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84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:00 pm
by MikeyG
PDF and PUZ
Crosshare
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My mood when the Cubs lose. (Spring training starts next week!)
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Puzzle #83 answer:
BISMUTH AS USUAL
Correct entries:
47, a solid level
3 meta!
@BrennerTJ is in her element!
Explanation: The ten highlighted four-letter entries (meant to roughly visualize a "table") are formed by concatenating two elements with a 2-letter symbol, per the center clue. Take those elements' atomic numbers, add them, and get another atomic symbol corresponding to the new atomic number. These spell out
BISMUTH AS USUAL, the fitting pun to our 83rd meta (bismuth being #83 as well!).
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This should be a
Level 2. (Famous last words.)
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84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
The answer to the meta is a well-known individual who shares my birthday, 2/17.
Deadline is
Saturday, February 24 at
1 pm ET.
Good luck, and may all your solves be beautiful! (And happy birthday,
@Meg!)
Mikey G
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:16 pm
by oldjudge
Happy birthday, Mikey---Great puzzle!
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:35 pm
by schmidzy
Happy birthday! Cheers to many more years of punderful puzzles ahead.
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 2:19 pm
by boharr
Happy, happy, Mikey. And thanks or another fun one.
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:21 pm
by Meg
For a fleeting moment I thought you had constructed a puzzle for me!! But it’s OK. I thoroughly enjoyed solving. Happy birthday Mikey!
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:38 pm
by Abide
Happy Birthday MG !(and MeG?)
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:55 pm
by Joe Ross
Happy birthday, M!
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:12 pm
by SamKat9
Thanks for the puzzle! Happy birthdays to Mikey and Meg!
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:32 pm
by benchen71
Solved. That was fun! Also, happy birthday!
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:06 pm
by MatthewL
Happy birthday, Mikey! Thanks for the puzzle!
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:00 pm
by whimsy
Happy B-Day,
@Meg and
@MikeyG!
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 7:01 pm
by KayW
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:41 pm
by ChrisKochmanski
GNEISS!!
Though, I’ll admit, I needed a nudge — and I shouldn’t have. We were working the early-voting polls — first day for it ever here in Michigan! (Presidential primary) — after coming off a bit of travel and other work, and I must say, I’m tired. Getting too old for all that plus puzzles.
Happy b-day, Mikey! (And Meg!)
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:58 pm
by Darth
Hey,
@MikeyG!....(and
@Meg, too!)
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:48 am
by Cinny
Happy Belated Birthday Mikey and Meg.
I was stuck on step 2, although I should have seen it on my own. Thanks for the week 2 meta. I really needed it after MGWCC.
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:48 am
by lbray53
Happy Birthday! I struggled to find all of the things that I needed.
I got sidetracked by my discovery that the International Committee of the Red Cross was founded on February 17, 1863. That is not the answer to the meta. I hope this is not too much of a spoiler.
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 1:44 pm
by Qmark
Got it...happy birthday Mikey! Thanks for another fun meta.
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:13 pm
by HeadinHome
Cute little happy-birthday-to-me puzzle from Mikey, which I thoroughly enjoyed celebrating with him!
Re: 84. It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 6:46 pm
by rjy
Fun one, Mikey! Happy bday as well to you and all those other muggles chiming in!