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HunterX wrote: ↑Sat Jan 30, 2021 2:59 pm

DrTom wrote: ↑Sat Jan 30, 2021 1:14 pm Well, we all seem to be singing from the same page. Since I was busy Thursday and Friday I solved the GRID today, looked at it, did some ciphering.....

I can't help seeing that and thinking of the Beverly Hillbillies...

(Paraphrasing from memory)
Jed Clampett: Jethro done graduate the sixth grade. Do some ciphering for us, Jethro.
Jethro: Okay. You want times or guzinta? Five guzinta five once, five guzinta ten twice...

otlaolap wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 8:54 am Hopelessly lost at sea, but as always the ship is nice. The puzzle does not suggest rabbits to me; rather, it suggests prairie dogs. I see a wide open field, and lots of prairie dogs popping up here and there. Some stand up and stay stable for a while and then disappear; others scamper about aimlessly. There are lots and lots of them, all small, all cute, all clamoring at the eye. And they lead nowhere.

These puzzles astonish me about how blind I can sometimes be. On Monday this will happen again. An artificial solace, sure to be demolished on Monday, is that I do not know a darn thing about pop singers except for one or two words that appear over and over in puzzles (like esne and etui used to), so I tell myself that if the answer is visible in the puzzle then I will not see to recognize it, but the solace is solely artificial because I simply see no mechanism (other than prairie dogs) that might reveal the answer.

Think I'll go watch Leicester City (starts in five minutes). That at least will have a result this morning.

Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Sat Jan 30, 2021 4:23 pm

jenirvin wrote: ↑Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:28 pm On the shore, waiting for snow.

OOH - DC in a snow storm. My favorite time and place. I remember sitting in a plane at Reagan for hours waiting to take off.

otlaolap wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 8:54 am An artificial solace, sure to be demolished on Monday, is that I do not know a darn thing about pop singers except for one or two words that appear over and over in puzzles (like esne and etui used to), so I tell myself that if the answer is visible in the puzzle then I will not see to recognize it, but the solace is solely artificial because I simply see no mechanism (other than prairie dogs) that might reveal the answer.

otlaolap wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 8:54 am Think I'll go watch Leicester City (starts in five minutes). That at least will have a result this morning.

Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 11:47 am Good Sunday morning muggles

An active day as we have 5 on the ship and 190 on the shore. My guess is that most of those who were not sure have the right answer or else we are going to have a huge Pageant fest.

Joining the group keeping Isaac in business on the ship are
otlaolap
and Sara Dacus


Making their way to the crowded shore are
DrTom
maprasad
HunterX
Colin
Limerick Savant (I think)
Anabelle
Jaclyn
LaPetiteFlora
EVJ
Peter L
Isa
Henry Paul
Jennifer
Debbie
FirstMax
Zac most likely with Aunt Norma
JRS51
cpelster
Burak
Olaf
tonearm
Trey and Marion
TomandDenise
and Prozach

Stay warm, dry and safe

Seadub wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 3:49 pm Just joined Muggles forum. Ashore since Friday PM.

RichA2 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 4:21 pm I have a solution. It isn’t elegant (and as the song goes, “If you ain’t got elegance, you can never ever carry it off”) but I am going to submit it and see what happens. Bob, count me as still at sea until I wake up tomorrow morning and find out whether I made it ashore.