tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post4102844873727763100..comments2024-03-28T14:47:10.991-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Grass for cordage / WED 6-4-14 / Stick-up man on Wire / Thriller singer in tabloids / Mark who won 1998 Masters / Full house indicatorRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-49509235888088358202014-07-10T18:34:53.978-04:002014-07-10T18:34:53.978-04:00Yahoo.com, that is! Yahoo.com, that is! KariSeattlehttp://yahoo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-41200761586823589682014-07-10T18:33:27.248-04:002014-07-10T18:33:27.248-04:00I didn't know what to type for URL ; tried yah...I didn't know what to type for URL ; tried yahoo which is my email acct and that worked!KariSeattlehttp://yahoo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-81803221905235422572014-07-10T18:29:35.852-04:002014-07-10T18:29:35.852-04:00Thanks I'll try it!Thanks I'll try it!KariSeattlehttp://yahoo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-7543161731090142402014-07-10T14:22:58.663-04:002014-07-10T14:22:58.663-04:00No JUMBLE ?!?!!No JUMBLE ?!?!!Bill Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12221140553426052986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57422135950639134102014-07-10T11:12:47.188-04:002014-07-10T11:12:47.188-04:00Everything Rex said. Terrible NW corner!Everything Rex said. Terrible NW corner!dmasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16432868990877614442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59557265456855739422014-07-09T18:07:09.140-04:002014-07-09T18:07:09.140-04:00Me too, on an iPhone?Me too, on an iPhone?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-27417076587672227032014-07-09T17:29:22.481-04:002014-07-09T17:29:22.481-04:00I had the circled W and G in place when SCRABBLE a...I had the circled W and G in place when SCRABBLE and JOTTO appeared, so I just filled in the rest of the circles to spell "word games" and proceeded to destroy the puzzle - that doesn't happen often for me. Latin I was many decades ago for me but I managed to retrieve HAEC and Quo VADIS,and even the Roman numeral was helpful in limiting the possibilities for the St. Petersburg river crossing. Thank you Miss Baker.<br /><br />Luck continues with the capcha: 9342 which, unless I'm mistaken reduces to 9!Dirigonzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03903353503511480168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-73467976938838712022014-07-09T16:12:52.415-04:002014-07-09T16:12:52.415-04:00Agree with those who liked this, even though REMOP...Agree with those who liked this, even though REMOP is bad and incorrectly clued. Thought CATDOM was cute, along with several other SPANGLY words. Didn't know GHOST or TABOO, which came from crosses, but I thought the theme was just fine.<br /><br />I'm never sure about the rules or guidelines for partials, but they seem to be generally frowned upon, and I don't know why. I thought that BEG TO was kinda neat, but most commenters didn't like it.<br /><br />Can you say that a Roman Numeral referring to a specific event in a specific year is *random*? I get that "mid nth century year" IS random. However in today's clue, a RN was used to ask for the specific year, so, not random, per se. <br /><br />Cannot read the captcha. Try again. OK, 11503 = out.rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-68385785566128926752014-07-09T14:11:56.504-04:002014-07-09T14:11:56.504-04:00Another puzzle where half the clues ( or so it see...Another puzzle where half the clues ( or so it seems) refer to some unknown thing. Not my favorite thing!!! Finally worked it out, but there is no joy in DMG-ville. Only problem was some kind of xxxcHOres for 17A, but that didn't last long. Also, I'm one of those who never heard of JOTTO, but that would make Jackson kid a lACKO which doesn't sound very kind. On to tomorrow.<br /><br />6081 = 6. Same as @spacecraft and @SIS. Strange goings on in Syndiland.DMGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-298350714517258552014-07-09T13:40:03.109-04:002014-07-09T13:40:03.109-04:00CATDOM didn't get a red card from @Spacy?
91...CATDOM didn't get a red card from @Spacy? <br /><br />915 = 6Solving in Seattlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04249420848844874936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-7566007557498810712014-07-09T11:06:25.696-04:002014-07-09T11:06:25.696-04:00"You've just crossed over into the...EURO..."You've just crossed over into the...EURO zone???" I'm already a EURO (???) skeptic. Where am I? Rod, help me out here! Is EURO even right? Thank fortune I follow golf enough to know the O'MEARA gimme, or I'd have been so lost...REMOP, really? And the first natick, ESPA_TO/_OOD. ROOD is, like, a medieval word. And you're pulling this stuff on a WEDENSDAY, fercryinoutloud?<br /><br />I mean, I was in Serling heaven for most of this entire solve. JOTTO, TABOO, GHOST: these are supposed to be WORD GAMEs? I did know PROBE; my dad loved playing it with us kids. Here's a word he sprang on us: SYZYGY. Naturally, we were stumped. Then he made us go look up what it meant (eclipse alignment). What a guy. But I digress.<br /><br />CATDOM? You want me to write CATDOM? And now in the SE you give me another natick: Yet Another Four-Letter River Name crossing Yet Another Romanumeral. It's a wonder that I didn't finish ERRANTLY (?). Managed to guess the two naticks correctly and actually solve this without even a w/o. Luck of the Germans, I guess. Sheesh, 7-1? In a World Cup semifinal? Brazil should say SHAMEONME. How can that coach not be out of a job today?<br /><br />And what about tomorrow? And (shudder) the weekend? If it gets worse than this: HELP!<br /><br />Uh-oh, the flashbulb burnt out. We're back to the solid black captcha. At last, one I can read (4th one). 213 = 6, I'll STANDPAT.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-27144455909292445532014-06-28T20:35:05.259-04:002014-06-28T20:35:05.259-04:00
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My country, 'tis of Thee,...From Scoutsongs.com<br /><br />My country, 'tis of Thee,<br />Sweet Land of Liberty<br />Of thee I sing;<br />Land where my fathers died,<br />Land of the pilgrims' pride,<br />From every mountain side<br />Let Freedom ring.<br /><br />No paper on the new porch and sign-in issues using firefox, so didn't get the puzzle until post-bar.<br /><br />My Latin teacher said Hic HAEC Hoc would come in useful one day. She was right. Scary thing was that it was a gimme. The weird thing was having non-theme answers longer than the themes. Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181544219511150272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-45280137095425428342014-06-05T00:05:38.919-04:002014-06-05T00:05:38.919-04:00This week's relative difficulty ratings. See m...This week's relative difficulty ratings. See my 8/1/2009 post for an explanation and my 10/15/2012 post for an explanation of a tweak I've made to my method. In a nutshell, the higher the ratio, the higher this week's median solve time is relative to the average for the corresponding day of the week.<br /><br />All solvers (this week's median solve time, average for day of week, ratio, percentile, rating)<br /><br />Mon 5:14, 6:04, 0.86, 3%, Easy (6th lowest ratio of 230 Mondays)<br />Tue 8:51, 8:46, 1.01, 56%, Medium<br />Wed 10:36, 9:54, 1.07, 71%, Medium-Challenging<br /><br />Top 100 solvers<br /><br />Mon 3:33, 3:56, 0.90, 5%, Easy (12th lowest ratio of 230 Mondays)<br />Tue 5:44, 5:24, 1.06, 66%, Medium-Challenging<br />Wed 7:02, 6:11, 1.14, 84%, Challengingsanfranman59https://www.blogger.com/profile/15118732156312301425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-77530565809752948492014-06-04T22:39:14.314-04:002014-06-04T22:39:14.314-04:00@wreck -- yep!@wreck -- yep!Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09709142959535977331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5218787984750911722014-06-04T20:53:08.304-04:002014-06-04T20:53:08.304-04:00@mac how was jury duty???@mac how was jury duty???chefbeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15195945085405126511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-21228453168241849072014-06-04T20:35:10.539-04:002014-06-04T20:35:10.539-04:00Did this one late in the day after jury duty - cru...Did this one late in the day after jury duty - crunchy for a Wednesday, allright, but overall doable. I'm vegetating the rest of the day.machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87471629867234247082014-06-04T19:57:48.234-04:002014-06-04T19:57:48.234-04:00re GHOST
I like the game, though not sure that ev...re GHOST<br /><br />I like the game, though not sure that everyone plays it the way I learned it. It's played with any number > 2, and after picking an initial letter, turns are taken adding one letter at a time. A legitimate word has to be in mind, and the aim is not to add the last letter that completes a word, or one-third of a GHOST is earned; lose on three turns, you're a ghost and dematerialize. In one memorable game, the letters picked were O-S-S-I-F, next up was a fellow who was very good, never lost, and everyone was naturally out to get him. N was down to 2, so whether he picked ossify, ossified or ossification, he'd finish the word and be out. After thinking a moment, he called an R, and everyone erupted, especially his wife: "R!!! There's no such word!" He calmly lit his pipe and said "Ossifrage". It pays to know your Bible.<br /><br />@mathguy: Glad you liked 'N Is a Number'. My brain isn't hard-wired for theoretical math, but I have an appreciation for it. Of course, I had to rerun the visuals on that red&blue proof a half dozen times to even start to catch on.<br /><br />[I discovered Erdos as the fill in a Sunday NYT puzzle; one of my favourite finds.]Leapfingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14243620614139990887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50037022695058095802014-06-04T18:44:23.722-04:002014-06-04T18:44:23.722-04:00@Mohair Sam - We also had a blast with this one la...@Mohair Sam - We also had a blast with this one last night. Didn't think it was easy, we did think it was a lot of fun.<br /><br />Took a plant science class so CORM was a gimme.<br /><br />@Numinous - Glad that you finally got sprung. I had to laugh at your second post, your thoughts mirror mine when it comes to that "other blog".chefwenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03999206352243329280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-65091335757116991492014-06-04T18:44:18.218-04:002014-06-04T18:44:18.218-04:00Crunchy ... and I already ate granloa for breakfas...Crunchy ... and I already ate granloa for breakfast.<br />OK but ... had endear instead of ENAMOR, and others.<br />Nominated for least enjoyable NW corner (maybe ever for me).<br />Any seconds?<br />Also, anyone bothered by long long non-theme answers.<br />And where was Boggle?<br />On the smile-side:<br />Heard on radio just an hour before doing puzzle.<br />The NFL just announced Super Bowl 50 will not be "L"<br />It looked to much like Loser.<br />Although they had previously had XXX.<br />But rest easy, Roman numerals will return the following year -- with LI (long Island?).<br />Google for additional details.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-46830023551666085862014-06-04T18:02:22.570-04:002014-06-04T18:02:22.570-04:00If it's America the Beautiful (Oh beautiful, f...If it's America the Beautiful (Oh beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain), the word THEE appears only once, unless you sing multiple verses. Right?<br /> This was an enjoyable Wednesday puzzle, and every day I look forward to a new, tiny fun work of ummm...art!<br /> WSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-21208776730545547292014-06-04T17:58:06.061-04:002014-06-04T17:58:06.061-04:00Jim Hilger: Thanks for joining in. I liked the N...Jim Hilger: Thanks for joining in. I liked the NW. HAEC reminded me of first -year Latin at St. Ignatius High with Father Gilligan, that most excellent Jesuit.<br /><br />Atlantasolver: I'm going to try to get my brother to play me a game of JOTTO just so I can make KHAKI my word. What rule do you play? If your word is KHAKI and your opponent guesses WHISK, do you answer "one" or "two"? We answer "one." We had some great battles at family gatherings.<br /><br />Is GHOSTS a good game?mathguynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-91975268031859936172014-06-04T17:57:29.526-04:002014-06-04T17:57:29.526-04:00@ David in CA
I stand corrected. I was thinking o...@ David in CA<br /><br />I stand corrected. I was thinking of "America the Beautiful". JohnnyMaonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-21944933723789694192014-06-04T17:47:22.139-04:002014-06-04T17:47:22.139-04:00Nancy at 4:50 -
The letters WORD GAME are in orde...Nancy at 4:50 - <br />The letters WORD GAME are in order on the grid - read them vertically top to bottom. Also, ANAGRAM (or anagrams) is a word game - not just a description of scrambled letters. Google it - you'll see the history.Arlenehttp://www.listeningclosely.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-64996394510328205142014-06-04T16:52:10.994-04:002014-06-04T16:52:10.994-04:00You know it. He keeps rattling that drawer All. Ni...You know it. He keeps rattling that drawer All. Night. Long.Leapfingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14243620614139990887noreply@blogger.com