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Hi MMMM Subscriber-

Happy July 4th (also known as my daughter's birthday)!

Here are the links to the July MMMM, the seventh contest puzzle of the year:

July MMMM

Send in your answer to the meta before 11pm ET Sunday, July 9, at pmxwords.com.

Thanks and enjoy,

Pete

P.S. The first solver cracked the 2023 mega-meta last month. Congrats to Louis Lana!.

Jangler on in 26 minutes.

One person once commented that one Jangler minute is 20 regular minutes, so that's 8 hours, 40 minutes, haha.

Crunchy grid and a crunchy mid-year meta so far! Happy solving and happy 4th!

I am miraculously on the board at #2 behind Jangler. I don't think that I've ever been this high before, the air is thin up here!

This is a case where one of my oldest strategies happened to work, despite me thinking that it was outmoded and that I should ditch it.

I agree with Mikey G that the grid was crunchy. I resorted to Google to make sure that I had it filled in correctly.

On the board surprisingly quickly after a late start - 20-ish minutes total solve time most of that (as usual) completing the grid with interwebbing help.

Maybe I can put some of that extra time I thought I'd need to solve into looking at the mega meta...

On the board. Really liked this one.

On the board, nice one! Happy 4th!

Got it.

One of those cases of: laboriously finish the grid … stare and stare and get nowhere on the meta … drift off into a nap … and awake to somehow see it.

Nothing coming up up up for me yet.

On the bright side, I may be one step closer to the mega meta as something I expected to see in the puzzle this month was there.

ChrisKochmanski wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2023 4:53 pm Got it.

One of those cases of: laboriously finish the grid … stare and stare and get nowhere on the meta … drift off into a nap … and awake to somehow see it.

This is literally what happened. I'm sure this happened before, but I had such a laborious experience earlier (at least an hour). Then, I saw what I needed to, haha. Awaiting the beam!

On the board.. had it but saw something that almost derailed me.

Now digging around for the mega

Same here… I didn’t see it, then I saw it! Love those MMMMs!

Finally saw the light. On the board. Back to the mega next.

Wow!

On the board.

I got SOMETHING right after finishing the grid, but I have 2 answers I think are equally plausible. Need to sit on this for a bit.

On the board. I’ll try to remember post deadline to elaborate on this.

sharkicicles wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2023 9:57 pm I got SOMETHING right after finishing the grid, but I have 2 answers I think are equally plausible. Need to sit on this for a bit.

Reread the meta prompt and think about it. Only one solid answer.

Drawing a complete blank. If anyone wants to IM me a nudge, I wouldn't mind!

Would also be accepting of a nudge in the IMs if anyone is so inclined.

ky-mike wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2023 11:28 pm

sharkicicles wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2023 9:57 pm I got SOMETHING right after finishing the grid, but I have 2 answers I think are equally plausible. Need to sit on this for a bit.

Reread the meta prompt and think about it. Only one solid answer.

Assuming we’re on the same wavelength - I agree that there are two plausible answers but one seems to relate more to the title phrase. But I don’t think the second one is completely off. It’d be interesting if Pete accepted either one.

Edit: grammar