A place to discuss the weekly Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzle Contest, starting every Thursday around 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. Please do not post any answers or hints before the contest deadline which is midnight Sunday Eastern time.
First welcome to our newest muggle @Pfarr324 . Great to have more muggles.
And for those who don't watch the latest movies or in many cases any movies, I would regale you with the last two movies that we watched on our Amazon Fire. Last night was Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) and the night before was White Christmas (1954). Thus this week's meta required googling for which I have no apologies
Currently we have 2 muggles in the ship's bar working for Isaac doing inventory (femullen and JeanneC) and getting free drinks and we have 188 on the shore paying for their drinks
C=64
Mme
Brainbow
ky-mike
Al
MatthewL
Wendy
Cindy
Kay
MikeyG
michaelm
Heidi
MajorDomoTom
BisbeeTam
girubato1
docison
Tom Wi
Eric P
Lee-Ann
Pilsbandy
Birdbrain
clonefitz
David Wi
whimsy
Meg
Jeremy
DCBilly
darth
benchen71
DelanQ
Al Laubenstein
Tmart
Miki
Georgeall
Merry Potter
Aragorn
ColinM
Joe K
LittleGood
ajk
boharr
BrennerTJ
NebFaninCA
MileHighSolver
Don and Cynthia
Mike H
Jace54
M and M
joe
minimuggle
MarkWoychick
mkmf
hunkra
krf
CAe39
NuYear68
sharkicicles
woozy
Justmarebear
Joe R
Dave C
DavyGravy
oldjudge
Barbara K
Jayboy1
Trish
Flying_Burrito
Yoda66
Commodore
AaronT
Anita
Dannyvee
Jim and Anita
altosax
vandono
Tina
Cruise Director
Mirage
HeadinHome
Bill
SJMck
NDStegs
CPJohnson
Don and Lisa
b4alltime
TeamDoubleTow
Beth A
streroto
copperriver
Dr.Buttbeard
EVJ
Homer
SusieG
John77
newtar12
cbarbee
Hidden in 3D
Chris
Toby
Acarl
Char
Fred
Beth T
SamKat9
DrTom
meowmiao71
Kas
BigPear
chriscross
otlaolap
mattythewsjpuzzler
Dickie_Dunn
Les
0842sw
rjy
Ergcat
Penny_Keatley
Joepickett
Laura
elvanya
Wescovington
Sleepy
Bird Lives
Berto
Harbo
relic (and Maggie)
Cap'n Rick
Dow Jones
Kwyjibo
Luxmea
JoeFlanders
Lacangah
lbray
Scott M
Googly
Debbie
Ben B and son
Qmark
Franklin
P1h3r1e3d13
Katiedid
JaneGummy
SingleMalt
sjm
Ron
FloridaMan81
Inca
Pfarr324
jrdad
ZooAnimalsOnWheels
turbotron
Cindy N
Nlobb
jimbo1
Lyman
Teejels
Bob B
ImOnToo
jhseeman
lxpeterson
Alvibu67
Nycerjohnnie
Bonnibel
Richard
kgiano
Steveb
kjwilson89
Doug C
Crest
Janet
Craven_Mug_Craver
ladybird
Tom S
HunterX
Jean
Gman
MaineMarge
Lube On
Beth C
PhantomPhan
jmorgie7
auee89
EmilyW
Scott L
halseymac
Jarrod
bettedavis
D B Miller
Good luck to those not on the shore and hopefully we can have a streak of muggles winning the mug.
Looks like I'll start googling in earnest. Must say, as an Engineer working on headphones with Bose Corporation, I'm a bit disappointed that a puzzle titled "Sound Logic" wasn't an instant slam dunk for me.
Edit: Ashore. I'm a moron who's apparently too entrenched in my world of calculus and coding to do something as simple as count correctly. I've never seen the movie, but that reference is universal.
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all — the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
The WSJ meta for next week will come out on Thursday Thanksgiving Day at about 4 pm. Both Wendy and I will be unavailable to open the forum at that time so we have several options
1) I can open the forum when I get back to the hotel we are staying in but that will be sometime after 9 pm on Thursday
2) Another muggle can step up to be the Assistant Cruise Director to fill in when I am not available. As you probably know the forum runs on the efforts of a very small number of people compared to 2300 who are members of the forum. This is a totally nontechnical job, so if you are willing to help out, send me a PM and we can go from there.
3) There are a couple of other options but they lean on the same key people that do all the other yeoman work to keep this forum humming.
Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 8:19 pm
NOTES FOR NEXT WEEK'S WSJ META
The WSJ meta for next week will come out on Thursday Thanksgiving Day at about 4 pm. Both Wendy and I will be unavailable to open the forum at that time so we have several options
1) I can open the forum when I get back to the hotel we are staying in but that will be sometime after 9 pm on Thursday
2) Another muggle can step up to be the Assistant Cruise Director to fill in when I am not available. As you probably know the forum runs on the efforts of a very small number of people compared to 2300 who are members of the forum. This is a totally nontechnical job, so if you are willing to help out, send me a PM and we can go from there.
3) There are a couple of other options but they lean on the same key people that do all the other yeoman work to keep this forum humming.
Thanks
Option 4 could be simply to open a forum before the puzzle comes out. You might not be able to include details and description in the top post (but you could edit that later) or include any title more descriptive than "TBA Nov. 23, 2023" (I assume you can change the title later but even if you can't ... would that be so bad) but surely we can handle that. We aren't fussy toddles after all.... well, most of us aren't, well, some of us aren't, well...