MEOW #33: Got Any Change?

A weekly meta crossword on the forum started by member Josh (aka madhatter5). These puzzles are often very creative with solving mechanisms out of the norm and skewing towards the more challenging. Puzzles are posted every Wednesday, and the solution appears the following Tuesday.
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MEOW #33: Got Any Change?

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Hi all and welcome to the thirty-third installment of the MEOW!


This week's puzzle was co-constructed with Peter Abide.

We hope you won't ___ when you see this week's answer.


EDIT: rating updated


http://crossword.info/madhatter5/Got_Any_Change

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing


Good luck!



Kitten

Calico

Persian

Puma

Lion


puzzles/20210714 MEOW 33 โ€” Got Any Change.xlsx
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madhatter5 wrote: โ†‘Wed Jul 14, 2021 7:21 am Soft : Easy

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Solved and confirmed.

Cat is out of the bag! ๐Ÿฑ

Thanks, Josh and Peter! Fun puzzle.
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Well, Iโ€™ve submitted. I feel pretty good about my answer. A lovely mechanism, discovered while watching men ride bicycles up green mountains in France (the Tour de France). So beautiful and so painful. Well it would be if I tried to do that. But I digress. Great puzzle!
Edit: and we have confirmation.
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I knew what the answer had to be - the path to get there was very clever!
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Exceeding clever puzzle, guys. Thank you. Answer submitted.
Confirmed. Cat is free.
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Brilliant puzzleโ€”thanks guys!
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On the late side with this --
or possibly on the early side for nudge day, since I'm offering no disclaimer this time....
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Got it! Well done! Thanks, guys!
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Out of the bag! Fun one!
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Tried to overcomplicate this one several different ways.
A generous reminder / nudge helped me focus where I should have focused.

Solved, submitted, and confirmed.
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Now where did that @#$%&*! cat go this time?

Very cool!

My compliments to Josh and Peter!

I believe you're correct in re-rating this one to a Puma. I needed a fairly firm nudge. (Though if the answer had occurred to me right off, as a possibility, like it did for some, I'd likely have been able to work myself back down the path.)
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Very cool meta!
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Very fun! Thanks for doing these. And thanks to boharr getting me on the right track.
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No joy yet this week. But have scrolled through a few old ones, so now at least I understand the purpose of that list of cats :lol:
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I solved the grid with the speed of a cheetah but the meta eludes me. I think I can guess the answer but I can't find my way to it. As it is 14:40 in my household, the cats are in various indecent positions of napping and are not being helpful with the meta.
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Have looked at this 10 times with no AHA moment. Hoping to crack the code with a Sat. nudge.
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Nudge Saturday!

Below is an easier version of this puzzle (Peter's idea):

http://crossword.info/madhatter5/Got_An ... ge_Version



The title is a hint to the mechanism - i.e. you have to make a change to the grid. That change is related to coins.



I'll let @Abide give you all the last nudge if he'd like to :)
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Oh, cool! I'd seen the thing but didn't think of doing the thing to it.
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I believe I've got it. If so, my WAG was correct! Thanks to boharr for the nudge - wouldn't have got the mechanism without it.

ETA: yep, my first/WAG ended up being correct - hooray!
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