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#609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 12:00 pm
by Hector
This week’s contest answer is a familiar verb.

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 12:15 pm
by Hector
Is it tomorrow? Hardly a week 5... But funny.

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 12:35 pm
by Laura M
Beam me up! Clever, and easier than the WSJCC (also Matt's) this week--he even says so on his site.

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 12:44 pm
by Al Sisti
Finally, a solve this week. Still stumped on WSJ, PGWCC and Aries...

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 12:57 pm
by sharkicicles
Hey I finally got a Week 5! :)

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 1:08 pm
by joequavis
Got it, with quite a chuckle.

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 1:09 pm
by FrankieHeck
I've been on a roll this week, so I was just a *tiny* bit disappointed not to get a real Week 5 today. But then I remembered last week, and I'm not complaining.

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 1:18 pm
by ky-mike
Done, submitted and confirmed. Now back to his WSJ puzzle which is proving to be quite a puzzler for me this week.

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 1:37 pm
by Meg
What a relief! Not a week 5 difficulty and I have my weekend!

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 1:46 pm
by TMart
This one felt easy compared to WSJCC....now, back to Isaac.

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 1:52 pm
by Thurman8er
Thanks for the easy Week 5, Matt. It makes up for that monster from last week.

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 2:20 pm
by oldjudge
Quick solve, but a fun and funny puzzle. Thanks Matt for giving me a free Super Bowl weekend.

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:56 pm
by Leslie
Very fun puzzle and I appreciated the easiness because I’m traveling and had to do it on my phone, which I’m not very good at. I actually had the answer less than a quarter of the way through the grid. I don’t think I’m going to be able to get Matt’s WSJ meta this weekend though.

Edited to add: My first post-enlightenment! After posting here I took another look at the WSJ and saw the rabbit ears immediately.

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 4:00 pm
by Toby
There is not a single thing I could say about this amusing puzzle, and my effort to solve it, that would not be a spoiler.

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 4:30 pm
by damefox
Got it! Cute. Another one where the answer is a no-doubter, but I expect there will still be some debate about the mechanism.

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 5:40 pm
by hcbirker
Very fun. Last week was just one long asymmetrical headache!

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 5:54 pm
by ChrisKochmanski
Beam me up!

Amusing. Nice, too, to have a not-so-hard one, after last week's MGWCC.

I'm still feeling guilty about taking a pretty big hint from another solver last week. I feel like I don't deserve my current MGWCC streak!

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 8:19 pm
by rexthree
found this week's solution as well - what a relief after last week's MGWCC which had me going in circles endlessly.
hoping now for some post-enlightenment for WSJ just like Leslie says she got in her post above :-)

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 8:40 pm
by hcbirker
ChrisKochmanski wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 5:54 pm Beam me up!

Amusing. Nice, too, to have a not-so-hard one, after last week's MGWCC.

I'm still feeling guilty about taking a pretty big hint from another solver last week. I feel like I don't deserve my current MGWCC streak!
I’m feeling the same way Chris. I did my first group solve last week and don’t feel right about it.

Re: #609 - "How Did You Know?"

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 8:45 pm
by BarbaraK
Yay, my mojo has not totally deserted me. Had this one figured out before finishing the grid. Beam me up, please.