XWord Muggles Forum

Wendy Walker wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:44 am I'd be interested to learn which city was the first that folks "saw." For me it was Durban.

LAGOS, then PEZ.

PEZ was just on Jeopardy! (might have been a rerun though)

Did I miss the announcement of the mug winner again?

flyingMoose wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 12:20 pm

flyingMoose wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 10:33 am Over on Crossword Fiend, Matt responded to a few comments, even barking back. He comments occasionally but not often.

And how do I do a hyperlink? In this case, a link hidden behind rather than following "Crossword Fiend." I tried some stuff but perhaps not the right stuff.


--------answer to @flyingMoose's coding question--------
Coding for the above hyperlink:

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[url=https://crosswordfiend.com/2022/08/14/wsj-contest-friday-august-12-2022/#more-140506]Crossword Fiend[/url]

Thanks!!

Another way to decipher coding of anything you see on this site is to quote the post, then look at the coding in the body of the post you've quoted.

The code for XWord Muggles site is phpBB, not HTML. It's similar enough to cause all sorts of trouble.

Sorry for the summer delay--we are still waiting to confirm a winner. We had 1357 entries with 815 correct. Stay tuned!

Hear that? That's the sound of 815 people checking their spam folders

So many emails in the spam folder begin with “Congratulations!”

MikeMillerwsj wrote: ↑Wed Aug 17, 2022 5:18 pm Sorry for the summer delay--we are still waiting to confirm a winner. We had 1357 entries with 815 correct. Stay tuned!

From WSJ comments for this puzzle:

Mike Miller - 1 hour ago

Apologies for the summer delay this week! The contest answer is AFRICA. One word in each theme answer is the name of an African city with one letter changed: LAGOS, FEZ, ORAN, TUNIS, ACCRA and DURBAN. The changed letters spell the contest answer.

Solvers did quite a good job with this one! We had 1357 entries, 81% correct.

Incorrect answers included. ARABIA (34), EUROPE (8), AMAZON (5), BASQUE (2), and RUSSIA (2), among many others.

Congratulations to this week's winner, Sean Wright.

michaelm wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:15 pm

Thurman8er wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 2:17 pm There are no words for how much I despise Geography Metas.

No. Words.

But two in the same week???

Two math last week (WSJCC + MMM) and now two geography.
Must be Back to School time!

But I TEACH math!!!

815 ÷ 1357 = 60%

C=64 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 7:49 pm 815 ÷ 1357 = 60%

Theory 1: Mike meant to type 81% instead of 815 in post 1.
Theory 2: Mike meant to type 815 instead of 81% in post 2.
Theory 3: I'm spending too much time thinking about this

I emailed Mike and he replied that it was 81%.