79. All the Time
- MikeyG
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79. All the Time
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Honestly, that kind of happened today.
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We continue the Winter Solvestice today with some actual snow in the Midwest! Perfect time to stay inside and curl up with a good book or a meta or three!
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Puzzle #78 answer: CHILD'S PLAY
Correct entries: 84 (second of all time!!)
Thanks again to @BrennerTJ for some epic graphics! Little explanation needed - and we're doing mini-drawings during the solve-stice, so those will be revealed later!
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A bit of a lurch on difficulty; we had a great Level 1, but this one will actually jump to (so I believe) a Level 4; we'll then have 2 and 3 following that to close out the month.
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79. All the Time
The answer to the meta is a phrase visually depicted in the grid.
Deadline is Saturday, January 20 at 1 pm ET.
Good luck, and may all your solves be beautiful!
Mikey G
Crosshare
Honestly, that kind of happened today.
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We continue the Winter Solvestice today with some actual snow in the Midwest! Perfect time to stay inside and curl up with a good book or a meta or three!
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Puzzle #78 answer: CHILD'S PLAY
Correct entries: 84 (second of all time!!)
Thanks again to @BrennerTJ for some epic graphics! Little explanation needed - and we're doing mini-drawings during the solve-stice, so those will be revealed later!
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A bit of a lurch on difficulty; we had a great Level 1, but this one will actually jump to (so I believe) a Level 4; we'll then have 2 and 3 following that to close out the month.
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79. All the Time
The answer to the meta is a phrase visually depicted in the grid.
Deadline is Saturday, January 20 at 1 pm ET.
Good luck, and may all your solves be beautiful!
Mikey G
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6A to you Mikey - that was wild and fun!
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Wow, Mikey, you never fail to impress in your concepts, execution, and especially cluing. Some real LOLers in there… cheers!
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I had the right idea, just not really. I liked this puzzle a lot more after I solved it. With some help. Nice job, Mikey!
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Story of my life, haha.
I don't think it's ruining too much to say (but I will put it behind a spoiler) that
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Very nice! I had some help to solve it (I need practice with this mechanism too), which was good because I was getting WAY off track.
Shannon
PS: If you want help with a meta, PM what you have so I can help without spoiling too much. I've received lots of help in the beginning and I love to pay it forward!
PS: If you want help with a meta, PM what you have so I can help without spoiling too much. I've received lots of help in the beginning and I love to pay it forward!
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Luckily the weather outside meant I had all the time in the world to work on this, yet only solved during a 4.30am bout of insomnia!
Back to zzzzz…
Back to zzzzz…
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I neglected to post earlier, but I only solved this one with a nudge! Clever puzzle, though.
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Gneiss!
My 10-D of over-thinking were fortunately reined in by a friendly, helpful Muggle (aren’t they all?).
Thanks, Mr. G!
My 10-D of over-thinking were fortunately reined in by a friendly, helpful Muggle (aren’t they all?).
Thanks, Mr. G!
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Re. 52D... One thing I can say about UC Santa Cruz... If there's ever a clue about its mascot there won't be any ambiguity.....
Re. 51A... My high school math teacher used to post daily jokes. He once posted about a dream where he had to get an eye exam on a small island in the chain off of Alaska but when he awoke he found....
Anyway... my ego has only just recovered from the first week of the year, and I was beginning to feel in fine form with the WSJ causing hardly a ripple and the MGWCC being not as hard as I was making it but my psyche was willing to allow a nudge. But then.... the weekend... and the two usual suspects. *sigh*
Re. 51A... My high school math teacher used to post daily jokes. He once posted about a dream where he had to get an eye exam on a small island in the chain off of Alaska but when he awoke he found....
Anyway... my ego has only just recovered from the first week of the year, and I was beginning to feel in fine form with the WSJ causing hardly a ripple and the MGWCC being not as hard as I was making it but my psyche was willing to allow a nudge. But then.... the weekend... and the two usual suspects. *sigh*
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My Entry to the May 2024 CrossHare Midi Contest
Not a meta, but, yeesh!, that was tough to create.
My Entry to the May 2024 CrossHare Midi Contest
Not a meta, but, yeesh!, that was tough to create.
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All I can say is wow. Really glad I stuck it out and kept pulling at this one, such a cool mechanism when it finally fell into place!
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Reminds me of my husband, twice a year, changing all the clocks in the house.
Met the deadline -- Thanks, Mikey!
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We're at 23 so far, and I'm happy with that! Solid Level 4. We'll be doing a nudge a day until I forget, but we'll start cryptically.
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You turned into a super solver! (A little "X-Men" meta reference there.)
(I will also start using "Bingpot!")