77. Easy As...
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77. Easy As...
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Exactly the same with my cat. (Also, Liz Climo's comics are amazing if you haven't checked them out before.)
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Hello hello! Hope you all are having a restful, restorative holiday season. Thankful for all of you!
I'm baking cookies and wrapping presents, so here is another present for all of you! I also want to spend some time this week going back and catching up on the couple weeks' worth of metas I missed! Conundrums are the perfect way to spend a break in my book!
No reveal yet for #76, since that's the one going out to my friends (who might even still be my friends after they find out I sent them a puzzle yet again). Don't worry, it'll come eventually (Gridmaster T already rocked it, as usual).
Hoping for a Level 2 on this one, which might pull a bit to Level 2.5 but hopefully no more.
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77. Easy As...
The answer to the meta is 6 characters long.
Deadline is Saturday, December 30 at 1 pm ET.
Good luck, and may all your solves be beautiful!
Mikey G
Crosshare
Exactly the same with my cat. (Also, Liz Climo's comics are amazing if you haven't checked them out before.)
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Hello hello! Hope you all are having a restful, restorative holiday season. Thankful for all of you!
I'm baking cookies and wrapping presents, so here is another present for all of you! I also want to spend some time this week going back and catching up on the couple weeks' worth of metas I missed! Conundrums are the perfect way to spend a break in my book!
No reveal yet for #76, since that's the one going out to my friends (who might even still be my friends after they find out I sent them a puzzle yet again). Don't worry, it'll come eventually (Gridmaster T already rocked it, as usual).
Hoping for a Level 2 on this one, which might pull a bit to Level 2.5 but hopefully no more.
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77. Easy As...
The answer to the meta is 6 characters long.
Deadline is Saturday, December 30 at 1 pm ET.
Good luck, and may all your solves be beautiful!
Mikey G
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Done to perfection! What a fantabulous holiday meta. Thanks for all the fun and clever metas throughout the year. AND for moving your meta up one day to fill in this week's "Gaffney Gap".
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Tricky second step but nonetheless a very fine puzzle. Thanks, Mikey!
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Thanks for a great puzzle, Mikey. I think I made it harder than I needed to, but nice construction!
Shannon
PS: If you want help with a meta, PM what you have so I can help without spoiling too much. I've received lots of help in the beginning and I love to pay it forward!
PS: If you want help with a meta, PM what you have so I can help without spoiling too much. I've received lots of help in the beginning and I love to pay it forward!
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The first step was tricky enough. (Sometimes when things don't make sense you should pay *attention* to that). But the second step.... I can say some weird 37A like ideas but... Oh, wait I just remember something... oh never mind. I t was just another 37A like idea...
EDIT: Well, got it with a nudge with a two by four. I have a tendency not to listen to niggling doubts and for this one all I did was not listen to niggling doubts.
EDIT: Well, got it with a nudge with a two by four. I have a tendency not to listen to niggling doubts and for this one all I did was not listen to niggling doubts.
Just because it's intimidating, is no reason to be intimidated.
Putting together the unput togetherable: Fugue State
Putting together the unput togetherable: Fugue State
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Well, I got the first step okay, and I thought I had the clever second step, but I think I was a bit too clever because my answer wasn't accepted. Back to look at what I've got again.
I don't have anything clever to say, but if I did, it would go here.
Eli
Eli
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This is how I'll argue any of my incorrect answers from now on.
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Solved, with some serious handholding by a friendly elf. Tis the season! Thanks for the puzzle, Mikey!
Matthew
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We're at 14 so far, due to the festivities, a grueling MGWCC (I'm about 10 hours in, even with the hint, with very little progress, if any), and my slight overestimation of the difficulty, haha. So, it's probably a Level 3.
Back to baking I go...all these metas (and I have tons more to get to, even after the deadlines - fine by me!) have my brain baked as well!
Current mood, haha. Merry Christmas Eve and continued happy holidays!
Back to baking I go...all these metas (and I have tons more to get to, even after the deadlines - fine by me!) have my brain baked as well!
Current mood, haha. Merry Christmas Eve and continued happy holidays!
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Still staring to try to see step two!
Update: @boharr kindly gave me a little boost up and over. Clever one! (Boharr AND the puzzle!)
Update: @boharr kindly gave me a little boost up and over. Clever one! (Boharr AND the puzzle!)
The other Wendy.
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Yeah, I probably underestimated this one as well, haha (hence the Week 1/2 rule coming for next year!).
Nudge time!
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I was a little coy at the end, but hopefully, that'll be enough to get you where you need to go! Several had an interesting epiphany with this one or kind of "stumbled" upon the solution. It's fun when those moments happen!
Mikey G
Nudge time!
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I was a little coy at the end, but hopefully, that'll be enough to get you where you need to go! Several had an interesting epiphany with this one or kind of "stumbled" upon the solution. It's fun when those moments happen!
Mikey G
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I'm the cat in the background, licking my chops! (Reminds me, need to have my daily dose of eggnog!)
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Visiting kids and I worked on the solve together. We absolutely loved 34A! Well, maybe it helped that we were sitting by the tree with the train circling underneath...
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My goal before 2024 is to catch-up on year-end metas, even those past the deadlines. (@benchen71, you might get a video of my solving three or four of yours in a row, haha).
We're at 27 so far with this one, and one final nudge, with apologies to :
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Mikey G
We're at 27 so far with this one, and one final nudge, with apologies to :
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Mikey G