"Lah-di-dah" Solution

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• Mike D 🤓2s · 2021-05-26T02:29:29.822Z

  Very nice!

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  • Pixlate constructor · 2021-05-26T02:43:38.677Z

    Thanks!

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• Pixlate constructor · 2021-05-26T08:59:55.027Z

  In case anyone revealed without solving the meta:

  There are 5 clues in the grid that contain either the word "dot" or "dash", namely: MAD, ODOMETER, RAN, STACCATO, and EYES. When their first letters are taken in grid order, they spell out the word MORSE (aka. DOTSANDDASHES)

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• Spunky 🤓2s · 2021-05-26T21:06:09.329Z

  Turning the puzzle 90 degrees ccw results in exactly 5 rows at the top and 5 at the bottom with at least one O or —, which form the name ERNIE IORAY. Google turned up no results, so I gave up and just tried MORSE since it was a relevant 5 letter word.

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  • Pixlate constructor · 2021-05-26T22:43:13.012Z

    Welp. We all get there in our own ways :) (Coincidentally, I thought of that as a potential mechanism but couldn't be bothered to construct a grid with such specifications)

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• Spunky 🤓2s · 2021-05-26T21:02:30.113Z

  OK so there are some clues in the middle with unique patterns of O and I: TOOKIN, ASIMO, IONIAN. I thought to go line by line and interpret any O as a dit and I as a dah, but that just produced random letters.Then I thought to turn the puzzle 90 degrees to turn every I into a —.

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• Taylor Johnson 19s · 2021-05-27T00:03:26.902Z

  Didn’t figure out the meta, but this was cool! I’m not good at metas and so I just wanted to reveal this one and study it to figure out how to approach metas in the future. Fun one!

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