66. Head Out on the Road
- oldjudge
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I forgot to post yesterday but great puzzle Mikey! Your puzzles are the highlight of the week.
- MikeyG
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Oh, and
- woozy
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Wow. So it was exactly what I thought it was with the exact mechanism I thought it was and for which I would give a 1.5.
But actually doing it .... don't know why but that was just about impossible for me.
it was like being told to walk seven steps and suddenly discovering you have utterly no concept of any number between six and eight. Maybe you could do six plus one or eight minus one neither of those actually do it.
Had to have whimsy spell out S-E-V-E-N; five, six, SEVEN, stop, don't go to eight, do go past six...
But actually doing it .... don't know why but that was just about impossible for me.
it was like being told to walk seven steps and suddenly discovering you have utterly no concept of any number between six and eight. Maybe you could do six plus one or eight minus one neither of those actually do it.
Had to have whimsy spell out S-E-V-E-N; five, six, SEVEN, stop, don't go to eight, do go past six...
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.
- lbray53
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I was resigned to asking for help. when I was typing out what I had so far, I thought of something that I had not tried yet. That gave me the solution.
Nice puzzle!
Nice puzzle!
My avatar proves that it is sometimes better to be lucky than good!
- MikeyG
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You have a fascinating sense of metacognition (here, maybe meta-metacognition!), and I love reading your reflections on solving metas! They're always delightful and insightful.woozy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2023 8:45 pm Wow. So it was exactly what I thought it was with the exact mechanism I thought it was and for which I would give a 1.5.
But actually doing it .... don't know why but that was just about impossible for me.
it was like being told to walk seven steps and suddenly discovering you have utterly no concept of any number between six and eight. Maybe you could do six plus one or eight minus one neither of those actually do it.
Had to have whimsy spell out S-E-V-E-N; five, six, SEVEN, stop, don't go to eight, do go past six...
- woozy
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Well, *I'd* be happy if I just got the metas off the bat. But that's not to be this week.
I'm batting 4 for 4 with nudges and 0 for 4 without.
I'm batting 4 for 4 with nudges and 0 for 4 without.
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.
- MikeyG
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- Cinny
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Solved! I had the correct mechanism all along, I just didn't realize it. Thanks, Mikey!
Cindy Heisler
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Solved finally, though I needed the nudges to close out the solution after plausibly creating a red herring that caused me to trip over the second step.
- CPJohnson
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I had the mechanism, but a couple of wrong themers had me stuck. Thanks to your nudges, I made it to the finish line. Thanks Mikey!
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I got there with nudge 5. I could tell what I was looking for, but there are far too many possibilities, and I ended up finding 9 including a duplicate, even taking 72A into account.
I'm interested in hearing more about 62D though.
I'm interested in hearing more about 62D though.
- MikeyG
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And that's fair; I tried to go with the most basic possibilities for thoroughfare abbreviations like ST and AVE (hey, overt hint if you're still solving this on the last day), but some inevitable ones probably did creep in.
I will totally go to a 62D-a-thon! I really like to make sum difference!
- woozy
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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.