MGWCC #725 - “Black Is the New Black”
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MGWCC #725 - “Black Is the New Black”
MGWCC #725 — Friday, April 22nd, 2022 — “Black Is the New Black”
THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:
This week’s contest answer is a piece of sports equipment.
Solve well, and be not led astray by words intended to deceive.
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THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:
This week’s contest answer is a piece of sports equipment.
Solve well, and be not led astray by words intended to deceive.
WANT TO SUBSCRIBE TO MY CROSSWORD CONTEST?:
MGWCC is available only to subscribers at my Patreon page. A subscription costs $3/month.
- MikeyG
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Most nervous I've been, haha: I refreshed, saw the time of update was after I submitted but I wasn't on the leaderboard - and I was on the overall, which would've signaled an incorrect guess.
But another refresh shows I'm beamed up! Time to write a few more metas, just because (I have a while before I'm caught up to @benchen71's prolific backlog!!).
But another refresh shows I'm beamed up! Time to write a few more metas, just because (I have a while before I'm caught up to @benchen71's prolific backlog!!).
- Meg
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#16. I had the same experience as MikeyG. I guess there’s a time warp out there in Matt's universe. Fun puzzle!
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Me three. There was a moment where I was on the overall list but not the solved list (gulp!).
But I’m beamed up at #19. Much different experience than WSJCC.
But I’m beamed up at #19. Much different experience than WSJCC.
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Beamed up, #39! I was on the board almost instantly, nice to solve within the first hour :-) No glitch for me but there wasn't really time for one.
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Probably the fastest ever week 4 solve for me. And transported instantaneously to boot.
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This was nice. Not my strong suit as far as mechanisms, but well executed for sure!
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I am shocked to report that I’ve solved this. First thing I tried worked. Submitted and awaiting confirmation.
- Joe
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Can’t even believe how quickly I got it. It’s one those that I could see myself staring at all weekend. But I’m safely beamed aboard!
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- ricky
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Beamed up in the 30s. I don't know how Matt comes up with these ideas and says, "Oh yeah, I can make that work."
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- MikeM000
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Awaiting beamage but this one was a lot of fun and definitely creatively built. I wonder if this or the WSJ will have more correct entries this weekend, seeing as how there's 100 on the board in the first 4 hours...
Edit: 103!
Edit: 103!
- woozy
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Sports?!?!
Wasn't it bad enough that the WSJ was cars?
Wasn't it bad enough that the WSJ was cars?
Funny story. I was all set to enter Par for the course for the CrossHare midi contest for April but I mistakenly thought midi meant 7x 7 and not 11 x 11. Oops. Well.... Here's a complex but **small** meta on the subject of golf.
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Beam me up! (Awaiting confirmation...)
Edit: #113
Edit: #113
Last edited by benchen71 on Fri Apr 22, 2022 9:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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- twelvetones
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Awaiting a site update, but 99.9% sure I'm on board too. Loved it! My wife (looking over my shoulder) actually saw the answer before I did.
- John Berry
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Well that was quick! And fun. One of my puzzle-doing methods came in very handy. Waiting for refresh, but no doubts.
Beam me up!
Beam me up!
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- woozy
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So the WSJ has an obvious mechanism that utterly fails. And the MGWCC obviously has no mechanism at all-- yet everyone says this impossible mechanismless puzzle was easy. .... Not a good weekend for me.
Last edited by woozy on Fri Apr 22, 2022 11:55 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Funny story. I was all set to enter Par for the course for the CrossHare midi contest for April but I mistakenly thought midi meant 7x 7 and not 11 x 11. Oops. Well.... Here's a complex but **small** meta on the subject of golf.
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I literally had to sleep on this. I sort of had a hazy idea of what was going on last night, and then I woke up (too early) this morning with a much sharper idea of what to do. It took a while to sort it all out since I'm traveling and don't have a printer, but I eventually got there. For the second time this got me the badge for a streak of 10, but with week 5 coming up my streak may be short-lived.
My travels have me in Prague, where I submitted my answer at 8:14 am this morning (2:14 am on the East Coast), so I wasn't expecting to see my name on the leaderboard any time soon, but it appeared almost immediately. This makes me think that Matt was again up late with Ada, and he happened to do an update before turning in again. I have great sympathy for the parents of babies who don't sleep at night.
My travels have me in Prague, where I submitted my answer at 8:14 am this morning (2:14 am on the East Coast), so I wasn't expecting to see my name on the leaderboard any time soon, but it appeared almost immediately. This makes me think that Matt was again up late with Ada, and he happened to do an update before turning in again. I have great sympathy for the parents of babies who don't sleep at night.
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