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MGWCC #772 — Friday, March 17th, 2023 — “World Leaders”

THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:

This week’s contest answer is a famous Irish person.

Solve well, and be not led astray by words intended to deceive.


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Fun puzzle. Made me smile!

Interesting one...I have things that are way too coincidental to not be the metanism, and the stuff I have leans Irish, but it's neither a complete answer nor is the one person I know of with that name Irish....

#14

MikeM000 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 2:24 pm Interesting one...I have things that are way too coincidental to not be the metanism, and the stuff I have leans Irish, but it's neither a complete answer nor is the one person I know of with that name Irish....

Agreed. Need that final piece to click

4 wrong out of the first 22 submissions has me leery of taking a educated guess

ky-mike wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 2:42 pm

MikeM000 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 2:24 pm Interesting one...I have things that are way too coincidental to not be the metanism, and the stuff I have leans Irish, but it's neither a complete answer nor is the one person I know of with that name Irish....

Agreed. Need that final piece to click

I assume I’m in the same spot as both of you.

Edit: got it. On the board!

Beam me up!

I enjoyed the last step here. Awaiting a board update.

ETA: 26th on the board. Would complain about Matt's delay leading to a conflict with a work call I had scheduled for 2, but I also had a call scheduled for noon

docison wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 2:56 pm I enjoyed the last step here. Awaiting a board update.

Same. Cheers, neighbor!

Beam me up! Fun one!

Beamed up at 19.

Pretty sure I've got it, and if I'm right I feckin' LOVE it. (please forgive the language --- it's St. Paddy's Day after all!)

Edit: #56!

Beamed up. Nice one.

Had I been online at 2 pm, I might have been in the top ten. But I wasn't and I wasn't.
Hard to believe that this is really a Week 3 and that as of this writing, 10% of the answers are wrong.

I managed to overcomplicate this one as well (as the WSJCC) but I think I'm poised to beam up! Just missed an update though.

Edit: #68!

Beamed up. Some ambiguity for me, but talked it through with a fellow solver and voila!

#74. Nice one

I submitted what surely must be the answer. I am a bit worried about 10% of submissions being wrong though.

UPDATE: Beamed aboard at #78. I believe that this is my first sub 100!

Beamed.

Yesterday evening, I had a rabbit hole on the WSJ, which didn't work out at all, so I thought about trying to make a meta with that mechanism. It was unsuccessful. Just as well because the answer was going to be the same famous Irish person as the MGWCC's.