Now I realize the board hasn’t been updated since about the time I submitted. Shows how obsessed I’ve become with this whole thing
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Edit And there it is with the update, and the
So... You have to finish the grid, yet you submitted at 12:03???
Same here. Downs only. I was pretty sure what the prompt would be, but I downloaded the .puz just to be sure. I didn't want my streak to reset to zero. A Ten badge is nothing to sneeze at, right?
I think he's saying he *did* finish the grid.
This was easy. It was the first week of the month. They are supposed to be easy.
Yeah, to be clear, I did finish the grid. Downloaded off patreon at 12 (if i am at my computer, i may as well go get the puzzle rather than waiting for it to show up) and saw where the answer was going soon enough, but just can't bring myself to submit until all the squares are full.ricky wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 11:04 amI think he's saying he *did* finish the grid.
I got the email at 12:04 (couldn't get the Patreon page to load) and submitted at 12:07, which showed up as 12:08, but I definitely did not finish the grid.
It's funny how much the gap between the Patreon post going up and the email going out matters for Week 1 standings and how little it matters by Week 4.
At least for me - there have been Week 4s where I got the .puz right at 12:00, flew through the grid, got to meta solving at 12:05... And finally figured out the meta 2 days later.
I think the first one he published like that was the Whoopi Goldberg puzzle. There was enough meat to the entries that you could have solved it without the prompt, but I think every one since then would be nigh-unsolvable without the prompt. I think the Jacksonville Jaguars one was prompt-less, and without knowing it's an NFL team how do you know it isn't Judge Judy or DY-NO-MITE or whatever has JJ initials?rjy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 12:08 pm I've boldly - er, foolishly - submitted downs-only-no-instructions (DONI) twice so far without ever looking at the prompt, but had to peek this time after musing all weekend about Eleanor Roosevelt and Electromagnetic Radiation. My initial thought was ER or Emergency Room, but did not have the confidence to submit. Waited til the end to peek (and get my Buzzer Beater badge as well!)
Seems a Week 0 for the puzzle proper, but a Week 3+ for DONI. Nearly impossible to submit with confidence......... except the title made it a fair - if difficult - fight. I just didn't interpret it properly.
Anyone out there submit the DONI without ever peeking??
Interesting. Never knew about the E/R show. And both Mary McDonnell and that other fella went on to ER.MikeM000 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 1:29 pm Wow, I can't believe anyone else remembers E/R. It was a sitcom that only lasted one season in the mid-80s, and it did not re-establish Elliott Gould to the A-list as was its intent. It did, however, launch Jason "George Costanza" Alexander and multiple Oscar nominee Mary McDonnell to fame. There was another guy in it...what happened to him? I think he played a young doctor fresh out of med school...handsome fella; Irish last name; think he had a famous aunt? Hmm.