One of the most amazing parts of the live presentation was the way they described the solving process for the examples chosen. For puzzles I’d stared at for hours or days, it was mesmerizing to see them fully unraveled and explained clearly in just a few minutes! The key was to immediately focus on the right things!
Anyway, I was really inspired by that, and for this week’s puzzle, noticed the triple letters in the likely theme answers, as I was solving the grid. Every step after that felt very logical and flowed right out. I was in the meta zone! And I really enjoy the multi-step ones!
Just a side note - I think some of the messages for the registration process were a little confusing. I thought I needed to register for the talk, but really I just needed to be a registered wsj user, as I already had been for years in order to comment on the puzzle blog in the past. I didn’t need to buy a subscription.