Submitted after Hint #2, waiting for beam-up.
Hard but fair puzzle, very enjoyable. I hope the hints will be something offered for future Week 4/5 puzzles.
Happy puzzling!
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Alvibu67
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Went ahead and peeked at the hints. #1 was not useful, but #2 was. Shouldn't have needed it, but apparently I did:)
Beam up requested.
Beam up requested.
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Beamup hopefully pending! I managed to resist looking at the hints.
Edit: Ooh, just made it into the top 200 at #199 :-) I wonder if having these hints will change the Week 1/2/3/4/(5) distributions of correct answers?
Edit: Ooh, just made it into the top 200 at #199 :-) I wonder if having these hints will change the Week 1/2/3/4/(5) distributions of correct answers?
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Beam me up. The second hint helped me focus on the right thing. Fun!
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Think I got it, couldn't think it's anything else from what I have. Thanks to the Sunday night crew for the acknowledgement I was on the right path.
Edit: on the board.
Edit: on the board.
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Similar to others, was on a solid trail for which Hint 1 was already known, but due to a deep rabbit hole facilitated by a couldn’t-have-been-unintentional red herring, I had to reach for Hint 2 which reoriented my brain to an earlier path. Clever concept, will be interested in the follow-up…
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Still not there yet. Hoping the third hint will pull me out of this rabbit hole loop I am in.
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Beamed up last night. Mad that I didn't immediately see step 2 on my own without a nudge.
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So curious to hear what the shortcut was!lbray53 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2023 2:54 pm Using the shortcut gave me a reasonable answer that I was 80% sure of. It felt like a week 2 1/2 and I confirmed with someone before submitting. (So not a solo solve.)
The real path took more observation and work but gave a 100% answer. And I would say a week 4 rating was just about right.
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minimuggle
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Finally think I am beamed thanks to hints, discord and ship4U.... this one has left me once again in awe of those who saw this so quickly. Thanks to all for help....
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Finally submitted an answer and waiting for the beam up.
I almost never think of an answer from the title and prompt of a puzzle. I did this time but I'm glad I didn't submit it!
I almost never think of an answer from the title and prompt of a puzzle. I did this time but I'm glad I didn't submit it!
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When I noticed that A, I or U worked interchangeably in the six themers I found a list of six-letter words with those three letters in any position. QUAINT was the only one that made sense and the three letters were together.Leslie wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 12:44 pmSo curious to hear what the shortcut was!lbray53 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2023 2:54 pm Using the shortcut gave me a reasonable answer that I was 80% sure of. It felt like a week 2 1/2 and I confirmed with someone before submitting. (So not a solo solve.)
The real path took more observation and work but gave a 100% answer. And I would say a week 4 rating was just about right.
It had to be the answer.
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Until I read this I didn’t even realize UAI was also in QUAINT.lbray53 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 5:05 pmWhen I noticed that A, I or U worked interchangeably in the six themers I found a list of six-letter words with those three letters in any position. QUAINT was the only one that made sense and the three letters were together.Leslie wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 12:44 pmSo curious to hear what the shortcut was!lbray53 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2023 2:54 pm Using the shortcut gave me a reasonable answer that I was 80% sure of. It felt like a week 2 1/2 and I confirmed with someone before submitting. (So not a solo solve.)
The real path took more observation and work but gave a 100% answer. And I would say a week 4 rating was just about right.
It had to be the answer.
I did look at the hints but they didn’t tell me anything I hadn’t figured out. Still counted it was a group solve after asking “is 15A clue relevant?” On the zoom and after getting ayes, it was off to the races.
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At first I went looking for other verb forms that were hidden in the clues when I saw SING in "Passing..." (46D) and SANG in "... Charlie's Angels" (15A). But when that came up empty I just wrote out IAU under the present tense verbs.
Then I got excited for just a second because IAU is the International Astronomical union, and I thought we might be dealing with star and exoplanet names. And then I quickly realized Matt would not do that!
I think "I authorize..." was the first one I saw just because the clue was long and weird and the IAU was in that order.
Then I got excited for just a second because IAU is the International Astronomical union, and I thought we might be dealing with star and exoplanet names. And then I quickly realized Matt would not do that!
I think "I authorize..." was the first one I saw just because the clue was long and weird and the IAU was in that order.