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Monthly Midi Contest March 2024 - Games

◆◆ · By Sendhil Revuluri · Published 2024-03-14T13:13:32.145Z

Constructor's Note
My first contest entry! Enjoy. Clue for 24A from John Westwig's 1/21/24 NYT puzzle. The cover photo by Nik Korba on Unsplash is also a hint to 13A.
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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)
    • 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.
      • kurtalert 🤓3:14 · 2024-03-14T16:19:10.855Z
        Azul and Sushi Go are favorites in my house. Highly recommended!
      • Shivangi 🤓3:36 · 2024-03-14T15:14:32.925Z
        Great theme and fun cluing, but some of the PPPs were brutal!
        • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-03-14T22:12:01.066Z
          Thanks for solving and the feedback! What is a PPP?
          • Shivangi 🤓3:36 · 2024-03-15T04:52:39.777Z
            Proper nouns
            • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-03-15T11:29:53.063Z
              Thank you! If any in particular stand out, happy to know and possibly to reclue.
        • 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
          • 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!
            • 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!
          • 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.
            • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-03-15T11:33:29.532Z
              Thanks for solving and for the feedback!
            • Larry Edelstein 🤓6:01 · 2024-03-15T23:48:21.003Z
              Left corner was hard; good puz
              • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-03-16T02:13:00.104Z
                Thanks for solving!
              • Capn Rick 4:53 · 2024-03-19T16:56:23.198Z
                Fun one, Sendhil! I learned a few things today.
                • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-03-19T23:12:30.089Z
                  Thanks so much! High praise from a master of the craft.
                1A
                Island nation 38% of whose people are 4D
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                1. 1A
                  Island nation 38% of whose people are 4D
                2. 5A
                  Back muscles, for short
                3. 9A
                  OG Eurogame where players Trade, Build, Settle
                4. 10A
                  Physicist Newton or author Asimov
                5. 12A
                  Fun, fun, fun car in a Beach Boys bop
                6. 13A
                  Dry out
                7. 14A
                  Light, fast, and fun card-drafting game with a food theme
                8. 16A
                  What you'll often find between cue and ess
                9. 17A
                  Attention
                10. 18A
                  High-quality French vineyards
                11. 19A
                  Light, fast, and fun board game with its own fruit bag
                12. 23A
                  Author Blyton or Bagnold
                13. 24A
                  Pop singer with noted bangs (and bangers!)
                14. 25A
                  Prefix meaning "same"
                15. 26A
                  Source of the Up First and Consider This podcasts
                16. 30A
                  Friend of Felipe
                17. 32A
                  Storytelling card game with beautiful, fantastical art
                18. 33A
                  Saltpetre
                19. 34A
                  French mystery thriller series starring Omar Sy
                20. 35A
                  Drafting game with beautiful colored tiles on a Portuguese theme
                21. 36A
                  Angsty and brooding group?
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                  "Terrif!"
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                  Inflammatory suffix
                3. 3D
                  USMC enlistee, in slang
                4. 4D
                  Like Hyderabadis, Mumbaikars, Kolkatans, or Dilliwaalis
                5. 5D
                  T'ang dynasty poet
                6. 6D
                  Butterfield starring in Hugo, Ender's Game, and Sex Education
                7. 7D
                  "______ Boom-De-Ay"
                8. 8D
                  Bone at the base of the spine
                9. 9D
                  Price abbr.
                10. 11D
                  Two-player, abstract strategy board game on a square board
                11. 15D
                  Understand
                12. 18D
                  Composite party game based on the theory of multiple intelligences
                13. 19D
                  "Borstal Boy" author Brendan
                14. 20D
                  Fun, fast-paced card game of coming up with names of things
                15. 21D
                  WWII Pacific Fleet admiral Chester
                16. 22D
                  Tight undergarment
                17. 26D
                  GBBO co-host Fielding
                18. 27D
                  Fair
                19. 28D
                  Nintendo consoles with motion sensors
                20. 29D
                  RR stop
                21. 31D
                  Minions' mentor, and adoptive father of Margo, Edith, and Agnes
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