrow. Sadly, I may not get this one, since I have a lot on my plate tomorrow.
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As the old Chinese restaurant joke goes, disregard previous cookie. I'm on dry land at last, having extricated myself from the rabbit hole marked "Central Limit Theorem," though that would have been a great meta.
Jay
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#163

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Bird Lives wrote: Sat Feb 29, 2020 10:33 pm As the old Chinese restaurant joke goes, disregard previous cookie. I'm on dry land at last, having extricated myself from the rabbit hole marked "Central Limit Theorem," though that would have been a great meta.
Or a great band name.
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#164

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I am lost at sea. I majored in math but this one has me stumped
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#165

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Surf's up. I'm riding the wave in.
I am a man of few...
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grwinski
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#166

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Well, it took three nights of 'sleep on it', but we finally got it. Finally ashore!!

Rita and George
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Well, it is almost Sunday afternoon and I have been seeing something for two days without any progress to the next step. So, still aboard.
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Good Sunday morning muggles

Muggles are stumbling to the ship's bar and the shore bit by bit.

and we have our latest muggle = LaPetiteFlora. Maybe she can help MaineMarge with the ship's garden the weeks when she does not make it to shore. Either way we give a warm welcome to LaPetiteFlora

We have 11 muggles on the ship and 97 on the shore

New to the ship's bar are Janet P
jhcogan
Susan G
Softie
Geoduck

And making their way to shore (or in some cases they were there all along)
tim1217
IMOnToo
MajorDomoTom
DBMiller
DrTom
MaineMarge
LaPetiteFlora
Jud
Libbypibby
phofer
BirdLives
Bulls****
Rita and George

Good luck to all making it to shore and winning the mug
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Tom Shea wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:28 pm At first I was thinking - you know - math is hard. Then my second cup of coffee gave me the idea to stop using Laplace Transforms.

On shore. Martini time, then the Hilton Hawaiian fireworks.
We abandoned Laplace as well, and thought about using Maxwell's equations, and finally completed with Boolean algebra!
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Feb 29 has passed .. Im glad... 2nd anniversary (8 yrs) Since lightning struck my house! Thank god we’re we’re 8 hours away on vacation.. I’d have been bacon! Neighbors emailed us that house was on fire..school bus driver called it in. 5 months to rebuild but glad to get out of hotel after that.. love this forum and the weekly contests!
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grwinski wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 11:53 am We abandoned Laplace as well, and thought about using Maxwell's equations, and finally completed with Boolean algebra!
Boolean algebra -- isn't thatwhat they teach at Yale?
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#172

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On shore, hoping for another Michigan (Midland this time!) muggle win
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#173

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Just to add to the tally: D&D
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Pardon me, Isaac, for my tardiness. Was topside and caught up in a game they call "Shuffleboard". Fascinating.
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Getting to know Isaac very well these last few days and see no way off of this ship yet. Enlisting my sixth grader for help.

-Paul
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#176

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s/he has heard this word before, good call
"Lots of planets have a North", the Ninth Doctor.
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Newton and Liebniz
aren't needed to solve this week's
math meta puzzle
"Lots of planets have a North", the Ninth Doctor.
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#178

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Nice to have known ya, Issac, but my son and I have found the shore!

- Paul
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I reached shore Friday night!
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I had the square root of -1 in my answer, but my wife told me to get real, so i abandoned that rabbit hole.
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