Slide, You Blockhead! Slide! (Meta)

■ · Di benchen71 · Pubblicato più di 2 anni fa

Meta Prompt

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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Cindy Heisler 2s · più di 2 anni fa
I always cringe when I see a meta about baseball, but I was able to get this one. Nicely done, Ben. Thanks!
- benchen71 costruttore · più di 2 anni fa
  I'm right with you there if. I'm always ecstatic when I manage to solve a meta involving sport!
boharr 13s · più di 2 anni fa
Consistency? What did I mess?
- boharr 13s · più di 2 anni fa
  I meant "miss" not "mess." Sorry.
Meg 4s · più di 2 anni fa
Nice one! I love baseball!
Hector 3s · più di 2 anni fa
Facet, heh... Nice challenge, Ben. Is RESOD a distraction here?
- benchen71 costruttore · più di 2 anni fa
  Yes, sorry.
- benchen71 costruttore · più di 2 anni fa
  I've now changed the clue to "Repair a lawn".
- dplass 🤓5:41 · più di 2 anni fa
  Hm...I used RESOD in my solution....obviously I have missolved this...
- DrTom 9:09 · più di 2 anni fa
  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 · più di 2 anni fa
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.
- benchen71 costruttore · più di 2 anni fa
  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 · più di 2 anni fa
    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.
DrTom 9:09 · più di 2 anni fa
An Aussie takes on baseball and scores a homer! Fun puzzle Ben, now I suppose I have to make a cricket meta!
- benchen71 costruttore · più di 2 anni fa
  Looking forward to that!
Mwoychick 🤓6:46 · più di 2 anni fa
Very clever mechanism and smooth grid fill, Ben - thank you
I K Snamhcok 1s · più di 2 anni fa
As a lifelong baseball fan, I appreciate you creating this puzzle, Ben. I’d be lost if the theme were rugby or Australian rules football!
woozy 12:40 · più di 2 anni fa
So RUNE is RUN with an E and REESE is a reference to Pee-wee Reese so a P and if the DINO slides into the NITE and dislodges the N we get DINO-MITE with an M and.... gee, tough back-solve....
- benchen71 costruttore · più di 2 anni fa
  I'm not sure that's the right mechanism. There are seven baseball terms in the downs. Slide these up or down into the middle area.
  - woozy 12:40 · più di 2 anni fa
    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 · più di 2 anni fa
Impressive!
Dave C 3s · più di 2 anni fa
Nicely done. I didn't catch the reference to "facet" at first.
MatthewL 🤓6:05 · più di 2 anni fa
Finally got it. Nice puzzle Ben!
markhr 🤓10:21 · più di 2 anni fa
I feel like the title was directed at me. It took me long enough to solve this. Great job, Ben.
- benchen71 costruttore · più di 2 anni fa
  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 · più di 2 anni fa
Thank you, Ben! Fun solve!
whimsy 🤓8:08 · più di 2 anni fa
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 · più di 2 anni fa
That took me way too long! I didn't even need the nudges after all. Thanks!
ReB 8s · più di 2 anni fa
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.

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