MGWCC #739 — “My Cup Runneth Over” by Will Nediger

[ricky]

I am proud to say I solved this one solo. Great puzzle, definitely a Week 5.

[Toast]

I see that there are now only 2 wrong answers submitted, and I believe that yesterday there were 4, so either board problems or Matt has decided to accept an alternate answer.

I gave one of those (independent) formerly wrong answers. Hi! (And a special hello and :sympathetic groan: to everybody else who's ever smugly submitted early just to watch their streak go up in flames. SO NOT FUN.) I look forward to finding out whether us alternates found convincing, but completely different, ways of misinterpreting the results, or whether that was just a technicality.

[Laura M]

I see that there are now only 2 wrong answers submitted, and I believe that yesterday there were 4, so either board problems or Matt has decided to accept an alternate answer.

I gave one of those (independent) formerly wrong answers. Hi! (And a special hello and :sympathetic groan: to everybody else who's ever smugly submitted early just to watch their streak go up in flames. SO NOT FUN.) I look forward to finding out whether us alternates found convincing, but completely different, ways of misinterpreting the results, or whether that was just a technicality.

Interesting! Now wondering if my answer was the originally intended one or not (it did put me on the board). Would you please post the alternate answer after the deadline?

[MattGaffney]

My apologies -- there have been no alternate answers accepted for Will Nediger's MGWCC #739 puzzle. There was a glitch today when I verified entries on my phone and it went back and marked a few incorrect answers as correct. I've since changed those back.

Apologies again for the confusion there.

[Guffman]

I took calculus, complex variables, linear algebra and differential equations in college. This meta was harder -- and I had an army of Muggles who kindly offered nudges, shoves, prods, pushes and bulldozing to get me there.

[HoldThatThought]

Graph theory. That was a good one. Did you take that one?

[Guffman]

Graph theory. That was a good one. Did you take that one?

That must have been invented after I graduated. Actually it was atomic physics that came closest to getting me.

[MajordomoTom]

Tensors and similar things blew me up.

[hcbirker]

I was 9/10s there and finally got it with a shove. Thanks @boharr

[Joe Ross]

My apologies -- there have been no alternate answers accepted for Will Nediger's MGWCC #739 puzzle. There was a glitch today when I verified entries on my phone and it went back and marked a few incorrect answers as correct. I've since changed those back.

Apologies again for the confusion there.

[ky-mike]

Got it with a small nudge. That last step took a while to sink in for me.

[MikeyG]

Got it with a small nudge. That last step took a while to sink in for me.

When a basin is knocking at your door, you'd better let that sink in!

[MikeyG]

I took calculus, complex variables, linear algebra and differential equations in college.

Be on the lookout for a meta one day from yours truly that requires all of those things.

[HunterX]

Beamed up. And exhausted.

I had nine trees taken down that had died or come down in recent storms. And this weekend I rented a log splitter and spent the weekend lifting heavy logs and stacking an absolute (and perhaps literal) ton of firewood. If the war in Europe causes a further spike in energy prices or a shortage this winter, as is expected by some, I have enough material to heat my home in the mountains for several years at least.

Splitting logs was how I relaxed this weekend each time I was exhausted from working on this labyrinth of a meta-puzzle.

[HoldThatThought]

Daniel Boone was a man, yes a big man. He didn't need to rent no tree splitter. Just sayin'.

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[HunterX]

Daniel Boone was a man, yes a big man. He didn't need to rent no tree splitter. Just sayin'.

It's a fair cop.

Man, he must have really been huge! That axe looks like a toy hatchet in his hand!

And it must have been extremely sharp to work that well too! Or the wood was rotted.

[Joe Ross]

*click*

Beam me, SVP.

[gpj73]

Anyone willing to send a nudge our way? Absolutely nothing is clicking with this one.

[NoFeetMcGee]

^same... the slightest of hints would be appreciated (even if there's no way I'm going to figure the rest out in time, I want to feel like I got *somewhere* at least )

[Joe]

All good things must come to an end. I'll be saying goodbye to my beautiful green 50 badge tomorrow because I'm nowhere with this and don't think even a nudge will get me anywhere.

That said, if anyone's offering...................