64. Change Your Tune
- woozy
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Well, I successfully (with nudges that I was on the right track) got the first five steps done. Not sure what the next seven are.
Funny story. I was all set to enter Par for the course for the CrossHare midi contest for April but I mistakenly thought midi meant 7x 7 and not 11 x 11. Oops. Well.... Here's a complex but **small** meta on the subject of golf.
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The nudges aren't helping me yet, either, because I've already gotten two steps past the nudges on my own.
- woozy
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Okay, finally got it.
I sort of had every step on my own except ... 1) each keypoint required a long time for the shoe to drop and 2) I needed someone else to tell me I was on the right track.
Tricky clever puzzle.
Hint: The people in my trivia group will NEVER get this. Everybody in this group can, in theory, get it but probably know several who can not, but all of us are probably in denial about the existence of people who can not even though we each know several such people.
I sort of had every step on my own except ... 1) each keypoint required a long time for the shoe to drop and 2) I needed someone else to tell me I was on the right track.
Tricky clever puzzle.
Hint: The people in my trivia group will NEVER get this. Everybody in this group can, in theory, get it but probably know several who can not, but all of us are probably in denial about the existence of people who can not even though we each know several such people.
Funny story. I was all set to enter Par for the course for the CrossHare midi contest for April but I mistakenly thought midi meant 7x 7 and not 11 x 11. Oops. Well.... Here's a complex but **small** meta on the subject of golf.
- rjy
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Finally had a 100%-er breakthrough that answers Nudges 1, 2 and 3a... that single step this journey of a thousand miles (give or take) required. On to the next!
Ray
- MikeyG
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Early morning nudge time (2 pm is early for me) if you don't already have the :
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5a.
5b.
If you do have the ,
6.
Next nudge tonight if and when the Cubs first take the lead.
Mikey G
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5a.
5b.
If you do have the ,
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Next nudge tonight if and when the Cubs first take the lead.
Mikey G
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Go Cubs go!
- whimsy
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Hmm -- I checked online ---
Cubs are ahead in the bottom of the second --
Just sayin'.
Cubs are ahead in the bottom of the second --
Just sayin'.
- MikeyG
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I'M JUST REALLY EXCITED, I TOTALLY FORGOT.
Shove (not nudge) if you don't have the :
Shove 1.
Nudges moving forward from that:
7a.
7b.
8.
See if that helps!
Mikey G
- whimsy
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Got it! Finally!
But I just can't bring myself to display a cat pun-ting a football --
Nope, not with the way Ginger was knocking them out of the park tonight! Fabulous puzzle! Thanks, Mikey!
But I just can't bring myself to display a cat pun-ting a football --
Nope, not with the way Ginger was knocking them out of the park tonight! Fabulous puzzle! Thanks, Mikey!
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The shove nudged me along.
Many winding paths till I got it.
Thanks for the puzzle!
Many winding paths till I got it.
Thanks for the puzzle!
- lbray53
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Took me forever with all of the hints and MORE! This should have been in my wheel house. I just could not see the path.
My avatar proves that it is sometimes better to be lucky than good!
- ReB
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Finally shredded the bag string to release the cat with an extra bit of help. Certainly the most exhausting and exhilarating meta in a long while. Most ingenious. But it also actually got my wife interested - a rare occurrence that happens maybe once every few months. So thanks.
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So all of the nudges so far are all things I already found. Maybe I should just reach out to someone who already solved?
- MikeyG
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Some nudgy shoves as we near WSJ and MGWCC (but a Week 1, thankfully!):
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Shoviest nudge: 12.
Mikey G
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Also, I'm pretty impressed that we've gotten 38 correct answers (even with nudges!) so far on a tough, tough Level 5! A much deserved Level 1 coming Saturday!
- DrTom
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Managed to solve with hints, nudges, shoves. Quite the feat of construction young squire (hmm. never notice how close squire is to squirrel, makes one wonder about the root). Anyway this was deserving of its level 5 status. Great job.
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!
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Sweet Jesus on a toasted cheese cracker. (Can I say that here?) I had almost the whole thing before any of the nudges (and actually none of the nudges told me anything I hadn't already figured out), except for the very last bit, getting from the "something" that the pieces assembled to, to the "something else" that is the real answer. I repeated the "something ... ?" "something ... " to myself until the right answer hit me. I was led in the wrong direction by the "something" and that's all I'll say before the reveal.
- whimsy
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Off topic, but your exclamation reminded me of a conversation I overheard between a couple of 3 year olds when I was teaching in a child care center. It was around the holidays, and one of them was emphatically discussing having seen the babe in the manger in the nativity scene on display outside the neighboring church. The other one was agreeing wholeheartedly about the delight of having some Baby Cheez-Its packed in her lunch that day. Glitches in communication seemed to have no bearing on their satisfaction with their sociabilty.
- Joe Ross
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Um, if it's the #1 requested flavor (& it used to be the standard flavor before sales fell off), shouldn't it be the standard flavor?
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No, sorry, there's no way that the #1 requested flavor is not "extra CHEESY"!