MEOW #41: Get A Life

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 #41: Get A Life

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Post by madhatter5 »

Hi all and welcome to the forty-first installment of the MEOW! This one is another collaboration with DrTom - hopefully we will redeem ourselves.


MEOW #41 - Get A Life Online Form

PUZ

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EXCEL

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The answer to this meta has three or four letters.




Feel free to send solutions to either of us but I think both of us are pretty busy these days so there may be delays.


Good luck!



Kitten

Calico

Persian

Puma

Lion
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#2

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I'm hoping the cat is out of the bag. Answer submitted, awaiting confirmation. [EDIT: Confirmed!]

Great puzzle construction, by the way. Something for your fellow meta constructors to aspire to!
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#3

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I was told some links aren't working - hopefully Joe can fix that at some point (I won't be able to for a while). Sorry!
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The links have been corrected. You have my apologies, Josh!

This was entirely my fault.
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#5

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Solved and submitted (but with comments).
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#6

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Once again Rich has found a flaw in the puzzle solution. And this one is particularly embarrassing for me.

Shouldn't affect the solve though, I think.
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About to submit. Pretty neat!!
edit: confirmed. I liked this meta a lot.
Last edited by Meg on Wed Sep 08, 2021 12:16 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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The cat is bagless! Submitted and awaiting confirmation.

UPDATE: Confirmed!

Very cool puzzle! My compliments to Josh and Dr. Tom!
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Submitted and awaiting confirmation.

Edit: Confirmed!
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Ooh. Fun.

Usually "putting it down and coming back in a while and then it's clear" doesn't work for me but this time ... it really did.

(Although I'm having a hard time seeing what the flaw may be.)
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#11

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I'm off the couch, but needed help.
EDIT: Confirmed. This is a neat puzzle but I was hampered by lack of certain knowledge.
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#12

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Solved. Thanks for the puzzle!
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#13

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I think I have in, and in another sense I know I have it.
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#14

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Pretty sure cat is out of the bag!
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Cat's gone. Using [answer to MGWCC 69] helps to seal the deal and provide an Easter egg.
I had an alternate answer that ties in with the actual answer and the title. Details at eleven, or whenever the answer is posted, though I can never remember when that is.
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#16

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Cat's out (unconfirmed)! This was really cool. I think I know what the flaw is (only because of Googling I did on the way) but it didn't affect the solve, assuming I did solve it :-)
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Oh... whoops. The "flaw" is obvious and what I thought it might be but when I attempted to analyze it somehow I confirmed the flaw as being correctly done. But to be a flaw one needs to make an assumption not necessarily stated. And it requires a bit of detail beyond what is needed to solve. It certainly doesn't make the solution wrong.

Still, it'd be worth fixing... if possible... that'd make for one jewel of a puzzle.
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Very cool puzzle.
Cat's out (pending confirmation)
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#19

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Found what i was clearly directed to look for, but no idea what to do with this collection. Maybe Iโ€™m supposed to be familiar with something I know nothing about? (Is this sports again?)
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#20

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I submitted an 85% answer...
catbag.jpg
I definitely have something but not sure the cat's completely out of the bag.

EDIT: confirmed ๐Ÿ˜ป
Last edited by KayW on Wed Sep 08, 2021 11:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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