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Like many others, I think I have the mechanic, but the result is nonsense! Back to work, and hoping for an aha moment in the next few days

Al Sisti wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2020 4:26 pm Had it 10 minutes ago but needed to be 100%. Now I am. Guinness me please!

Sorry I ever doubted you, Al.

Geezer Weezer wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 12:38 pm

Al Sisti wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2020 4:26 pm Had it 10 minutes ago but needed to be 100%. Now I am. Guinness me please!

Sorry I ever doubted you, Al.

Glad to have you with me... but as my friend, you could have stopped me about halfway through my Guinness intake last night. Oof!

Fairly confident of being on shore, but also sharing the slight doubt about a further step, "Pageant-style."

Al Sisti wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 12:41 pm

Geezer Weezer wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 12:38 pm

Al Sisti wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2020 4:26 pm Had it 10 minutes ago but needed to be 100%. Now I am. Guinness me please!

Sorry I ever doubted you, Al.

Glad to have you with me... but as my friend, you could have stopped me about halfway through my Guinness intake last night. Oof!

I never stand in the way of a man on a mission.

Honestly, I don’t see any possibility for a pageant debacle here.

I don’t know know how many people would get PAGEANT’D if that puzzle came out today - Based on what I’ve seen in my 18 months of doing this puzzle and from what I am told by a few on here who have been doing the puzzle a lot longer - the difficulty has steadily ramped where I think that would be a 60-70% puzzle now. I’ve certainly seen more difficult mechanisms is year with higher solve rates. But that is just my opinion.

fstadler wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 12:52 pm Fairly confident of being on shore, but also sharing the slight doubt about a further step, "Pageant-style."

By the way, I love your avatar

Common theme, think I have step one, but perhaps it's a red herring . . . .

I’m on shore..liked this one a lot...

Yes, first thing I thought of Now I can't get the song out of my head. My daughters just recently watched High School Musical for the first time, and sadly it was a hit.

Laura M wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2020 6:34 pm By the way: Anyone else get an earworm from the title? My kid was 4 or 5 when High School Musical became hugely popular with the preschool set, and I must have heard the soundtrack hundreds of times. (The song actually has "All" in the title, but close enough!)

I am COMing out of the water on this hot suMmer day and planting my umbrella upON the beach! The path to the answer was a bit of an eNIGma at first, but then the ligHT came on. I am HAppy to be sitting here listening to the seabirds squaWK while I sip on a summer shandy.


**These birds are on their fall migration now. I've seem them before, but never from my yard. Until last night when I saw a few winging overhead at dusk. That now makes 63 species that I have seen from my yard--not bad for a lot that is 25 feet by 150 feet.

LadyBird wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 1:41 pm I am COMing out of the water on this hot suMmer day and planting my umbrella upON the beach! The path to the answer was a bit of an eNIGma at first, but then the ligHT came on. I am HAppy to be sitting here listening to the seabirds squaWK while I sip on a summer shandy.


**These birds are on their fall migration now. I've seem them before, but never from my yard. Until last night when I saw a few winging overhead at dusk. That now makes 63 species that I have seen from my yard--not bad for a lot that is 25 feet by 150 feet.

Great bird to see. We don't get them as much in New England

On shore. To quote Johnny Most "he fiddled, he diddled and then he scored"

Not quite in the Havlicek Stole The Ball category but...

Ashore, and at 99% if not 100%. There was one slight inelegance, I thought, but not terribly awful.

Not wow'd by the answer but it seems inevitable.

ALS

LadyBird wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 1:41 pm I am COMing out of the water on this hot suMmer day and planting my umbrella upON the beach! The path to the answer was a bit of an eNIGma at first, but then the ligHT came on. I am HAppy to be sitting here listening to the seabirds squaWK while I sip on a summer shandy.


**These birds are on their fall migration now. I've seem them before, but never from my yard. Until last night when I saw a few winging overhead at dusk. That now makes 63 species that I have seen from my yard--not bad for a lot that is 25 feet by 150 feet.

LadyBird,
I was just going to message you about seeing the nighthawks fly through here like crazy last week. They are a fun bird to watch. Enjoy!

On shore.
Have a safe weekend everyone.

On shore. Clever one!

Bob cruise director wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 1:58 pm On shore. To quote Johnny Most "he fiddled, he diddled and then he scored"

Not quite in the Havlicek Stole The Ball category but...

Or, to quote Gene Hart, the long-time voice of the Philadelphia Flyers: "he shoots, he scores...for a case of Tastykake!"
Genius-level 1970s product placement.

Well, I'm still on the ship and unless something hits me soon I'll be there forever. I am just not seeing the "clearing" that others have seen and continue to get a jumble when I feel I must have tried everything (though obviously not). I even tried the MGWCC to see if it would clear my head; word to the wise, it won't. Heck I had to struggle on the GIRD and have about 1% idea on the mechanism.

I'm depressed because the WSJ one looked soooo promising and now I am stuck in the bar with Isaac.

Oh, and if there are spoilers there I am certainly not getting spoiled.

I do have to make one comment about this magnate puzzle; I'm afraid the idea has polarized me. I mean on one end of the spectrum I am attracted to the puzzle, but on the other repelled. I suppose I will just have to steel myself and hopefully get drawn to the answer. Perhaps I will have to go into my files of how I ironed out other META answers. I've always had interesting results with iron filings and magnates. OK Joe Ross, your turn!!