Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:46 am
The false lead I followed at first was aisle/isle and ashe/ash -- spent a lot of time looking for other homonyms in the grid before I investigated "percent."
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"Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
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Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 11:56 am
This puzzle reminded me that my first computers actually had the quote mark symbol above the 2. No idea why.
Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 12:08 pm
This is one of the few puzzles when it is an advantage to solve on a laptop. That’s how I usually solve, and it made the connection to keyboard keys much easier.
Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:44 pm
I looked for words in the long across entries, but the partly because I was "sure" the title was pointing to type-faces or fonts, and partly because there were lots of words to be found, not just the four key symbols, initially, I overlooked the correct path. After that, I chased another rabbit looking for zodiac signs/symbols (including Chinese).
Overall a fun, fun puzzle.
Overall a fun, fun puzzle.
Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:16 pm
Please accept with its intended gentle good humor, I found it funny your comment actually has a typo! Plural of typo is "typos".Tom Shea wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:24 pmBeing a frequent,unreformed practitioner, I don't normally point out typo's. But I couldn't help thinking of this scene:Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 9:07 pm Our final count is 4 on the ship and 120 on the shore.
jhcogan just went to the bar and Dennis and DaveWa just made it to the shore
Good luck to all winning the mub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VdMdboymT8
Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:45 pm
asechres wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:16 pmPlease accept with its intended gentle good humor, I found it funny your comment actually has a typo! Plural of typo is "typos".Tom Shea wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:24 pmBeing a frequent,unreformed practitioner, I don't normally point out typo's. But I couldn't help thinking of this scene:Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 9:07 pm Our final count is 4 on the ship and 120 on the shore.
jhcogan just went to the bar and Dennis and DaveWa just made it to the shore
Good luck to all winning the mub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VdMdboymT8
Maybe the meta title this week should have been "Just My Typo"
Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:53 pm
An extremely creative and popular contest this week. We had 1518 responses, about 85% correct. 36 guesses for FONT, 23 for CAPS (partial credit for using the initials of all four hidden entries), 11 for PICA (another random guess?), 9 for FEST (can someone explain that?), 8 for SIGN, and several others.
Congratulations to this week's winner: Kelly Melita of Richmond, Va.!
PS I see a comment above that fonts were scattered around the grid--I hadn't noticed that! Is that so?
Congratulations to this week's winner: Kelly Melita of Richmond, Va.!
PS I see a comment above that fonts were scattered around the grid--I hadn't noticed that! Is that so?
Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:10 pm
I didn't get the right answer, but I sure found a lot of rabbit holes to explore... Did not know the term caret before this. Fun puzzle anyway. Nlobb
Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:36 pm
When we saw there is a "singular font" we checked the grid for others. Among those we found as font names were ashe, adm, aisle, hen, fodor (who knew?) hen, ursa, nana (what's not to like about a nana font) siena (which was the first we recognized without googling) sales, gory, hula, aria, asta, ash and rio. With the way our internet searches are being tracked, we can hardly wait to see advertisements now pop up for new printers and publishing apps.MikeMillerwsj wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:53 pm An extremely creative and popular contest this week. We had 1518 responses, about 85% correct. 36 guesses for FONT, 23 for CAPS (partial credit for using the initials of all four hidden entries), 11 for PICA (another random guess?), 9 for FEST (can someone explain that?), 8 for SIGN, and several others.
Congratulations to this week's winner: Kelly Melita of Richmond, Va.!
PS I see a comment above that fonts were scattered around the grid--I hadn't noticed that! Is that so?
Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:37 pm
FEST can be obtained by taking the first letters of the numbers (six, five, two, eight) and rearranging them. One of my rabbit holes. Just didn't think this would work well as an answer.MikeMillerwsj wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:53 pm An extremely creative and popular contest this week. We had 1518 responses, about 85% correct. 36 guesses for FONT, 23 for CAPS (partial credit for using the initials of all four hidden entries), 11 for PICA (another random guess?), 9 for FEST (can someone explain that?), 8 for SIGN, and several others.
Congratulations to this week's winner: Kelly Melita of Richmond, Va.!
PS I see a comment above that fonts were scattered around the grid--I hadn't noticed that! Is that so?
Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:22 pm
EYe nevvre maik mysteaks!asechres wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:16 pmPlease accept with its intended gentle good humor, I found it funny your comment actually has a typo! Plural of typo is "typos".Tom Shea wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:24 pmBeing a frequent,unreformed practitioner, I don't normally point out typo's. But I couldn't help thinking of this scene:Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 9:07 pm Our final count is 4 on the ship and 120 on the shore.
jhcogan just went to the bar and Dennis and DaveWa just made it to the shore
Good luck to all winning the mub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VdMdboymT8
Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:36 pm
Jim and AnitaJim and Anita wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:36 pmWhen we saw there is a "singular font" we checked the grid for others. Among those we found as font names were ashe, adm, aisle, hen, fodor (who knew?) hen, ursa, nana (what's not to like about a nana font) siena (which was the first we recognized without googling) sales, gory, hula, aria, asta, ash and rio. With the way our internet searches are being tracked, we can hardly wait to see advertisements now pop up for new printers and publishing apps.MikeMillerwsj wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:53 pm An extremely creative and popular contest this week. We had 1518 responses, about 85% correct. 36 guesses for FONT, 23 for CAPS (partial credit for using the initials of all four hidden entries), 11 for PICA (another random guess?), 9 for FEST (can someone explain that?), 8 for SIGN, and several others.
Congratulations to this week's winner: Kelly Melita of Richmond, Va.!
PS I see a comment above that fonts were scattered around the grid--I hadn't noticed that! Is that so?
I went down the font route also. I opened a word document and did a dropdown on the fonts. There are literally hundreds of them. When I did not see the common ones like Ariel, I concluded that I was going down the wrong rabbit hole.
Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:40 pm
A funny story related to keypads and such. About 20 years ago right after we got used to ATM's, my wife and a friend went to Italy. In Rome, she went to use the ATM and found that the keypad had only numbers and not letters. She had only remembered her PIN by name and not the numbers. And she needed money. In a panic, she scrambled around trying to fine someone who 1) spoke English and 2) had a mobile phone so she could convert her letter based PIN to a number sequence. Fortunately someone had a phone (which were not as common back then).
Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:07 pm
The phone number pilots dial to get a briefing on the weather for their upcoming flight is 1-800-WX-BRIEF. In the pre-internet days, I called this quite often. Then one day I was at an airport with no letters on the phone buttons. I found that if I tried to think about what letters went where, I couldn't do it - I'd have had to find a piece of paper and write it down. But by not thinking about it, just letting habit/muscle memory do its thing, I got it right.Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:40 pm A funny story related to keypads and such. About 20 years ago right after we got used to ATM's, my wife and a friend went to Italy. In Rome, she went to use the ATM and found that the keypad had only numbers and not letters. She had only remembered her PIN by name and not the numbers. And she needed money. In a panic, she scrambled around trying to fine someone who 1) spoke English and 2) had a mobile phone so she could convert her letter based PIN to a number sequence. Fortunately someone had a phone (which were not as common back then).
Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:40 pm
and phone keypads and those on computers aren't the same
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Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:03 pm
but "dash" as a noun is something you type from a keyboard. "Dash" as a verb is just another verb.Alan H wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:54 am it seems like anytime the answer is specifically a noun, that the actual answer is a verb too. Which always makes me pause. Also, i know this site was tracking muggles by state a few weeks back. i was thinking that this meta wouldn't work for people from abroad where the @ sign is near the enter key on keyboards. I wonder if that messed anyone up.
Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:16 pm
Since one of the eligibility rules is that you must be a resident of the US, maybe that was an intentional testAlan H wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:54 am it seems like anytime the answer is specifically a noun, that the actual answer is a verb too. Which always makes me pause. Also, i know this site was tracking muggles by state a few weeks back. i was thinking that this meta wouldn't work for people from abroad where the @ sign is near the enter key on keyboards. I wonder if that messed anyone up.
Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:43 pm
DASH is also a symbol on the same row on the keyboard as ^, %, @ and *.
That's why it's the answer.
That's why it's the answer.
Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:56 pm
That's a hyphen. There's no dash, neither emdash nor endash, on the keyboard.MajordomoTom wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:43 pm DASH is also a symbol on the same row on the keyboard as ^, %, @ and *.
That's why it's the answer.
Re: "Just My Type" - January 24, 2020
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 11:25 pm
Starting with 5 and moving down, we have ARIA(C)L--the "C" in the middle led me to look for names of other fonts with mis-placed letters that would, hopefully, spell a four letter noun, or at least move closer to it. . . the "T" shaped ARI-A(I)L at the bottom of the grid tantalized as well.Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:36 pmJim and AnitaJim and Anita wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:36 pmWhen we saw there is a "singular font" we checked the grid for others. Among those we found as font names were ashe, adm, aisle, hen, fodor (who knew?) hen, ursa, nana (what's not to like about a nana font) siena (which was the first we recognized without googling) sales, gory, hula, aria, asta, ash and rio. With the way our internet searches are being tracked, we can hardly wait to see advertisements now pop up for new printers and publishing apps.MikeMillerwsj wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:53 pm
PS I see a comment above that fonts were scattered around the grid--I hadn't noticed that! Is that so?
I went down the font route also. I opened a word document and did a dropdown on the fonts. There are literally hundreds of them. When I did not see the common ones like Ariel, I concluded that I was going down the wrong rabbit hole.