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Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2022 11:42 pm
by Jacksull
I’m betting this week sets some kind of record for incorrect Hail Mary submissions.
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:00 am
by Bird Lives
The answer is EDSEL
“Where’s My Car?” indicates that the key lies in the cars’ locations in the grid. Highlight those locations, and the solution becomes obvious.
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Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:00 am
by Joe Ross
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:01 am
by Joe Ross
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:08 am
by mheberlingx100
Never in a million years would I have gotten this one! Congratulations to all who did!
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:09 am
by hcbirker
I must be ignorant, but Daytona is not a car being manufactured now? Not sure of the prompt.
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:10 am
by Bird Lives
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:13 am
by shalmanezer
And for those who thought this was inelegant, note also that Daytona is both a car and a place, fitting the 7 cars in the grid.
And that Gaffney may be trolling us all, because the answer to Where's My Car? is basically, On the Beach.
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:16 am
by Conrad
hcbirker wrote: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:09 am
I must be ignorant, but Daytona is not a car being manufactured now? Not sure of the prompt.
"The answer to this week's contest crossword is a noted American car of the past or present."
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:17 am
by woozy
Shenanigans! I call shenanigans!
H+NM + Y = HYNM and not NM. Transposing or anagramming the postal abbreviation is not withing the realm of reasonable manipulation for such few number of letters.
(Seriously. I stumbled over the multitude postal abbreviations for CA and CO [didn't know what to do with them but I saw them] and kept stumbling over MN and thinking it was NM backwards which is to general to rise any thing above randomness. )
With those few letters and imprecise mechanics make this mechanism little more than random noise.
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:17 am
by Puzzle mom
I got it in the end, but I really didn’t like that the abbreviations for New Mexico and Colorado were reversed. I was sure my answer was wrong because of this. But I had nothing else.
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:17 am
by escapeartist
KAS 5
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:18 am
by escapeartist
KAS 7
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:20 am
by woozy
So.... now MODEL T answers?.... cause the grid had two T's in it?
That's what I submitted! (Going for my self created contest on the dumbest but justifiable answer....)
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:20 am
by Jace54
Is it a coincidence that Daytona is a combination of 1 down (toad) and 41 down (nay), or is that Matt adding some additional cleverness? That was how Daytona got in my mind as a possible answer, but I did not find the path.
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:20 am
by Joe Ross
woozy wrote: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:17 am
Shenanigans! I call shenanigans!
H+NM + Y = HYNM and not NM. Transposing or anagramming the postal abbreviation is not withing the realm of reasonable manipulation for such few number of letters.
(Seriously. I stumbled over the multitude postal abbreviations for CA and CO [didn't know what to do with them but I saw them] and kept stumbling over MN and thinking it was NM backwards which is to general to rise any thing above randomness. )
With those few letters and imprecise mechanics make this mechanism little more than random noise.
I call BS. This was a precise & elegant effort by Matt.
The 100% solid rule for the unique-to-each-car model/city four-letter grid entries:
- One of the letters is the first initial of the car make(manufacturer/division/company/brand).
- Two other letters are the two-letter USPS state code of the corresponding city.
- The extra letter is one letter of the meta-answer.
Very minor point on
Dodge durango CO being able to use two four-letter entries (
18 DOCK &
23 CODA), but
Kia telluride CO forced the correction.
There's no reason these letters must appear within the four-letter grid entries in the order solvers prefer.
The 100% solid rule for the arrangement of the meta-answer letters in the grid is by CLUE NUMBER, only, without regard to Across or Down
There's no reason the letters must appear within the grid as solvers prefer.
Do these rules vary from other puzzles & make it more difficult to solve? Possibly. However, all puzzles' rules vary and there's nothing wrong with this contest crossword as constructed. In no way is this inelegant.
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:24 am
by Ergcat
Aaargh!
So close yet so far! I had the postal codes and I had the car makes …. But I never considered them together!! Even suspected the grid words “coca”, “coda”, “Haza”, “want” etc were involved because of postal codes but just couldn’t see how! And didn’t see a “NM” in a word so was thrown off by chasing that rabbit!
Bravo for those who figured it out!
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:25 am
by JerryF
HyMN for New Mexico? MN is the code for Minnesota. Reversing the letters for one state code but not for any of the others? Doesn't seem fair.
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:48 am
by DannyWalter
Wow, memories. The first new car I ever bought was a 1988 Daytona Turbo. That car was FAST. Off the line there was about a half a second turbo lag, and then it snapped your head back. The transvers mounted engine caused it to pull like crazy through 3 gears. So much fun to drive. Then it tried to kill me.
I was on Rt. 3 coming into Boston, doing about 70 in the left lane, when the hood released, wrapping itself over the windshield and the roof. I could not see forward. Time stopped. I got off the gas, and somehow made it across 3 lanes and stopped in the breakdown. I got out of the car and went to the rear, when my knees buckled, I wound up on all fours, blowing out the contents of my stomach. As scared as I've ever been, but it hit me, I guess, after a turbo lag
Turns out that the air pressure caused by the recessed headlights at high speed caused the metal securing the hood to literally rip apart. When I got it back the sheet metal had been replaced with steel. Later models had a cover over the headlights.
Re: "Dude, Where's My Car?" - April 22, 2022
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:49 am
by Conrad
Joe Ross wrote: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:20 am
I call BS. This was a precise & elegant effort by Matt.
The 100% solid rule for the unique-to-each-car model/city four-letter grid entries:
- One of the letters is the first initial of the car make(manufacturer/division/company/brand).
- Two other letters are the two-letter USPS state code of the corresponding city.
- The extra letter is one letter of the meta-answer.
Very minor point on
Dodge durango CO being able to use two four-letter entries (
18 DOCK &
23 CODA), but
Kia telluride CO forced the correction.
There's no reason these letters must appear within the four-letter grid entries in the order solvers prefer.
The 100% solid rule for the arrangement of the meta-answer letters in the grid is by CLUE NUMBER, only, without regard to Across or Down
There's no reason the letters must appear within the grid as solvers prefer.
Do these rules vary from other puzzles & make it more difficult to solve? Possibly. However, all puzzles' rules vary and there's nothing wrong with this contest crossword as constructed. In no way is this inelegant.
So close yet so far! I had the postal codes and I had the car makes …. But I never considered them together!! Even suspected the grid words “coca”, “coda”, “Haza”, “want” etc were involved because of postal codes but just couldn’t see how! And didn’t see a “NM” in a word so was thrown off by chasing that rabbit!