I've been remiss with posting a solver update. Here's who uncovered what was being smuggled since last time:
Johnny Luau
SJMcK
Laura M
DrTom
Gutman
whimsy
LindaPRmaven
Golem
Cindy Heisler
CPJohnson
Carolyn
Alex R
... bringing us to 34 solvers. Nudges coming tomorrow!
"Smuggling Goods" by benchen71
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This morning I can add
Abide
Jim Dean
to the solver list. Let's see if some nudges can shake a few more loose...
Abide
Jim Dean
to the solver list. Let's see if some nudges can shake a few more loose...
Check out "The MOAT MEOW Mashup Pack" here. US$10 for 14 metas that don't always abide by the "rules" of the game: asymmetry, 2-letter words, uncrossed letters, who knows. And this time there's a mega-meta!
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Nudges, in order of increasing blatancy:
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Three more solvers:
Ryan Friedman
SporcleMirror
Spid4567
for a grand total of 39.
Ryan Friedman
SporcleMirror
Spid4567
for a grand total of 39.
Check out "The MOAT MEOW Mashup Pack" here. US$10 for 14 metas that don't always abide by the "rules" of the game: asymmetry, 2-letter words, uncrossed letters, who knows. And this time there's a mega-meta!
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Happy Star Wars day for last Wednesday!
Here's the answer to "Smuggling Goods":
I definitely agree with those who commented that it's ironic that in a Star-Wars themed puzzle involving smuggling, I didn't include Han Solo! I just couldn't find an appropriate meta answer that involved an H.
As I pointed out in one of the nudges, I had to use Chirrut Îmwe's second name (he's the character in "Rogue One" who repeats, "I am one with the Force. The Force is with me.") because that's pretty much the only name of a goodie in that galaxy far, far away that begins with an "I".
As for the answer, it may be a spoiler for the most recent season of Star Trek Picard, but in the final episode Picard explicitly likens his friends to family. Just one example among many!
Here's the answer to "Smuggling Goods":
I definitely agree with those who commented that it's ironic that in a Star-Wars themed puzzle involving smuggling, I didn't include Han Solo! I just couldn't find an appropriate meta answer that involved an H.
As I pointed out in one of the nudges, I had to use Chirrut Îmwe's second name (he's the character in "Rogue One" who repeats, "I am one with the Force. The Force is with me.") because that's pretty much the only name of a goodie in that galaxy far, far away that begins with an "I".
As for the answer, it may be a spoiler for the most recent season of Star Trek Picard, but in the final episode Picard explicitly likens his friends to family. Just one example among many!
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I did indeed! I clearly had Star Wars on the brain.
Reminds me of this meme:
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Jade
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We got this despite not picking up on the clues needed being the ones with 'good' in them - we just searched for Star Wars characters. Really loved this one!
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Just to close the loop: the noun "goodies" for "good guys" seems to not really be in the language here, though for one thing it is easily understandable and for another there is a parallel use of "baddies" that, while it may be a Britishism, is very familiar (as in the meme, "are we the baddies?"). Of course my dialectical ear could just be mistaken about all of this, but I don't think a sentence like "he plays a goody in that film" is idiomatic US English.