"Washington Gridlock" - February 4, 2021

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ricky wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 6:40 pm
Hector wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:50 pmAh, got it.
YES! I knew it was possible.
Not a comforting quote from a constructor.
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Is there a solution somewhere?
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Ditto. Would love to see the answer.
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oldjudge wrote: Tue Feb 09, 2021 3:47 pm
ricky wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 6:40 pm
Hector wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:50 pmAh, got it.
YES! I knew it was possible.
Not a comforting quote from a constructor.
Well, yeah... Clearly this one needed more hints / tweaking... I just really thought the "aha" would happen for more people. Again, I would have had a better sense of the difficulty if I'd had the time to get someone to test-solve, which is part of why I'm going to publish fewer puzzles per month.
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Will there ever be a solution? Thanks to the couple of folks who sent me hints. But after the deadline I threw my grid away.
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Cindy wrote: Thu Feb 11, 2021 8:11 pm Will there ever be a solution? Thanks to the couple of folks who sent me hints. But after the deadline I threw my grid away.
I didn’t throw my grids away. Where’s the solution?
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ricky wrote: Thu Feb 11, 2021 3:35 pm I would have had a better sense of the difficulty if I'd had the time to get someone to test-solve, which is part of why I'm going to publish fewer puzzles per month.
I appreciate that. I've been frustrated lately by metas that didn't have test solvers and were much harder than the constructors anticipated.
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Thank you! -- I was worried I was going to have to go through the rest of my life trying to figure a connection in such an interesting trichotomy!

I'd considered U S Grant -- Mark Twain wrote about Joan of Arc and "A Connecticut Yankee...." --- and spent time and had quips about SF. And then also helped Grant with his memoirs.

Then there's also (close your ears, maybe) : baking bread, Yankees trade, and poor Joan ==== Any prez with an association with the Hot Stove League?
(sorry.)
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whimsy wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:49 am Any prez with an association with the Hot Stove League?
(sorry.)
Just Googled this - IDGI. Got a Korean TV drama and refs to MLB offseason.
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ricky wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:05 pm
whimsy wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:49 am Any prez with an association with the Hot Stove League?
(sorry.)
Just Googled this - IDGI. Got a Korean TV drama and refs to MLB offseason.
Definitely the latter rather than the former I'm addressing. :D
Comes from older times when talk re: baseball, plans, trades, would happen in the wintertime, preferably around the old pot-bellied stove in some communal location. I can link the concept of "hot stove" with Yankee trades, and baking bread, and ....if I want to be heretical, or religiously non-PC, or whatever it would be.......((gulp) Joan of Arc. Bad joke -- Grew up Catholic, so grew up making those kinds of jokes.

I really don't know about any president who had a connection with the idea of HSL specifically --- They've mostly all, since the turn of the last century anyway, had baseball connections in general what with throwing out first pitches, inviting winning teams to the WH, etc. Hey, Bush Dubya owned a team so maybe him! :D
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