MEOW #61: Color Code

A weekly meta crossword on the forum started by member Josh (aka madhatter5). These puzzles are often very creative with solving mechanisms out of the norm and skewing towards the more challenging. Puzzles are posted every Wednesday, and the solution appears the following Tuesday.
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MEOW #61: Color Code

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Hi all and welcome to the sixty-first installment of the MEOW! The answer this week is a color.

(My apologies to any colorblind solvers - you may need to skip this week :shock: ).


https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
https://crossword.info/kvassword/Color_Code


Kitten
Calico
Calico-Persian hybrid
Persian
Puma
Lion


Good luck!
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#2

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What else but --
Capturerainbowcat.PNG
Had a prior peek at this.

BTW - Just FYI -- The submit button on the crossword compiler online version doesn't seem to lead anywhere.)
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whimsy wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:14 am What else but --
Capturerainbowcat.PNG
Had a prior peek at this.

BTW - Just FYI -- The submit button on the crossword compiler online version doesn't seem to lead anywhere.)
Maybe it's color blind.
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The only think I can think of to try is getting me nowhere. It seems like it has to be the way. It makes too much sense to not be. But it is too labor intensive to continue to pursue. I am going to wait around for some hints. Nudges on Saturday, right?
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I had to get a big shove from a buddy. Not sure I ever would have gotten it on my own.
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#6

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lbray53 wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 12:31 pm The only think I can think of to try is getting me nowhere. It seems like it has to be the way. It makes too much sense to not be. But it is too labor intensive to continue to pursue. I am going to wait around for some hints. Nudges on Saturday, right?
This is not a labor-intensive puzzle!
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madhatter5 wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 12:53 pm
lbray53 wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 12:31 pm The only think I can think of to try is getting me nowhere. It seems like it has to be the way. It makes too much sense to not be. But it is too labor intensive to continue to pursue. I am going to wait around for some hints. Nudges on Saturday, right?
This is not a labor-intensive puzzle!
I just figured this out while comparing notes with someone. NICE!

And apologies to madhatter5. This is NOT labor intensive.
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Pushed off the couch. Landed safely.
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#9

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Aw geez. Had to talk with someone. *They* figured it out. Knowing they figured it out got me to figure it out.

A very SAD puzzle. I hope it's not too much to say that the bag the cat was in was an industrial strength made of steel-knitted cables that seemed all encompassing and impossible to overlook.... until you noticed the maine coon sized gaps between the giant red herring stitches.
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Home with a nudge—different.
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For those people who have trouble with colors, here's a description of the puzzle.

Each of the boxes in the grid is completely filled with a color, thusly:

Code: Select all

Row 1: YRBYGYR
Row 2: RBGGYRB
Row 3: GYRBRYG
Where

Code: Select all

 Y=Yellow, R=Orange, B=Blue, G=Green
. (I didn't want to use O for orange because it's in two of the boxes, see below. Orange you glad I didn't?)

Five of the boxes have a letter in the upper right corner, as such:

Code: Select all

--C---O
-------
-L---OR
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#12

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Solved
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Dplass wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 4:46 pm For those people who have trouble with colors, here's a description of the puzzle.

Each of the boxes in the grid is completely filled with a color, thusly:

Code: Select all

Row 1: YRBYGYR
Row 2: RBGGYRB
Row 3: GYRBRYG
Where

Code: Select all

 Y=Yellow, R=Orange, B=Blue, G=Green
. (I didn't want to use O for orange because it's in two of the boxes, see below. Orange you glad I didn't?)

Five of the boxes have a letter in the upper right corner, as such:

Code: Select all

--C---O
-------
-L---OR
Happy solving!
Thanks David! I owe you one
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That darn cat has scrammed!

Very cool!

Fun to tackle something different. Though I needed a nudge to get started.
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lbray53 wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 2:13 pm
madhatter5 wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 12:53 pm
lbray53 wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 12:31 pm The only think I can think of to try is getting me nowhere. It seems like it has to be the way. It makes too much sense to not be. But it is too labor intensive to continue to pursue. I am going to wait around for some hints. Nudges on Saturday, right?
This is not a labor-intensive puzzle!
I just figured this out while comparing notes with someone. NICE!

And apologies to madhatter5. This is NOT labor intensive.
At my test peek, I, too, was making this much too labor intensive. I wonder if it was in a similar manner. It certainly did seem as though that was what it should be!
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Fear of new things is real. Give it a whirl!
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Cat out of the bag (pending confirmation). I am colorblind but that wasn’t my main obstacle with this one. I do have some funny colorblind rabbit holes that I will report after the solution is revealed

Edit: confirmed!
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Got it
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Hmmmm…..tried a few things, but no luck as of yet. Will keep on.
- Just puzzling it out here in Delmarva :D
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#20

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Darth says something's gone wrong here... but somehow the pieces fit. :oops:
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