The Real Menace
◆ · By DrTom · Published 21 days ago
Meta Prompt
What Luke Skywalker had to do before he could solve the meta
Well it is MEOW day again and hopefully this one will be easier than last week. This one came to me after watching a "Wheel of Fortune" episode. I knew the answer almost immediately but then you all know my predilection for word play. I think when you get it you will say, "Oh, yeah, Wheel of Fortune, that makes sense!"
I'm assuming this is fairly easy, but then I wrote it so of course I do. It did test pretty well, with my tester (Darth) getting it pretty quickly. My thanks to him for the assist. Hopefully his and my trivia knowledge contain the same information as most of you, and judging from previous site activity I'd have to say they do.
Some may find this tricky, not for the intricate and novel mechanism (and good thing because there isn't one) but for the mixed explicit and implicit answer (it is a 5 word answer all together).
As it turns out, just when you think you are out, it keeps pulling you back in and about the point you feel you have the answer, you may not. So be careful you must be because sneaky I am.
I am going to rate this at least a Persian, though it could climb!
Kitten
Calico
PersianPuma
Lion
Well shucky darn, I thought this would be a real romp in the park but instead I seem to have taken folks to the dark side, let me try to nudge you back into the force...each one should bring you a bit closer to getting your own light saber in order to slay this monster.
Nudge 1] A LOT of people have submitted only the first part, the explicit part of 2 words and of course they were correct. But the answer is the 5 word phrase so the second part is needed. Neither Crosshare nor I give partial credit.
Nudge 2] I mentioned I was watching Wheel of Fortune, but the type of puzzle specifically was one of the "Before and After". If you are not familiar with those a quick Google may help.
Nudge 3] The explicit part is the first two words of the final answer
Nudge 4] Remember that Luke was a, arguably THE, Jedi Knight in later years.
Nudge 5] If you are still stuck try Googling the name of movies in the Star Wars franchise. You can stick with the original six and you can obviously eliminate one of those because I'd NEVER be that obvious as to almost include the spoiler in the title.
Well I asked an umpire what I should do because it seems this is a lot harder than I anticipated and people are assuming a need for a lot more SW knowledge than is necessary. Anyway the umpire struck back with these further nudges:
Nudge 6] There are nine letters in the first two words, so you need to find 9 "themers" for the "explicit" part and come up with three more words for the rest. The last three are only loosely Star Wars related and are more related to the "Before and After" mentioned earlier
Nudge 7] I tried to make the theme answers pretty blatant, they are worded to leave no doubt that the clue relates to Star Wars. Don't try to think like, "well she dated a guy who lived near George Lucas so that must be one", or "there is a C in that clue a P in that one and an O in that one and there are three of them so C3PO". Read them and you should have no doubt which are theme clues/answers (note I am emphasizing CLUE a lot!!!)
REVEAL
The first letters of the nine "Star Wars" theme clues spell out:
TAX RETURN
Then realizing Luke is a JEDI, he would have to do the TAX RETURN OF THE JEDI a play on the title of a Star Ward film and á la Wheel of Fortune category (Before and After)
For a graphic representation of the solve go to:
Checking for previous play data...
Thanks :)