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In my email today. Is anyone solving?
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#2

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Will start now!

Edit: submitted . . . something . . . which makes more and more sense the more I think about it.

Final edit: confirmed. Remember -- as I did not -- to submit via the google form (link is in the email).
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#3

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I have.....the grid.

Guess I will be thinking on this today instead of Gaffney.
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Sorry for the delayed blog posting - it's up now!

http://www.lexicondevil.live/2021/05/pu ... -meta.html
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#5

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I think I have it. Good one! Required some, um, life experience.
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LesY wrote: Fri May 21, 2021 2:56 pm I think I have it. Good one! Required some, um, life experience.
Uh oh....doesn't bode well.

Similar to another recent meta puzzle that required something I never use nor was familiar with.
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#7

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Submitted. And feeling confident. Without personally having had experience of this life experience. (Have I missed anything?)

Good one!
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Rich, if I have the answer I don't think you necessarily need to have had this particular life experience (to Chris' point). I was more making light of my own past. :)

Now I need to submit what I have and see if I actually got it right.
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#9

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LOL, I think I have it. At the least, I think I have had those life experiences.
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Leaderboard as of Friday 6 PM!
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IOW everyone who thought they got it right has gotten it right so far...
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Got a lot of help. Definitely not in my wheelhouse, but c'est la vie!
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#13

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Solved
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My WAG was right. But I had help back solving. So won't submit.
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#15

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Pretty sure I got this. Was on right track, but gotta admit reading the comments helped me to think that track was probably correct. Anyone willing to confirm my submission was correct with a PM?
- Just puzzling it out here in Delmarva :D
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#16

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Agree - certain life experience not needed to solve this one.
Fresh look this morning and managed to see what I needed to see.
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I was seeing zilch in terms of a meta ... then came here and read the comments, which immediately made me think of another interpretation of the title. After that it was a quick solve. Thanks, Ricky, for a fun puzzle, and fellow solvers for the helpful brain wave!
Good luck, fellow Muggles!
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I needed a nudge to get there. I am not sure if I got all of it but the graphic posted with the puzzle supports my answer so I went with it.
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