Count Off Into Teams
- KayW
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- Location: Chicago
Nudged out of the tar pits. Yes, that was tough! Thanks, Will
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.
- DrTom
- Posts: 3920
- Joined: Sat Apr 20, 2019 6:46 pm
- Location: Jacksonville, FL
Wow, I cannot remember when I was so frustrated and then so amazed at the same time. This puzzle is easily the rival of "Word for Word" for its complexity and ingenuity (and in the end simplicity) at the same time. Even when I had some of the steps in hand I still had a tough time getting out of the box. I can't really count this as a solve, but I will certainly take credit for the journey. EXCELLENT job Will.
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!
- benchen71
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Dinoed, after a nudge from @DrTom. Tricky puzzle!
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- Cap'n Rick
- Posts: 1607
- Joined: Sun Aug 02, 2020 12:44 pm
- Location: Nahant, MA
That was quite a mechanism, Will! Needed the Friday Muggle ZOOM group - particularly @BarbaraK - to point me in the right direction, but I'm out of the box!
- ReB
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- Location: East Tennessee
Out of the box, part of which was of my construction while trying to solve - with thanks to BarbaraK earlier today in the Zoom group to start me off - though I created some unnecessary obstacles due to carelessness. Remarkable that Will could pull this off in a standard 17x17 grid.
- Bird Lives
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Awesome puzzle. I thought of how it must work when I first filled in the grid, didn't have the precise technique, put it aside and forgot about it till it was brought up in the Zoom.
Jay
- Abide
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I needed an ejector seat button but am finally out. Very clever idea!
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- rjy
- Posts: 1070
- Joined: Fri Oct 08, 2021 12:52 pm
- Location: Gaithersburg, MD
I’ve got a major piece done, but 25m to go and not sure I can bring this in for a landing…
Ray
- rjy
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Post-deadline dino here, required WAY too many nudges so the AHA was muted, but not my admiration for the construction. Kudos, Will!
Ray
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It all makes so much sense when it's explained! I started on the right track but counted to 2 and to 4 (because when do you ever need 3 teams? You'd think I would have tried it though...). I also spent some time finding which 3- and 4-letter words in the grid could be formed from each of the 12-letter words, but somehow I never put the concepts together. Nice puzzle, anyway!
- woozy
- Posts: 2282
- Joined: Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:40 am
When/where will it be explained?
Stinky Pinkies!
My Entry to the May 2024 CrossHare Midi Contest
Not a meta, but, yeesh!, that was tough to create.
My Entry to the May 2024 CrossHare Midi Contest
Not a meta, but, yeesh!, that was tough to create.
- whimsy
- Posts: 2857
- Joined: Sun Jun 21, 2020 9:51 am
- Location: Hopkinton MA
In general you can get a solution/explanation for a Pandora puzzle when a new one appears.
https://pandorasblocks.org/metapuzzles
However, neither of the two most recent solutions have been posted yet, which I attribute to the fact that they are going to be discussed in the next
Outside the Blocks podcast. Expected to come out this Sunday --
https://outsidetheblocks.buzzsprout.com/
(Info about Outside the Blocks under Acapulco Lounge thread. Hope this helps even though you might have to wait a bit.)
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I think the main issue is not the forthcoming podcast but just that @AnswerPfinder sometimes forgets to update the website. BUT, if you are subscribed to the email list, you get an email with the full solution one week after the puzzle goes out. So subscribers to the email list received solutions to both of the previous two puzzles. If you want to subscribe to the list, you can do that by scrolling to the bottom of the Pandora's Blocks website and typing in your email.whimsy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 1:37 pm https://pandorasblocks.org/metapuzzles
However, neither of the two most recent solutions have been posted yet, which I attribute to the fact that they are going to be discussed in the next
Outside the Blocks podcast. Expected to come out this Sunday --
https://outsidetheblocks.buzzsprout.com/
- AnswerPfinder
- Posts: 122
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- Location: Hadley, MA
Me??? Forget to do something???? NEVER!!
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.
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Waiting multiple weeks for solutions is a turnoff to me.whimsy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 1:37 pmIn general you can get a solution/explanation for a Pandora puzzle when a new one appears.
https://pandorasblocks.org/metapuzzles
However, neither of the two most recent solutions have been posted yet, which I attribute to the fact that they are going to be discussed in the next
Outside the Blocks podcast. Expected to come out this Sunday --
https://outsidetheblocks.buzzsprout.com/
(Info about Outside the Blocks under Acapulco Lounge thread. Hope this helps even though you might have to wait a bit.)