XWord Muggles Forum

Amazingly enough, this:

AnswerPfinder wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 11:16 pm The second step is really well disguised.

was all the hint I needed. Don’t know ask me why, but it triggered something in my brain and I had an idea of something else to try. It didn’t work, but while looking at that, I saw the correct metanism.

I am out of the box.

Out of the box, after a series of helpful nudges from @boharr. Very tricky, indeed!

I need a nudge. Got nothin'.

I am where ricky is. A wee nudge would be welcomed.

Thx, Barbara. That hit the spot.

Me three.

I got it, but with a nudge. Feel like I should have thought of the 2nd step by myself, though.

I did take a hint, but DINO ME!

Got there with some nudges

I had a dream of a clever and consistent mechanism that would work for a puzzle titled length by length where the meta is something that is measured and with these themers. But for *this* puzzle it was utterly useless.

I guess I'll take a teensy nudge.

.... or I'll give up.

... or I'll take a teeny nudge.

Nudged to the dino.

I had the right idea all along just didn't apply it correctlly. Seems to be my problem lately (i.e. pig latin). Thanks to @BarbaraK for letting me know I was on the right track, just the wrong train.

DINO ME! I got some help. A perfect nudge which still left some work to do. I was actually typing in a request for more help when the next step jumped out from the notes I was typing. There was still a bit left to figure out after that.

What a fun puzzle!

Nudged out of the tar pits. Elegant metanism.

Well, I'm still in a nudge desert. I've no idea and have no nudges.

Got it with a helpful nudge. Not sure I would have seen it otherwise, but I should have given a recent meta that was a tough solve. Not the same Mx but similar enough that I shall now try to include that in my thought process. My problem is that there are so many different Mx that I cannot keep them all in mind.

Very cool route to the puzzle though.

So when and where are explanations given?

... oh, I get it..... but... I thought I had thought of that.

What is the explanation? Thanks in advance.

woozy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 12, 2022 11:25 am So when and where are explanations given?

... oh, I get it..... but... I thought I had thought of that.

Answer explanations go out in the weekly emails on Sunday mornings, along with the following week's puzzle. If you're interested in getting added to that email list, just shoot me a PM or an email and let me know!

Answers also get uploaded to PandorasBlocks.org whenever I get around to it, which is usually about a month(ish) later.

chaddgar wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 4:36 pm What is the explanation? Thanks in advance.

This was a really nice mechanism.

There was a clue that was two words each two letter long, a clue that was three words each three letters long, and so on. The coorespond to the square boards of sizes 2x2, 3x3, etc in the themers and the first letters of the entries spell the answer. I can't believe in my fevered scramblings I didn't stumble on that.