Hello Muggles! I often find myself singing the praises of metas to fellow crossword solvers who have not yet heard of, or taken the plunge into, meta puzzles. I wanted to put together a small packet of 2-3 puzzles to share as a gentle introduction to the form. Any suggestions? I think I'd want to include at least one week 2 or 3 MGWCC-level entry so it's not all just the very simplest stuff.
(Apologies if this has already been covered before -- if so, will happily take pointers to past threads instead.)
Thanks in advance.
Introductory Metas for new solvers?
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Thats a great idea! Like the bunny slope in skiing. As a 6 week newbie, I wouldn’t mind seeing those either.
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All WSJ from the beginning are available on the WSJ site. I went back and worked all of the old puzzles to learn. Then you can look at the solutions and crosswordfiend.com explanations if needed.tonyrobots wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 4:14 pm Hello Muggles! I often find myself singing the praises of metas to fellow crossword solvers who have not yet heard of, or taken the plunge into, meta puzzles. I wanted to put together a small packet of 2-3 puzzles to share as a gentle introduction to the form. Any suggestions? I think I'd want to include at least one week 2 or 3 MGWCC-level entry so it's not all just the very simplest stuff.
(Apologies if this has already been covered before -- if so, will happily take pointers to past threads instead.)
Thanks in advance.
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Yes, of course. This isn't for me. I'm hoping to put together a few excellent puzzles that gently ramp in difficulty from easy to medium, and that this community might have a couple of favorites they wanted to share. It would seem my situation would be a pretty common one for people here, and it might be handy to have a go-to "so you're interested in seeing what a meta is all about?" packet.
Maybe will comb through things and make my own stab at this later this afternoon.
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Tony, back in February (I believe it was February) the WSJ posted a month of relatively easy puzzles to serve as an introduction to metas for newcomers. You might want to take a look at them. They offered a nice cross-section of common mechanisms.
Good luck, fellow Muggles!
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I hadn't realized those were meant to be easy! And here I thought I was just getting betterWendy Walker wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 2:33 pm Tony, back in February (I believe it was February) the WSJ posted a month of relatively easy puzzles to serve as an introduction to metas for newcomers. You might want to take a look at them. They offered a nice cross-section of common mechanisms.
Thanks for the tip, will revisit those. In the meantime, I'm combing through the archives and will share a list soon...
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The WSJ Puzzle Team is putting together a beginners' tutorial based on the February metas. When will it be available? :::shrug:::tonyrobots wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 1:33 pmI hadn't realized those were meant to be easy! And here I thought I was just getting betterWendy Walker wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 2:33 pm Tony, back in February (I believe it was February) the WSJ posted a month of relatively easy puzzles to serve as an introduction to metas for newcomers. You might want to take a look at them. They offered a nice cross-section of common mechanisms.
Thanks for the tip, will revisit those. In the meantime, I'm combing through the archives and will share a list soon...
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