The answer to the meta is a 7-letter word which is an important facet of the game of baseball
What's this? A meta puzzle involving baseball constructed by an Australian? Has the world turned upside-down?!? Actually, we do have baseball Down Under. But it isn't massively popular, and I really don't know much about the sport. When it crops up in US-centric metas I usually shudder and hope against hope that I'll be able to solve the darn thing. Well, let's see if I did my homework. The answer to the meta is a 7-letter word which is an important facet of the game of baseball. Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=118478#p118478
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DrTom solved 2022-11-22T16:22:39.295Z
Schmeel solved 2023-01-18T06:50:54.816Z
Cindy Heisler solved 2023-01-18T10:18:53.876Z
boharr solved 2023-01-18T14:39:11.931Z
Meg solved 2023-01-18T14:40:43.798Z
Hector solved 2023-01-18T15:13:32.083Z
ChrisCross solved 2023-01-18T16:18:11.490Z
Mwoychick solved 2023-01-18T19:31:31.771Z
I K Snamhcok solved 2023-01-18T19:52:24.615Z
woozy solved 2023-01-18T20:17:30.395Z
Cindy Weatherman solved 2023-01-18T21:28:05.756Z
Tyrpmom solved 2023-01-18T22:35:56.929Z
Laura M solved 2023-01-18T23:09:25.886Z
Darth solved 2023-01-19T01:48:43.482Z
Mr Tex solved 2023-01-19T02:41:45.987Z
dplass solved 2023-01-19T03:42:21.449Z
BarbaraK solved 2023-01-19T03:44:45.703Z
rjy solved 2023-01-19T06:03:13.423Z
Johnny Luau solved 2023-01-19T16:49:29.302Z
Dave C solved 2023-01-19T17:42:21.070Z
MatthewL solved 2023-01-19T20:25:03.431Z
lbray53 solved 2023-01-19T22:00:03.455Z
Will solved 2023-01-20T00:59:58.929Z
KayW solved 2023-01-20T01:32:34.980Z
Matt A solved 2023-01-20T02:40:21.723Z
markhr solved 2023-01-20T03:33:07.463Z
Darrell solved 2023-01-20T04:07:16.546Z
Ergcat solved 2023-01-20T10:13:09.056Z
Pair O Ducks solved 2023-01-20T16:04:02.886Z
MisterDJ solved 2023-01-20T23:19:38.177Z
whimsy solved 2023-01-21T02:13:53.368Z
Dow Jones solved 2023-01-21T03:23:34.795Z
JM solved 2023-01-21T14:06:44.934Z
Carolyn solved 2023-01-21T17:25:02.754Z
CPJohnson solved 2023-01-21T20:59:28.651Z
ReB solved 2023-01-22T20:39:35.081Z
jbird solved 2023-01-23T03:31:19.889Z
DIS solved 2023-01-23T14:52:26.011Z
Bbaack solved 2023-03-02T12:31:17.245Z
Samik solved 2023-04-03T13:51:59.104Z
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Cindy Heisler 2s · 2023-01-18T10:20:36.789Z
I always cringe when I see a meta about baseball, but I was able to get this one. Nicely done, Ben. Thanks!
Ben should not have to take all the flak for this. I was his tester and unfortunately became too familiar with the puzzle. I should have seen that and alerted him to the possible herring factor. Sorry Ben! Still a superb puzzle though.
ChrisCross 🤓5:11 · 2023-01-18T16:19:34.426Z
That sure is a big gap in the middle of the grid. Let’s ignore it and go chase (B)RUINS with no signs of other baseball team names.
That would have taken a lot of research on my part. I think the only baseball team names I know have SOX in them!
ChrisCross 🤓5:11 · 2023-01-19T00:45:37.715Z
I think it would have been very hard to do well without making it too easy. I gathered the metanism had something to do with sliding letters and I saw a B could be slid directly up to the black square before RUINS and I thought it had to be it - block head. I looked up other team names and saw nothing stood out. Investigating HOME-------RUNS was really only meant to be a distraction from my frustration at not seeing other team names, and then I counted the squares between the words and it came very quickly.
So RUNE is RUN with an E and REESE is a reference to Pee-wee Reese so a P and if the DINOslides into the NITE and dislodges the N we get DINO-MITE with an M and.... gee, tough back-solve....
Whoa! Awesome. Slide (and lift). I never would have seen that. I just figured an important aspect of baseball with seven letter. Diamond was the first thing I thought of.
I knew it had something to do with sliding and I really should have figured that weird shape was something. To add to my bag of tricks. Long blanks often mean fill in letters.
Laura M 🤓4:54 · 2023-01-18T23:11:26.061Z
Impressive!
Dave C 3s · 2023-01-19T17:45:01.623Z
Nicely done. I didn't catch the reference to "facet" at first.
MatthewL 🤓6:05 · 2023-01-19T20:31:19.179Z
Finally got it. Nice puzzle Ben!
markhr 🤓10:21 · 2023-01-20T03:57:41.675Z
I feel like the title was directed at me. It took me long enough to solve this.
Great job, Ben.
I didn't want anyone to think I was calling them names. I just couldn't resist, though, since I'm literally telling you what to do in the title: slide the head [or tail] of the [baseball-related] blocks. Then you just have to know where to slide them!
Ergcat 11:57 · 2023-01-20T10:14:05.903Z
Thank you, Ben! Fun solve!
whimsy 🤓8:08 · 2023-01-21T02:33:39.498Z
Finally able to see the way to what I felt from the start had to be the answer -- because of "facet," and from seeing the DIA at the end of my name, and MO(U)ND. I initially kept my sliding to only the open base paths -- BRUINS, even though it was out of whack thematically; HOMERUNS; and STAGE, which would be an alternative to the ARENA clue. Ben's clarification of baseball-theme words helped me know those were involved. I did so want to include SPIT as one of them :) but in the end I had to leave that activity to the EMUS.
Carolyn 4s · 2023-01-21T17:26:24.515Z
That took me way too long! I didn't even need the nudges after all. Thanks!
ReB 8s · 2023-01-22T20:47:01.561Z
Finally saw the key as to how to slide letters into place to create an apropos baseball word. I actually had the clues circled, but just needed that bolt from above to provide the AHA spark.