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oldjudge wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 2:22 pm I was staring at this one for a while thinking “is this really a week 1”? Fun puzzle though and an unusual week 1 “aha” moment

Yeah I'm stuck too. Usually I see the week 1 mechanism by the end of the grid (or earlier). Is he punking us with week 666?

UPDATE: Unstuck. Hoping to be beamed up soon.

ChrisKochmanski wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 2:18 pm

BarbaraK wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:20 pm Beam me up. I had to backsolve a couple bits that were outside my wheelhouse.

Ditto. I also back-solved and beamed.

Please define "back-solved".

And since cute kids have been a topic this thread:

https://imgur.com/ZsVew11

Please define "back-solved".

When the meta mechanism has mutiple steps or pieces, sometimes, while you don't have all of the preliminary material, you have enough to prompt a reasonable guess about the final answer, and that guess helps you to see what you had been missing, which in turn confirms your guess.

Matt says I’ve played this one right, so beam me up!

I just beamed up, and read the prior comments. Often I'm embarrassed by my struggles when I read many early comments saying how easy it was, but this time I was heartened by the many comments saying that it was harder than expected for a Week 1. I also found it surprisingly difficult, and had to so some backsolving to get some things that are not in my wheelhouse.

(WeThotUWasAToad: "backsolving" is when you can figure out the answer from a partial understanding of the mechanism, and then you fill in the rest of the mechanism via seeing what it must have been in order to produce your answer.)

WeThotUWasAToad wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 2:43 pm

ChrisKochmanski wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 2:18 pm

BarbaraK wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:20 pm Beam me up. I had to backsolve a couple bits that were outside my wheelhouse.

Ditto. I also back-solved and beamed.

Please define "back-solved".

And since cute kids have been a topic this thread:

https://imgur.com/ZsVew11

Wow, cute indeed!!!

An example of backsolving using last week’s MGWCC would be finding the languages and recognizing 4 of the 5 native speakers. If that gave you L_NGO, you could feel pretty confident that the Somali speaker was someone whose name started with an I, so you’d just look through the grid at the I names.

Stumped so far! Will stare at it intently until either it comes to me or I burn a hole clear through my clipboard.

I’ve transported successfully. Not immediately obvious. But then it is.

Queued up waiting for transport.


Beamed up successfully

I was nowhere, but I couldn't help noticing that a large number of people were already aboard.

So after however many looks, I finally saw the gimmick - no ancient languages or advanced mathematics required - and successfully beamed up!

Beam me up!

Beam me up! Played more like a Week 2.5 for me. Or maybe I’m just used to solving easy ones like the last few WSJCC.

Tougher than I was expecting but so good! It was one of those that you sorta think maybe you’re going down a rabbit hole, and then BAM! You’re on shore.

Finally got around to this. Beam me up.

Beam up requested! It took me a really long time to get there, even by week 2 standards. The rabbit was well hidden.

Edit: On the board! Also wanted to say that 29A had to be intentional for this puzzle number :-)

I found this week 1 to be harder than last week's week 4, oddly enough. But I'm on the board.

Beamed up. Weekend free.
Well, except for laundry, shopping, and gardening.
But I shall enjoy every moment of each of them!

Beamed up. If this is a week 1 I don’t hold out much hope for the rest of March!

A fun one!

I had my second vaxx (moderna) yesterday and was feeling pretty good this morning.
Before I started the meta, fatigue, chills, fever hit me. Mild symptoms, but it was just impossible to concentrate. Seems pretty typical, so I ‘m just going to wait til tomorrow to look at this one again.