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Many thanks to discord and @Eckless for extracting me from my rabbit holes.
One of the things that often happens to me is that I get locked into an erroneous assumption and then get "gotta solve it" or "can't solve it" fever. The push to solve outweighs the logical approach to determining what you have been given and how that might lead to a solve. Sometimes you see it immediately, no matter what the difficulty level, and sometimes you do not see it at all no matter how blatant until someone says "LOOK HERE!!!"HoldThatThought wrote: ↑Sun Feb 19, 2023 3:53 pm Like a fair number of our MGWCC regulars, I'm always happy to provide a glimmer in the darkness of puzzle despair, but....
These puzzles are best enjoyed (and appreciated!) like a long-simmered stew or tender-roasted, fall off-the-bone ribs, and not as a three-minute soft-boiled egg. There is an aha! moment, and it won't always come, but the simple exercise of wrestling, for a bit, develops the toolkit, and sharpens the solving skills.
TLDR executive summary: Play with these for a while, put them away, look with fresh eyes, tomorrow. Find a solving buddy, and contribute your efforts to a group solve. If you're going to spend 20 minutes, throw up your hands, and say "please nudge me!", you're cheating yourself of the joy, and, my experience suggests; you're less likely to receive helpful nudges.
Just my opinion. Some (kinder?) contributors here feel differently.
Oh, and I am not addressing this to anyone in particular.
P.S.: I can't recommend buddy solves enough. I get tremendous value from sharing my thoughts with another regular here who really makes the shared deliberations all the more enjoyable!
You mean it's not just me? I guess we're the only ones.
That must be one of those "worth going to" parties that Will referred to in his Sunday puzzle -- a meaning for that three-letter entry that I was totally unaware of.
Yes, my association of that word with parties is entirely different. Perhaps still fun, but different.Bird Lives wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 7:03 amThat must be one of those "worth going to" parties that Will referred to in his Sunday puzzle -- a meaning for that three-letter entry that I was totally unaware of.
Well don't go to a sixth party, or make the mistake I did and go to a sith party, there were unsavory characters darthing all around the place.
I don't want to give away an answer, but it's only three letters
I teach Gen Z, so I did know this, haha.Bird Lives wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 7:03 amThat must be one of those "worth going to" parties that Will referred to in his Sunday puzzle -- a meaning for that three-letter entry that I was totally unaware of.
Who is impressed? I am impressed!