MEOW #181 Day Trip
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Cap'n Rick
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Nice one, @DrTom! Love the mechanism.
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DrTom
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Few more people let the cat off the bus:
44 Cap'n Rick
45 omnilynx
46 Jaclyn
44 Cap'n Rick
45 omnilynx
46 Jaclyn
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges IF ASKED; metas should be about fun, not frustration. PM me what you have done so far, because often you are closer than you think, and I will try to help you move along.
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DrTom
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One last nudge - well actually a shove!
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges IF ASKED; metas should be about fun, not frustration. PM me what you have done so far, because often you are closer than you think, and I will try to help you move along.
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DrTom
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Seems that the Day Trip bus may have broken down. No more solvers since Saturday. It might be that WSJ has everyone in a tizzy?
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges IF ASKED; metas should be about fun, not frustration. PM me what you have done so far, because often you are closer than you think, and I will try to help you move along.
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DrTom
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So, one last cat released:
47 Danny K Bernstein
Pretty good turnout for a MEOW actually, and people seemed to enjoy it mostly.
47 Danny K Bernstein
Pretty good turnout for a MEOW actually, and people seemed to enjoy it mostly.
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges IF ASKED; metas should be about fun, not frustration. PM me what you have done so far, because often you are closer than you think, and I will try to help you move along.
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DrTom
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THE REVEAL!
My hope was that people would see the nudge in 6D and their meta "spidey sense" would be alerted, I mean doesn't a word too long in a meta usually mean that it will give you a letter to use! But which words were they???
There I was relaying on the rather clunky wording of some clues, and symmetry, to lead you home. Each of the relevant clues had wording designed to, at least subconsciously, push you towards the shorter word. I even tossed counterculture hero Dr. Timothy Leary smack dab in the middle, ready to take his "trip" after he would...
Lot's of people guessed the answer (I am assuming most of those are from my generation) but lots also worked their way through the shortening of words. I hoped it was not lost on folks that they had to DROP letters to get to DROP ACID. In a perfect world I would have had you dropping LSD out of words to get other words that had other meanings, but that is a Gaffney/Shenk kind of magic and I am definitely not in that league.
Tomorrow's MEOW should be considerably easier, just as a heads up.
My hope was that people would see the nudge in 6D and their meta "spidey sense" would be alerted, I mean doesn't a word too long in a meta usually mean that it will give you a letter to use! But which words were they???
There I was relaying on the rather clunky wording of some clues, and symmetry, to lead you home. Each of the relevant clues had wording designed to, at least subconsciously, push you towards the shorter word. I even tossed counterculture hero Dr. Timothy Leary smack dab in the middle, ready to take his "trip" after he would...
Lot's of people guessed the answer (I am assuming most of those are from my generation) but lots also worked their way through the shortening of words. I hoped it was not lost on folks that they had to DROP letters to get to DROP ACID. In a perfect world I would have had you dropping LSD out of words to get other words that had other meanings, but that is a Gaffney/Shenk kind of magic and I am definitely not in that league.
Tomorrow's MEOW should be considerably easier, just as a heads up.
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges IF ASKED; metas should be about fun, not frustration. PM me what you have done so far, because often you are closer than you think, and I will try to help you move along.