Joe Ross wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 1:01 pm
MikeyG wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 6:12 pm
I'm projecting this one might cap around 300 or so, maybe a bit over.
I'm a stats nerd, sorry! (He went data way!)
Which horse is your early pick for the Kentucky Derby?
The fastest one, bahaha. I got a bit lucky there!!
Man alive, the rabbit holes, and I'm probably missing some:
*It was 6 letters long (the answer), so I thought of the classic 6 questions: Who, What, Where, When, Why, How. This was tough to let go.
*Is Pepsi OK? Thinking about situations when Pepsi would be okay, which in my mind is never (Coke all the way, sorry!!)
*The title: Initials AAA and *ends* with words DDD. So I thought about triple A batteries, three letters in the grid, etc. It's almost always meaningless, but I get a "OH!" moment whenever there's a string of the same letter in the grid.
Then, though I didn't realize it in the solve, I had one of those weird, "Is this a word moment?" afterward: "There's no way that's how 'peak' is spelled in 'peaking too soon.'" It was so bizarre to me - but, I mean, I knew it wasn't "peek" or "pique" but it was weird.
I did not notice the asymmetry first - and I didn't notice the asymmetry with TOP HAT (one square, likely only to make the theme work?). I did notice the fact that CANT SAY FOR SURE was 14, since I like mentally storing 15-letter phrases. And that made me go, "Hmmm."
The kicker was (G)ASTRONOMICALLY for me, since I thought it was cool when I was younger that there was a word so long that can be made into another word by placing a different letter in front. Then it was (E)MOTIONLESSNESS and I was like, "No way."
It took me a bit to get that the words were in the grid - I thought we had to reverse-engineer them and just figure it out, which would've been a bit trickier! Someone else earlier mentioned the importance of the clues, and that's something I tend to forget if I'm not actively paying attention to it.
A great one - we shall see what Week 4 holds!!
Mike