Muggle Meta: Treat It Leisurely
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Grid = done --
12D = perplexed, then amused --
Meta = work in progress.
12D = perplexed, then amused --
Meta = work in progress.
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Nice puzzle. Let’s just say I didn’t see all the steps.....My bad.
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I'm still at the point that apparently Meg and Richard B. have been at some point -- a step away -- and have been for a couple of days.
That Leisurely has me bamboozled -- I sit and relax and slowly and repeatedly drawl words, or syllables, or snippets I've found, but it hasn't helped!![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
Although I believe I see the guys with the NETs coming for me aGAIN.
That Leisurely has me bamboozled -- I sit and relax and slowly and repeatedly drawl words, or syllables, or snippets I've found, but it hasn't helped!
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
Although I believe I see the guys with the NETs coming for me aGAIN.
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I'm thinking of posting puzzles regularly on Mondays, and the solutions to previous puzzles on Sundays. How does that sound to everyone?
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Mad—the MMM (Muggle Meta Monday) puzzle drops on Monday. How about Wednesday? I have no metas scheduled for Wednesday.madhatter5 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 4:00 pm I'm thinking of posting puzzles regularly on Mondays, and the solutions to previous puzzles on Sundays. How does that sound to everyone?
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Ok! Unless anyone disagrees Wednesday it is. And I'll post solutions Tuesdays.
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Works for me! That spreads out the "only two or three" a week I do, and will maybe keep me from getting too confused!
Thanks for the nudges, Meg and Mad -- I'll carry on and see if I can beat the buzzer!
![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif)
Thanks for the nudges, Meg and Mad -- I'll carry on and see if I can beat the buzzer!
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I missed a step too. But got it almost instantly when madhatter5 let me know I still had a bit of work to do.
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Considering how many people submitted the same unintended answer I should really have specified that the answer is a 4-letter word.
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Just for the record -- you know, the one Saint Margaret Cho keeps in her tome on the podium in front of the pearly puzzle gates ---
I'm pretty sure I finally, duh, made that last hop.
I apologize if my Guys with the Nets quip earlier was in any way a spoiler -- sort of assumed at that point that I was the lone straggler!
(The lone stranger, the lone strangler?)
Looking forward to the actual reveal to get a complete sense of how it all meshed.
Thanks for the fun, madhatter -- and I'm not really going bonkers -- I'm in tune with Will P.'s mantra on Pandora's Blocks about only pursuing solutions if you're having fun.
I'm pretty sure I finally, duh, made that last hop.
I apologize if my Guys with the Nets quip earlier was in any way a spoiler -- sort of assumed at that point that I was the lone straggler!
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
Looking forward to the actual reveal to get a complete sense of how it all meshed.
Thanks for the fun, madhatter -- and I'm not really going bonkers -- I'm in tune with Will P.'s mantra on Pandora's Blocks about only pursuing solutions if you're having fun.
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Solution (and comments):
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Clarification: I only noticed the extra step after a discussion with another solver.
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Ah, so that explains that confounding Leisure in the puzzle name.
I'd never criticize any puzzle from which I derive plenty of entertainment (but I know you're looking to hone your skills, madhatter5
, so.......) since I never saw the Title within the title or put it to good use, the L word was mainly confusing for me. At one point I was mixing up leisure with luxury tax and was almost ready to drag out the Monopoly board yet another time!
I would have done better with a title like the phrase you included in your explanation: But Wait, There's More! Just INCOME TAX alone would have made a perfectly good, albeit less complex and challenging, meta too. Although I can understand why it's too hard to resist the fact of that META within it and to want to use it! (I'd say that it jumps out -- except that it obviously didn't for me -- duh!) I'm guessing that noticing that fact may have been what inspired the entire meta!
Red herring or coincidence -- INTER(Nal) REV(enue) in the grid?!
I'd never criticize any puzzle from which I derive plenty of entertainment (but I know you're looking to hone your skills, madhatter5
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
Red herring or coincidence -- INTER(Nal) REV(enue) in the grid?!
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Thanks for the comments Whimsy! I agree entirely, the title was a poor choice and I should have gone for something more prosaic. And maybe just left it at INCOME TAX.
I'm really sorry you spent so long on that last step. I never meant for that to happen!
P.S. that was just a coincidence, not a red herring![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
I'm really sorry you spent so long on that last step. I never meant for that to happen!
P.S. that was just a coincidence, not a red herring
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
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