Listen Up!

[RPardoe]

Couldn’t get to this until after work today.
Nicely constructed puzzle and a fun solve.

Solved and submitted!

[Dplass]

Lol stumped no idea what all y'all are taking about...

[Dplass]

Oh FPS, I'm off the couch.

Thanks for the puzzle!

[cbarbee002]

Okay, turning out to be a 1.5 - - lots of solvers so far (which I like). I’ll give a rundown tomorrow, but in the meantime hats off to the first (test) solver, Al Sisti, who made your lives a lot easier by some of the fill improvements!

[DrTom]

I'd think that DrTom would taste a little funny.

TO quote Joe Pesci. " I mean funny like I'm a clown, what????"

I might taste off, perhaps a little medicinal, at times even a little bitter but deep in my heart I am only trying to amuse. Perhaps I need to teach a course on the Tom approach, but then I might be accused of putting my heart before the course.....

Oh, and for the record I have not yet solved it. I think I know what I need to do I just cannot find the step that leads me to the letters. I'll soldier on in my own funny way

[whimsy]

Ooh, look! They've all been vacated!

[woozy]

Oh, and for the record I have not yet solved it. I think I know what I need to do I just cannot find the step that leads me to the letters. I'll soldier on in my own funny way

I couldn't find it the first time around but I had some coffee and did some dishes and took a second look and it was right there in the totally expected places.

Hmm... you may be making a very very slight assumption.

[BrennerTJ]

I believe I'm off the couch -- pre-bedtime enlightenment.

[lbray53]

Off the couch! I managed to create a couple of stumbling blocks on my own. Nice neat puzzle.

EDIT: I actually managed to find THREE stumbling blocks. I submitted the wrong answer in spite of it being 100% (in my opinion).

Is it possible to PAGEANT oneself?

[HeadinHome]

Lists! So many lists! What to do with all these words?? I think I have an idea of the mechanism but maybe I’m seeing too many things…

[Cinny]

Off the couch! Good puzzle and nice way to start the week!

[cbarbee002]

Okay, great start to the week. Here's the rundown so far:

Al Sisti (test solver)
Meg
Dannyvee
LauraM
hoover
oldjudge
Wendy Walker
Schmeel
FrankieHeck
boharr
rjy
BarbaraK
woozy
Bird Lives
benchen71
Darth
Anita
markhr
ChrisKochmanski
Cap'n Rick
RPardoe
whimsy
dudeski
Dplass
hcbirker
BrennerTJ
Cinny
lbray53

[Dplass]

Is it possible to PAGEANT oneself?

Yes. See also, SOCHI vs STOCKHOLM, HG WELLS vs NK JEMISIN, etc.

[SewYoung]

Didn't get a chance to look at it until this afternoon. Still on the couch. I see step one, but don't yet know what to do with it.

[ReB]

Off the couch I believe. Awaiting confirmation...

[Abide]

Ah yes I stopped too soon. The correct answer is much better. Very good puzzlatin’ by Chris.

[DrTom]

Very nice!

I thought I had everything I needed but I let habit lead me astray (ain't that always the way). When someone assured me that what I was seeing was not an artifact I was able to leave the couch. Fun puzzle Chris, and plenty of red herrings...

[cbarbee002]

Updated OTC as of this morning:

Abide
MaineMarge
KayW
ReB
Carolyn
Bob cruise director
DrTom


Wednesday nudges:

The mechanism is implied by the title

If you see the mechanism, don’t let the “answer prompt” trip you up.

[Beth Tyrpin]

Suffering from meta burnout. Rallied this morning. This was a great puzzle.

[Thurman8er]

Off the couch!

(Who am I kidding? I'm rarely out of the classroom right now...trying to fit the Systems Of Equations unit in before the Thanksgiving break.)

Out of my desk chair!

This puzzle was as good as any meta I've solved. The quality here is incredible. Very nice, Chris!