It's great to be back on MEOW and this time with a special treat - a collaboration puzzle with everybody's favorite Aussie - @benchen71! One of the best things about creating meta puzzles is the occasional opportunity to team up with another constructor - particularly one as talented as Ben. Now if you've solved some of our past metas you may have noticed a few differences in our respective styles and techniques. This puzzle, which was rejected at MMM and even at SSS (by that new anal-retentive editor over there :lol:), reflects and even highlights some of those differences. Ben and I hope that you have as much fun solving as we did constructing!
Not a huge fan of unchecked squares (and indeed got stuck in one spot), but will make an exception here. :) Initially was trying to link the DDs to an O, but then decided that it was just the Ds (which fits the title). Eventually got around to looking at the first letters of those words, and then after a brief pause thought to check the first letters of the clues. Fun one, thanks!
Thanks for hanging in there, Alan. Like I said, this puzzle was rejected on both MMM and SSS for those same reasons. It was fun to take a walk on the wild side!
HeadinHome 🤓2:14 · 2024-04-17T23:27:56.147Z
Tried every double-something I could think of! Was there a way to get “teamed” other than thinking of it? (Double was spelled… was teamed?). Also, I know which side was whose, and I like them both!!
Yes, Crosshare does a lot of caching to improve construction speed.
HeadinHome 🤓2:14 · 2024-04-18T00:06:27.322Z
So odd… I left my comment using MS Edge, but here in Chrome I can’t see my comment! Anybody else ever have that problem?? (I can see all of them up through ajk’s, just not mine.
Shoot! I didn't notice that, lbray53. Thanks for hanging in there!
whimsy 🤓9:56 · 2024-04-18T20:00:25.462Z
I had to go back and find the second route to "teamed" when I realized my first inclination toward DOUBLE-TROUBLE wouldn't comply with the prompt!
Very nice job, guys!
Thank you, Claudia! We thought about a few other "DOUBLE-" combinations, but this one best summed up our collaboration effort.
MatthewL 🤓7:23 · 2024-04-18T21:14:50.782Z
Oof -- finally got it but only after being dragged to the end. Sometimes you see it, and sometimes you don't. This was one of the latter, for me. But, thanks for the puzzle, you two!