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#19 Opening Numbers

Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 11:31 am
by Dannyvee
Opening Numbers by Alex Eaton-Salners
What grid entry is hinted at by the theme of the puzzle?

Enjoyed the puzzle— confidently submitted

Re: #19 Opening Numbers

Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 12:13 pm
by docison
Ditto, liked this one. Enjoyed the path to the solution.

Re: #19 Opening Numbers

Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 2:56 pm
by markhr
Submitted with confidence. Nice puzzle.
Now it's Guinness time.

Re: #19 Opening Numbers

Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 5:10 pm
by Meg
Verrrrrry clever. That was a great moment of revealing!

Re: #19 Opening Numbers

Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 5:55 pm
by Cindy
Solved.

Re: #19 Opening Numbers

Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 6:30 pm
by oldjudge
Solved too. This is one where after you see it you wonder why it took that long.

Re: #19 Opening Numbers

Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 3:16 am
by sharkicicles
Much easier than a lot of Fireball metas, IMO.

Re: #19 Opening Numbers

Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 12:33 pm
by Joe
OK, I thought that was amazing. A discovery, then garbage. Then an accidental discovery. Then "Oh, yeah! I get it!"

Re: #19 Opening Numbers

Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 1:21 pm
by MamaE
Hmmm....I definitely have the mechanism, but I feel like my solution doesn't have the "click" I'm looking for. If anyone is willing to listen to my process of getting it I'd appreciate it.

ETA: Got it with the help of @Lulum reminding me to do something to my potential answers. Got that click.

Re: #19 Opening Numbers

Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 6:26 pm
by BarbaraK
I loved this one! Such fun!

@MamaE feel free to PM me and tell me what you're thinking.

Re: #19 Opening Numbers

Posted: Mon May 17, 2021 2:12 am
by jimmyd
Anyone else get hung up on the number 99?

Re: #19 Opening Numbers

Posted: Mon May 17, 2021 2:06 pm
by Meg
jimmyd wrote: Mon May 17, 2021 2:12 am Anyone else get hung up on the number 99?
Yes! For a bit. There was nowhere to go with it.

Re: #19 Opening Numbers

Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 8:59 am
by lbray53
I got it! I was so excited to finally get one of these but when I went to submit my answer I discovered that the solution had already been published. At least I was able to confirm my success!

Re: #19 Opening Numbers

Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 7:27 pm
by ChrisKochmanski
I just came to this one, very late. (We were traveling last week.) I didn’t read Peter G’s email with the solution. Got stuck on something that others apparently got stuck on too (I’m being vague in case people still solving are reading this), which led me to a possibility for the entry hinted at, but another Muggle, who had already solved, steered me off that. Finally, trying something just a bit different with my thinking pointed me to the answer in a flash.

Nice! I very much enjoyed this puzzle.