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You'll Turn It Around

◆ · By Mikey G · Published 2024-04-13T17:00:09.248Z

Meta Prompt
[Level 3] The answer to the meta is a 2-word phrase you might say when you solve it.
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  • Pair O Ducks solved 2024-04-13T17:30:44.422Z
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  • Hector 6:56 · 2024-04-13T17:58:23.322Z
    MOM!
    • Pair O Ducks 🤓16:47 · 2024-04-13T17:31:15.924Z
      Great puzzle, Mike! U O MI one haha 😂
      • Meg 4s · 2024-04-13T21:33:03.307Z
        I submitted "You owe me" even though the prompt says 2 words.
        • whimsy 20:46 · 2024-04-14T00:15:01.840Z
          Same here!
      • Mikey G constructor · 2024-04-13T17:00:09.248Z
        Answer: I WON
        Explanation: We have our four main themers (whose clues were irrelevant, so I just went with general math stuff - sorry, haha): NINETYONE, EIGHTYONE, SIXTYONE, EIGHTYNINE. Now that's all fine and good, but in a puzzle centered around four two-digit numbers, to have the same digits repeated often cannot be a coincidence. In numeric form: 91, 81, 61, 89. What do these numbers have in common? In line with the title, we can all turn them around - literally 180 degrees around (upside-down!), and a new number forms. In order: 16, 18, 19, 68. Note these are now in numerical order also, hence why I wanted to keep those themers as they were and broke symmetry as a result.
        Conveniently, all four of these new numbers are in the grid; the letters at those locations are U, O, M, and I. This certainly doesn't look like much at first glance, but let's abide by the title again and turn these letters upside-down (but as a package deal, so U O M I itself gets turned 180 degrees and not just each individual letter). This forms I WO∩, the answer to the meta, and hopefully something said after someone turns things around! (The Texas Rangers turned things around considerably this past season!) This might even be more clear writing the grid letters in lowercase first.
        I already can anticipate one possible quibble or question: why would I have the "N" in "I WON" come from a "U" as opposed to an "N" itself (which, when turned upside-down, is also an "N"?). A mix of reasons that maybe won't pass muster, haha. First, if the "N" stayed an "N," the only real exciting thing that happened on turning the letters upside down was the "W" goes to an "M." I also thought some might try mirror-image stuff with that - I almost thought it would spell "I'M ON!" but I think the "N" would be backward. And, honestly, I just thought the "U" turning into an intersection-like "n" looked cool lol.
        • Philip Chow 🤓11:24 · 2024-04-13T18:52:42.180Z
          yay a math puzzle!! i got them all sans calculator 🤓... then skipped to the four numbers, turned them all upside-down thinking i would solve a mikey g puzzle in record time... but then proceeded to get stuck for a long long time... my small brain couldn't convert from capital to lowercase letters, so the N escaped me
          i don't get the pun on "UNAGI"... i know it's an eel but what is the expensive studio reference? is that the intro to wheel of fortune?
          • Mikey G constructor · 2024-04-13T20:08:46.262Z
            Yes, or it used to be! That is the very old-fashioned beginning to Wheel of Fortune in the '70s and into the '80s when they actually had to shop for merchandise. Before I was a crossword nerd, I was a game show nerd. Still am!
            And though I'm a math teacher, I had to check the work for those clues at least three times, haha.
          • whimsy 20:46 · 2024-04-14T00:25:07.951Z
            I got all the math without a calculator too! -- I used the Downs instead. 😂 Had the correct numbers/squares but, yes, the lower case "u/n" held me up too. Made good use of the prompt to get myself to see what the answer should be. Stretch that mind! Fine puzzle! Thanks, Mikey!
            • DrTom 10s · 2024-04-14T18:24:40.446Z
              NIce puzzle, dense solver. The one thing I did not do was to turn the NUMBER itself upside down. I was so sure it was degrees because of the red herring. Oh, well. Thanks to Meg for a push.
              • benchen71 8:57 · 2024-04-16T08:06:25.226Z
                Ingenious!
                • MatthewL 🤓11:57 · 2024-04-16T16:26:20.821Z
                  Very clever, Mikey! Needed the nudges though (so I'm glad, this one time, that the Cubs won (or should I say "uom").
                  • Bird Lives 4s · 2024-04-17T02:37:22.360Z
                    The N-as-inverted-U is not hard to find these days. Look at the Dune poster.
                    • Mikey G constructor · 2024-04-17T05:56:06.834Z
                      That is really cool!
                    • Berto 1s · 2024-04-17T12:27:06.614Z
                      Doh! Talk about running the entire length of the field from the KO and dropping the ball an inch before the goal line… Now I? Now I see? And “Think about IT.” - turn IT around? 68ac becomes TILL?? Aaaaaaaand face palm.
                      • Tyrpmom 35:58 · 2024-04-19T02:56:39.610Z
                        Revisited this and finally found it. Clever.
                        • syoustra 28:04 · 2024-04-19T03:41:59.562Z
                          I saw Step One pretty immediately .... and then took forever to take it to Step Two. Really clever!
                          • Meta World Peace 4s · 2024-04-20T13:36:39.801Z
                            Super click on the final 180 (081?), Mike!
                            • Steve M 47:56 · 2024-04-23T01:15:00.261Z
                              Started the puzzle early, wrote down 16, 18, 19, 68 and got U O M I, and didn’t think of turning things around. Then, too many other things going on and forgot to return to the puzzle until today, for an after the deadline submission. Another really fun one! Thanks!
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                                This is going to be luge!
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                                ___ sci (college major that sounds like what your pet parrot will do if she doesn't get a treat)
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                                Pro ___ (proportionally)
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                                "Look at this studio! Filled with expensive ___! Just waiting to be eaten today on 'Eel...of...Fortune!'"
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                                Shrinking sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
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                                Harbinger
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                                "Dude!"
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                                Namesake of the highest accolade given out by USA Track & Field
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                                Actress de Armas who remarked, "I remember the first time my name was in the 'New York Times' crossword. Everyone texted me and they said, 'You made it!'"
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                                Gaming company whose name means "to hit a target" in Japanese
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                                Ten squared less than the sum of four cubed and five cubed
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                                He was Sajak's "guest host" (intro only) on "Wheel of Fortune" on April 1, 2024
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                                "Palate cleansers," to many in my book club
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                                Acronym in band with 1978 album "You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish" (love the cover)
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                                Eon, for one
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                                Criticizing a figure skater's routine will have you on ___
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                                C2H4
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                                Bread machines?
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                                Discount grocery chain
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                                "Super Password" host Convy
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                                "And there's so many more to mention also": Abbr.
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                                Seed from a bean?
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                                How some ties are broken, for short
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                                Saints' location, briefly
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                                Otorhinolaryngologists, for people who like to be concise
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