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Today's puzzle has a Level of 2 of 5, though I'm not sure how official my rankings are. To quote the title of my puzzle to my students, "BACK TO SCHOOL, KIDS!" Shout-out to Ajay for test-solving this under such short notice!

Good luck!!

Mikey G

The answer to the meta is a 5-letter word.


Heads up, we have parentheses!

I'm Back to School!

I love how Mikey's grids make me smile, and for some reason, the occasional "young and with it people" clues and entries that I often have to Google don't even make me feel dumb!

I submitted, but I’m pretty sure. Thanks MikeyG!

Final Leaderboard of Destiny!

1. whimsy
2. Meg
3. RPardoe
4. boharr
5. FrankieHeck
6. hoover
7. oldjudge
8. Hector
9. Darth
10. LesY
11. Abide
12. Small Wave Dave
13. I.K. Snamhcok
14. LuckyGuest

Submitted an answer.

And explained via comments why I thought this was harder than the previous puzzle.

Answer submitted. Funny cluing as always.
Confirmed. Thanks, Mikey.

Submitted!

Fun puzzle Mikey! Also, thank you for the gift for last month's solve. On a teacher's salary that is way too generous.

Submitted. Destiny awaits.

oldjudge wrote: ↑Sun Aug 01, 2021 1:14 pm Fun puzzle Mikey! Also, thank you for the gift for last month's solve. On a teacher's salary that is way too generous.

I always try to be generous whenever I can, as are you guys by kindly solving my wacky creations. Thank you!

Had to re-visit once or twice, but the cat-zebra has been caged.

Leaderboard remains at lucky 13 - we'll see if we can get a few more of you muggles cracking this one by Saturday!

(I just saw the cat-zebra reference, Abide, haha - nice!)

Hey, Guys! Mikey needs us! (Tough being "below the fold.")

Just want to say that I passed the link for this one on to my daughter who has just started doing a few metas pretty successfully.
She doesn't do any forum/leaderboard etc. stuff (yet! ) but she did solve after just a bit of redirection from me and liked it.

She did say, however, that she has a bone to pick with Mikey because of his inclusion of something in one of the themers! (She was mostly joking.)
Go Bobcats!

July Meta - Results

Answer: TEACH

Correct answers: 13

Winner!: hoover - congrats!!



We literally went back to school on this one, as each longer entry had five schools scattered throughout the entries, written backward

DRAWFORTH = HOWARD
CITYBLOCK = COLBY
INAROUNDABOUTWAY = AUBURN (is that your daughter's bone to pick? Hahaha
NOVELIDEA = ELON
HELPMEOUT = TEMPLE

The first letters of the theme entries are HCAET, which - of course - spelled backward is "TEACH," which is what I will once again do beginning this upcoming week!

Hoover, the winner, mused on why I included those five schools. The short answer: They were the only ones that worked, hahaha. I went through about thirty short colleges or so and brainstormed; I was going to do STUDY, but "U" was one of the letters that had virtually no schools that I could see.

This puzzle also made Abide crave some HAM JAMBALAYA (7). I am what I eat! (I'm full of beans.)

Even with the Gaffney and the MMM I haven't tackled yet and the Emma Oxford puzzle that looks cool, I'm still working on a bonus (!) meta that I'll be posting soon, so stay tuned for that!

Happy puzzling!

Mikey G

MikeyG wrote: ↑Fri Aug 13, 2021 11:18 pm

DRAWFORTH = HOWARD
CITYBLOCK = COLBY
INAROUNDABOUTWAY = AUBURN (is that your daughter's bone to pick? Hahaha
NOVELIDEA = ELON
HELPMEOUT = TEMPLE

No, but I think that was the one most of us had the hardest time with. I actually back solved for it after getting T - E - __ - C - H.
Her issue was rival school Colby making an appearance.
(Enlarged teeny tiny print from above reads "Go Bobcats!" - Bates)

Oh hey! Thanks, I didn't know there were prizes! I was just doing these for the Internet points.