#711 - “Eating in Bed” by Ben Chenoweth
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burghman
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Was the common incorrect answer mentioned previously “split peas”? Thinking maybe because the stray “P”s that aren’t used in down answers “split” those answers.
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FrankieHeck
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I'm guessing it was submitting SNACK instead of SNACKS? I didn't make that mistake here, but I'm pretty sure I left an S off a WSJ meta answer once.
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benchen71
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For what it's worth, here is my solution graphic:
One thing that some people seem to have missed is that the tricky Ps all appear in food. This is why the Ps in PRINCESS AND THE P are not involved in the meta mechanic.
The idea was that you had to be like the Princess in the story. The down entries completely ignore the Ps. But you have to be sensitive to their presence, which should then draw your attention to what is directly above them (given the bed/food pairs).
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One thing that some people seem to have missed is that the tricky Ps all appear in food. This is why the Ps in PRINCESS AND THE P are not involved in the meta mechanic.
The idea was that you had to be like the Princess in the story. The down entries completely ignore the Ps. But you have to be sensitive to their presence, which should then draw your attention to what is directly above them (given the bed/food pairs).
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Alex Boisvert
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By far the most common wrong answer was "PEAS." SNACK was accepted as correct.
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camandsampowercouple
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Did anyone else find the solution that Matt posted kind of confusing?
The way I solved it was just noticing the extra Ps in the down answers that didn't require them. I thought that was extremely obvious while solving the grid because some of them made complete nonsense entries like CPAB and SPEA and HENPS. So after I solved the grid, I just went back and found all those extra Ps and noticed that if you took the letter above them it spelled SNACKS.
There was not a single time that I even noticed the food entries in the grid, or the bed entries.
The way I solved it was just noticing the extra Ps in the down answers that didn't require them. I thought that was extremely obvious while solving the grid because some of them made complete nonsense entries like CPAB and SPEA and HENPS. So after I solved the grid, I just went back and found all those extra Ps and noticed that if you took the letter above them it spelled SNACKS.
There was not a single time that I even noticed the food entries in the grid, or the bed entries.