lol got it after nudge 2. Really should have gotten it without the nudges, because it meshes with one of my hobbies. I was considering two different sets of things, and it turned out I needed to be focused on a third set with components of each.
Very cool, thanks.
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Check out this very cool project by many of your favorite muggles to raise money to fight cancer. You get a fun puzzle bundle and good causes get $. Win-win: Crosswords for Cancer
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Confirmed Off The Couch before the nudges. I came at it a little askew at first, but that still pointed me in what was the right direction. Very enjoyable!
Thanks, Jay!
Thanks, Jay!
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Needed 3 nudges! Very fun puzzle! Thanks so much Jay!
Team DoubleTow=Ali who posts here, Alex & Maya the hound(with occasional assistance from son)
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Another dozen solvers have arrived, but there’s still plenty of space in the movie theater for those who want to watch this 9-letter no-so-classic film.
49. Naptown Kid
50. JeanneC
51. Snood
52. Bbaack
53. ajk
54. CPJohnson
55. Pair O Ducks
56. Cindy Heisler
57. Dow Jones
58. SeamusOL
59. jbird
60. Teamdoubletow
49. Naptown Kid
50. JeanneC
51. Snood
52. Bbaack
53. ajk
54. CPJohnson
55. Pair O Ducks
56. Cindy Heisler
57. Dow Jones
58. SeamusOL
59. jbird
60. Teamdoubletow
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Off the couch! Finally saw what I should have seen earlier
. Sweet puzzle.
And thanks to Peter Abide for my Biloxi winner pack which arrived yesterday. The pen will be used sparingly and lovingly on future metas!
. Sweet puzzle.And thanks to Peter Abide for my Biloxi winner pack which arrived yesterday. The pen will be used sparingly and lovingly on future metas!
“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions”. Lillian Hellman
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MarkWoychick
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Finally off the couch - many rabbit holes! Thanks, Jay
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 contest-style (meta) crosswords that we've created to help raise money for cancer-related organizations - get the bundle at http://crosswordsforcancer.com
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Ditto what Mark said above. Fun one! Thanks, Jay.
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Bird Lives
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Time's up; pencils down.
At the end of the day — the end of the week actually — we have 76 solvers thanks to these latecomers.
61. K7
62. Max Chemtov
63. JR
64. Sharkicicles
65. cbarbee002
66. Jimbo
67. Sanne Budd
68. frostyjhammer
69. Golem
70. Mark Woychick
71. Adam
72. Capn Rick
73. Tane
74. Jim Dean
75. Pandora's Blocks Weekly Meta Crossword
76. bergie
The answer is Magic Mike
The prompt asked you for a “nine-letter movie that would complete the sequence.” What sequence?
The puzzle brought together two old friends of crossword solvers — the NATO alphabet and Roman numerals. In six entries, the final word was one that NATO designated as the indicator of a letter. Those letters just happened to be letters used as numbers by the Romans, and in the grid, they (the numerals, not the Romans) appeared in increasing order:
I = 1
V = 5
X = 10
L = 50
C = 100
D = 500
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There’s only one left.
M = 1000
In NATO, M is designated by the word MIKE. So you were looking for a nine-letter movie title whose last word was “Mike.” The answer we were looking for was “Magic Mike” though one intrepid contrarian submitted “I Like Mike.” The latter is an Israeli film released in 1961 and seen by literally dozens of people worldwide, none of them in the US. But it’s nine letters and ends in “Mike.”
Other responses included “Paper Moon” (apparently there’s a campaign to revise the NATO alphabet), “M is for Murder” (apparently there's also a campaign to override Sue Grafton’s rejection of Hollywood), and “Anastasia” (your guess is as good as mine).
For a bonus puzzle, see the next post.
At the end of the day — the end of the week actually — we have 76 solvers thanks to these latecomers.
61. K7
62. Max Chemtov
63. JR
64. Sharkicicles
65. cbarbee002
66. Jimbo
67. Sanne Budd
68. frostyjhammer
69. Golem
70. Mark Woychick
71. Adam
72. Capn Rick
73. Tane
74. Jim Dean
75. Pandora's Blocks Weekly Meta Crossword
76. bergie
The answer is Magic Mike
The prompt asked you for a “nine-letter movie that would complete the sequence.” What sequence?
The puzzle brought together two old friends of crossword solvers — the NATO alphabet and Roman numerals. In six entries, the final word was one that NATO designated as the indicator of a letter. Those letters just happened to be letters used as numbers by the Romans, and in the grid, they (the numerals, not the Romans) appeared in increasing order:
I = 1
V = 5
X = 10
L = 50
C = 100
D = 500
.
There’s only one left.
M = 1000
In NATO, M is designated by the word MIKE. So you were looking for a nine-letter movie title whose last word was “Mike.” The answer we were looking for was “Magic Mike” though one intrepid contrarian submitted “I Like Mike.” The latter is an Israeli film released in 1961 and seen by literally dozens of people worldwide, none of them in the US. But it’s nine letters and ends in “Mike.”
Other responses included “Paper Moon” (apparently there’s a campaign to revise the NATO alphabet), “M is for Murder” (apparently there's also a campaign to override Sue Grafton’s rejection of Hollywood), and “Anastasia” (your guess is as good as mine).
For a bonus puzzle, see the next post.
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BONUS PUZZLE
The title may have a familiar ring for WSJ Crossword Contest fans. The metanism in the one that first occurred to me when I saw the title of Matt Gaffney's puzzle. I spent so much time in that rabbit hole that after I emerged I thought, When the rabbit hole in Matt's puzzle gives you lemons, make your own meta.
https://crosshare.org/crosswords/6cLju8 ... -and-again
(I had to delete the earlier, flawed version of this puzzle that was up on Crosshare. But thanks to the people who solved it and commented.)
The title may have a familiar ring for WSJ Crossword Contest fans. The metanism in the one that first occurred to me when I saw the title of Matt Gaffney's puzzle. I spent so much time in that rabbit hole that after I emerged I thought, When the rabbit hole in Matt's puzzle gives you lemons, make your own meta.
https://crosshare.org/crosswords/6cLju8 ... -and-again
(I had to delete the earlier, flawed version of this puzzle that was up on Crosshare. But thanks to the people who solved it and commented.)
Last edited by Bird Lives on Mon Mar 13, 2023 8:35 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Thanks, Jay. That must have been some rabbit hole you went down!
Check out and support http://CrosswordsForCancer.com.
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The couch has been vacated again.
Thanks for the bonus puzzle!
And although I am not of the dozens who saw (or even heard of) the Israeli movie I Like Mike, it seems it was Chaim Topol's first role on film. He passed away last week, I figure he deserves the mention.
Thanks for the bonus puzzle!
And although I am not of the dozens who saw (or even heard of) the Israeli movie I Like Mike, it seems it was Chaim Topol's first role on film. He passed away last week, I figure he deserves the mention.
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This is great. I think we should make it a thing to riff off the WSJ regularly.Bird Lives wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 10:10 am BONUS PUZZLE
The title may have a familiar ring for WSJ Crossword Contest fans. The metanism in the one that first occurred to me when I saw the title of Matt Gaffney's puzzle. I spent so much time in that rabbit hole that after I emerged I thought, When the rabbit hole in Matt's puzzle gives you lemons, make your own meta.
That Voice Again Again crosshare
That Voice Again Again PUZ
That Voice Again Again PDF
That Voice Again Again spreadsheet
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.
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Great meta AGAIN - thanks for the bonus!Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.
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Saw the bonus puzzle this morning but then forgot about it until it was mentioned on the zoom call.
The couch is doubly vacant. Very nice! Now I have to go back and look at how it would work on WSJ
The couch is doubly vacant. Very nice! Now I have to go back and look at how it would work on WSJ
If you want help with a meta, feel free to PM me. The more specific you are about what you have and what you want, the more likely I can help without spoiling.
(And if I help you win a mug, I’ll be especially delighted.)
(And if I help you win a mug, I’ll be especially delighted.)
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I was down. I got up. Sat down again. Up once more.
(Seesaw couch at Reed College Student Union)
Thanks for the encore, Jay!
Thanks for the encore, Jay!
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Ok, I was the one who guessed “Anastasia” but for the life of me I can’t remember why ( amnesia perhaps! Lol!) I’m sure I followed a very tricky rabbit down a very deep hole and was convinced that “Anastasia” was the answer! I did eventually see the NATO alphabet connection but not the Roman numeral sequence.
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Novak Djokavic,,,, amazing tennis player