Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 7:00 pm
#343 on the leaderboard - that's 7 cubed!
lucky 7x7x7???
lucky 7x7x7???
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#670 - "Director's Cut"
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Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 7:31 pm
Beam me up! I wasn't even aware there were "achievements". I will never be the first to solve, but I will work on the holiday ones. Too late for this Easter.
Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 11:22 pm
Beam me up!
Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 11:25 pm
Yep - that's meHector wrote: ↑Fri Apr 02, 2021 1:50 pmYes, it varies. But there are two ways to know if your answer was rejected. There is an indication at the bottom of the This Week list of the time it was last updated. And every solver who submits an answer that has been evaluated for correctness appears on the Overall list (that's how we know that e.a. submitted an incorrect guess today).
Are you MamaEllen? If so, you're #188 on the This Week leaderboard. Be sure to refresh the page; I don't think it automatically updates in your browser.
- after a few minutes waiting and several refreshes I popped up Thanks!Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 8:00 am
A big shout out to those on here that are 2020 solo solve medalists. Very impressive! Great job!
Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 10:23 am
I just looked at the leaderboard. Of the 483 on the leaderboard, 383 of us also have a streak of 1
Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 10:28 am
Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 10:52 am
I was #5 this week but I've only gotten into that territory once before (with a lucky #1 a few years back). I'm usually cautious and plodding.
I checked best directors first and one stood out. A partial completion of the first theme answer confirmed it.
I checked best directors first and one stood out. A partial completion of the first theme answer confirmed it.
Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 1:05 pm
I hear you. I had 51 solos, and 1 with a nudge last year, and it was very nerve-wracking. But this year, I'm so relaxed about it I've missed three of the last six. A little swag goes a long way to helping with the relaxation!
Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 1:19 pm
Beamed up here but still with Isaac over at the WSJ cruise.
Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 1:59 pm
OK. new streak starting, pretty sure of this one so I'll say....1
Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 7:33 pm
Beam me up. I needed an easy one after spending four days “helping” my son paint his basement reno.
Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 8:26 pm
Beamed... nice to have a week 1 after a Florida-to-Detroit drive. Now to check out WSJ and Sunday NYT.... I'd have to think he could make the prompt "a filmmaker with a best director Oscar nomination" and still only have one possible answer without making it as patently apparent.
Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 2:40 pm
Beam me up!
Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 3:08 pm
Heads up that October this year has 5 Fridays, so the Nothing Scarier achievement is also possible. Of course, that involves *solving* the Week 5, which might be harder than remembering to submit on Halloween. 
Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:35 pm
Beam me up. Thank you, Joe, for the reminder on Easter posting!
Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 12:26 pm
beam me up.
Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:15 pm
[me immediately after completing puzzle]"ooh, see 18A starts out ROBY but if you change that O to a U you get RUBY and so that's going to be the mech--what's that now? The O is just a typo? Oh. Never mind."
Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:20 am
Forgot to post earlier- already beamed up.
I was delayed for awhile- kept looking for a director named Cruise...
I was delayed for awhile- kept looking for a director named Cruise...
Re: #670 - "Director's Cut"
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:21 pm
So Beryl Markham was the name I knew right away (and supported my guess that Emerald would be the answer.)
I read West With the Night back in the 80s. Hadn’t much thought of or heard of her since till MGWCC. Then yesterday, I saw a quiz in an aviation magazine that asked who was the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo east to west. (Beryl Markham, of course.) The universe is weird.
I read West With the Night back in the 80s. Hadn’t much thought of or heard of her since till MGWCC. Then yesterday, I saw a quiz in an aviation magazine that asked who was the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo east to west. (Beryl Markham, of course.) The universe is weird.