64. Change Your Tune

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64. Change Your Tune

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PDF and PUZ

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She's got purr-fect pitch.

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1. Puzzle #63 answer: SINGULAR

Correct entries: 47 and a record for greatest percentage answered correctly (including initial incorrect guesses) at 68%!

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Thanks to @BrennerTJ!

Shortest explanation: There are 26 columns in the puzzle, which correspond to the letters A through Z. In 18 of these columns, the corresponding column's letter appears twice (and is double trouble, since we don't want those!). The remaining 8 columns only have one instance of their key letter: these 8 letters anagram to SINGULAR, the only single word that can be anagrammed from these and the answer to the meta.

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2. Leaderboard:

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3. This is most certainly going to play as a Level 5, and so I'll be dropping some casual nudges along the way (in honor of Matt's generous hints for this week's MGWCC). As always, if need be, put the puzzle aside and come back to it with a clearer head! (Thanks to people who test-solved and gave it a look ahead of time: @Abide, @BrennerTJ, @KayW, and @oldjudge!)

64. Change Your Tune

The answer to the meta is a 6-letter word.

Due to the delay, deadline is Sunday, August 6 at 1 pm ET. (New Level 1 meta will still drop on Saturday, however!)

Good luck, and may all your solves be beautiful!

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Break up the Cubs! Haha.
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Great.. so there goes my excuse for not doing the honey do list....ugh... well time to go spackle.
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Meta DELAYED... wait what MG puzzle is this? Where am I?

But seriously - I hope your power is back soon and that nothing got fried in the outage.
That is one of my greater fears... losing power when all my devices are already on low.
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KayW wrote: Sat Jul 29, 2023 3:09 pm Meta DELAYED... wait what MG puzzle is this?
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LOL, they even have the same initials. How long before ginger cat is renamed Ada?
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One of Mikey's best ever!
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oldjudge wrote: Sun Jul 30, 2023 12:46 am LOL, they even have the same initials. How long before ginger cat is renamed Ada?
We haven't had a Ginger-related delay...yet, anyway, haha. (But Ginger still Ada piece of salmon last night.)
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MikeyG wrote: Sun Jul 30, 2023 1:07 pm
oldjudge wrote: Sun Jul 30, 2023 12:46 am LOL, they even have the same initials. How long before ginger cat is renamed Ada?
We haven't had a Ginger-related delay...yet, anyway, haha. (But Ginger still Ada piece of salmon last night.)
Pssst... time to update your signature!
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hoover wrote: Sun Jul 30, 2023 1:14 pm
MikeyG wrote: Sun Jul 30, 2023 1:07 pm
oldjudge wrote: Sun Jul 30, 2023 12:46 am LOL, they even have the same initials. How long before ginger cat is renamed Ada?
We haven't had a Ginger-related delay...yet, anyway, haha. (But Ginger still Ada piece of salmon last night.)
Pssst... time to update your signature!
I'm on it!! (Also what Ginger says about my bed when I'm trying to sleep.)
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The palindromic name with letter value equal to that of the palindromic pop group.
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oldjudge wrote: Sun Jul 30, 2023 1:21 pm The palindromic name with letter value equal to that of the palindromic pop group.
Mamma mia, that's a good observation!
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Either I've found step 1 and step 2, or this is a really deep rabbit hole. Problem is, there are at least eight rabbits down here!
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Well I got what I assume is the first part, and tried some stuff based on that, but resulted in a swingandamiss(es).
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Been waiting on the nudges for about two weeks now...
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Abide wrote: Sun Jul 30, 2023 3:00 pm Been waiting on the nudges for about two weeks now...
Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie!
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Solved and honored. Can explain later.
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Happy birthday! (?)
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Early nudge:

1. You'll probably notice the same incongruously used prepositional phrase a few times! That's obviously intentional.
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