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Re: MEOW #133 Cast Away
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2023 11:14 pm
by Qmark
Cat's away! Loved it, Cap'n Rick!
Re: MEOW #133 Cast Away
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2023 5:54 am
by Schmeel
Cat's gone.
It took me a while to see.
Re: MEOW #133 Cast Away
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2023 7:44 am
by Cap'n Rick
Leaderboard Updates
Okay, I'm going to try to maintain two separate leaderboards for the meta and Easter eggs. Please let me know if I miss anyone on either board!
Meta Leaderboard
Abide (TS)
Al Sisti (TS)
boharr (TS)
MarkWoychick (TS)
DrTom (TS)
benchen71
markhr
hoover
Dow Jones
rjy
Tom Wilson
Cindy Weatherman
BarbaraK
Meg
whimsy
Iopmueller
ky-mike
JM
Tim
MaineMarge
ChrisKochmanski
JHSeeman
Bird Lives
MatthewL
lbray53
Carolyn
kurtalert
Bbaack
DIS
Ergcat
SJMcK
woozy
Johnny Luau
andeux
dudeski
BrennerTJ
Andrew Bradburn
DebbieC
imontoo
ajk
Jaclyn
Tyrpmom
hcbirker
KayW
Gutman
Mr Tex
Darth
SewYoung
Deb W
Qmark
Schmeel
That makes 52 including test solvers. We're off to a great start!
Easter Egg Leaderboard
benchen71
Dow Jones
rjy
whimsy
ky-mike
Bird Lives
MatthewL
lbray53
BrennerTJ
Andrew Bradburn
DebbieC
hcbirker
KayW
Gutman
Darth
Tyrpmom
Schmeel
That makes 17 successful egg hunters so far! Keep looking, and remember to send me a PM.
Re: MEOW #133 Cast Away
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2023 8:38 am
by schmidzy
I think the cat got stuck in the Easter eggs and is refusing to come out.
Re: MEOW #133 Cast Away
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2023 1:41 pm
by HeadinHome
Embarrassingly long swim to shore — UH, I mean long time on the couch. Thoroughly enjoyed reminiscing.
Re: MEOW #133 Cast Away
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 8:26 am
by Cap'n Rick
Meta Leaderboard Update
Joe
THC
HeadinHome
Berto
Sharkicicles
Qmark
dsbened
That makes 59.
Easter Egg Leaderboard Update
Joe
Cindy
Carolyn
boharr
MarkWoychick
THC
HeadinHome
Berto
Sharkicicles
Tyrpmom
Qmark
That makes 28 successful egg hunters.
Mrs. Cap'n and I are celebrating our anniversary in Newport, RI this week, and Im trying to manage everything via my cell phone. Please let me know if I've missed anyone!
Thanks
Re: MEOW #133 Cast Away
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 11:30 am
by CPJohnson
Solved, with a suggestion from @Cinny. Still working on the Easter eggs. Thanks, Cap'n Rick!
Re: MEOW #133 Cast Away
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 5:38 pm
by schmidzy
The cat has fallen out of the bag by coincidence!
Re: MEOW #133 Cast Away
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2023 8:20 am
by Cap'n Rick
Meta Leaderboard Update
Four more solvers bring our total to
63:
CPJohnson (any relation to 58A?
)
Pair O Ducks
Laura M
schmidzy
Easter Egg Leaderboard Update
(No change)
Re: MEOW #133 Cast Away
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2023 8:14 am
by Cap'n Rick
Meta Leaderboard Update
Happy Father's Day, everyone. Three more solvers bring our total to 66
ReB
mimka
PuzNewbie
Easter Egg Leaderboard Update
And three more have found the Easter eggs bringing that total to 31:
ReB
schmidzy
PuzNewbie
Reveals tomorrow!
Re: MEOW #133 Cast Away
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2023 9:25 pm
by Cap'n Rick
Ahoy Muggles!
The meta answer is
"LOUISE", as in
"Tina Louise" the actress who played movie star "Ginger Grant" in the sitcom
"Gilligan's Island", which aired on CBS between 1964-67. Tina is currently 89 years young and is the only living cast member from the show.
To solve, puzzlers needed to find the last names of the other cast members (i.e.
castaways) in the grid including Bob DENVER (Gilligan), Alan HALE, Jr. (the Skipper), Natalie SCHAFER (Mrs. "Lovey" Howell), Dawn Wells (Mary Ann), Russell JOHNSON (the Professor), and Jim BACKUS (Thurston Howell III). LOUISE was the only one missing and hence the meta answer. Since it was a relatively easy mechanism for those of us "of a certain age", I tried to push the envelope a bit with the Easter eggs. Originally I had about a dozen, which I've highlighted in the show's theme song lyrics and below.
ATSEA, they were definitely lost!
LIFE / RAFT, a handy item to have when you're shipwrecked
THELMA, who is missing a different "LOUISE"
Following release I received several additional suggestions from the Muggle community pushing the total north of 20 eggs:
OAHU, last port of call for the
"S.S. Minnow" (Thanks,
@benchen71!)
ATILT and
ALIST, describing the position of the MINNOW after she ran aground
JIM, as in Backus
JACK Arnold, the show's director
MERLIN, the "Mind Reader" who taught Ginger how to do magic tricks
ZAC Turney, who played Gilligan on “The Real Gilligan’s Isle”
LIL Abner, Tina was in a Broadway stage production with Julie Newmar; also "Li'l Buddy" was the Skipper's nickname for Gilligan
SHOE, "Cuz Gilligan’s white sneakers are just iconic"
ISAAC, "for the thematic perfection of this one" (BTW, those last two were courtesy of
@HeadinHome )
Finally, as an added bonus, the first letters of the clues associated with the cast members' names spell
"G-I-N-G-E-R".
Thanks for solving, everyone! Congratulations to
@Beth Tyrpin - the randomly-selected winner of the Easter egg hunt who will receive a special
"S.S. Minnow" coffee mug!!!
Until next time,
Cap'n Rick
Re: MEOW #133 Cast Away
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2023 2:24 am
by sharkicicles
This is honestly one of the most fun metas ever.
I probably skew slightly younger than some folks here but WGN 9 Chicago played this so often I probably saw each episode at least a few times during my childhood.
Re: MEOW #133 Cast Away
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2023 12:11 pm
by HeadinHome
I didn’t even see the first-letter-of-the-clues thing! Man this was one tight meta. Kudos again.
Re: MEOW #133 Cast Away
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2023 8:22 am
by CPJohnson
Cap'n Rick wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 8:20 am
Meta Leaderboard Update
CPJohnson (any relation to 58A?
)
Nope, no relation. Mr. CPJohnson's folks were from Sweden.
Re: MEOW #133 Cast Away
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2023 3:32 pm
by jhseeman
@Cap'n Rick I had mentioned my dad looked like the Skipper (alan hale)...realized I didn't have a great picture of my dad (mainly because he like myself was smart enough to take pictures not be in them). But here's one at my graduation from college I did have.
Re: MEOW #133 Cast Away
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2023 5:29 pm
by Cap'n Rick
jhseeman wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 3:32 pm
@Cap'n Rick I had mentioned my dad looked like the Skipper (alan hale)...realized I didn't have a great picture of my dad (mainly because he like myself was smart enough to take pictures not be in them). But here's one at my graduation from college I did have.
Thanks for sharing your Dad's photo, John. He's definitely the spitting image of the "Skipper"!
Re: MEOW #133 Cast Away
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 11:48 am
by DrTom
Craziness has been reigning at the Burnakis household and I did not get to circle back and thank Cap’n Rick for this amusing, tight, and generationally targeted (delightfully so) meta. Ricky’s metas are always so complete I try not to follow him out of fear of comparison.