Midi #11 — Hello darkness, my old friend
■ · By Pancakes · Published 2022-10-11T16:35:43.573Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is the winner of the grid.
Thanks for playing! Make sure to check out my other puzzles :)
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Leaderboard (updated hourly)
- Conflux solved 2022-10-12T01:01:44.500Z
- Larry Edelstein solved 2022-10-12T01:28:27.268Z
- bereolos solved 2022-10-12T01:39:09.482Z
- SporcleMirror solved 2022-10-12T19:10:46.720Z
- kurtalert solved 2022-10-12T19:20:53.474Z
- dplass solved 2022-10-13T17:10:09.231Z
- Philip Chow solved 2022-10-15T05:16:58.371Z
- MrTheHan solved 2022-10-17T01:10:21.239Z
- Landon Prints solved 2022-10-19T02:56:37.492Z
Comments
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- Adam 🤓1:20 · 2022-10-11T16:39:47.223ZIs this supposed to have a meta entry field?
- Evan Shapiro constructor · 2022-10-11T17:43:12.156ZIt does now! Thank you :)
- kurtalert 🤓1:00 · 2022-10-12T19:23:27.951ZNot sure I understand any/all of the moves leading up to it- but fortunately the last special clue, involving a black rook and a white king, seems like it's pointing at a checkmate win for black... so, black it is!
- Evan Shapiro constructor · 2022-10-12T20:51:36.057ZNot quite sure what you mean! If you didn't get it, the grid is supposed to represent the chessboard as a whole, not separate moves. (Also -- Idk whether the board is a likely/possible configuration, if that's what you mean :) )
- kurtalert 🤓1:00 · 2022-10-12T22:29:07.520ZAh-ha! LOL. Yeah- I completely missed that part of the puzzle. I thought each clue was telegraphing a particular move somehow (like- how you see chess moves notated - Kd2 f3, Rxg5 and such) and I was supposed to translate that into a winner/loser. Now, I see that I sort-of arrived at the same conclusion- the Black Rook being on the same row as the White King- I figured the involvement of those two like that meant clearly that Black won- if the last move of a Chess game involved the White King and a Black Rook, obviously Black won. And, he did, but only because White is mated due to the other Black Rook. I got lucky!