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oldjudge
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#1

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Has anyone done this puzzle? I have most of it done and an idea of what the answer is. It’s tough but interesting.

https://cruzzles.blogspot.com/2021/07/m ... games.html
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oldjudge wrote: Sun Jul 18, 2021 5:37 pm Has anyone done this puzzle? I have most of it done and an idea of what the answer is. It’s tough but interesting.

https://cruzzles.blogspot.com/2021/07/m ... games.html
Thanks! I am sure I have it too, down to the details. Interesting mechanism, crazy-hard grid for a Boomer.

Now if I could only make headway on Lexicon Devil, I'd be a free man.
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Thanks for the pointer, @oldjudge! That grid was unreal, harder than the former Saturday Stumpers for me. Two hours and I still had to Google a few things; I have no time or motivation left to figure out the meta :-) I see the obvious things but no idea what to do with them. Will revisit later.
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Ricky's really into animation and video games. And constructing hard themelesses. I'm not surprised that for a contest puzzle he'd pull no punches in those areas but it's looking like I'm going to have to do some Googling to even finish the underlying puzzle here because it's kicking my butt.
Check out the meta challenge at Lexicon Devil

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Have the grid (finally).
Have a suspicion but suspect this will require more google on my part, so probably going to set it aside.
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Took a few sessions, but got both the grid and a solution to the meta that seems to work (famous last words...). 😎
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Solution has been posted.
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Huh. Both X and O as it stands have tic-tac, which is a brand name.
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Experimenting with how it works to attach files here in the forum -- here's my solve.
Screen Shot 2021-07-19 at 9.37.21 PM.png
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Hector wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2021 1:49 pm Huh. Both X and O as it stands have tic-tac, which is a brand name.
Given how I arranged my rebuses, I didn't get as far as the tic and the tac...but I like this answer.
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Yeah wow, I was never going to get this. Pretty amazing, congrats to the solvers!
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