Tricky Treats

[MatthewL]

Off the couch, finally! Had a good chuckle when I finally saw it. Thanks for the puzzle!

[Anita]

No longer lounging! Fun one!

[MarkWoychick]

Thanks, Clark - I had to consult some past correspondence to help me solve, but luckily I print all my emails so it only took 6-8 hours to find what I needed.

[Bird Lives]

The black cat is out of the black bag and has gone out trick-or-treating. Perfect Halloween puzzle.

[Richard]

Off the couch

Nice one.

[minimuggle]

I see one thing but swung on and missed with a guess. Back to the tricky treats board

[Clark E. Tripe]

Leaderboard Update

11 more solvers bring our total to 62:

Bob cruise director
CPJohnson
Cindy Heisler
Annabelle
Mr Tex
MatthewL
Anita
MarkWoychick
Bird Lives
Richard
mkmf

Wednesday Nudges are on the way!

[hoover]

Also, I think I just figured out the alias. You three…

Alias? Oh, you mean like when my Mom gets mad and calls me by my full name - "Clark Eggbert Tripe"?

As a proud descendant of four generations of men named Egbert (the fifth is my cousin), I have to point out that your Mom spelled it wrong.

[Clark E. Tripe]

Also, I think I just figured out the alias. You three…

Alias? Oh, you mean like when my Mom gets mad and calls me by my full name - "Clark Eggbert Tripe"?

As a proud descendant of four generations of men named Egbert (the fifth is my cousin), I have to point out that your Mom spelled it wrong.

Mom said it had something to do with the shape of my head.

[Clark E. Tripe]

Hey Muggles! This is only my second meta, and the first was a while ago... so I completely forgot about the fact that I'm supposed to post nudges on Wednesday. And after my first attempt -- followed by an embarrassing warning from the forum administrator about my posting a series of nudes --here they are:

I originally wanted to fit Carl Yastrzemski into the grid, but I didn't know how to spell his name. (Not much of a football fan!)



For the first part, you’ll need to implement my favorite digital logic gate.




A little bit of pseudo code:

int i = 1;
do {

Take a queue from the short shaded queues;
Enqueue a common word at the end of queue number i;
It’s a common code; did you catch it? No? Oh well
i=i+1;

}
while (“Off_The_Couch” <> true);

[ajk]

LOL I am a dolt. Had it solved after like 10 minutes except for one comically small nuance. Once the second nudge confirmed that the thing I had dismissed was in fact the path I finally stopped being an idiot. Very nicely done.

[Eric Porter]

D'oh! OTC.
I saw the pattern... but didn't quite make the connection, even though I'd tried pretty much exactly what the nudges say to do.

[mkmf]

OTC on Halloween, before the nudges (which are hilarious BTW).

[minimuggle]

Beamed up due to a nice nudge from Dr Tom. I had misprinted one of the answers in the grid which totally threw me off. What a great puzzle. Thanks so much Clark and hope to see more of you.

[Abide]

Look forward to a reveal on Sunday that will explain Nudges 2 and 3

[Clark E. Tripe]

Look forward to a reveal on Sunday that will explain Nudges 2 and 3

Hmm. I'm looking forward to seeing that "Nudge Reveal" myself...

Leaderboard Update

8 more solvers bring our new total to 70:

BarbaraK
Jaclyn
ajk
Eric Porter
AxelPlays
minimuggle
Naptown Kid
THC

Please let me know if I've missed anyone and/or if you'd like more help.

[sharkicicles]

I haven't solved the meta yet, but it sure is nice to visit Linux Habitation again.

[BarbaraK]

Look forward to a reveal on Sunday that will explain Nudges 2 and 3

Guess you haven't spent enough time in Linux Habitation. Didn't look at the nudges til after I'd solved, but they make perfect sense to me.

And I loved the intro! Still giggling about "Goto hell".

[Clark E. Tripe]

Okay, the buzz at the comic book store is that my nudges might not have been much of a help, so here … MAAAAA!! I told you I needed the Commodore 64 for 10 more minutes! Geez! …where was I? Oh yeah, here are a couple more:

Think of this meta as being two distinct parts… like a KitKat…





For the first part, did you notice something in common with the four long shaded down entries (and my first nudge), but don’t know what to do about it? Refer back to my second nudge from yesterday. For those of you who aren’t computer geeks – we call them “People who live in their own places” – Google ”Digital logic gates."





Now for the second part: the short shaded down entries are also needed, but they’re not ready yet… refer back to my third nudge. For those of you who aren’t computer geeks – we call them "swipe right worthy" -– “enqueue” means “add to the end.”





Okay, gotta run... MySpace doesn't update itself, you know!

[sharkicicles]

I, myself, was a Commodore VIC-20 kind of guy.