Four more Muggles are off their comfy couches since yesterday, bringing our solver total to 90:
bereolos
HeadinHome
AaronT
Tane
Look for the big reveal(s) tonight or tomorrow a.m.
Happy Anniversary!
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Clark E. Tripe
- Posts: 89
- Joined: Sat Apr 08, 2023 10:14 am
- Location: Linux Habitation, CA
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Clark E. Tripe
- Posts: 89
- Joined: Sat Apr 08, 2023 10:14 am
- Location: Linux Habitation, CA
The final tally adds four more, as we finish with 94
ricky billingsgate
Katiedid
Naptown Kid
Nick
Crosshare stats for Happy Anniversary! (Meta)
Total completions: 207
Average completion time: 0:08:00
Completions without helpers: 75
Correct contest submissions: 83
Total contest submissions:87
Stay tuned for reveal and the prizewinner!
ricky billingsgate
Katiedid
Naptown Kid
Nick
Crosshare stats for Happy Anniversary! (Meta)
Total completions: 207
Average completion time: 0:08:00
Completions without helpers: 75
Correct contest submissions: 83
Total contest submissions:87
Stay tuned for reveal and the prizewinner!
"I'm a paper tape guy in a punch card world"
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Clark E. Tripe
- Posts: 89
- Joined: Sat Apr 08, 2023 10:14 am
- Location: Linux Habitation, CA
Well, my first MMM week has come to a close, but I have to confess something. There is no place called "Linux Habitation", nor is there a constructor named "Clark E. Tripe". This meta was created by @Abide, @Al Sisti, and @Cap'n Rick (aka "The Three Musketeers of Muggledom") who got the idea from @BrianMac's Paper Anniversary meta which had the diagonal message in the grid.
As the awesome graphics by Jose Posh, Sr. illustrate below, solvers first had to locate the 8 symmetrically-placed rivers whose clues all started with "River running through...". The first letters of these rivers spelled "YEAR FOUR". A 4th-year anniversary gift with 7 letters is the meta answer "Flowers" (or "flow-ers" if you're talking about rivers). The special message "running through" the grid from TOP to bottom is "THANK YOU MUGGLES". The Three Musketeers want to thank everyone for indulging our hijinks and solving our anniversary meta.
Our lucky mug winner is @SewYoung who will receive a "Happy Anniversary" mug bearing the image of the finished reveal.
Credit: Jose Posh, Sr. (Acini Inn, CT)
Special thanks to our test solvers - @Wendy Walker, @whimsy, and @MarkWoychick (who did a great job impersonating me during the Muggle Zoom).
As the awesome graphics by Jose Posh, Sr. illustrate below, solvers first had to locate the 8 symmetrically-placed rivers whose clues all started with "River running through...". The first letters of these rivers spelled "YEAR FOUR". A 4th-year anniversary gift with 7 letters is the meta answer "Flowers" (or "flow-ers" if you're talking about rivers). The special message "running through" the grid from TOP to bottom is "THANK YOU MUGGLES". The Three Musketeers want to thank everyone for indulging our hijinks and solving our anniversary meta.
Our lucky mug winner is @SewYoung who will receive a "Happy Anniversary" mug bearing the image of the finished reveal.
Credit: Jose Posh, Sr. (Acini Inn, CT)
Special thanks to our test solvers - @Wendy Walker, @whimsy, and @MarkWoychick (who did a great job impersonating me during the Muggle Zoom).
Last edited by Clark E. Tripe on Sun Apr 16, 2023 10:19 pm, edited 3 times in total.
"I'm a paper tape guy in a punch card world"
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MaineMarge
- Posts: 1823
- Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:57 pm
Oh, @Clark E. Tripe, say it ain’t so🥲. I’m crushed, as are the other members of your fan club. Why, we were about to fly out to Linux Hab. to camp out on your doorstep. Hope this doesn’t mean you are a 1 trick pony?
Al, Rick, and Peter are great guys and amazing Muggles, but individually don’t seem to have your special “Je ne sais quoi “ enigmatic quality.
Please, please stay here in Muggledom with us
❤️❤️Marge
Al, Rick, and Peter are great guys and amazing Muggles, but individually don’t seem to have your special “Je ne sais quoi “ enigmatic quality.
Please, please stay here in Muggledom with us
❤️❤️Marge
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SewYoung
- Posts: 792
- Joined: Sun Apr 14, 2019 9:25 pm
- Location: Meridian, MS
Wow!! I'm so excited!! I can't believe I won!! I'm touched (in addition to being "tetched"). This mug will be more prized than if I had won the WSJ mug. I can't wait. I thought it was a great puzzle. Thanks Peter, AL , and Rick.
Keep up the good work.
Keep up the good work.
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sharkicicles
- Posts: 1238
- Joined: Fri May 10, 2019 12:03 pm
- Location: Chicago, Walter the Shih-Tzu's home town
I’m not going to lie… this is the most fun thing ever on this site. All hail Clark E. Tripe and his legion of Cheeto-stained dew swillers!
If you like Rows Gardens check out my mini ones here: viewforum.php?f=41. Nudges are free on the off chance I’ve solved the meta.
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MikeyG
- Posts: 1926
- Joined: Wed Dec 30, 2020 2:52 pm
- Location: Chicago
- Contact:
What a bunch of Tripe.
I wouldn't have it any other way!
I wouldn't have it any other way!
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dsbened
- Posts: 99
- Joined: Fri Oct 25, 2019 4:31 pm
- Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Holy crap! This puzzle was brilliant, and the diagonal message was the coup de grâce! Bravo to the trio for creating Clark E. Tripe and for posting that goth-like photo. I hope to see "him" again soon!
Seattle DB