"Risky Business" - December 11, 2020
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- DrTom
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Dang, haven't even gotten a chance to look! Too busy stomping out lives and saving disease! Oh, wait, I think I have that reversed....
Maybe this evening if I am not zoned out - these early wake ups are not as easy as they used to be.
Maybe this evening if I am not zoned out - these early wake ups are not as easy as they used to be.
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!
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Well Bless Their Hearts! Thank goodness for enablers.Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 9:29 am Just as a FYI (and I will post this several times), the WSJ is sensitive to our addiction and the fact that both Christmas and New Years days are on Fridays this year. The contest will be published Thursdays as normal.
Now the only problem is that each of us and our families will have to figure out how to cope with any social (limited participation and social distancing of course) gatherings on those two eves.
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On shore. Printed it yesterday and forgot to do it until now.
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Done and done.
If I'm around, I am willing to join the Muggle Zoom room at other times to lend a hand to those in need.
- Bob cruise director
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Good morning muggles
First we welcome our newest muggle Bob Kerfuffle - always great to welcome additional muggles to the clan
We have 5 on the ship and 53 on the shore. and many more plugging along
First we welcome our newest muggle Bob Kerfuffle - always great to welcome additional muggles to the clan
We have 5 on the ship and 53 on the shore. and many more plugging along
Bob Stevens
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Not seeing it yet. There’s still plenty of time left but history has shown that if I don’t get it by now, I never will.
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On the beach! Nice one and not too tough! Thought the grid was hard!
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Bob, your name is so familiar! Are/ Were you a frequent poster on the WSJ site?Bob Kerfuffle wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 4:33 pm Enjoying my first margarita on the beach as an official user!
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Ashore. Even more impressed than usual by the construction. This is hard enough to solve but to retrace the steps Mike Shenk must have gone through to create it - keeping within all the norms of symmetry, balance, reasonable cluing, moderate difficulty, avoiding the obscure - I just don't see how they do it. Hats off.
Further, it's funny how a puzzle seems easy when one of your first rabbits is the right one. The right path always seems obvious in hindsight, but when you're lost it just looks impossible. I'd like to see a graph of how the rated difficulty climbs from Thursday to Sunday!
Further, it's funny how a puzzle seems easy when one of your first rabbits is the right one. The right path always seems obvious in hindsight, but when you're lost it just looks impossible. I'd like to see a graph of how the rated difficulty climbs from Thursday to Sunday!
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Finally on shore. It's amazing how obvious all these are AFTER you get it! Will hit Isaac up later in the day. Ciao!
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I resemble that remark.mheberlingx100 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 11:51 am Not seeing it yet. There’s still plenty of time left but history has shown that if I don’t get it by now, I never will.
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I have been curious about the same thing. From my casual observations, the rating typically rises by at least 0.5, although one recent rating dropped by that amount. I wonder if the microMug calculation can be used to determine a "true" rating.
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Heidi
Is that a variation on the "dog ate my homework" excuse?
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Me three.flyingMoose wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 1:47 pmI resemble that remark.mheberlingx100 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 11:51 am Not seeing it yet. There’s still plenty of time left but history has shown that if I don’t get it by now, I never will.
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On the ship...staring at the shore. Will keep thinking...inspired by all the reports of a clever construction!