The One That Got Away

[HeadinHome]

My bum’s off the couch, my comments on Crosshare, and my kudos to @Cap’n Rick!!

[JeanneC]

Grid done but still on couch. This one is elegant! I just need to feel my way a teeny bit more and then…off I’ll go!

[minimuggle]

I'm still chasing down some very deep and enticing rabbit holes. Fun puzzle though I made need the Hump Day nudges

[KayW]

Tricky but so much fun. Thanks, Rick!

[Dplass]

Got a couple of nudges and still stuck. Will wait for nudgeday

[MarkWoychick]

Off the couch - great puzzle, @Cap'n Rick - very satisfying solve once I finally saw what I needed to do. Thanks for the puzzle!

[Cap'n Rick]

Leaderboard Update

Eight more Muggles bring our solver total to 35:

lbray53
HeadinHome
Dannyvee
Dave C
KayW
Bob cruise director
Carolyn
Mark Woychick


Wednesday Nudges

Okay, here we go! Hope these nudges get a few more of you off the couch!

One of the fun things about fishing is that you never know exactly when or where one may get away from you.

For this meta, the one getting away isn't a fish but rather a series of letters.

The letters "ONE" have gotten away from 7 symmetrically-located grid entries.

With the "ONEs" back in place (Note: can be anywhere within the 7 grid entries), the 7 new words/phrases now fit clues to other entries.

The first letters of those 7 other entries, in grid order, spell the final answer.

[Dow Jones]

Nudged off the couch. Very good meta and grid. Well done, Cap'n Rick.

[Cinny]

Late start on metas this week, but I am now off the couch. Solved without nudges. Thanks for the fun meta, Cap'n.

[Dplass]

Never gonna happen. Thanks for the puzzle though.

[TeamDoubleTow]

Very challenging for us... We were on the right path before the nudges but needed them to encourage us to continue on the path. We still have it harder on ourselves by continuing to ignore 1 nudge. . Thanks for this excellent puzzle!

[Darth]

OTC! Thanks, Cap'n!

[Hidden in 3D]

It took the third nudge, but I'm finally off the couch. Thanks for another great grid and meta, Cap'n Rick!

[JeanneC]

Got it just before the nudges posted. Geez, am I proud of myself!

[Bob cruise director]

Many thanks to @DrTom for the nudge last night before the zoom call started which was before we had discussions on plumbing, depositions, cars and ultimately metas.

The result was that I am off the couch

[minimuggle]

Nudged off the couch! What a great puzzle. Kicking myself that I had guessed at the mechanism but applied it incorrectly. Thanks Cap'n Rick

[ajk]

Got it after nudge 3, even though I was already doing the thing suggested by the nudges. But the third one focused me enough to see a slight tweak on exactly how I was doing it, and that unlocked things. Fun puzzle, thanks.

[MaineMarge]

Nudged OTC!
I really really liked this@Cap'n Rick
Now out to sit on my sunporch and wait for the sun to come out… and admire this whale who isn’t gonna get away. Nor eat any more octopi whole…

[woozy]

Never gonna happen. Thanks for the puzzle though.

You really should give it a try.

The solve is really enjoyable. Even if you just go through the nudges and do them its... fun. Two are hard though. But one was a real delightful surprise

and.....Nudge 3! Symmetric!

[Dplass]

Never gonna happen. Thanks for the puzzle though.

You really should give it a try.

The solve is really enjoyable. Even if you just go through the nudges and do them its... fun. Two are hard though. But one was a real delightful surprise

and.....Nudge 3! Symmetric!

Yes yes but tomorrow is WSJ day and I've been working on (read: obsessing) on another month long coding challenge...something's got to give and this month it's metas.