MGWCC #741 - “Time Travel”
- ReB
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Aargh! I figured out all the months and got to the last step, of looking at April-June (the missing four months), but it just didn't occur to me to repeat the three letter pattern and look at the remaining letters. That was just a bit beyond my vision it seems. That's two metas this week that I stumbled after making it to the last step (the other being "Hello Operator" where I performed the math operations and generated the correct letters but couldn't order them correctly).
- KayW
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...not to mention, 6A YUST gives me an opportunity to share this Christmas-in-August link:
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- MikeM000
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Indeed; my points being "when you're filling in the grid, your mind wants to make a real word, even if you have already filled in other month-endings elsewhere in the grid", and "Y"AP would have been more sensible (in my mind; YMMV) with a clue tuned more toward annoying, long-winded conversation, like this could qualify as if I do another reply.
- Joe Ross
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- woozy
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That's why I said it wasn't elegant. The mechanisms are not consistently applied. But the puzzleness of it all really makes up for it in my opinion. Anyone can do a puzzle where you just have to spell something out but one where you have to really chew at it is a real treat.
So I just plain couldn't get my meta based on "Up the Down Staircase" to work.
My challenge it to constructors is to make a meta where the meta, theme or metanism is "Up the Down Staircase".
My challenge it to constructors is to make a meta where the meta, theme or metanism is "Up the Down Staircase".
- ajk
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Wasn't until I actually wrote out the March-May set splitting off the first three that I figured out 6D. Took me 4 or 5 sessions to spot that.
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