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You're Out of Your Element

· Por Mikey G · Publicado 2024-12-14T18:00:33.494Z

Meta Prompt
[Level 4] The answer to the meta is a 2-word plural noun.
It might as well be a Level 5, haha. Follow the nudges here: https://xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=3307
Comprobando datos de juego anteriores…

Tabla de clasificación (actualizada cada hora)

  • oldjudge solved 2024-12-14T18:22:57.327Z
  • Dave C solved 2024-12-14T19:29:28.982Z
  • Pair O Ducks solved 2024-12-15T02:37:47.433Z
  • BrennerTJ solved 2024-12-15T04:02:17.890Z
  • Berto solved 2024-12-15T06:08:25.439Z
  • benchen71 solved 2024-12-15T06:30:51.173Z
  • markhr solved 2024-12-15T07:03:38.223Z
  • MatthewL solved 2024-12-15T19:18:05.155Z
  • boharr solved 2024-12-15T21:18:16.641Z
  • I K Snamhcok solved 2024-12-15T23:54:12.084Z
  • LarsCaine solved 2024-12-16T00:54:08.179Z
  • Avlan solved 2024-12-16T14:06:14.706Z
  • DIS solved 2024-12-16T14:58:19.995Z
  • Alex Sisti solved 2024-12-16T21:05:24.882Z
  • Tyrpmom solved 2024-12-17T00:04:27.095Z
  • Abide solved 2024-12-17T05:04:34.804Z
  • FrankieHeck solved 2024-12-17T21:18:51.179Z
  • spotter solved 2024-12-17T21:28:00.867Z
  • Eric Porter solved 2024-12-17T23:23:26.633Z
  • woozy solved 2024-12-18T00:00:29.281Z
  • whimsy solved 2024-12-18T02:10:44.643Z
  • DrTom solved 2024-12-18T05:57:12.590Z
  • InAJelly solved 2024-12-18T14:40:11.744Z
  • ELSavage solved 2024-12-18T15:02:43.447Z
  • FedexPope solved 2024-12-18T18:42:45.906Z
  • lbray53 solved 2024-12-18T22:52:00.033Z
  • KayW solved 2024-12-19T01:43:45.087Z
  • JM solved 2024-12-19T18:09:48.722Z
  • ELSavage solved 2024-12-20T09:59:59.562Z
  • SJ solved 2024-12-20T16:24:06.376Z
  • Qmark solved 2024-12-21T00:26:55.515Z

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  • Dave C 3s · 2024-12-14T19:30:11.732Z
    Wow - that was complicated, but a great feeling when we got it!
    • Mikey G constructor · 2024-12-14T18:00:33.494Z
      Answer: END TABLES
      Explanation: Every single clue - with 8 exceptions - start with that clue's corresponding number from the periodic table. The 8 that don't all would've had two-letter symbols; the bigrams, instead, in the clue are as follows (in numerical order): 12: FI, 18: ND, 22: NI, 25: NE, 30: CS, 37: YM, 40: BO, 46: LS. This gives us the message "Find nine C-symbols," and there are 9 elements from 1 - 52 (highest grid number) that contain a "C" (most start, but beware of scandium and technetium!). These numbers' corresponding squares in the grid spell END TABLES, the answer to the meta, a fitting one since element #118 literally ends the periodic table. (The entry for 17-A is a bit more awkward than I would like, but that was to accommodate the 17 needing to be an "N."
      Oh, scandium. I made this puzzle and was all ready to go: it had the original prompt END TABLE, which I still like a hair better. Everything was good, and then I realized...I didn't catch scandium's Sc. It was impossible to edit the puzzle, so I had to scrap it (yes, all the clues were already written!!) and start over. 'Tis the life of a meta cruciverbalist! Hope this puzzle got a good "reaction" out of you LOLOL.
      • boharr 3s · 2024-12-15T21:23:18.134Z
        Oy. Did I need help or what? At least I recalled Tommie Agee’s position.
        • DIS 🤓8:02 · 2024-12-16T15:00:13.396Z
          Not quite basic, but fairly elementary.
          • Tyrpmom 30:33 · 2024-12-17T00:05:27.492Z
            I did it! Yay. Cool puzzle.
            • Abide 3s · 2024-12-17T05:10:05.412Z
              Never Boron, but trying to equate Sc and Tc as "C Symbols" was Dubnium for me. It was great fun (and took two printouts)!
              • woozy 20:41 · 2024-12-18T00:07:28.255Z
                HOLY HECK
                • Mikey G constructor · 2024-12-19T05:06:12.097Z
                  WOWZERS INDEED
                • whimsy 🤓6:33 · 2024-12-18T02:29:03.646Z
                  Whew! Finally! Had everything up through the current nudges (#6) since last week when testing. Took me this long of on and off looksies to get enough of the letters (yes, Timon scurried away from me!) to deduce the answer. Thanks, Mikey, for the opportunity to solve one of my most difficult challenges ever!
                  • Mikey G constructor · 2024-12-19T05:06:00.982Z
                    Timon's a meerkat - Ginger's a mere cat! You're welcome - this was a toughie, for sure!
                  • DrTom 23:43 · 2024-12-18T06:11:13.104Z
                    I had to be dragged to the answer - it must have taken a herculean effort to construct because I got confused even after I got some HUGE nudges and I still do not think I have it exactly right, just enough to get to a point where I could see END TABLES and realized witht he meta that it probably fit. Trouble is I got 8 things that started with C and then needed another, and was told that I needed to look at the second letter...and then I had 10 things. It seems that 30D C.S. Lewis, though it counted as an element, does not figure in the final solve because it gives an A out of place...or I just did something wrong. Oh well I am glad it is solved and I can stop obsessing, I'll wait for the full explanation.
                    • DrTom 23:43 · 2024-12-18T06:16:12.478Z
                      I must be missing something or have just gone dense, but why are Scandium (Sc) and Technetium (Tc) C symbols and Cesium (Cs) is not?
                      • ELSavage 🤓15:50 · 2024-12-18T15:06:12.139Z
                        I put a question mark on that one. In the end I decided it didn't belong because it wasn't the correct symbol for that clue number.
                        • DrTom 23:43 · 2024-12-18T22:43:24.609Z
                          I think I finally realized that. In truth by that point I was so confused I was ready to put down anything. If oit was that hard to keep the solving straight I cannot imagine how hard it was to create!
                          But thanks for the explanation.
                          • whimsy 🤓6:33 · 2024-12-19T02:55:47.727Z
                            Lord knows, I empathize with the confusion -- but I think it's more because Cs is element 55 and therefore beyond the grid.
                            • Mikey G constructor · 2024-12-19T05:05:06.717Z
                              I wonder if there's a correlation between difficulty to create and solve. This was probably one of the toughest to create all year, for sure. Yeah, I was restricted by a 16-letter message (guess I could've went more, now that I think about it?), and so I was kind of implying only ones that you'd see in the grid.
                            • Mikey G constructor · 2024-12-19T05:05:18.254Z
                              Ooof, yeah, that was an unintended thing I now recognize!
                              • woozy 20:41 · 2024-12-19T16:18:47.824Z
                                That was my reasoning as well.
                            • InAJelly 15:29 · 2024-12-18T14:41:26.574Z
                              I have never felt more accomplished after solving a puzzle. Even with nudges
                              • Mikey G constructor · 2024-12-19T05:05:35.894Z
                                That is awesome!! Keep up the great work - you're already an awesome addition to this community!
                              • ELSavage 🤓15:50 · 2024-12-18T15:09:01.748Z
                                I was drawn to the title, since I know my periodic table, but maybe too much knowledge was a dangerous thing, since it gave me so many more rabbit holes to chase.
                                • KayW 🤓2:40 · 2024-12-19T01:46:39.430Z
                                  Holy moly what a construction! I can't even imagine how tough it must have been to create the grid and clues.
                                  • Mikey G constructor · 2024-12-19T18:14:06.668Z
                                    Yes. Hahaha. Took about 6 - 8 hours, I'd say! And there was a second grid that had a flaw that couldn't be fixed, so that was another 4 - 6 there. Whew!!
                                  • Qmark 3s · 2024-12-21T00:30:47.712Z
                                    I first went down the rabbit hole of crossing out element symbols at the start of grid entries...which of course got me nowhere. Let the puzzle sit for a few days and needed the first nudge to direct me to the clues instead...brilliant construction, Mikey!
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                                    Hollywood hrs.
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                                    Horizontales
                                    1. 1A
                                      Hollywood hrs.
                                    2. 4A
                                      Beloved Mets center fielder Tommie Lee, who made two spectacular defensive plays in Game 3 of the 1969 World Series
                                    3. 8A
                                      Orders to some felines (not to Ginger Cat, of course!)
                                    4. 13A
                                      Alternative to "ear-related"
                                    5. 15A
                                      Pass the welcome mat
                                    6. 16A
                                      "Stop! Are you kidding me..."
                                    7. 17A
                                      Clearly a small amount of letters - but when you find a pair that doesn't work, don't get rid of it!
                                    8. 20A
                                      Caustic cleaner
                                    9. 21A
                                      Scurrying meerkat in "The Lion King"
                                    10. 22A
                                      Ninole Hills on Hawaii are near Mauna ___ (50:50 chance!)
                                    11. 23A
                                      Versatile Nissan model
                                    12. 25A
                                      New words are frequently added to this: Abbr.
                                    13. 26A
                                      FedEx, e.g.
                                    14. 27A
                                      Common cold feature?
                                    15. 29A
                                      Curved movement through the air (look before you do it!)
                                    16. 31A
                                      Gamma coding and ___-pair encoding: two forms of data compression (the statistician went data way!)
                                    17. 34A
                                      "Seen my charged particle lately?" "No, but I'll keep an ___ it"
                                    18. 36A
                                      Krispy Kreme residue, if, like, a bunch of liquefied Krispy Kreme donuts are suddenly oozing out of the factory (donut mind me)
                                    19. 40A
                                      Bond rating (insert some James Bond pun here)
                                    20. 41A
                                      "NBC Nightly Brews," Starbucks, and other bistros, for example (I just made the first one up)
                                    21. 43A
                                      TCM has movies for all to see / But if it showed the wrong one, then it ___ on TV
                                    22. 44A
                                      Rushing outside to see the first snowfall, with regard to winter, perhaps
                                    23. 47A
                                      "Again let me try that..."
                                    24. 48A
                                      CDs of "The Lion King" soundtrack would feature his song "Be Prepared"
                                    25. 49A
                                      Instrumental gin flavoring ("Pour it already!" "I have to go ___")
                                    26. 50A
                                      Snack (is it a breath mint? a candy mint?) sold until 2018
                                    27. 51A
                                      Sbarro's "Slices for ___" campaign (previous initiative with St. Jude's)
                                    28. 52A
                                      Tedious musical syllables, perhaps
                                    Verticales
                                    1. 1D
                                      Homes where frogs have their bachelor pads
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                                      Hectic place at the holidays
                                    3. 3D
                                      "Lions ___ Up Their Offense" (my pun headline after they trounced Tennessee for the first time in nearly 30 years in 2024)
                                    4. 4D
                                      Before now
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                                      Body of leaders, briefly
                                    6. 6D
                                      Children's song's non-consonantal refrain
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                                      Notable coat for canines?
                                    8. 8D
                                      One of these days
                                    9. 9D
                                      Famed "In the Heights" director Jon M.
                                    10. 10D
                                      Necessary - and then some!
                                    11. 11D
                                      Nail on an eagle (I was quite ___-ted to think of this clue)
                                    12. 12D
                                      First golfer to win a PGA Tour event in four different decades
                                    13. 14D
                                      "Since when? No way!"
                                    14. 18D
                                      N. Dame will ___ through the college playoffs this year, I hope! (Go Fighting Irish!)
                                    15. 19D
                                      Keys might be needed to unlock them
                                    16. 24D
                                      Crisp sans-serif typeface
                                    17. 26D
                                      Fervently rejects
                                    18. 28D
                                      "Nice try, but you have to draw some cards now!"
                                    19. 30D
                                      C.S. Lewis's characters on the Dawn Treader might have used this nautical adverb
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                                      Garden-variety ("I really don't like your plants..." "I beg your garden!")
                                    21. 32D
                                      "Gee whiz, I rock!"
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                                      Assuredly less wild
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                                      Brand of wafers
                                    24. 37D
                                      YMCAs might offer a ___ on various basketball exercises
                                    25. 38D
                                      Sri Lanka's capital is nearly 5,000 miles from this Italian port city
                                    26. 39D
                                      You can see a dozen of them on a cube
                                    27. 41D
                                      NBA players need to fake, steal, and hustle on the court - these folks do it off the court
                                    28. 42D
                                      Motel freebie, often
                                    29. 45D
                                      Rhyming poem "Casey at the ___"
                                    30. 46D
                                      LSAT studying is an additional responsibility you have as part of the ___-law track
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