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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.
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
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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]
Down
- 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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