MGWCC #757 - “A League of Their Own”
- lbray53
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If the foot race was supposed to be 5K it seems like this one should be ten pins. Since ten pins and bowling both have seven letters I tried, in vain, to find a connection in the clues or grid to justify bowling. Since I could not find one and it was a week one, I submitted TEN PINS.
My avatar proves that it is sometimes better to be lucky than good!
- woozy
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My submission of NINEPINS (no bowling) was deemed to be correct. I didn't realize that SEEP was supposed to be SEEpin so I only had nine pins. (I didn't get AGT... I figured it was AST which doesn't really make sense in hindsight but at the time seemed plausible.
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.
- woozy
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I would think just the graphic would justify "Bowling" alone. But then again, I never even noticed the graphic until hours after submitting... (I was fairly convinced when I saw the pins I had to count them and wanted to make sure whether it was nine, eight, ten, seven or eleven--- when I counted there were nine I couldn't see how it could be anything else---{can't be Bowling if there are only nine pines, no ball and no order to the pins})lbray53 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 10:20 pm If the foot race was supposed to be 5K it seems like this one should be ten pins. Since ten pins and bowling both have seven letters I tried, in vain, to find a connection in the clues or grid to justify bowling. Since I could not find one and it was a week one, I submitted TEN PINS.
And, no, bowling is not immediate by the title alone. Baseball, Football, Hockey, etc. all have leagues as well.
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.
- lbray53
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I was probably overly influenced by the 5K puzzle because I was sure that the answer should have been half marathon due to the 21 K's in the grid. That turned out to be correct. I was not about to make the same mistake, so I went with Ten Pins instead of Bowling. Thankfully, Matt was good enough to accept both of my "wrong" answers.woozy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 08, 2022 3:50 pmI would think just the graphic would justify "Bowling" alone. But then again, I never even noticed the graphic until hours after submitting... (I was fairly convinced when I saw the pins I had to count them and wanted to make sure whether it was nine, eight, ten, seven or eleven--- when I counted there were nine I couldn't see how it could be anything else---{can't be Bowling if there are only nine pines, no ball and no order to the pins})lbray53 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 10:20 pm If the foot race was supposed to be 5K it seems like this one should be ten pins. Since ten pins and bowling both have seven letters I tried, in vain, to find a connection in the clues or grid to justify bowling. Since I could not find one and it was a week one, I submitted TEN PINS.
And, no, bowling is not immediate by the title alone. Baseball, Football, Hockey, etc. all have leagues as well.
My avatar proves that it is sometimes better to be lucky than good!
- woozy
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Well, on his page he never talked about the alternative answers to BOWLING. Frankly, if I were him I wouldn't have accepted my answer of NINE-PINS (but I would have accepted TEN PINS) but... I'll take the win.
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.