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Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 5:40 pm
by ChrisKochmanski
Got it!
Like some others here, I struggled a bit with the grid (I know only one of those songs -- the oldest of them!), then I stared at the grid for maybe 45 minutes, getting nowhere, before seeing in a flash what the grid was looking for.
Fun!
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:22 pm
by BarbaraK
Hmm. This seems too easy for an August MMMM. Wondering if I’m missing something.
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:41 pm
by oldjudge
The last song is a classic, the others not so much
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 11:25 pm
by stmv
I just got this, safely on the board. I found it to be easier than last month's MMMM, which I somehow didn't get even though along the way I looked at the Wikipedia page on jazz people's nicknames. I also went through the thing of getting stuck on various wrong ideas, and needing to let them go and start fresh, and then suddenly it popped out at me.
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 1:00 am
by Eric Porter
I got this one very quickly. It's a little easy for an August, but after struggling last month I'm not complaining.
I also got the mega meta! I don't know the red herring; maybe I'll put some effort into going for an extra 5 points, but I haven't seen it yet.
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 11:16 am
by ky-mike
Pretty quick solve for me this month. Sometimes, the mechanism just jumps out at you.
Still haven't spent much time on the mega meta. Need to get on that soon.
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 7:12 pm
by MamaE
Argh! I was sure I had this one, but alas my name has not appeared. Is anyone willing to PM me the answer? It's driving me crazy as I was pretty sure I had felt the "click" of a correct answer. Sigh.
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 10:39 am
by KayW
Delayed post-enlightenment! On the board!!
I won't say more now until post-deadline, but - DOH! I liked this one. (and liked it alot more after I solved it
)
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 2:18 pm
by Dplass
BarbaraK wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:22 pm
Hmm. This seems too easy for an August MMMM. Wondering if I’m missing something.
Hmm. I see nothing. This is one of those metas where I look at it and ask "is this a meta?" because I see nothing.
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 2:54 pm
by FKelly
As soon as I saw COUNT crossing with DUKE, I knew what had to be done in "Jazz Combos" July MMMM. This "Playlist Omission" August MMMM seems to suggest something is missing which I have diligently tried to supply. So far that's yielded nothing. Yet, some think it's too easy to be an August MMMM.
Perhaps, it's my lack of musicology or Springsteenology that's the hold up. Mr. Gs been getting a workout. Or perhaps I need to draw the grid by hand and do the fill on paper to see the Big Picture, since I don't have a printed copy. Someone solved by 12:13 pm on Tuesday, so it can't be all that hard.
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 2:58 pm
by anjhinz
On the board, I'm happy to have a nice confidence booster after just nose-diving on everything the past few weeks!
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 5:45 pm
by Cindy N
Got this month. Had the red herring a couple of months ago. I found what I thought seems to be the way to the mega meta, but can't get beyond each month when the new puzzle comes out looking at it and going, yep, there it is! But what to do?!
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:05 pm
by C=64
I began the MMMM in mid-June and although I went back and did the older puzzles, I hadn't focused on the mega-meta until last night. I'm sure I found the red herring, not the mega-meta, but the auto-reply from MMMM simply says my answer is correct. I guess I'll wait until next month to see how much my score changed.
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:24 pm
by LaceyK
Well it took me a couple of days to figure this one out. I think I am humming the correct tune, but my name hasn't appeared on the board, even though I have an email confirmation of submission.
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:35 pm
by BarbaraK
LaceyK wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:24 pm
Well it took me a couple of days to figure this one out. I think I am humming the correct tune, but my name hasn't appeared on the board, even though I have an email confirmation of submission.
If no one with a submission time later than yours is on the board, it could just be that Pete hasn't got to it yet. The emails are automatic. The leaderboard at least sometimes requires human intervention.
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:35 pm
by FrankieHeck
C=64 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:05 pm
I began the MMMM in mid-June and although I went back and did the older puzzles, I hadn't focused on the mega-meta until last night. I'm sure I found the red herring, not the mega-meta, but the auto-reply from MMMM simply says my answer is correct. I guess I'll wait until next month to see how much my score changed.
I was sure I found the red herring, too, but it said I was correct. I had found the mega meta, and it sounds like you did, too.
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:59 pm
by Laura M
FrankieHeck wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:35 pm
C=64 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:05 pm
I began the MMMM in mid-June and although I went back and did the older puzzles, I hadn't focused on the mega-meta until last night. I'm sure I found the red herring, not the mega-meta, but the auto-reply from MMMM simply says my answer is correct. I guess I'll wait until next month to see how much my score changed.
I was sure I found the red herring, too, but it said I was correct. I had found the mega meta, and it sounds like you did, too.
Ditto! There is a very clever and intricate path to the mega-meta, and we all missed that and hit it with a lucky guess :-) (I did find the real path later.)
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 7:01 pm
by LaceyK
BarbaraK wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:35 pm
LaceyK wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:24 pm
Well it took me a couple of days to figure this one out. I think I am humming the correct tune, but my name hasn't appeared on the board, even though I have an email confirmation of submission.
If no one with a submission time later than yours is on the board, it could just be that Pete hasn't got to it yet. The emails are automatic. The leaderboard at least sometimes requires human intervention.
I refreshed my computer and then it did appear, but much later than when I submitted.
Each month I look thru all the puzzles again to see if something jumps out for the mega meta, but the things I see do not carry through all the grids.
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 7:01 pm
by FrankieHeck
Laura M wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:59 pm
FrankieHeck wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:35 pm
C=64 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:05 pm
I began the MMMM in mid-June and although I went back and did the older puzzles, I hadn't focused on the mega-meta until last night. I'm sure I found the red herring, not the mega-meta, but the auto-reply from MMMM simply says my answer is correct. I guess I'll wait until next month to see how much my score changed.
I was sure I found the red herring, too, but it said I was correct. I had found the mega meta, and it sounds like you did, too.
Ditto! There is a very clever and intricate path to the mega-meta, and we all missed that and hit it with a lucky guess
(I did find the real path later.)
I just solved it last week, so I'm not sure how lucky my guess was!
Re: "Playlist Omission" - August 2020
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:12 am
by Dplass
FKelly wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 2:54 pm
As soon as I saw COUNT crossing with DUKE, I knew what had to be done in "Jazz Combos" July MMMM. This "Playlist Omission" August MMMM seems to suggest something is missing which I have diligently tried to supply. So far that's yielded nothing. Yet, some think it's too easy to be an August MMMM.
Perhaps, it's my lack of musicology or Springsteenology that's the hold up. Mr. Gs been getting a workout. Or perhaps I need to draw the grid by hand and do the fill on paper to see the Big Picture, since I don't have a printed copy. Someone solved by 12:13 pm on Tuesday, so it can't be all that hard.
I couldn't Google those lyrics fast enough. Heck, I've never even *heard* of 3 out of the 5 bands mentioned in the "lyrics" clues...
So either people are indeed Springsteenologists or we're missing something drastic.