"Third Time's The Charm" - January 10, 2020

[Ann]

Solved!

[Janet P]

On shore after leaving Isaac a large tip for spending Thursday evening and all of yesterday at the bar.
Good luck to all on winning the mug!

[Jackie88]

Done and done, that was fun.

Side note--I use Firefox, and within the past month, I can't do the puzzles in that browser, due to their lack of support for Java. No biggie, figured I'd just do it on my iPhone X--slightly more cumbersome, but still, no biggie. On those rare occasions when I solve the meta, I found I can't submit an answer. I've tapped every menu, and can't find a place to submit an answer anywhere.

As such, I end up doing these puzzles in Edge, and (third time's the charm), no biggie. I'm far from a technophobe, having used laptops since 1994 and crunching sports data in a manner that is far from healthy, but I just find these little quirks odd. Nowhere near insurmountable, just odd.

There’s no place in the app to submit. You just send an email to crosswordcontest@wsj.com with the answer in the subject line.

[Joe Ross]

Done and done, that was fun.

Side note--I use Firefox, and within the past month, I can't do the puzzles in that browser, due to their lack of support for Java. No biggie, figured I'd just do it on my iPhone X--slightly more cumbersome, but still, no biggie. On those rare occasions when I solve the meta, I found I can't submit an answer. I've tapped every menu, and can't find a place to submit an answer anywhere.

As such, I end up doing these puzzles in Edge, and (third time's the charm), no biggie. I'm far from a technophobe, having used laptops since 1994 and crunching sports data in a manner that is far from healthy, but I just find these little quirks odd. Nowhere near insurmountable, just odd.

There’s no place in the app to submit. You just send an email to crosswordcontest@wsj.com with the answer in the subject line.

It may depend on what is meant by "the app".

If you play online on a PC, you can consider this button, "the app":

After solving, you can click on "Submit", which gives a form that allows you to submit your answer:

Like Scott, I can only access the Submit form using the Edge browser. I also use Firefox, typically.

EDIT: I do not have an issue accessing the SUBMIT form nor submitting the meta answer using my android phone.

[Bob cruise director]

Good Saturday morning. Another week to enhance my typing skills as we have one muggle keeping Isaac company for now and 116 on the shore. Another 2500 entry week with high percentage of success.

Right now seans is keeping Isaac in business

And the mob on the shore include
streroto
Al
Scott M
Mike H
Heidi
laura
Hector
joequavis
Tom Wilson
damefox
Eric P
Kay
Steveb
Chris
Wendy
Leslie
higgysue
tom S
Joe R
tmart
CallMeShane
meg
scooby
tina
TonyS
alan H
Anita
ky-mike
Cindy
Jim and Anita
oldjudge
STL-D
Peter L
Rita and George
Julie O
Beth T
Beth A (once again both Beths came in close to each other)
Les Y
Moi
Jeremy
Blair
David K
Mark L
Inca
Maine Marge
Gwert
Orsys
Wdunbar
Hidden in 3D
Doug M
Juliet
Kas
Frankie
Jeanrosz
DBMiller
Bird Lives
MajorDomoTom
Frank H
Trey and Marion
BillK
sharkicicles
Deb
WBYonder
Lucas
Richard
ErikThor
Bill S
Guy L
Jeffrey
Mary F
ALS
Mary CC
DrTom
jmorgie7
Ed S
Toby
Bill T
John and Beth
dplass
Paul D
Dennis
anjhinz
Matthew
Domenic
bobbydeee
Lacangah
spotter
the Thurman8er
Softie
Doug C
burd
Kris
Brian M
ImOnToo
metaAddict
Susan G
rexthree
Homer
tim1217
Jacksull
BrianD
Cynthia J
Scott L
Devilbunny
Diane
Joel
Jennifer
JosephB
djquimby
Beth C
Matthew M
NuYear68 who is kind of our newest muggle as he/she posted on the WSJ web site but I need to associate the blog name with the WSJ name
Commodore
Janet P
Michael and Ann
Niobb

and more to come I am sure. The record we set last week wound up at 146 with a couple coming in after the status but since we set a record, I wanted it as high as possible. Maybe that record will only last a week????

[NaluGirl]

I was giving up all hope, but sleeping on it (or trying to, anyway!) finally did it. Fun puzzle!

[Geoduck]

Good Saturday morning. Another week to enhance my typing skills as we have one muggle keeping Isaac company for now and 116 on the shore. Another 2500 entry week with high percentage of success.

Right now seans is keeping Isaac in business

And the mob on the shore include
streroto
Al
Scott M
Mike H
Heidi
laura
Hector
joequavis
Tom Wilson
damefox
Eric P
Kay
Steveb
Chris
Wendy
Leslie
higgysue
tom S
Joe R
tmart
CallMeShane
meg
scooby
tina
TonyS
alan H
Anita
ky-mike
Cindy
Jim and Anita
oldjudge
STL-D
Peter L
Rita and George
Julie O
Beth T
Beth A (once again both Beths came in close to each other)
Les Y
Moi
Jeremy
Blair
David K
Mark L
Inca
Maine Marge
Gwert
Orsys
Wdunbar
Hidden in 3D
Doug M
Juliet
Kas
Frankie
Jeanrosz
DBMiller
Bird Lives
MajorDomoTom
Frank H
Trey and Marion
BillK
sharkicicles
Deb
WBYonder
Lucas
Richard
ErikThor
Bill S
Guy L
Jeffrey
Mary F
ALS
Mary CC
DrTom
jmorgie7
Ed S
Toby
Bill T
John and Beth
dplass
Paul D
Dennis
anjhinz
Matthew
Domenic
bobbydeee
Lacangah
spotter
the Thurman8er
Softie
Doug C
burd
Kris
Brian M
ImOnToo
metaAddict
Susan G
rexthree
Homer
tim1217
Jacksull
BrianD
Cynthia J
Scott L
Devilbunny
Diane
Joel
Jennifer
JosephB
djquimby
Beth C
Matthew M
NuYear68 who is kind of our newest muggle as he/she posted on the WSJ web site but I need to associate the blog name with the WSJ name
Commodore
Janet P
Michael and Ann
Niobb

and more to come I am sure. The record we set last week wound up at 146 with a couple coming in after the status but since we set a record, I wanted it as high as possible. Maybe that record will only last a week????

**sob**

I''m feeling left out. Excluded. Shunned.

I think I'll go clam up somewhere.

[MajordomoTom]

keep trying ... remember, "THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM". It's all there on the grid.

NVMD, you're on the beach, just feeling ignored by Bob's list.

It's ok, we still like you.

[CPJohnson]

Solved. I give it a 2. Last week was a 1.

Out of 5? Is 2 better than 1?

As I understand the rating system, 2 is harder than 1.

[MajordomoTom]

yes

This was about a 1.5 or so ... last week was a 1 (and I blew it by only submitting "TED", not the full "TED TALKS". Shame on me)

5 is the hardest/highest score on the scale.

There's more on this here: forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=35

[Bob cruise director]

Good Saturday morning. Another week to enhance my typing skills as we have one muggle keeping Isaac company for now and 116 on the shore. Another 2500 entry week with high percentage of success.

Right now seans is keeping Isaac in business

And the mob on the shore include
streroto
Al
Scott M
Mike H
Heidi
laura
Hector
joequavis
Tom Wilson
damefox
Eric P
Kay
Steveb
Chris
Wendy
Leslie
higgysue
tom S
Joe R
tmart
CallMeShane
meg
scooby
tina
TonyS
alan H
Anita
ky-mike
Cindy
Jim and Anita
oldjudge
STL-D
Peter L
Rita and George
Julie O
Beth T
Beth A (once again both Beths came in close to each other)
Les Y
Moi
Jeremy
Blair
David K
Mark L
Inca
Maine Marge
Gwert
Orsys
Wdunbar
Hidden in 3D
Doug M
Juliet
Kas
Frankie
Jeanrosz
DBMiller
Bird Lives
MajorDomoTom
Frank H
Trey and Marion
BillK
sharkicicles
Deb
WBYonder
Lucas
Richard
ErikThor
Bill S
Guy L
Jeffrey
Mary F
ALS
Mary CC
DrTom
jmorgie7
Ed S
Toby
Bill T
John and Beth
dplass
Paul D
Dennis
anjhinz
Matthew
Domenic
bobbydeee
Lacangah
spotter
the Thurman8er
Softie
Doug C
burd
Kris
Brian M
ImOnToo
metaAddict
Susan G
rexthree
Homer
tim1217
Jacksull
BrianD
Cynthia J
Scott L
Devilbunny
Diane
Joel
Jennifer
JosephB
djquimby
Beth C
Matthew M
NuYear68 who is kind of our newest muggle as he/she posted on the WSJ web site but I need to associate the blog name with the WSJ name
Commodore
Janet P
Michael and Ann
Niobb

and more to come I am sure. The record we set last week wound up at 146 with a couple coming in after the status but since we set a record, I wanted it as high as possible. Maybe that record will only last a week????

**sob**

I''m feeling left out. Excluded. Shunned.

I think I'll go clam up somewhere.

My humble apologies. I remember reading and commenting on your getting ready for the power to go out because there was a storm coming into 150 miles north of 4D and commenting that you are in Maine Marge territory, that I forgot to enter you in the spreadsheet. My shame

[Bob cruise director]

I was giving up all hope, but sleeping on it (or trying to, anyway!) finally did it. Fun puzzle!

It must be that the third time is a charm

[MajordomoTom]

not "a charm", "the charm".

[bunella]

On shore but not getting the full "aha" moment.

[boharr]

on shore

[rolias]

Any way to edit our star difficulty rating? Just discovered by fat fingering that you can rate a puzzle a zero!
Ashore
Also ashore last week but I didn’t know Bob was tracking a record! Hopefully we’ll break it this week so my tardiness won’t matter.

[Bob cruise director]

On shore but not getting the full "aha" moment.

More importantly did you bring the pretzels - a lot of them. No, a very lot of them

this is a 100%'er

[Rad26]

On shore. Great to have a Patrick Berry puzzle. Fun grid; fun meta.

[MajordomoTom]

On shore but not getting the full "aha" moment.

More importantly did you bring the pretzels - a lot of them. No, a very lot of them

this is a 100%'er

in my "on shore" posting, I reported I was 99%. After reflection, I realized, yes, 100%.

[ccmac]

I’m still finding most of these metas really difficult, so I’m happy to be on shore today!