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Holy cow, I submitted 2 minutes after it went on Patreon and still only got #14.

Beamed up.

#3?!?! I submitted right when my clock hit 1:30. Thought for sure I'd get that 1-Across achievement (or totally blow it) this week. Wow, you two are fast.

Oh well, I'm still pleased with myself being brave enough to submit without even seeing the puzzle. Tempted before but never actually done it.

Ha! My no-look guess was no good in shooting for that 1-Across.

sharkicicles wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 2:02 pm Holy cow, I submitted 2 minutes after it went on Patreon and still only got #14.

Very competitive crowd. Was tempted to submit a guess before the puzzle was out, which seems to be the best strategy to be at the top in week 1.

#17.

Maybe would have beat sharkcicles if i didnt bother wasting valuable time by printing it out.

Sliding in at # 48.

Nice Week 1.

Weekend now free!

Hopefully Beamed up.

UPDATE: beamed up.

But wait....this means I have no excuse to not work on the HoneyDo list this weekend.....dang.

Got tired of waiting so submitted a blind guess, which for the first time I got right, BUT STILL TOO SLOW!!

Congrats Barbara, Hector and LL!

Ugh-- guessed quickly and whiffed

Larrry wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 2:09 pm

sharkicicles wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 2:02 pm Holy cow, I submitted 2 minutes after it went on Patreon and still only got #14.

Very competitive crowd. Was tempted to submit a guess before the puzzle was out, which seems to be the best strategy to be at the top in week 1.

#17.

Maybe would have beat sharkcicles if i didnt bother wasting valuable time by printing it out.

COUSIN LARRY!

I did save a few seconds by doing it on the iPad.

Wow, this seems like the wrong week to be aiming for the top of the board... Was frantically refreshing the Patreon for the grid and didn't want to take the risk of submitting a wild guess. On the board at #75.

Beam me up!





(5 peops mis-solved/guessed, already. )

I started a bit late, and shamefully (in hindsight) had to get help from Google, but on the board at #51. I feel the pain of those who "lose time" to the speedsters by, e.g., printing out the puzzle.

Beamed up at #70, about right for a week 1! In awe of the solvers who submitted before the puzzle was out...

I guess the puzzle appears on Patreon before it is emailed? I was incessantly refreshing my email, but now I see some people submitted before I received it. Or did they guess? I am at home today instead of at work, and since it's a week one, I was trying to get the Quicksolver badge (which hasn't shown up on my achievements yet, but I'm hoping it will with the slightly later release . . . )

Also, now what am I supposed to do with my weekend? Have happily solved the WSJ and MMMM . . .

I am technically on vacation today so it was fun to (hopefully solve) before work would normally get out.

Why am I compelled to finish Matt's Week #1 puzzle after I've already guessed the meta after two of the longer entries? To quote Edmund Hillary: "Because it is there."

Beamed up!

Sara Dacus wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 2:28 pm I guess the puzzle appears on Patreon before it is emailed? I was incessantly refreshing my email, but now I see some people submitted before I received it. Or did they guess? I am at home today instead of at work, and since it's a week one, I was trying to get the Quicksolver badge (which hasn't shown up on my achievements yet, but I'm hoping it will with the slightly later release . . . )

Guessed. The title and prompt were on Matt's site slightly before 1:30.