64. Change Your Tune
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64. Change Your Tune
PDF and PUZ
Crosshare
She's got purr-fect pitch.
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1. Puzzle #63 answer: SINGULAR
Correct entries: 47 and a record for greatest percentage answered correctly (including initial incorrect guesses) at 68%!
Thanks to @BrennerTJ!
Shortest explanation: There are 26 columns in the puzzle, which correspond to the letters A through Z. In 18 of these columns, the corresponding column's letter appears twice (and is double trouble, since we don't want those!). The remaining 8 columns only have one instance of their key letter: these 8 letters anagram to SINGULAR, the only single word that can be anagrammed from these and the answer to the meta.
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2. Leaderboard:
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3. This is most certainly going to play as a Level 5, and so I'll be dropping some casual nudges along the way (in honor of Matt's generous hints for this week's MGWCC). As always, if need be, put the puzzle aside and come back to it with a clearer head! (Thanks to people who test-solved and gave it a look ahead of time: @Abide, @BrennerTJ, @KayW, and @oldjudge!)
64. Change Your Tune
The answer to the meta is a 6-letter word.
Due to the delay, deadline is Sunday, August 6 at 1 pm ET. (New Level 1 meta will still drop on Saturday, however!)
Good luck, and may all your solves be beautiful!
Mikey G
Crosshare
She's got purr-fect pitch.
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1. Puzzle #63 answer: SINGULAR
Correct entries: 47 and a record for greatest percentage answered correctly (including initial incorrect guesses) at 68%!
Thanks to @BrennerTJ!
Shortest explanation: There are 26 columns in the puzzle, which correspond to the letters A through Z. In 18 of these columns, the corresponding column's letter appears twice (and is double trouble, since we don't want those!). The remaining 8 columns only have one instance of their key letter: these 8 letters anagram to SINGULAR, the only single word that can be anagrammed from these and the answer to the meta.
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2. Leaderboard:
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3. This is most certainly going to play as a Level 5, and so I'll be dropping some casual nudges along the way (in honor of Matt's generous hints for this week's MGWCC). As always, if need be, put the puzzle aside and come back to it with a clearer head! (Thanks to people who test-solved and gave it a look ahead of time: @Abide, @BrennerTJ, @KayW, and @oldjudge!)
64. Change Your Tune
The answer to the meta is a 6-letter word.
Due to the delay, deadline is Sunday, August 6 at 1 pm ET. (New Level 1 meta will still drop on Saturday, however!)
Good luck, and may all your solves be beautiful!
Mikey G
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Great.. so there goes my excuse for not doing the honey do list....ugh... well time to go spackle.
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Meta DELAYED... wait what MG puzzle is this? Where am I?
But seriously - I hope your power is back soon and that nothing got fried in the outage.
That is one of my greater fears... losing power when all my devices are already on low.
But seriously - I hope your power is back soon and that nothing got fried in the outage.
That is one of my greater fears... losing power when all my devices are already on low.
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.
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LOL, they even have the same initials. How long before ginger cat is renamed Ada?
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We haven't had a Ginger-related delay...yet, anyway, haha. (But Ginger still Ada piece of salmon last night.)
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Pssst... time to update your signature!
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The palindromic name with letter value equal to that of the palindromic pop group.
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Mamma mia, that's a good observation!
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Either I've found step 1 and step 2, or this is a really deep rabbit hole. Problem is, there are at least eight rabbits down here!
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Well I got what I assume is the first part, and tried some stuff based on that, but resulted in a swingandamiss(es).
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Been waiting on the nudges for about two weeks now...
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Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie!
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Early nudge:
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