XWord Muggles Forum

MajordomoTom wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 12:05 am On my later review of the grid, I suddenly noted - "there are a LOT of APEs in this grid".

I then went ... how many? 5 - ok, what else? Then saw the "MAN" and went - 5 of them, ok what connects?

And it just fell into place.

EDIT: one of my rabbit holes was looking at numbers in the answers in the grid - ICENINE and others with "TEN" in them ... was a very interesting distraction. Looking at the squares with those numbers in them, trying to spell something ... went nowhere, so I abandoned it. But I could see spending a chunk of time trying to make that work.

Abide wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 12:33 am My main delay was thinking LESSONTEN was signaling some direction because (a) it’s sort of a “green paint” entry (not really “in the language”) and (b) there was an X in the clue.

FrankH wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 12:37 am

Abide wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 12:33 am My main delay was thinking LESSONTEN was signaling some direction because (a) it’s sort of a “green paint” entry (not really “in the language”) and (b) there was an X in the clue.

That's also one of the other rabbit holes that I went through. The clue and answer just looked odd.

Geoduck wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 7:47 pm

802puzzler wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 7:05 pm

Geoduck wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 4:31 pm Ashore! I found the first step right away, but it took some time to notice step 2.

I wonder who will be the first to post the obvious music video this one inspires?

You're killing me! I too found the first step right away, but my second step is NOT bringing to mind a music video! LOL

I'll post it if I remember (and am up) at midnight -- unless someone else does so first!

pookie wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 12:48 am My answer was VOWEL
5 pairs of words switching one letter
PIER
TIER
OMAN
OMAR
CAPERS
TAPERS
READ
REAL
RTE
ATE
The switched letters are PTNRCTDLRA
C(A)T, L(E)D A(I)R. P(O)T, R(U)N
The missing links are AEIOU to form new words.

hcbirker wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 7:52 pm

steveb wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 6:33 pm

hcbirker wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 4:36 pm

I grew up in Palo Alto and we would go to the original Round Table. So much better than the chain, but the chain is pretty good, too.

The one on El Camino in Menlo Park! It's still there, one of the few things in town that hasn't changed much since 1959.

I have great memories of that place!

BarbaraK wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 10:38 pm

Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 9:16 pm

ImOnToo wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 8:59 pm

I’m so old that when I was on the “cutting edge” of punch cards in college, I submitted my cards to the ONE center that could run them. And then I waited, sometimes hours, to go back and find out if the program worked or not!

And you would go back and find one of three things
1) one card was in the wrong place and it would not run so you got one page back
2) one card was in the wrong place and it printed out dozens of sheets of paper until the system operator terminated your program
3) they dropped your deck and you have to sort through 100+ cards to get them in the right order

Love it

Of course you'd drawn a diagonal line with magic marker across the top of the card deck to make it easier if you did have to resort them.