"Jolly Old St. Nick" December 23, 2022

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Ashore! Finished the grid almost immediately after it came out on Thursday. But could not figure out the metanism for three whole days! Thanks to everyone's comments keeping us on the reasonable path. Not sure we agree with the SAD-ness, but it seemed like a "FAD" (familiar and difficult?).

H wants sparkling apple cider, and J will have eggnog (not spiked please).

A fun solve. It has a nice, tight, satisfying answer with a small extra piece to "lock" it so you know you have it when you do.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

[BarbaraK]

Merry Christmas everyone!

And for an extra bit of holiday cheer, check out @DrTom’s verse at viewtopic.php?t=1979&start=20#p115580 It’s too good to only be seen by the MEOW solvers!

[CPJohnson]

Merry Christmas to all! I am on shore! My first thought turned out to be the key to solving.....I was just applying it incorrectly. (If you are still stuck, I'm happy to send a nudge that won't give it away.) And, my orchid has 2 blooms on Christmas Day.

[ColinM]

On shore with a nudge. Thank you @Sleepy !

[boharr]

A Muggle Moderator's Christmas

[ship4u]

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Pleased to finally meet you, Bob! Merry Christmas!

[BarbaraK]

Merry Christmas to all! I am on shore! My first thought turned out to be the key to solving.....I was just applying it incorrectly. (If you are still stuck, I'm happy to send a nudge that won't give it away.) And, my orchid has 2 blooms on Christmas Day.
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This post turned out to be all the nudge I needed. I went back to my first thought, thought of yet another way of applying it, and lo and behold, it worked!

[Bob cruise director]

Good Sunday morning muggles.

Muggles are working their way to shore with 17 on the ship with Isaac and 126 on the shore.

With Isaac are

whimsy
Diane
JeanneC
Barney
mlvilv
Tom S
Bonnibel
Colin

And on the shore are

escapeartist
Lee-Ann
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mbryant
ZooAnimalsOnWheels
HunterX
Notbitter
jrdad
JaneGummy
Nlobb
Drew and Kasia
Sleepy
CPJohnson
ColinM
Barbara K

For those stuck, all you need is a small nudge to get you going in the right direction and then it is pretty straight forward. Options are to ask for a small nudge or come to the 8 pm zoom call tonight.

For those in bad weather which seems to be a lot of muggles, stay safe.

[DannyCincinnnati]

On shore - someone hand me a spiked eggnog!

[HunterX]

Muggles are working their way to shore with 17 on the ship with Isaac and 126 on the shore.

With Isaac...

And on the shore are...

HunterX...

Thanks for the vote of confidence! However, alas, at this time I am still 25A at sea on the meta, and having too much fun drinking with Isaac and family to know whether inspiration will come before midnight strikes. However, I have not 67A yet.

[Justmarebear]

how do i send a pm

[Cinny]

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Bob, so nice to put a face to the name!

On shore!

[RichA2]

With Isaac and company at the
ship’s bar, and wishing a Merry Christmas to all!

[Libbypibby]

Ashore. Merry Christmas

[Bob cruise director]

how do i send a pm

@Justmarebear Go to the top of the page where it says Private Messages. The window for PMs should open up. In the middle click on New PM in red. To add one or more recipients, either type in the screen name (exactly with spaces and such as it is unforgiving) or click Find A Member. From there you can find a member by screen name. When you find the member in the search, check the box in the upper right of the person's name and at the bottom make sure you click "Select Marked"

From there you can add a title and the text. When you are done, you can click Submit at the bottom. Make sure that the system shows that the message has sent. Sometimes I have to scroll down and click Submit again.

There is a way that the system will send you emails when you get a PM. Go under Board Preferences and Edit Global settings.

Good luck

[Joe Ross]

how do i send a pm

@Justmarebear Go to the top of the page where it says Private Messages. The window for PMs should open up. In the middle click on New PM in red. To add one or more recipients, either type in the screen name (exactly with spaces and such as it is unforgiving) or click Find A Member. From there you can find a member by screen name. When you find the member in the search, check the box in the upper right of the person's name and at the bottom make sure you click "Select Marked"

From there you can add a title and the text. When you are done, you can click Submit at the bottom. Make sure that the system shows that the message has sent. Sometimes I have to scroll down and click Submit again.

There is a way that the system will send you emails when you get a PM. Go under Board Preferences and Edit Global settings.

Good luck

On computers (that is, not on phones), every post has an icon at top right which will quote the post to an opened PM form addressed to the poster.

[auee89]

On the ship enjoying Christmas day with Isaac and the family. Not sure if I will have time to dig any further before midnight. Merry Christmas Muggles!

[Mister Squawk]

Finally on shore. Pretty straightforward, in retrospect, but a fun present to open nonetheless.

Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a healthy and happy new year!

[HunterX]

how do i send a pm

@Justmarebear Go to the top of the page where it says Private Messages....

On computers (that is, not on phones), every post has an icon at top right which will quote the post to an opened PM form addressed to the poster.

@Justmarebear, while your computer, browser, and browser protection settings may make my comment irrelevant, just be careful you don't use the quote icon, as that will post to the public forum where everyone sees it. That icon is, at least on my computer:

Rather, and again this applies to my computer but might not on yours, use the speech bubble under the poster's name:

The speech bubble will bring up a small pop-up icon you click to go to your Private Message tab in the User Control Panel, as Bob mentioned, but will quote the post, as Joe mentions.

[JoeS]

At sea. More staring hasn't helped. Thinking is in a rut, but wouldn't submit for a mug if I had a nudge. I'll go to my fav Christmas beer and see if that gets me thinking laterally.