The More Things Change
- Abide
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The cluing here seems far superior to your other efforts (not that those others were bad, just saying)
After two days I have made no traction. Can you use your spoiler button to provide an alternate title or instruction? I'm sure I'm not the only one.
After two days I have made no traction. Can you use your spoiler button to provide an alternate title or instruction? I'm sure I'm not the only one.
The site is just a web page, a meeting place, a clubhouse - it's the group that's special.
—Brian MacDonald
—Brian MacDonald
- BrianMac
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Start here:
On the cluing, I would love to hear more specificity about what you liked, just in the interest of improving. I think I used fewer "out-of-the-can" clues on this one, but do you mean you found them harder, easier, fewer spelling errors?
- Abide
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Overall just VERY original and fresh.
Some examples:
Clues that evoke imagery - Superman/Clark Kent for that routine three letter word
Subtle misdirection - Bookend valuable pieces
Home run on the Cavalier Pacer Maverick. There’s a puzzle theme right there.
Variety- musical references from multiple decades.
Ok now I will look at the spoiler....
Some examples:
Clues that evoke imagery - Superman/Clark Kent for that routine three letter word
Subtle misdirection - Bookend valuable pieces
Home run on the Cavalier Pacer Maverick. There’s a puzzle theme right there.
Variety- musical references from multiple decades.
Ok now I will look at the spoiler....
The site is just a web page, a meeting place, a clubhouse - it's the group that's special.
—Brian MacDonald
—Brian MacDonald
- BrianMac
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Thanks, Abide, that is helpful. I can't claim credit for all of the clues...more on that after the reveal!
- MajordomoTom
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that one had me going for quite a while - very nice clue.Abide wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 9:47 pm Overall just VERY original and fresh.
Some examples:
Clues that evoke imagery - Superman/Clark Kent for that routine three letter word
Subtle misdirection - Bookend valuable pieces
Home run on the Cavalier Pacer Maverick. There’s a puzzle theme right there.
Variety- musical references from multiple decades.
Ok now I will look at the spoiler....
I'm still working too much on tax returns that I've not been able to solve this one ... which is frustrating me. No nudges, I've already figured out more than the spoiler, but still haven't solved it.
"Lots of planets have a North", the Ninth Doctor.
- boharr
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I concur.MajordomoTom wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 12:14 amthat one had me going for quite a while - very nice clue.
- boharr
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I'm wondering if for the sake of those newbies who struggle with these, the prompts could say a bit more in addition to the answer is a x-number of words.
Something like, "The answer to the meta is a six-letter word for an idiot who can never solve these things."
Maybe that would seem to make the puzzle too easy?
Something like, "The answer to the meta is a six-letter word for an idiot who can never solve these things."
Maybe that would seem to make the puzzle too easy?
- BrianMac
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Solution and explanation in the spoiler box.
Thanks to everyone who solved this one. I hope you liked it.
- boharr
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- Al Sisti
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This was a great meta, and with each one, you're setting yourself apart as a gifted constructor. Turns out you're a pretty swell mentor as well. Yeah, I said "swell." It's one of the many vocabules in my vocabulary.
- TMart
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- MajordomoTom
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didn't solve it, but very elegant construction.
"Lots of planets have a North", the Ninth Doctor.