"Follow the Directions! (2)" - October 2019
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Pleasant and kind of easy for October (aren't these supposed to get harder through the year?).
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Glad it wasn't too difficult though, I'm still smarting (dumbing?) from MGWCC...
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Agreed, pretty easy one this month. Little shout out to last month's in 58D, which made me groan.
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Pretty easy. I also got the mega meta as well... had the answer a couple months ago but waited to submit til now for some reason.
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Got it.
Guess it's time to quit licking my wounds from my mega meta red herring trauma and think seriously about that again.
Guess it's time to quit licking my wounds from my mega meta red herring trauma and think seriously about that again.
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I actually just emailed Pete asking what the mechanism for the red herring this year was... didn’t catch it before. It’s pretty dastardly.
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Got it. 2 for 2 today - relieved to know that Rich O'Malley didn't break my brain.
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That was so much easier than "Follow the Directions! (1)"
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Agreed! I failed the original. I groaned when I saw the title of this one and hoped I somehow followed an old link. But smooth sailing to shore this time!FrankieHeck wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2019 5:54 pm That was so much easier than "Follow the Directions! (1)"
(Probably because the first time around I tried absolutely every way to follow directions except the one Pete had in mind!)
Now I have some time to turn my brain to the mega meta.....
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I failed the original too. Thought I'd tried everything, but I had just tried everything except the *right* thing!
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That was fun and pretty simple. Thank goodness! (Heidi)
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Mega-meta solved. Haven't seen anything yet on the monthly...
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Ditto the many comments above: Fairly easy, and fun.
Now I really need to think through the mega meta. Seems like I should have it, but ...
And we have PGWCC, Peter Gordon contest puzzle, WSJCC, and MGWCC to come, right? Fun week!
Now I really need to think through the mega meta. Seems like I should have it, but ...
And we have PGWCC, Peter Gordon contest puzzle, WSJCC, and MGWCC to come, right? Fun week!
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oh poop. I'm now 0 for 2 on the mega meta. At this rate I will have a negative score for the year
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There seem to be two plausible answers to "Follow the Directions! (2)". Perhaps, there's another meaning for the (2) in the title. The first answer I found used familiar encoding method and led fairly directly to a possible answer. It's a famous song for a certain group, but not a genre that Pete Muller has used before (at least that I'm aware of). So I kept looking and found another answer that used a different familiar encoding method and also led directly to a possible answer. This answer was of a genre Muller uses regularly. Are there two (2) possible correct answers to this meta?
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I haven’t attempted all the MMMM metas this year, but I’m glad I tried this one. Crunchy grid and an enjoyable aha moment.
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I considered myself lucky to find ONE answer I did not see a second. If there is a second I'd bet it's inadvertent. But I know of at least one other time when a constructor allowed an alternate answer... the famous Matt Gaffney Border Crossings Maine/New Mexico kerfuffle.FKelly wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:28 pm There seem to be two plausible answers to "Follow the Directions! (2)". Perhaps, there's another meaning for the (2) in the title. The first answer I found used familiar encoding method and led fairly directly to a possible answer. It's a famous song for a certain group, but not a genre that Pete Muller has used before (at least that I'm aware of). So I kept looking and found another answer that used a different familiar encoding method and also led directly to a possible answer. This answer was of a genre Muller uses regularly. Are there two (2) possible correct answers to this meta?
https://blogs.wsj.com/puzzle/2018/06/07 ... st-june-8/
Perhaps lightning can strike twice!
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.