XWord Muggles Forum

BrianMac wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 7:54 am

Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 7:26 amAs a note - I have found that sometimes comments don't post (like the one I just did) so it may not be an ID10T error but a glitch in the system somewhere. If someone has posted while you are posting, you get an alert and have to hit submit again but I usually miss that.

I figured out how to adjust the settings so it will no longer show this alert. This should fix the problem of "disappearing" posts.

Toby wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 7:52 am I’m surprised there weren’t more accidental spoilers— complaints about not finding the solution, etc. I wonder how many people submitted Periodic Table...they will then know how it feels to be “pageanted”

Eric Porter wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 12:51 am I see I'm not the only one who didn't find all of the elements. I really think this puzzle needed to have starred answers or tell us the number of letters in the answer.
On my first pass I only had 6 of the 8 because they were obviously missing a word.
On my next pass I realized that it was "trash heap". The word trash can refer by itself to a pile of garbage, so I'm a little unhappy about that one.
I tried unscrambling, etc, but didn't see anything. I looked at all of the red herrings. Recipe, pasta sauce, & Simpsons are all in an A & D. Tonka is a toy company and intersects that clue.
There are 7 three letter grid entries with duplicate letters.
After going to the MMMM puzzle site, I realized that it must be simply going from element -> atomic number -> grid. I looked again and saw that it looked like solution. I needed an 'S' and saw that 17 had an 'S' and would make 'clap'.
I then realized that it must be "thunder clap" and submitted 'solution'.

I've lived in the US my whole life and I've never heard of "thunder clap" as a metaphor for a shocking surprise. I thought it was simply 'thunder' because "stealing someone's thunder" can mean to spoil a big surprise. Did anyone else miss thunder clap?

Bird Lives wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 6:47 am I had considered going to the periodic table, but from the number of comments from early solvers, I figured that no research was required. Big mistake not to consider that original assumption.

KayW wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 7:47 am I had to google the periodic table to get the numbers.

BrianMac wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 7:54 am

Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 7:26 amAs a note - I have found that sometimes comments don't post (like the one I just did) so it may not be an ID10T error but a glitch in the system somewhere. If someone has posted while you are posting, you get an alert and have to hit submit again but I usually miss that.

I figured out how to adjust the settings so it will no longer show this alert. This should fix the problem of "disappearing" posts.

Inca wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 9:18 am

BrianMac wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 7:54 am

Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 7:26 amAs a note - I have found that sometimes comments don't post (like the one I just did) so it may not be an ID10T error but a glitch in the system somewhere. If someone has posted while you are posting, you get an alert and have to hit submit again but I usually miss that.

I figured out how to adjust the settings so it will no longer show this alert. This should fix the problem of "disappearing" posts.

I discovered that last night when 2 of my posts disappeared and both times someone else had posted in between when I started drafting my post and when I actually hit Submit. But, I did not notice any alert. Where does that alert show up?

BrianMac wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 9:31 am If someone posts while you are typing a reply, then when you hit "Submit," instead of posting your thread and sending you back to the forum, you get a preview-like page that tells you someone else has posted and asks if you still want to submit. It's very easy to miss this page and just go back to the forum in which case your post will not be published. I'm nearly 100% sure this is the cause of "I thought I posted, but my post didn't show up," especially since these tend to happen during busy times (Thursday afternoon, Friday, Monday morning) when many people are posting at once.

I don't know why it only occurred to me this morning to check whether this might be a feature that could be disabled. Sure enough it can be, and I have now disabled this feature.

So I am hoping that will be the end of "the website ate my post," but please let me know if you experience otherwise.

TMart wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 10:29 am When I think of "grid order", it's usually top to bottom. This was a nice twist, making it left-to-right, and that last step added some confusion for me. I initially anagramed the answer to get "solution", but whenever I have to do that, I feel like I've missed something, as these constructors are so good there always seems to be some sort of grid-order elegance to the answers. So I printed, highlighted, and not only got my confirmation, but also saw the beauty in the construction. Maybe I'm picky, but I think that unless the mechanism relies on anagrams, to have to anagram to get the final step is somewhat less elegant and less of a hard click answer for me.

Janet P wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 7:53 am Having always enjoyed vicarious learning through my [now adult] children's schooling, I had an inkling of the correct path when NAP wasn't there with POWER. I only had a slight snag on "rebound" due to using the basketball term TAP BACK but after actually consulting the periodic table I realized SNAP was called for. Everything else fell into place readily.
When my youngest took AP Chemistry in high school, if the teacher had to be out for a day her sub plans consisted of, "Have Jim teach the class." He was able to quickly confirm that my answer made sense and there didn't seem to be any other suitable solution.

P.S. To Bob, our faithful cruise director: It's been a long time since I heard the old help desk phrase "ID10T error" And, of course, recalling Charlie's adventures is always delightful!

Wendy Walker wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 11:22 am

Janet P wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 7:53 am Having always enjoyed vicarious learning through my [now adult] children's schooling, I had an inkling of the correct path when NAP wasn't there with POWER. I only had a slight snag on "rebound" due to using the basketball term TAP BACK but after actually consulting the periodic table I realized SNAP was called for. Everything else fell into place readily.
When my youngest took AP Chemistry in high school, if the teacher had to be out for a day her sub plans consisted of, "Have Jim teach the class." He was able to quickly confirm that my answer made sense and there didn't seem to be any other suitable solution.

P.S. To Bob, our faithful cruise director: It's been a long time since I heard the old help desk phrase "ID10T error" And, of course, recalling Charlie's adventures is always delightful!

Janet, I followed almost exactly the same path you did, but my first inkling was PINE SAP, followed closely by POWER NAP. And I, too, originally had TAP BACK for rebound!

Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 11:47 am

Wendy Walker wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 11:22 am
Janet, I followed almost exactly the same path you did, but my first inkling was PINE SAP, followed closely by POWER NAP. And I, too, originally had TAP BACK for rebound!

Wendy and Janet
You need to watch more basketball - a tap back (or tap in) is what you do with a rebound