MGWCC #746 - “Our Retorter Is on the Scene”

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MGWCC #746 - “Our Retorter Is on the Scene”

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MGWCC #746 — Friday, September 16th, 2022 — “Our Retorter Is on the Scene”

THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:

This week’s contest answer is a 5-letter word.


Solve well, and be not led astray by words intended to deceive.



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#5 on the board.

Always a good sign when I recognize all of the other names on the leaderboard with me!
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#29...not too shabby...
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Beam me up!
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Expecting to beam up soon. Love going from "I'll never get this" to "Oh, I see!" within 10 seconds, this is why I do metas :-)

Edit: #79
Last edited by Laura M on Fri Sep 16, 2022 3:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Boy, I made that MUCH tougher than it had to be (as my Tai Chi teacher tells me regularly)!
Good luck, fellow Muggles!
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Beamed up simultaneous with Laura M.
New Yorkers have a variant of this answer -- more than five letters and logically puzzlng. But then again, these are the folks who stand on line.
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Transported. Happy Friday!!
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Solved
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Beamed.
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Relatively easy given this is a five week month. Now back to getting my butt kicked by the WSJ.
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Beam me up!
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Bird Lives wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 2:29 pm Beamed up simultaneous with Laura M.
New Yorkers have a variant of this answer -- more than five letters and logically puzzlng. But then again, these are the folks who stand on line.
I grew up in Long Island and my wife and I have had a 26 year feud over that term!!
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Beamed adjacent. Awaiting update.

112. Joe Ross 09/16 - 16:14
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Beam me up. That was cute!
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I got a very late start but I beamed up at #119. Fun one! Back to the WSJ.
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:alien: :flying_saucer: Beaming up... :fingers_crossed:

EDIT: confirmed.
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Beamed up.
Fun and easier (for me) than the WSJ - now I'll go back to work on that one.
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Stuck in the transporter buffer waiting on the leaderboard update

Edit: Beamed up at #129
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Pondering more of that authentic Manhattan gibberish.
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