Mix & Match
- cbarbee002
- Posts: 610
- Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2020 6:02 pm
- Location: Philly Area
Okay, Day 1 lineup below - - let me know if I missed you (not sure which solvers on Crosshare might be muggles). I'll post another nudge later this a.m. to lure more of you off the couch.
Al Sisti (TS)
Abide (TS)
rjy
boharr
HeadinHome
CPJohnson
woozy
hcbirker
schmidzyu
lbray53
markhr
Cinny
Ergcat
LindaPRmaven
benchen71
ReB
ChrisKochmanski
Schmeel
Al Sisti (TS)
Abide (TS)
rjy
boharr
HeadinHome
CPJohnson
woozy
hcbirker
schmidzyu
lbray53
markhr
Cinny
Ergcat
LindaPRmaven
benchen71
ReB
ChrisKochmanski
Schmeel
- cbarbee002
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- Location: Philly Area
- edestlin
- Posts: 244
- Joined: Sun Apr 10, 2022 9:22 am
- Location: Michigan
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Classic "write a PM asking for a nudge which helps me see the answer" puzzle here. Finally off the couch!
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- Posts: 810
- Joined: Thu Dec 31, 2020 11:57 am
- Location: Atlanta, GA
Ditto! Did the same thing and then saw it right in the body of the PM I was typing. Thankfully, didn't push send on that one. Off the couch.
Matthew
- ky-mike
- Posts: 2064
- Joined: Thu Apr 11, 2019 4:22 pm
- Location: Near Louisville Ky
- Wendy Walker
- Posts: 1757
- Joined: Thu Apr 11, 2019 7:44 pm
- Location: Unionville, PA
Yeesh! I needed all the nudges for sure! Thanks, Chris, for a challenge.
Good luck, fellow Muggles!
- KayW
- Moderator
- Posts: 3533
- Joined: Wed Apr 10, 2019 12:10 am
- Location: Chicago
Very clever puzzle! Off the couch with some 2x4 variety of epiphanies provided by the nudges above. Thanks, Chris!
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- Posts: 949
- Joined: Mon Apr 29, 2019 12:22 pm
Off the couch. Needed the nudges to confirm that what I was trying was the right approach. I'd given up too soon. It took looking at several cases before one of them finally clicked very nicely. Fun.
- whimsy
- Posts: 2875
- Joined: Sun Jun 21, 2020 9:51 am
- Location: Hopkinton MA
- Bird Lives
- Posts: 2836
- Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2019 6:43 pm
- Location: NYC
- Contact:
The cat is out of the bag. I used the Tuesday nudge, though I like to think that I could have eventually solved without it. Then I had a perfectly reasonable mix-and-match mistake, so I needed two tries to score.
Jay
- MikeyG
- Posts: 1456
- Joined: Wed Dec 30, 2020 2:52 pm
- Location: Chicago
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I see two or three things that cannot be coincidence, so I'd like to think I'm on the right path? Just need to see if I can tie it all together!
- bhamren
- Posts: 243
- Joined: Fri Apr 12, 2019 12:15 pm
- Location: Urbana, Ohio
- Eric Porter
- Posts: 493
- Joined: Sun May 05, 2019 2:19 am
- Location: Nashville, TN
Finally off the couch. I saw the nudges yesterday, but didn't think I was going to be able to solve it. Then I took another look.
- cbarbee002
- Posts: 610
- Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2020 6:02 pm
- Location: Philly Area
This definitely played harder than anticipated (hence my refusal to try to "rate" puzzles). Anyway, more Muggles are safely OTC:
edestin
Matthew L
ky-Mike
Wendy Walker
kayW
Berto
Whimsey
Bird Lives
mkmf
bhamren
Eric Porter
I know that some of you are still snuggled on the cushions, so here are some more nudges:
edestin
Matthew L
ky-Mike
Wendy Walker
kayW
Berto
Whimsey
Bird Lives
mkmf
bhamren
Eric Porter
I know that some of you are still snuggled on the cushions, so here are some more nudges:
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- MikeyG
- Posts: 1456
- Joined: Wed Dec 30, 2020 2:52 pm
- Location: Chicago
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Finally reverse-engineered one component of the last step, but I pulled it out somehow without any nudges. Toughie but a good one, thanks!
- MarkWoychick
- Site Admin
- Posts: 631
- Joined: Sun Jun 13, 2021 6:15 pm
- Location: Boise, ID
Off the couch with the nudges - thanks for the puzzle, Chris!
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- ajk
- Posts: 1033
- Joined: Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:22 pm
- Location: Colorado
Got it with the nudges. Only actually used a couple of them, but they were needed.
Check out this very cool project by many of your favorite muggles to raise money to fight cancer. You get a fun puzzle bundle and good causes get $. Win-win: Crosswords for Cancer
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- Joined: Mon Mar 29, 2021 7:26 pm
Ooh! That was a very nice one! I had to read all three sets of nudges about 15 times to figure out what was going on, though, but that's on me.
- Cap'n Rick
- Posts: 1619
- Joined: Sun Aug 02, 2020 12:44 pm
- Location: Nahant, MA
Ditto what @hoover said above. Clever and unique (to me) mechanism and a fun puzzle overall. Thanks, Chris!