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Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 3:26 pm
by DrTom
Going to make a "leap of faith" solve because I am fairly sure of the answer I just cannot 100% support it. Gotta try!
EDIT: CONFIRMED YEA!!!! Beam me up. Wow first on page two and #71 (only ten after Joe Ross!) this may well be a high water mark for me. I ALMOST screwed up but when I went back just before hitting submit I saw the confirmation.
Tricky for a week two as stated, but obviously not too difficult if I managed to get home.
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 4:01 pm
by Hector
Y'all started without me?
Needed google for sure.
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 4:19 pm
by docison
I'm curious as to the other answer people felt was supported. Can someone PM me to explain?
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 4:24 pm
by oldjudge
I’ve been told the other answer and it definitely is not supported.
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 4:36 pm
by Dannyvee
Beam me up!
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 4:52 pm
by KDubs
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 5:25 pm
by joequavis
Hector wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 4:01 pm
Y'all started without me?
Needed google for sure.
Despite the large disparity in our usual leaderboard placements, I don't normally wait for you
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 5:31 pm
by Andrew Bradburn
Went from seeing absolutely nothing for several hours, to getting it after finally noticing something. I agree that it is more like a week 2.5. Answer seemed pretty iron-clad to me, wonder what the alternative one is.
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 6:29 pm
by Dplass
Giving up. Definitely not a week 2. I got some hints but after the 3rd with no progress I said "uncle".
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 6:49 pm
by Beth Tyrpin
Glad I didn’t have a streak to preserve. I didn’t choose wisely.
Update. My submission just didn’t go through.
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 6:54 pm
by hcbirker
I swung and missed. Should have looked further. Oh well, no streak to preserve. I should know better!
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 7:03 pm
by BarbaraK
Hmmm. 10% of submissions wrong. That's always disconcerting.
I found an answer that seems like a 100%er, and I've submitted it. So now I wait for the leaderboard update. Can't imagine what the other option could be.
Edit: And I've officially beamed up. Managed to refresh just as the leaderboard was updating, so I looked at the "this week" list, didn't see my name, and didn't remember exactly what time I'd submitted. Then I checked the overall list and was shocked to see my name there. I was getting all worked up about how could my answer possibly be wrong when I hit reload again and saw that my name had been added and all was right with the world.
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 8:33 pm
by subtly
beamed up. this is the second MGWC in a row where i've gotten partway, then lost confidence, asked for a nudge, got back "yeah, look harder", and got there. maybe next week instead of asking for a nudge, i'll just eliminate the middleman and look harder. or not.
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 9:13 pm
by BrennerTJ
+M
-T
Seemed unambiguous. Interested to know what alternatives folks found.
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 10:47 pm
by HeadinHome
Submitted and waiting... feel 100% confirmed, though it took a while to see how that was so (order of operations, sort of). Beam me up, provisionally? (Update: yes indeed - beamable.)
I’d say this was on the hard side, as most of you said — particularly if you’re not familiar with... something.
. Once I had the grid done (which was about typical but needed interwebs help with N.E. corner), it took me a good 20 minutes to spot the first step (zero rabbit holes, just nothing for a while), then another 20 to see where to go from there... and finally 10 minutes to wrap it up. That feels more like a week 3 to me, maybe.
There could have been a perfect “extra” confirmation (which I’ve suggested to MG) — will explain later if i remember.
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 11:02 pm
by ricky
This one's got me puzzled. I have gone down a number of seemingly promising paths already but I think they seem that way because of my tendency to see far more connections between entries than MG ever intends to include.
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 11:26 pm
by stmv
Wow, that was *much* harder than I expected for a Week 2. Even after I finally saw Step 1, I had to try several things before Step 2 (or was it Step 3?) revealed itself, but now I'm finally beamed up.
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Sat May 15, 2021 1:22 am
by MikeyG
When John Q. Student tells me, "I swear there were two right answers to that one question," I'm like, "No. No, there isn't" (assuming it's a standardized test and not an in-class one, as those are far more prone to typos).
I'm definitely in the camp currently of seeing two viable answers here after what I believe is a reasonable pathway. So, since I know there is definitely only one right answer, that means I must continue persevering and trying to figure out what I'm missing!
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Sat May 15, 2021 1:23 am
by MikeyG
KayW wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 2:34 pm
#51 the week I got my 50 badge. Too bad I wasn't 4 minutes faster
but solved/submitted while playing online bridge.
Speaking of bridge, how's tricks? (I had to.)
Re: #676 - "Man Seeking Woman"
Posted: Sat May 15, 2021 1:34 am
by ricky
Okay, beamed up. I was right that I'd been barking up the wrong tree.
Don't know if anyone else is in this spot, but in my experience with these puzzles, if you've got a clear connection between 3-4 theme answers and the last one or two just don't fit, you may very well be seeing a link that was neither intended nor accounted for. Don't put too much faith in it.