Monthly Midi Contest March 2024 - Games

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• JeffsPuzzles 🤓3:00 · 2024-03-14T13:56:38.920Z

  Enjoyed it - and thanks for including some games I haven't heard of but will definitely look into (all of which were clued fairly and gettable from the crosses! (SUSHIGO, AZUL, ANOMIA)

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-03-14T15:06:52.323Z

    Glad to hear it! We have a LOT of board games (my wife might say "too many" though we are trying to win her over) and I was glad to be able to incorporate many of our favorites, both old and new! I've found the website Board Game Geek a handy resource to learn more about unfamiliar games.

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  • kurtalert 🤓3:14 · 2024-03-14T16:19:10.855Z

    Azul and Sushi Go are favorites in my house. Highly recommended!

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• Shivangi 🤓3:36 · 2024-03-14T15:14:32.925Z

  Great theme and fun cluing, but some of the PPPs were brutal!

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-03-14T22:12:01.066Z

    Thanks for solving and the feedback! What is a PPP?

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    • Shivangi 🤓3:36 · 2024-03-15T04:52:39.777Z

      Proper nouns

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      • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-03-15T11:29:53.063Z

        Thank you! If any in particular stand out, happy to know and possibly to reclue.

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• kieranjboyd 🤓3:01 · 2024-03-15T03:16:26.357Z

  I've played all of these! Have you played Skull? Seems like the kind of game you'd enjoy. I got natticked by BEHAN/HOM/NIMITZ

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-03-15T11:32:55.715Z

    Thanks for solving and for the recommendation — I will check out Skull! I think I’ve seen it before online but have never played.

    Thanks for letting me know… the stats definitely show you’re not alone. BEHAN is a person in the category “I have heard of them but know very little about them” and I likely would’ve gotten stuck there too. Any ideas for better cluing on HOM appreciated!

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    • kieranjboyd 🤓3:01 · 2024-03-15T20:26:52.464Z

      I often fall on the crutch of giving solvers a secondary hint, in the form of an anagram or phrase that contains it (eg: "… [found hidden in THOMAS]"). I did check some dictionaries for hom-, but all the examples were for homo- instead … maybe an alternate fill would've been better? In any case, giving solvers more options and fallbacks is always nice!

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• ALTr 8:37 · 2024-03-15T09:42:31.523Z

  HOM really threw me - not sure it's a prefix without the 'O', i.e. HOMO, with hard PPP crossing it. I'd retry writing that corner's fill for sure. Otherwise a fun fill, learnt a few new games to try out and almost all were inferable from the clue/crosses.

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-03-15T11:33:29.532Z

    Thanks for solving and for the feedback!

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• Larry Edelstein 🤓6:01 · 2024-03-15T23:48:21.003Z

  Left corner was hard; good puz

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-03-16T02:13:00.104Z

    Thanks for solving!

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• Capn Rick 4:53 · 2024-03-19T16:56:23.198Z

  Fun one, Sendhil! I learned a few things today.

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-03-19T23:12:30.089Z

    Thanks so much! High praise from a master of the craft.

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