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Re: "Body Language " October 6, 2023
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2023 4:58 pm
by MikeMillerwsj
The contest answer is NOSE. Change one letter in each theme entry to form a slang term for a body part: CHOPPERS, PIEHOLE, PEEPERS, TICKER and NOODLE. Then find an answer one letter off from the real names of those parts: teeth/SEETH, mouth/MONTH, eyes/OYES, heart/HUART, brain/TRAIN. Those changed letters spell SNOUT, a slang term for the contest answer.
Another tricky one with a twisty trail to the solution: We had 757 entries, about 70% correct. The prompt yielded a wide range of incorrect four-letter body parts including HEAD (42), PORE (18), EYES (15), HAND (12), SKIN (10), and a bunch of others.
Congrats to this week's winner: Paul H. Edelman of Nashville, Tenn.!
Re: "Body Language " October 6, 2023
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2023 10:18 pm
by Inca
OK, I really don't do well under pressure. And, apparently I feel pressured when I need to solve the meta by Sunday night and I don't see the path right away. Again, I only had time to look at this puzzle a short time on Thursday evening and then couldn't get back to it until today. I saw the path immediately tonight and then it took a few minutes to see which letters to pick up and in what order...and voila. This is not the first time this has happened to me. This was a very clever and involved meta....for me.
Re: "Body Language " October 6, 2023
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2023 8:27 pm
by higgysue
Jarrod wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 8:26 pm
Jarrod wrote: ↑Sat Oct 07, 2023 9:11 am
I have an answer that I'm almost positive is
NOT the desired answer. But I can show the steps. Will try again...
Follow up:
I did submit the correct answer, but did not follow the mechanic.
SEETH and HUART jumped out at me immediately after solving the grid. I noticed those (especially HUART) were one letter off from body parts. I figured that was a bit easy, so looked at the long answers, but didn't see anything jumping out, plus there were five long answers but the hint said four letters. I found two more body parts with one letter off (MONTH and OYES), and stopped there.
Looking at the replaced letters gave me SNOU, and I assumed I would then perform one more single letter replacement to solve...
ANUS ?!?
This made me laugh! The first mechanism I tried was to combine two entries together. 20A & 68A: POOHOLE? Really? But I couldn’t find any others so I gave up on that. Haha!