burak wrote: ↑Sun Aug 28, 2022 3:27 pm
I read all the comments, and this is a quite interesting one. There are three groups of solvers:
* Those who got the answer fairly fast because they saw a/the mechanism fairly fast.
* Those who got the answer very fast because they saw one possible answer and think this was too easy.
* Those who actually spent some time at figuring out the mechanism and the answer (and there are some experienced members in this group)!
I'm very confused because I believe I belong in the second group. I won't be shocked if quite a number of people like me are pageanted this week.
I agree...except that that in my opinion, whether/which group one belongs to depends *completely* on the day/week/puzzle...also, possibly the tides, whether or not Uranus is waning, what mood my dog is in, and what I had for breakfast for the past three Tuesdays (unless it's a leap year, in which case it's Mondays). In any event, particularly for the benefit of the newer/newest Muggles, I respectfully resubmit the Kas Scale for your consideration, amusement and/or ridicule:
THE KAS SCALE
From week to week, my solving experience invariably falls into one of the following categories:
KAS 1: The Metas that yield the A-Ha Moment too early...and I'm irritable about it, because I'm a dork;
KAS 2: The Metas that I torture myself over, then the A-Ha Moment is basically a head-slapping, "DUH!! You Eeeediott!!" Those make me laugh, self-deprecation is my default;
KAS 3: The Metas I gut through, *eventually* figure out...and then walk around the rest of the weekend like I just solved The Middle East Crisis, or learned Sanskrit;
KAS 4: The Metas I DON'T get, but *should* have gotten. (It happens. I don't want to talk about it.); and
KAS 5: The Metas I don't get...and when the answer is finally revealed on Sunday night, my takeaway is, "Yeah...uh, no: That was *never* going to occur to me."