Two Can Play At That Game (Meta)
■ · By benchen71 · Published 3 months ago
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is an eight-letter game that can be played by two people
We all like to play games, both the board kind (nice!) and the inter-personal relationship manipulative kind (not so nice!) So this meta is for all you game-players out there. Good luck at winning out in the end by finding the answer to the meta which is an eight-letter game that can be played by two people. Answer and explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=117625#p117625
Check out the "Rejected (Non-meta) MOAT Pack" here: https://www.ephesusscroll.com/about/interest4.html. US$5 gets you 10 themed crosswords, most of which were rejected by one crossword publisher or another. Were those editors right to reject them? You be the judge!
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- Hector 🤓7:16 · 3 months agoNice one. Had to ignore TREE and DELL, but by that point the answer was pretty clear.
- TREE and DELL don't enter into it, because the letter doublings have to work in both directions, across and down.
- Sharkicicles 1s · 3 months agoIsn’t a shitee the recipient of a s***? Like a payee? ;)
- That didn't come up in my dictionary, so I think I'm pretty safe! ;-)
- I K Snamhcok 1s · 3 months agoFun! Thanks, Ben!
- Laura M 🤓8:38 · 3 months agoFun, and very impressive construction! But OBIIT threw me off for a while...
- Yes, I tried to use the clues to help you with that particular intersection!
- Gutman 3s · 3 months agoDitto
- Sharkicicles 1s · 3 months agoI never got to that point (got DOM and backsolved from there) but I learned a new word today!
- Meg 2s · 3 months agoTook a bit of thinking, so good!
- DrTom 4s · 3 months agoI laughed at SHITE25DVulgar British word for something of very poor quality (there better be a good reason for this being here!)[-----]and a funny coincidence helped crack it for me. A while back I was doing some "constructing" and needed a word to fill SHIITE fit perfectly but I then saw I needed a 5 letter word not a 6 letter...and I had no good reason to include it, so I went a different way. Trouble is that I was not smart enough to see it as a mechanism, while Ben was! At first I thought "well this is going to be random" because I had never heard of OBIIT and there were lots of words that one could double a letter to make a new word. BUT when I got to CHOSE52DOpted for[-----]and made it CHOOSE then saw I had TWO new words I went back and looked at OBIIT. Fun as usual puzzle from our awesome Aussie.
- I nearly didn't do this puzzle because of SHITE25DVulgar British word for something of very poor quality (there better be a good reason for this being here!)[-----]. There are almost no I words that you can double the I and still have a real word. I needed to use Latin for the other one!
- Oh, I think in a universe of TWERK, URINE, PEE and other fill you are allowed a SHITE25DVulgar British word for something of very poor quality (there better be a good reason for this being here!)[-----], particularly in such a great puzzle. For chuckles I looked up double i words - not much unless you wanted a much longer entry.
- clever. But what about: TREE, MOORE, SHOOT, SPEED, and CHOOSE? and where is the SS?
- Again, the doublings have to work in both directions. So, yes, SHOOT and CHOOSE are included (giving you an O), as is SPEED (it crosses with STEEP, giving you an E), but not TREE or MOORE. The last letter comes from MOUSSE crossing LESS.
- Ohhhhh! THAT makes the mechanism much more clever than I thought!... oh, wait. I'm not sure I understand. DDAY, I get, but OBIIT? Whats that.... Oh, the actual Latin... sneaky.
- KayW 🤓6:08 · 3 months agoVery clever!! As always, in hindsight I wonder why I needed the nudges. The title told me EXACTLY what to do. Nice one, Ben. Thanks!
- rjy 2s · 3 months agoReally clever construction, Ben. Wish I had gotten the AHA nudgelessly, but man! I spent stupid time on this... thx!!
- MatthewL 🤓5:41 · 3 months agoNice once. Had to backsolve for the "I". Thanks Ben!
- Cindy Heisler 4s · 3 months agoI was thrown for a bit because I never caught on that 34A34ANewspaper notice, for short (related to the Latin word for "he/she died" which may or may not be helpful!)[----]was a clue and I needed to look up obiit. And it took me forever to get Dday! Great puzzle, Ben! Thanks.
- whimsy 🤓9:05 · 3 months agoI wondered why I kept seeing MOUSSE in the corner rather than MOUSE72A"Eek! A ___!"[-----]; wasn't just wishful thinking after all! :) Because of the clue, I knew SHITE25DVulgar British word for something of very poor quality (there better be a good reason for this being here!)[-----]played a part, but didn't notice the crossing OBIT34ANewspaper notice, for short (related to the Latin word for "he/she died" which may or may not be helpful!)[----]clue was emphatic also. This was great! (Although I needed early nudges to get me going and later ones to clarify.) Thanks, Ben!
- Ergcat 11:04 · 3 months agoNeeded the second nudge! I was playing with adding/subtracting/looking at letters between “T O”. I like your mechanism though! Very clever! Thank you!
- ReB 21s · 3 months agoI was off the beam, looking for word pairs. Came up with AUTOBAHN and TINY45AVery small[----]STEP58DPart of a process[----], but wasn't getting much further.I thus needed the first three nudges to find the right coupling, though two might have been enough if I'd been more patient. (I backsolved for the "I" and thus didn't need the last nudge). Very clever disguising.
- Qmark 4s · 3 months agoVery nice construction, Ben! I needed the 2nd nudge to get unstuck.
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- 1AMore impolite
- 6ATech sch. grad
- 10ABringing up the rear
- 14ATennis player, Naomi ___
- 15A___ or less (approximately)
- 16AResponsibility
- 17AHowled at the moon
- 18ACollege teacher, for short
- 19AProlonged state of deep unconsciousness
- 20AFrom middle C to the C above middle C
- 22AComputer operator
- 23ANot at school
- 27AWhiteboard accessories
- 29AGerman highway
- 30AHoward's best friend on "The Big Bang Theory"
- 33AHarden, as concrete
- 34ANewspaper notice, for short (related to the Latin word for "he/she died" which may or may not be helpful!)
- 35AArby's slogan: "We have the ___"
- 37ADaft Punk's genre (abbr.)
- 40A"Mrs. Frisby and the ___ of NIMH"
- 41AIt takes two to do this (which is also a vague hint concerning something you need to do eight times in the grid to solve the meta)
- 42ALa Scala highlight
- 43AUno, due, ___
- 44ARelease
- 45AVery small
- 46ACTRL-ALT-___
- 47ACIA operative
- 49ASwedish furniture chain
- 50AMakes a choice
- 54APrincess of Pop, Britney ___
- 56AHymn, "___ deep, deep love of Jesus" (check out Audrey Assad's version - it's brilliant!)
- 57AThe universe
- 60AMixologist's measure
- 61ACar
- 62ALeaning
- 67AAlleviate
- 68AHurried
- 69AShoe ties
- 70A"Something New Every Day" blog (abbr.)
- 71ARecipe amts.
- 72A"Eek! A ___!"
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- 1DSteal from
- 2DHome of the brave and land of the free
- 3DDawn to dusk
- 4D___ out a win
- 5DElement with atomic number 86
- 6DPre-___ (forestall)
- 7D"Sleepless in Seattle" director, ___ Ephron
- 8DCluster of trees
- 9DTalks about
- 10D"So I will restore to you the years that the swarming ___ has eaten" (Joel 2:25)
- 11DBy ___ (barely)
- 12DAncient Tigris-Euphrates region
- 13DRomanov rulers
- 21DMiddle (abbr.)
- 23DCancel, as a launch
- 24DFictional elephant
- 25DVulgar British word for something of very poor quality (there better be a good reason for this being here!)
- 26DTolkien tree beings
- 28DVariant of the Rijndael block cipher (abbr.)
- 31D"Amo, amas, ___"
- 32DBlock-stacking game that can be played by two people (but it's not the answer to the meta nor a hint on how to solve the meta)
- 36DEnthralled
- 37D"Get Out" actress, ___ Alexander
- 38DInformal eatery
- 39DAncient Mexicans
- 41DShow on TV
- 42DEnd in ___ (require overtime)
- 44DShowed the way
- 46DTried to lose weight
- 48DGeneral on a Chinese menu
- 50DMedicinal quantities
- 51D"Mission Impossible" character, ___ Hunt
- 52DOpted for
- 53DFirst courses, often
- 55DSong of David
- 58DPart of a process
- 59DUnofficial computer game add-ons
- 63DEastern "way"
- 64DPost-op locale
- 65DFrench musical, "___ Miserables"
- 66D"The Waste Land" monogram
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