So kickstarter now for ACVX/Onion puzzle: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403421588/the-american-values-club-crossword
Did you guys get the pmx meta?
― What Kind Of EOY POLL Do You Look Like Now? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 November 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
i haven't :(
― GAY HIPSTER BATMAN ON HIS WAY TO A CIRCUIT PARTY (donna rouge), Monday, 12 November 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
pmx meta isn't too hard
― I have done bad. I love my pj's. (zachlyon), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
ugh, JUST got it and the deadline passed
― GAY HIPSTER BATMAN ON HIS WAY TO A CIRCUIT PARTY (donna rouge), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 08:22 (eleven years ago) link
Probably jinxing myself by telling you guys but I haven't missed a single one of those pmx metas.
― What Kind Of EOY POLL Do You Look Like Now? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
anyone figured out the gaffney meta? i've whittled it down to two possibilities but i'm pretty sure they're both wrong
― I have done bad. I love my pj's. (zachlyon), Sunday, 18 November 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
Had an idea on Friday but forgot to send it in. Just did so now but don't know if he is up and checking them yet
― Listicle Vogue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 November 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
Nope. I didn't get it.
― Listicle Vogue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 November 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
The thing about metas is, you feel pretty good if you can get them quickly but if you don't, how much effort should you put in and even then is it productive? Sometimes you can wrack your brain, go up, down and sideways through the grid and google up a storm but still not get anywhere. It's not like, say, a cryptic clue, where you can either go about it a little systematically and check for the different types of clue or you can simply mull it over and your subconscious eventually serves up the answer.
― Listicle Vogue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 November 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, but i actually have a streak going (on two ridiculously easy ones) and this one seems like it should be gettable
― I have done bad. I love my pj's. (zachlyon), Sunday, 18 November 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I had the same streak of two but it's all over now. Good luck.
― Listicle Vogue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 November 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
Hm. If you look at the earliest meta puzzles he put out, you see something like 50 people get the correct solution where you might see 200 today. So either a lot more people are doing them or people got better over the course of four years
― Listicle Vogue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 November 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
Thought the arches were GATES, but I knew I was missing something
― Listicle Vogue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
what arches?
― I have done bad. I love my pj's. (zachlyon), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
The ones in Paris and St. Louis and London I think.
― Listicle Vogue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
ooooooh. you gotta look at the asterisked clues
― I have done bad. I love my pj's. (zachlyon), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
Reminiscent of the HOP ON POP gimmick of a few weeks ago.
Saw there were asterisks on Friday then put the puzzle down and forgot about them when I looked again on Monday to think about the meta. Wonder how many of these I will have to do before I can make it through a month?
― Listicle Vogue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
tbh i connected the asterisks and the theme entries asap and it was still hard as hell bc i had never heard "oracle of omaha" before, and i don't think it's really that common a nickname
my two other possibilities were howard hamm (cause he's an oilman of oklahoma, you see) and oprah
― I have done bad. I love my pj's. (zachlyon), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
So I guess if I am going to continue doing these I'd like to start when everybody else does and get the puzzle on puzzlesocial on Thursday night. But puzzlesocial website just says "New Puzzle Social website coming soon," Facebook app is a pig and I couldn't find this puzzle anyway, although maybe it is the one that says "AV Club, Matt Gaffney, Hard" /disgruntled_moronic_amazon_reviewer
― When Blecch Friday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 November 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
Also, labeled "A humorous daily puzzle by today's top constructors" or something like that. But I just clicked and it is in fact Matt's Meta.
― When Blecch Friday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 November 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
And then clicked the print icon for the pdf so I don't have to deal with the solver app.
― When Blecch Friday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 November 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry "the nation's top indie constructors"
― When Blecch Friday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 November 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
But he just sent it anyway. Puzzle is easy, no clue about the meta.
― When Blecch Friday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 November 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
and still no clue. This one seems to be hard. Leader board has only fourteen correct answers so far. Usually it is about eighty by one pm.
― When Blecch Friday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 November 2012 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
OK, some bigtime solvers DNF on this one.
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
Also, toyed with PMX First Words of Songs Theme Construction Contest but it really seems to be quite a bit of work- no wonder he wasn't able to do it himself.
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
**SPOILER ALERT**So, for future reference, in this week's MGWCC you had to take part of each theme answer, anagram it to a classical composer, then take the first letters of those composers names to get another composer. Some sixty-odd people got it right.
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
i've never done any of those gaffney metas. guess i should get on it, eh
― GAY HIPSTER BATMAN ON HIS WAY TO A CIRCUIT PARTY (donna rouge), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
i'm mostly just catching up on all the NYT puzzles i haven't done this year via iphone app (up to mid-september now)
ugh. that doesn't even sound too bad. i think i was just spoiled with weeks 1-3.
― I have done bad. I love my pj's. (zachlyon), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
OK, zachlyon, we got the two easy metas this month let's see how we do this weekend when the challenging third puzzle drops.
― TS: shambala vs. sha la la, man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
gaffney's? just tried the most recent one and got it (altho it's closed now)
― curly moe shempsen (donna rouge), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, Gaffney.
― TS: shambala vs. sha la la, man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
i was too late on the first one and i didn't spend much time on it but i was thinking too hard and it went right over my head anyway. last one was sorta fun tho.
― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (zachlyon), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 04:37 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't get this last one which many people apparently found pretty easy, although thankfully I didn't spend too much time on it. Still not quite on his wavelength. Also haven't quite accustomed myself to the amount that you might need Google and Wikipedia for the meta.
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
working retail at christmas, didn't even have a chance to look at it
― passive-aggressive dn change (zachlyon), Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:16 (eleven years ago) link
Nowhere on the muller meta-meta, sent in for the hint but it didn't help.
― The POLLed Geir America (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 January 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
ditto
― steaklife (donna rouge), Sunday, 6 January 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
Feel like the hint was no hint at all. Have had some half-baked ideas but either they don't seem to lead anywhere or they lead to too many ramifications to chase down - how much time are we supposed to spend on this? Would try harder if more people had solved it pre-hint. Of course we don't know yet how many the hint helped.
― The POLLed Geir America (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 January 2013 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i was already sort of going for what the hint suggested anyway since they kind of lend themselves to that interpretation
― steaklife (donna rouge), Sunday, 6 January 2013 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, exactly, was hoping the hint would be more about what the answer might be rather than elaborating on the cryptic instructions in a useless way.
― The POLLed Geir America (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 January 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
/sourgrapes
― The POLLed Geir America (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 January 2013 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't get gaffney's last meta either
― steaklife (donna rouge), Sunday, 6 January 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
From last year? I didn't get it either but it was reasonably hard. This new one is easy as one would expect for Week One.
― The POLLed Geir America (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 January 2013 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
OK, I just sent in my joke answer since time is running out
― The POLLed Geir America (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 January 2013 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
Looks like FOUR people got it
― The POLLed Geir America (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 January 2013 04:32 (eleven years ago) link
Muller meta meta of course
― The POLLed Geir America (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 January 2013 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
looking at gaffney's leader list...
459. Tom C. 01/06 - 22:04460. Regina C. 01/06 - 22:05461. Jim C. 01/06 - 22:06462. Mike C. 01/06 - 22:06463. John C. 01/06 - 22:07464. Gladys C. 01/06 - 22:07
― #guy #guy fieri #poop #hallway (zachlyon), Monday, 7 January 2013 08:20 (eleven years ago) link
Noticed that crew a few weeks ago.
― The POLLed Geir America (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 January 2013 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
Do U See?
― The POLLed Geir America (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 January 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link