I'll send you a hint
Mike
I ended up deviating from the method a little. My route:hoover wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2023 5:06 pmI'm going to try BarbaraK's method. So far I've got step 1 down pat, but let me sit here and practice it a little more just to make sure.BarbaraK wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2023 7:31 pm My process on this one:
- See nothing
- Try some of the usual things
- Notice something that seemed very likely to be relevant
- Find more stuff
- Misinterpret what it all meant
- Keep looking and finally see what actually was going on
- Wonder how to get a musician from that
- Realize something that still left some ambiguity
- Have a big aha moment that had me laughing out loud at the cleverness of it all
I'm in the exact same boat with this puzzle. Just FINALLY figured it out (I think!), submitted in all caps (for some reason; no idea why) and am not on the board. Ah, well.FKelly wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2023 5:50 pm Considering the title, I thought there could be only one plausible answer. However, I'm not showing up on the board!
I see now that there may be another less famous and less plausible answer. Or perhaps the fact that I submitted in all-caps may have delayed acknowledgment. Think I know the Red Herring and on the trail of the Mega Meta.
Heh Heh. Me too.BarbaraK wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 9:26 am To expand on my previous post a bit, when I don’t see anything in a puzzle, I try the
https://boisvert42.github.io/mechapuzzle/
site. It’s an easy way to get a basic analysis. This week, the thing that jumped out was the high number of G’s, and when I highlighted them and saw the spacing, I knew I was on to something.
Initially though, I focused on seeing 3 of them in each of two rows and columns, so I looked for other letters like that and found several. That didn’t directly go anywhere, but the GNR sequence in the outside rows and columns got my attention.
When I highlighted them and saw a grid full of slashes, it was a no doubter.
Thanks! That email from Pete was an awesome surprise on a Monday morning!