"Summer Wear" - October 16, 2020
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- Powers2020
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The boat is taking on water and starting to list! I'm just gonna keep staring though!
- Richard
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Could use a nudge if anyone is inclined to DM me... have tried several angles to no avail. Thanks!
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Got it! On shore. Went down a couple of rabbit holes for a few minutes; walked away; looked at it once more and figured it out immediately.
- Tom Mueller
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I had to take a walk around the neighborhood to clear my head as I was overcomplicating this one. I’m now happily on the beach.
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- jrdad
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- LizD
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Yep! That's some really good detective work! (and it's French Belgian )Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 2:39 pmAs we have migrated from the WSJ comments to this blog, I have tried to associate the muggle's blog names with their WSJ comment's name so I don't double count our clan size. When you made the comment that you had not been here in a while, I knew I recognized the name so I searched on my excel file. Am I correct in that your husband's name is Bill and it looks like a Dutch name?LizD wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 12:09 pmBob cruise director wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 10:17 pm
I finally found you - welcome back - we missed you
Hi Bob! Were you looking for me?!
I don't have an inner child... I have an inner old lady.
Meta solver by night, proud independent bookstore owner by day!
Meta solver by night, proud independent bookstore owner by day!
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Marion and I are BBBBBBBAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK! Took a couple of weeks in the sewer for some stupid reason(s). Glad to be on shore with the Muggles and looking for the mug...........
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I went down way to many rabbit holes. Took some time off to enjoy the snow coming down outside my window, and then got the answer. Looking forward to what I hope is a nice cold, snowy winter.
- Kris Zacharias
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On shore. Finished the grid and let it sit.
Took the dog for a walk and then found it.
Took the dog for a walk and then found it.
- Jacksull
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Made to the shore after keeping Isaac company for a couple of weeks.
Jack Sullivan
- Tripod
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Ashore. Feels like 100%er.
Got to it this evening, and was just in a groove on the grid and the meta. Perhaps a thank you is owed for the assist from Vodka and Tonic 'clearing' my brain.
Life has kept me from being able to solve them all on time, but this makes 4 metas in a row for me. After weeks (and weeks, and weeks) of not much success - also known as utter futility - this is a great feeling. Thanks for the muggle support.
Now if only someone could give me a good 'nudge' of advice to help explain to my wife what I'm doing in these 'chat rooms' on weekends...
Got to it this evening, and was just in a groove on the grid and the meta. Perhaps a thank you is owed for the assist from Vodka and Tonic 'clearing' my brain.
Life has kept me from being able to solve them all on time, but this makes 4 metas in a row for me. After weeks (and weeks, and weeks) of not much success - also known as utter futility - this is a great feeling. Thanks for the muggle support.
Now if only someone could give me a good 'nudge' of advice to help explain to my wife what I'm doing in these 'chat rooms' on weekends...
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On shore! Enjoying a merlot while watching baseball.
Enjoy the weekend everyone!
Enjoy the weekend everyone!
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LAS, starting to think I'm just rubbish at these and I only solve the meta when it's a gimmick that no one else seems to like. My group tried a bunch of things since there were a few answers that seemed to be obviously related to a solution, but after a few hours of trying I think the whole thing (and the multitude of rabbit holes it caused) was totally wrong. I think I'll just sleep on it.
Does anyone else feel like they always notice double letters way too much, even though I don't think I've ever had a meta that involved that mechanism?
Does anyone else feel like they always notice double letters way too much, even though I don't think I've ever had a meta that involved that mechanism?
- boharr
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Keep at it. You'll get it. And, yes, I'm always noticing double letters.clueless_solver wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 10:55 pm LAS, starting to think I'm just rubbish at these and I only solve the meta when it's a gimmick that no one else seems to like. My group tried a bunch of things since there were a few answers that seemed to be obviously related to a solution, but after a few hours of trying I think the whole thing (and the multitude of rabbit holes it caused) was totally wrong. I think I'll just sleep on it.
Does anyone else feel like they always notice double letters way too much, even though I don't think I've ever had a meta that involved that mechanism?
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Nudge: tell your wife you are chatting with Jake from Allstate!Tripod wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 10:30 pm Ashore. Feels like 100%er.
Got to it this evening, and was just in a groove on the grid and the meta. Perhaps a thank you is owed for the assist from Vodka and Tonic 'clearing' my brain.
Life has kept me from being able to solve them all on time, but this makes 4 metas in a row for me. After weeks (and weeks, and weeks) of not much success - also known as utter futility - this is a great feeling. Thanks for the muggle support.
Now if only someone could give me a good 'nudge' of advice to help explain to my wife what I'm doing in these 'chat rooms' on weekends...
- TPS
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No one and I mean NO ONE is worse at these than me - if the method isn’t a basic theme answer solve - I go through 20 crazy iterations in 30 minutes looking for methods - making origami out of the grid or turning it into a Banksy- at one point on this one I drew something that looked like a bird connecting letter and started googling summer water that looks like a bird.clueless_solver wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 10:55 pm LAS, starting to think I'm just rubbish at these and I only solve the meta when it's a gimmick that no one else seems to like. My group tried a bunch of things since there were a few answers that seemed to be obviously related to a solution, but after a few hours of trying I think the whole thing (and the multitude of rabbit holes it caused) was totally wrong. I think I'll just sleep on it.
Does anyone else feel like they always notice double letters way too much, even though I don't think I've ever had a meta that involved that mechanism?
So you are not alone.
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