XWord Muggles Forum

DrTom wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 1:53 pm With the kind help of @lbray53 I was able to find my way out of the corner.

I'm sorry, my apologies of not replying to your email! Just realized, please accept my sad cat picture as an apology.

Will there be remedial nudges? Asking for a friend

KayW wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:04 pm Will there be remedial nudges? Asking for a friend

Coming soon!

And soon is now! Hopefully, Mr. Gaffney will go easy on us on the WSJ today (Level 1 MGWCC for tomorrow), but we shall see!

Let's get you all home - this was definitely far tougher than even I had anticipated, with only 19 solvers so far.

7. A quick reminder: The letters in the "L"-shaped corners (respectively, N, D, U, and L) do matter. In fact, those are four of the 16 letters in our final answer!

8. But how to get the other 12? The thing that's hard to see, but your next clue: there is only one other instance of N, D, U, and L in the grid.

9. Those letters elsewhere in the grid, per the title, need to move "into a corner" - their respective corner!

10. But, okay - moving a letter on top of itself...how does that help get us the rest of the letters? Well, those other letters in the grid need to bring something with them!

11. Specifically, each of those four letters elsewhere in the grid need to bring three more letters with it, all to go into the respective corner.

12. More specifically, for example, the other "N" (in ENIAC) would bring its own 2-by-2 square with it to the upper left.

13. The 2-by-2 square in question in #12 should likewise have "N" in the lower-right corner (so PE/EN).

14. When this is done four times, you should have all sixteen letters placed, and they'll read in standard top-down fashion.

15. Yes, this was harder than I initially envisioned, haha. Some easier metas coming in April!

Mikey G

Needed most of the spoilers! Wow!

Doh!!! Needed nudge 10 to see the fiendishly clever metanism in the corner. Well done, Mikey - thanks!

Needed nudges 1 through 12. Never would've gotten this without them. Yikes.

MatthewL wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 4:40 pm Yikes.

That sounds like one of my teaching evaluations.

Got it. Whew.

Needed a bunch nudges sadly, but oh so impressed with your deviousness… stay twisted!

Not realizing there was a Page 2 with Nudges 7-15, I just spent 30 minutes on Discord getting spoonfed.

I needed through nudge #8. Sigh.

I also needed nudge 8 to help confirm that was I was working on was the correct path...thanks Mikey!