Midi #11 — Hello darkness, my old friend
■ · By Evan Shapiro · Published 2022-10-11T16:35:43.573Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is the winner of the grid.
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- Conflux solved at 1:01 on 10/12/2022
- Larry Edelstein solved at 1:28 on 10/12/2022
- bereolos solved at 1:39 on 10/12/2022
- SporcleMirror solved at 19:10 on 10/12/2022
- kurtalert solved at 19:20 on 10/12/2022
- dplass solved at 17:10 on 10/13/2022
- Philip Chow solved at 5:16 on 10/15/2022
- MrTheHan solved at 1:10 on 10/17/2022
- Landon Prints solved at 2:56 on 10/19/2022
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- Is this supposed to have a meta entry field?
- 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!
- Not 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!
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Across
- 1ACertain overhangs
- 6AGear for both kinds of rinks [xBxxxx]
- 8AMild-flavored fish [xxxxWxx]
- 10AParisian summer
- 11ARecords [xBx]
- 13AHearing aid [xxW]
- 14ANosh
- 15A“The Sound of ___” (“hello darkness, my old friend” song) [xxxxWxx]
- 18ASinger Kitt [xxBxxx]
- 19AJeter or Jacobi [xxBxW]
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- 1D___ Lauder cosmetics
- 2DDogs from Japan
- 3DIndie rock song that Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse publicized (but didn’t write)
- 4DAbout time for JFK?
- 5DEarth, Wind & Fire song mon.
- 7DPart of a dossier
- 9DArmy chopper (also a popular marching band tune)
- 12DIt can be rare
- 16DBoy
- 17DBefore
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