"Make Him From Them" - January 29, 2021
- Flamel616
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Not sure if many people remember me, but I was somewhat active last summer. Decided to take a look this week, for old times' sake, and I found an answer. Hopefully it's as easy as everyone seems to think it is.
Ashore during my first tour in months. Well, I would be if there was room. Maybe I'll just sit on this raft here...
Ashore during my first tour in months. Well, I would be if there was room. Maybe I'll just sit on this raft here...
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Was onshore since Thursday night, but I was pretty sure I was missing a step. Like the week before, there may be a more elegant path but I cannot exactly figure it out. Regardless, I'm happy with my solution.
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Submitted my educated guess answer. Just like last week, I'm 100% positive that I missed a couple of steps that make this more elegant than it seems. Or I'm wrong. Will find out in 13 minutes!
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On shore! Well, at least close enough to stand on sand....
- Joe Ross
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- escapeartist
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Ushering in the puzzle drop in 3, 2, 1...
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Was just about to type I'm waiting to get ushered to my seat while waiting for it to drop
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- Bird Lives
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The short cut is to find the two pronouns that combine to make US/HER. But that route misses the sequence that threads through the theme entries. The ending of one pronoun becomes the beginning of the next.
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PLATELET 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘀 ENORMOUS 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲:
𝟰𝟬% 𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰,
𝟯𝟬% 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰,
𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 & 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮. 𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗘!
PLATELET 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘀 ENORMOUS 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲:
𝟰𝟬% 𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰,
𝟯𝟬% 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰,
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- LadyBird
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My quibble with this was that "HE GOT GAME" seemed to be unnecessary, since the "HE" was already in two other answers. Unless Matt felt that he needed to have 5 theme answers to go with the 5 letters in the answer.
- escapeartist
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The only thing that I can think of is that this fourth long answer provided the fourth letter of the solution.
(even though it was in other answers, I mean, c'mon man, there has to be some reason to the mechanism)
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- FrankH
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The answer does fit the title MAKE HIM FROM THEM, but the process seems a little clunky because of the different amount of overlapping between theme answers. I would think FIND THEM IN HIM would be a more appropriate title.
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Oof, I submitted CHER for overly simplistic reasons. Not feeling too smart today!
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I think you are saying the same way I understood the mechanism. At each pronoun, you pick up the letter that follows the letter picked up at the previous pronoun.
U .. uS .. sHe .. hE .. heR
- oldjudge
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If you start with USHER and, in order, read the pronouns it contains (assuming U is a pronoun) you get U US SHE HE HER, so these pronouns make up USHER.
- Gman
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I answered USHER, but I kept looking for a second R. My adult kids knew who USHER is. I gotta start listening to newer music.
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Turns out I did land on the right shore. After flailing about in a vain search for a mechanism, I googled a list of one-named male singers. USHER jumped out from the list, given the unusual U at the start of the first theme answer and the presence of the remaining letters in his name throughout the themers. I didn't see the overlap from one pronoun to the next, and so missed what was elegant about the construction, and remained in doubt about whether I had it right.Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 4:47 pmIf you think you are on shore - any shore, even a deserted island, we count you on shore. You will not be the first to throw a hail Mary and have it caught.RichA2 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 4:21 pm I have a solution. It isn’t elegant (and as the song goes, “If you ain’t got elegance, you can never ever carry it off”) but I am going to submit it and see what happens. Bob, count me as still at sea until I wake up tomorrow morning and find out whether I made it ashore.
I was surprised at the length of the list of singers, although only a few seem well-known enough to serve as a WSJ meta solution.