#17 - "The Works"
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 6:57 pm
Excited to have a contest from Peter Gordon. Deadline is 6 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, April 21.
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#17 - "The Works"
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Re: #17 - "The Works"
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 8:25 pm
Clueless. Absolutely clueless. Tonight. After all, tomorrow is another day.
Re: #17 - "The Works"
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 8:48 pm
Im less than clueless, if that's possible. Afraid that no clue even exists. But there's time.
Re: #17 - "The Works"
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:37 am
Lovely!
Re: #17 - "The Works"
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 11:34 am
Just submitted my answer...if it's correct, it's very clever. If it's wrong, it's an incredible coincidence.
Re: #17 - "The Works"
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 3:39 pm
Re: #17 - "The Works"
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 4:09 pm
Bob, my middle name is Scarlett, pronounced Scaaaaahlet. Unafraid to wear curtains.
Re: #17 - "The Works"
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2019 9:08 pm
Had a good meta weekend with WSJCC, MGWCC, and PGWCC, but NO CLUE on Fireball. Oh, I hate to do it, but if anyone would like to email me a clue (you know who you are!), I'll take it. And I promise I won't enter the contest. Thanks!
Re: #17 - "The Works"
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2019 9:49 pm
It's amazing how these work. I've been staring at this one for days and was also lost in space on MGWCC too. Picked them up again for a fresh look, and got both in 10 minutes.
Re: #17 - "The Works"
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 9:58 am
Got it! But with a hint, from a fellow puzzler. (Thanks!) So I won't enter the contest. Somewhat interestingly, I was briefly following the right rabbit hole, but there was an aspect of it that was throwing me off, so I moved away from it too quickly.
Re: #17 - "The Works"
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 6:28 pm
Did anyone get this without google? If so, you're more cultured than I am!
I knew two, was vaguely familiar with one more, and never heard of the other two.
I knew two, was vaguely familiar with one more, and never heard of the other two.
Re: #17 - "The Works"
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 9:37 pm
I knew two and had to google the rest as well. And yet I felt very smart for solving it! Thanks to Peter for that!
Re: #17 - "The Works"
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 10:30 pm
I spent the weekend at the art museum, when I should have been at the library:
Klimt - The Virgins
Rodin - The Thinker
Warhol - Big Electric Chair
Dali - A Family of Marsupial Centaurs
Caravaggio - The Fortune Teller
Couldn't dig out of that rabbit hole. It did occur to me that The Thinker stood out for not only being in a different medium, but also being the only one that included the whole, correct title. I should have glommed on to that idea. And lots of Google for me all around. But one thing I like about metas is that even though I didn't get the right answer, I could now give an hour-long dissertation on each of these paintings.
Klimt - The Virgins
Rodin - The Thinker
Warhol - Big Electric Chair
Dali - A Family of Marsupial Centaurs
Caravaggio - The Fortune Teller
Couldn't dig out of that rabbit hole. It did occur to me that The Thinker stood out for not only being in a different medium, but also being the only one that included the whole, correct title. I should have glommed on to that idea. And lots of Google for me all around. But one thing I like about metas is that even though I didn't get the right answer, I could now give an hour-long dissertation on each of these paintings.