Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
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OK, finally got the grid with lots of Google. Got the meta pretty quickly and for kind of the right reason. I didn't appreciate the full mechanism until reading crosswordfiend.
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Yes. Not too far into the solve I split my pc screen with Across Lite on the left and a web browser on the right because I knew I'd be googling more entries than not. Meta solve was instantaneous by comparison. I can't wait to hear the discussion on this - and everything else - on the 29th.
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.
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lol I was about to post a joke about whether I'd still be let into the zoom if I hadn't solved the meta when...it just jumped out at me.
Definitely 3-4 googles required, plus a few more to confirm things I wasn't 100% sure on. It's funny how these things are sometimes like magic eye puzzles (which are apparently officially called autostereograms).
Definitely 3-4 googles required, plus a few more to confirm things I wasn't 100% sure on. It's funny how these things are sometimes like magic eye puzzles (which are apparently officially called autostereograms).
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That was a fun puzzle that I had done about a year ago. It is one of the puzzles in Matt’s book “Mental Floss”. BTW, that book is highly recommended.
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How many active muggles are there?Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 11:50 am Also I am trying to get a handle of how many people plan on going to the zoom Q&A. Could you send me a PM to indicate yes or no so we can take a guess.
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I am going to give you several numbershoover wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 6:08 pmHow many active muggles are there?Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 11:50 am Also I am trying to get a handle of how many people plan on going to the zoom Q&A. Could you send me a PM to indicate yes or no so we can take a guess.
there are1349 members on this site.
There are 964 muggles (those who have declared themselves on the ship or shore at least once over the past 4+ years). There are muggles are not members of the web site and members of the web site who are not muggles
Of the 964 muggles -
about 110 participate over 90% of the time
another 100 participate between 50-90% of the time
another 200 participate randomly (less than 50% of the time)
And Matt is going to announce it on his web site where he has just over 3900 participants of which I would say about 800 are active. Overlap with our group is probably 30%
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Bob could you please be more informative. (I'll *probably* be there.)
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3900+ is everyone who has ever submitted an answer in the history of the site.Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 8:17 pm And Matt is going to announce it on his web site where he has just over 3900 participants of which I would say about 800 are active. Overlap with our group is probably 30%
Matt's Patreon page currently has 1130 subscribers. There are also a few people who get the puzzles via email because they had prepaid for subscriptions or are luddites (or both )
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1339,964,110,10,200,3900,1130
I hope you all know that these numbers will all soon appear in parens in a puzzle.
I hope you all know that these numbers will all soon appear in parens in a puzzle.
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Alright time to start the betting pool on number of participants. I say 87.
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Does this have Price is Right rules? (BTW Bob Barker is apparently still alive.)
Edit: and is apparently a HUGE animal welfare supporter. Who (not me) knew.
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Is there an over/under?
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Prize TBD
no over/under, just jellybeans in a jar
no over/under, just jellybeans in a jar
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(There's always that one guy, right?)
Are we talking total visits? Most at one time? The number who stay for the entire presentation?
Whatever, I say 163.
Are we talking total visits? Most at one time? The number who stay for the entire presentation?
Whatever, I say 163.
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All-in. Count every jellybean. Matt Gaffney, Mike Shenk, Mike Miller, Bob Stevens: your Cruise Director, you... Add'em up & post your guess.
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