XWord Muggles Forum

mheberlingx100 wrote: Mon Nov 08, 2021 7:40 am

Colin wrote: Mon Nov 08, 2021 6:57 am

mheberlingx100 wrote: Mon Nov 08, 2021 6:28 am

I also went at the French rabbit hole with pick and shovel. I tried listing all the three letter French words I could find in the grid to no avail. I thought the lower right “surrey” might be “sur riz” (on rice) or “sur ris” (on and laugh) which of course was nonsense. I also spent some time on Louis XIV (le roi soleil) trying to make SAL ATE into “soleil”. Nothing there, nor from “Apres moi, le deluge”.

Me too! Still can’t believe the blatant use of a decoy in the clue to 1A. Seemed like it had to indicate the first step of the meta and was excited to brush off my high-school French - to no avail. Tipping my hat to all who solved this sans aide!

C’etait tres difficile!. I also poked around the ooh la la rabbit hole given all the la’s.

Al Sisti wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:42 pm

woozy wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 6:42 pm

Al Sisti wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 6:04 pm

Man! So last week, I had a one-in-143 chance of a mug; this week it was one in 205. Pete Muller's was even worse: one out of 47. And yet, I'm still drinking coffee out of an "Over the Hill" mug that's almost 30 years old now.

You do realize that 1 in 47 odds are .... actually terrible...., don't you?

but so much better than 1 in 327, which was the average coming into November.

bhamren wrote: Wed Nov 10, 2021 12:40 pm

Al Sisti wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:42 pm

woozy wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 6:42 pm

You do realize that 1 in 47 odds are .... actually terrible...., don't you?

but so much better than 1 in 327, which was the average coming into November.

It's all luck!. I got my mug about 4 years ago on a month when there were over 1000 correct entries. And I hadn't been doing them for very long by then either - I had only discovered the contest maybe a year earlier.

Al Sisti wrote: Wed Nov 10, 2021 5:20 pm

bhamren wrote: Wed Nov 10, 2021 12:40 pm

Al Sisti wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:42 pm

but so much better than 1 in 327, which was the average coming into November.

It's all luck!. I got my mug about 4 years ago on a month when there were over 1000 correct entries. And I hadn't been doing them for very long by then either - I had only discovered the contest maybe a year earlier.

Maybe I'm emailing my answers to the wrong address. It *is* crooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooswordcontest@ wsj.com, right?

escapeartist wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 12:04 am Looking for some redemption this week after getting skunked the last 2 contests.

Bring it on!

LadyBird wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 8:49 pm It has been almost 5 hours since the puzzle posted and only 5 people are ashore! I would post my frustration on this week's forum but it may be several days before I wouldn't be accused of Page One Encroachment.

Dplass wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 8:32 pm

escapeartist wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 12:04 am Looking for some redemption this week after getting skunked the last 2 contests.

Bring it on!

Looks like it'll be a three peat...

Al Sisti wrote: Wed Nov 10, 2021 5:20 pm

bhamren wrote: Wed Nov 10, 2021 12:40 pm

Al Sisti wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:42 pm

but so much better than 1 in 327, which was the average coming into November.

It's all luck!. I got my mug about 4 years ago on a month when there were over 1000 correct entries. And I hadn't been doing them for very long by then either - I had only discovered the contest maybe a year earlier.

Maybe I'm emailing my answers to the wrong address. It *is* crooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooswordcontest@ wsj.com, right?