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My submission of NINEPINS (no bowling) was deemed to be correct. I didn't realize that SEEP was supposed to be SEEpin so I only had nine pins. (I didn't get AGT... I figured it was AST which doesn't really make sense in hindsight but at the time seemed plausible.
I would think just the graphic would justify "Bowling" alone. But then again, I never even noticed the graphic until hours after submitting... (I was fairly convinced when I saw the pins I had to count them and wanted to make sure whether it was nine, eight, ten, seven or eleven--- when I counted there were nine I couldn't see how it could be anything else---{can't be Bowling if there are only nine pines, no ball and no order to the pins})lbray53 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 10:20 pm If the foot race was supposed to be 5K it seems like this one should be ten pins. Since ten pins and bowling both have seven letters I tried, in vain, to find a connection in the clues or grid to justify bowling. Since I could not find one and it was a week one, I submitted TEN PINS.
I was probably overly influenced by the 5K puzzle because I was sure that the answer should have been half marathon due to the 21 K's in the grid. That turned out to be correct. I was not about to make the same mistake, so I went with Ten Pins instead of Bowling. Thankfully, Matt was good enough to accept both of my "wrong" answers.woozy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 08, 2022 3:50 pmI would think just the graphic would justify "Bowling" alone. But then again, I never even noticed the graphic until hours after submitting... (I was fairly convinced when I saw the pins I had to count them and wanted to make sure whether it was nine, eight, ten, seven or eleven--- when I counted there were nine I couldn't see how it could be anything else---{can't be Bowling if there are only nine pines, no ball and no order to the pins})lbray53 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 10:20 pm If the foot race was supposed to be 5K it seems like this one should be ten pins. Since ten pins and bowling both have seven letters I tried, in vain, to find a connection in the clues or grid to justify bowling. Since I could not find one and it was a week one, I submitted TEN PINS.
And, no, bowling is not immediate by the title alone. Baseball, Football, Hockey, etc. all have leagues as well.