Publishing next runt early, for two crucial reasons: * Timeliness, vis-a-vis a recent NYTPuz. * Celebrating a dear one's b-day, tonight; so … no runting around.
@BobK. - yep. We at Runtpuz Central liked to act before the NYTPuz body has even gone cold. (Shoot, some constructioneers wait for years, and still get in trouble, anyhoo!)
@M&A You must really try the Jeff Chen AVCX puzzle if only to experience some of the bafflement I feel when attempting to solve a biter runt. At runtpuz.org enter thu in the text box and click Fetch Puzzle. If you solve it let me know and I will pay ACVX for it. BTW, runtpuz.org only allots 10 minutes for the puzzle because it is 14 x 14. You will probably need more than that.
Unlike M&A's solve of that Jeff Chen AVCX puz, which actually got interrupted a few times, along the way. Doubt that had much effect on anything, tho. It was an epic struggle for m&e.
Seemed like a good runtpuz theme gimmick, but then again, maybe not. Yer big problem, when a runtpuz theme is too farout there: not enough grid territory to give solvers sufficient attack angles to piece together what's going on. If that makes any sense.
@r.alph: Nice "Big Lebowski" segue. Looks like this little biter bear chewed up all the test solvers. M&A had even allowed 120 billion extra nanoseconds, for y'all to parse Dan'l Boone into the gimmick. Go figure.
Experiment: M&A is attemptin to create a truly easy *themed* runtpuz. Lately, he has (unintentionally) encountered difficulty, in cultivatin such a beast. Trial balloon #1 …
p.s. M&A will be going on a looong road trip soon. Will be out of "tech range" for around a couple weeks. Will try to fire off a few extra runtz in the next coupla days, before we leave. Hopefully, @BG1 might have a few tasty runtz to offer?
@Teedmn: Real sorry about them co-workers tryin to jab U in the eye with their grimy/gritty fingers. You'd think tryin to solve runtz would be enough of a poke in the eye, to keep everybody happy.
p.s. M&A will probably post one additional puz overnight, before declarin a lengthy M&A runtpuz truce. Hopefully, you've been glutted so much with these little puppies lately, that the shock will be minimal, if not merciful.
More like you upped our addiction level and now we'll have to go cold turkey! But I've really enjoyed the "glut". Thanks M&A. I wish both you and BobK safe journeys.
So here I am on this remote island with only my iPad and no keyboard, but I did the Block Party runt on paper. Can't show my work, and don't know my time(under 15 min, anyway), but a nice puzzle, and congratulations on what seems to be yet another new invention in crossword answers!
Wow @BobK. and @r,alph … yer trips were a bit further out-of-state than M&A's. Speakin of iPads, I had to buy a new one, while on the road. Apple has improved em to where they're more challengin to operate.
UK gets to enjoy both a Brexit and a r.alphtrance.
@Teedmn: Good to be back. May release a runt every other day or so, for a spell. Allows M&A's head to ache less, plus leaves more time for the slave labor that PuzEatinSpouse has planned.
p.s. I notice that lately when I enter a comment at Rex Parker, it doesn't get past moderation, if it contains a "**gruntz**" link at the bottom. M&A will keep tryin for awhile, but that helpful pointer gig might be comin to an end?
p.s. Whoa. Today, I tried leavin a short comment at Rex Parker about the TuesPuz, and down at the end, instead of a **gruntz** hot link, I just typed in the word "test", just as regular text, with no link at all. The comment evidently failed moderation!
@r.alph's advice is probably the only thing you can try. If you still don't pass moderation, I'll have to email Rex. No way we can lose the M&A humor in the comments!!!
@Teedmn - Oh, hey -- U are sure nice, but it's his blog, so he can do what he likes. If I don't comment there, it just leaves m&e more time to make up runtpuzs. [And NYTPuzs: I cooked up a couple really "unique" 15x15 ones, in the last week or so.]
I took @r.alph's advice just now, and tried enterin a comment with nothin at all below the Masked&Anonymo5Us sign out line. We shall see …
I notice that yesterday's M&A comment at Rex Parker made it, thru moderation. So either moderation was the problem, or Google Blogger was. (M&A had to make a new id lately, so that could also be related.)
P.S. - @M&A - Since I never get anything (I'm really quite simple-minded), could you please tell me, or at least give a good hint to, what does FURTE mean?
@M&A - Upon further study, I finally see the logic and procedure of the "Shiftier Than Usual" runt, exceedingly clever as always, but FURTE still escapes me. I would be happy to be removed from torture!
p.s. See also "Less Shiftier Than Usual" runtpuz follow-up, which attempted to help test runt solvers get their nerve back. Next in the series? … "More Shiftless Than Usual" ?
"Wild Thing"
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=Mjg0NzcwNTMxODYzOTc5MA
"Everything" - 7x7 themed:
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Everything
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"Everything" --
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"Everything"
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Publishing next runt early, for two crucial reasons:
ReplyDelete* Timeliness, vis-a-vis a recent NYTPuz.
* Celebrating a dear one's b-day, tonight; so … no runting around.
"Home Runt Home" - 7x7 themed, USA-Today-style:
**gruntz**
M&A
"Home Runt Home" --
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@BobK. - yep. We at Runtpuz Central liked to act before the NYTPuz body has even gone cold. (Shoot, some constructioneers wait for years, and still get in trouble, anyhoo!)
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Home Runt Home
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"Home Runt Home"
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@M&A
ReplyDeleteYou must really try the Jeff Chen AVCX puzzle if only to experience some of the bafflement I feel when attempting to solve a biter runt. At runtpuz.org enter thu in the text box and click Fetch Puzzle. If you solve it let me know and I will pay ACVX for it. BTW, runtpuz.org only allots 10 minutes for the puzzle because it is 14 x 14. You will probably need more than that.
@r,alph: Will give it an old college try, but sounds sorta intimidatin.
DeleteWill get back to U, after I go after it.
Thanx,
M&A
@r.alph - Amen re the AVCX. Got it, but took more than ten minutes - a lot more!
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, I am an AVCX subscriber.
ReplyDeleteA slightly different runtpuz challenge slant…
ReplyDelete"How Fast Can You Speed Solve?" - 7x7 themeless:
**gruntz**
M&A
"How Fast Can You Speed Solve?"
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How fast can you speed solve? 1:21
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Way to go, r.alph!
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Thanks.
Nice speed solve times, on "How Fast", so far.
ReplyDeleteUnlike M&A's solve of that Jeff Chen AVCX puz, which actually got interrupted a few times, along the way. Doubt that had much effect
on anything, tho. It was an epic struggle for m&e.
Seemed like a good runtpuz theme gimmick, but then again, maybe
not. Yer big problem, when a runtpuz theme is too farout there: not enough grid territory to give solvers sufficient attack angles to piece together what's going on. If that makes any sense.
Recap of M&A's AVCX solution:
http://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=NDU3MDk4NTUwODM2OTM2MQ
Thanx again, @r.alph. I see what U mean.
M&A
AVCX puzzle - I'm a subscriber too but I used the Down Home to solve it, if that's what you call it :-),
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"How Fast Can You Speed Solve?" Nice time, @r.alph! and Har to @bodgit1's comment.
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"Grin & Sort of Bear It" - 7x7 themed:
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M&A
Grin and Sort of Bear It
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Grin & Sort of Bear It
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D'oh!
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@r.alph: Nice "Big Lebowski" segue. Looks like this little biter bear chewed up all the test solvers. M&A had even allowed 120 billion extra nanoseconds, for y'all to parse Dan'l Boone into the gimmick. Go figure.
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p.s.
Delete@Teedmn'll probably beat that bear. She's from bear country.
U go, girl.
M&A
Nope, I think I got the Dude's second choice today.
Delete"Grin & Sort of Bear It"
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Time for one of these puppies, then. Thanx to @Teedmn, for the title suggestion.
ReplyDeleteStumpy Stumper: "Amuse Brouche" - 7x7 themeless:
**gruntz**
M&A
Amuse Something --
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Thanks ;>)
Amuse Brouche
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Latest installment in the endless "This Is All BobK.'s Fault" runtpuz series …
ReplyDelete"Gumdrop" - 7x7 themed:
**gruntz**
M&A
"Gumdrop" --
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Gumdrop
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"Amuse Bouche"
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"Gumdrop"
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Stumpy Stumper: "Lusty Tryst" - 7x7 themeless:
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"Lusty Tryst" --
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Lustry Tryst
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Gumdrop
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Amuse Bouche
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Frank Longo 11 June Stumper Recap by A-Strugglin Solver:
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Lusty Tryst
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"Precious Nanoseconds" - 7x7 themed:
ReplyDelete**gruntz**
M&A
p.s.
Could be a name for the mutt in the runtpuz logo pic. "Nanosecond".
"Precious Nanoseconds" --
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Stumpy Stumper: "Ars Bouche" - 7x7 themeless:
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"Ars Bouche" --
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Ars Bouche
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Precious Nanoseconds
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Ars Bouche
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"Lusty Tryst"
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"Beware of the Bar" - 7x7 deja vu themed:
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Beware of the Bar
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Experiment: M&A is attemptin to create a truly easy *themed* runtpuz. Lately, he has (unintentionally) encountered difficulty, in cultivatin such a beast. Trial balloon #1 …
ReplyDelete"Find the Hidden Stuff" - 7x7 themed:
**gruntz**
M&A
p.s.
M&A will be going on a looong road trip soon. Will be out of "tech range" for around a couple weeks. Will try to fire off a few extra runtz in the next coupla days, before we leave. Hopefully, @BG1 might have a few tasty runtz to offer?
"Precious Nanoseconds" Definitely worth spending a few nanoseconds on, thanks!
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"Find the Hidden Stuff" --
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"Ars Bouche"
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"Find the Hidden Stuff"
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=MzEwNjc5NTg3NjM3Njg5MA
"The Simpsons" - 7x7 themed:
ReplyDelete**gruntz**
M&A
"The Simpsons" --
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=NzM5Mzc1OTExMTIwODUw
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The Simpsons
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=NzQ0NDM2NTkxNDE4MTcxNQ
Beware of the Bar
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Find the Stuff
http://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=NzQxMTQ1NTkxMzk5NDIzNw
The Simpsons
http://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=ODA3ODQ1OTE0ODQ0MTkw
"Beware the Bar" Got me good.
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=NTk1MzU3NTkyMzQ5NDA2Mg
"Alternator" - 7x7 themed:
ReplyDelete**gruntz**
M&A
"Alternator" --
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=MTMzNDQyNTkzNzI5MzUyMw
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"Find the Hidden Stuff"
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=NjUyNDQ0NTk0MzAyMzIyMQ
Alternator
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"The Simpsons"
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=MzYwMjg1NTk0MzkwOTQ2NA
Stumpy Stumper: "T with Juice" - 7x7 themeless:
ReplyDelete**gruntz**
M&A
"T with Juice" --
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"T with Juice"
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=NTc5NDg3NjAwMjAyMTQ1NQ
T with Juice
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=NTk3MTU1NjAwMzgxMjc0OQ
In Rhode Island, where I grew up, cirriculum is spelled curriculum. Were you afraid of oding on the U's?
@r.aplh: Nope. But afraid M&A can't spell worth beans. Adds an extra level of challenge, to solvin the clues. Sincerest apologies.
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p.s.
DeleteAlso@r.alph: Check out my solution, for M&A's 11-Across rationale.
Curriculum. Curriculum.
M&A
"Double-O-Seven" - 007x007 themed:
ReplyDelete**gruntz**
M&A
"Alternator"
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@Teedmn: Real sorry about them co-workers tryin to jab U in the eye with their grimy/gritty fingers. You'd think tryin to solve runtz would be enough of a poke in the eye, to keep everybody happy.
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"Double-O-Seven" --
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"Double-O-Seven"
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=MTE4Mzc2NjAxMzcyMjA5Ng
Double-O Seven
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Stumpy Stumper: "Stores For Cows" - 7x7 themeless:
ReplyDelete**gruntz**
M&A
"Stores For Cows" --
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Stores for Cows
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=NjM0MTI2MDg0NjY3OTM1
Stores for cows
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=ODMzMzYwNjA4ODE5MzQyNg
"T for Juice" Lots of fun.
ReplyDelete@M&A is creating faster than I can keep up (no complaints here!)
http://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=OTU4ODYxNjA5NjQ2MjQyNw
"Move It" - 7x7 themed:
ReplyDelete**gruntz**
M&A
p.s.
M&A will probably post one additional puz overnight, before declarin a lengthy M&A runtpuz truce. Hopefully, you've been glutted so much with these little puppies lately, that the shock will be minimal, if not merciful.
More like you upped our addiction level and now we'll have to go cold turkey! But I've really enjoyed the "glut". Thanks M&A. I wish both you and BobK safe journeys.
DeleteRuntpuz Recap oof solution too: "Double-O-Seven".
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M&A
"Move It" --
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P.S. - Enjoy your break! I will be off again in search of marine mammals at the Mall Orca next week; back after the 4th of July.
And I spelled a key word in my comments wrong! Should be A, not E, in the appropriate spot.
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ReplyDelete"Double-O-Seven"
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"Stores for Cows"
http://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=MzI3NzcxNjEyNjg1NDE0Ng
"Move It"
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=OTIzODczNjEyODE4NzkyMQ
Move It
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=OTUxMjIxNjEzMzAxNTM1NQ
Move It
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=ODQzODQzNjEzNzU1MjUyOQ
"Runtules" - 7x7 themed:
ReplyDelete**gruntz**
M&A
"Runtules" --
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=NDE5ODU4NjE2OTM1NjE3Mg
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@BobK.--Have a great vacation at the Mall.
DeleteM&A Runtpuz Truce now in effect, for about 2 weeks.
Thanx,
M&A
"Runtules" Nice puzzle to leave us with.
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=MTc0MTA3NjI2MTgzODgzNg
"Block Party" - 7x7 themed:
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M&A
So here I am on this remote island with only my iPad and no keyboard, but I did the Block Party runt on paper. Can't show my work, and don't know my time(under 15 min, anyway), but a nice puzzle, and congratulations on what seems to be yet another new invention in crossword answers!
ReplyDeleteThank you as always!
Wow @BobK. and @r,alph … yer trips were a bit further out-of-state than M&A's. Speakin of iPads, I had to buy a new one, while on the road. Apple has improved em to where they're more challengin to operate.
DeleteUK gets to enjoy both a Brexit and a r.alphtrance.
@Teedmn: Good to be back. May release a runt every other day or so, for a spell. Allows M&A's head to ache less, plus leaves more time for the slave labor that PuzEatinSpouse has planned.
M&A
Block Partyx
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=NTcyNDQxNzQ1OTc3NjQ1NA
Welcome back! I am in England this month but I brought my computer and have an Internet connection so not much is different!
"Block Party"
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=MzMzNTYyNzQ2NDQzNTI0Nw
Good to "see" M&A and @Bob K back! Nice puzzle.
Stumpy Stumper: "Snakebite" - 7x7 themeless:
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M&A
"Snakebite" -- Done on paper, timed at about five minutes. Write-overs at 4A and 13A, easily corrected.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
Snakebite
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=ODE4NDI5NzYyNDk2ODk5OA
"Snakebite" Sometimes you bite the snake and sometimes the bite snakes you.
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=NjI5NDkzNzc1ODQxMTg1Mw
Stumpy Stumper: "Runt Soup" - 7x7 themeless:
ReplyDelete**gruntz**
M&A
"Runt Soup" -- Done on paper, about five minutes (Hey, I'm still on vacation two more days!) Can't check solution electronically, but looks good.
ReplyDeleteNice grid.
Thanks.
@BobK. - Yo. That's just what trips me up, on some of my runtpuz flameout themes: looks good, on paper.
DeleteThanx back,
M&A
Runt Soup
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"Runt Soup"
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=MTk5NTYzNzgxMzc5NDcyNQ
"The Runt Collection" - 7x7 themed:
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M&A
The Runt Collection
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=MjM0MTQ5Nzk2NDAyNDgxMw
Here I am, back online, with all my hesitations and mis-steps clearly on view:
ReplyDelete"The Runt Collection" --
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"The Runt Collection" Too bad I couldn't collect my thoughts a bit faster.
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=NDgyMTI0Nzk4NjgwODE2OA
"Fire Gore" - 7x7 themed:
ReplyDelete**gruntz**
M&A
"Fire Gore" --
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=MjExMTMyODA5NDkxOTMzNw
Thanks.
Fire Gore
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Stumpy Stumper: "Replicant" - 7x7 mostly themeless:
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M&A
Replicant
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"Replicant" --
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=NjM0NDY4MTQxMTI5ODEy
Thanks for the puzzle, M@A, and thanks for the explanation, r.alphbunker!
"Fire Gore"
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"Replicant" Ouch!
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Runtpuz Fired-Up Recap for solution to: "Fire Gore".
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"The "In' Puz" - 7x7 themed:
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"The "In' Puz" --
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Thanks.
The "In" Puz - nice solve, @bodgit1.
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The "In" Puz
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Stumpy Stumper: "Sparkling Tidbits" - 7x7 themeless:
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"Sparkling Tidbits" --
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Thanks.
Sparkling Tidbits
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@r.alph: Stumpy Stumpers never have themes, that they know about.
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"Sparkling Tidbits"
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ReplyDeleteWasn't plannin to drop a runt on U today, but in celebration of Double 007-U NYTPuzs, over the past two days …
ReplyDelete"Double-O Seven Returns" - 7x7 themed:
**gruntz**
M&A
p.s.
Did a re-do on this message, becuz forgot to include part of it, originally.
"Double-O Seven Returns" --
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"Double-O Seven Returns" Thanks for the bonus puzzle!
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Stumpy Stumper: "Cousin For Two" - 7x7 themeless:
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"Cousin For Two" --
ReplyDeletehttp://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=ODkxMDY1ODUyNDA2MTkzOQ
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"Cousin for Two" Two bad for me!
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Cousin for two
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"Overhead" - 7x7 themed:
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"Overhead" --
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"Overhead"
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Overhead
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Stumpy Stumper: "Major Majorca" - 7x7 themeless:
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Major Majorca
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"Major Majorca" --
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Thanks (Sorry, I didn't see the Majorca connection until after I was done.)
"Major Majorca" Fun!
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Runtpuz Over-M&A's-Head Recap for solution to: "Ovrehead".
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p.s.
I notice that lately when I enter a comment at Rex Parker, it doesn't get past moderation, if it contains a "**gruntz**" link at the bottom. M&A will keep tryin for awhile, but that helpful pointer gig might be comin to an end?
"Pass It On" - 7x7 themed:
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p.s.
Whoa. Today, I tried leavin a short comment at Rex Parker about the TuesPuz, and down at the end, instead of a **gruntz** hot link, I just typed in the word "test", just as regular text, with no link at all.
The comment evidently failed moderation!
@r.alph's advice is probably the only thing you can try. If you still don't pass moderation, I'll have to email Rex. No way we can lose the M&A humor in the comments!!!
Delete@Teedmn - Oh, hey -- U are sure nice, but it's his blog, so he can do what he likes. If I don't comment there, it just leaves m&e more time to make up runtpuzs. [And NYTPuzs: I cooked up a couple really "unique" 15x15 ones, in the last week or so.]
DeleteI took @r.alph's advice just now, and tried enterin a comment with nothin at all below the Masked&Anonymo5Us sign out line. We shall see …
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Pass It On
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"Pass It On"
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"Pass It On" --
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"Never-Say-Die's" - 7x7 themed:
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Never-Say-Die's
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I notice that yesterday's M&A comment at Rex Parker made it, thru moderation. So either moderation was the problem, or Google Blogger was. (M&A had to make a new id lately, so that could also be related.)
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"Never-Say-Die's" --
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"Never-say-dies" Nice!!
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ReplyDelete"Borderline Nuts" - 7x7 themed:
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p.s.
Deleted previous comment, because there was a flaw in the runtpuz's clues that needed fixin.
"Borderline Nuts" --
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"Borderline Nuts"
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Ahar! Looks like "Borderline Nuts" was kind of a biter, even tho it had a revealer hint *and* the borderline-classy title. De bust a gut.
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http://puzzlecrowd.com:8080/CrowdSource/GetSolution?id=ODcwOTIwOTIwNTExMzE2MA
M&A
Stumpy Stumper: "U Can't Get Em All" - 7x7 themeless:
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"U Can't Get Em All" --
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Thank U.
"U Can't Get 'Em All"
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ReplyDelete"Non-Circles" - 7x7 themed:
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M&A
p.s.
Deleted previous message, to adjust the runtpuz slightly. Made it prettier.
U Can't Get Em All
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"Non-Circles" --
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Thanks.
"Non-Circles"
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Stumpy Stumper: "Ex Ample" - 7x7 themeless:
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Runtpuz Circular Recap for solution to: "Non-Circles".
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M&A
Ex Ample
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"Ex Ample" --
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"Ex Ample" - A stumper for me if not for some people (@Bob K, et. al.)
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"Shiftier Than Usual" - 7x7 themed:
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"Shiftier Than Usual" --
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Thanks.
Hmmmm … This runtpuz theme may go as I feared. I wasn't sure how easy it would be to latch on to, in such a tiny grid space.
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"Really Not Prone to Pull Wings Offa Flies"
P.S. - @M&A - Since I never get anything (I'm really quite simple-minded), could you please tell me, or at least give a good hint to, what does FURTE mean?
ReplyDelete@BobK. - har. As I recall, FURTE was something M&A brought up in a comment, for a past NYT "Bad Luck" Puz. FURTE was a suggestion for an extra themer.
ReplyDeleteOK, so … Hint: Think unlucky number formulas. (Also happy to supply the answer, if U want; don't mean to torture anybody.)
Thanx for asking,
M&A
@M&A - Upon further study, I finally see the logic and procedure of the "Shiftier Than Usual" runt, exceedingly clever as always, but FURTE still escapes me. I would be happy to be removed from torture!
ReplyDelete@BobK. -
Delete{Furte??} = FOURTEEN - ONE = THIRTEEN.
M&A
p.s.
Good for U, on figurin out the "Shiftier" runtpuz!
Thanks!
ReplyDeleteStumpy Stumper: "Less Shiftier Than Usual" - 7x7 themeless:
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"Less Shiftier Than Usual" --
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"Shiftier than Usual" At least I wasn't alone...
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"Less Shiftier Than Usual" Fun!
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Runtpuz Shiftless Recap for solution to: "Shiftier Than Usual".
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M&A
p.s. See also "Less Shiftier Than Usual" runtpuz follow-up, which attempted to help test runt solvers get their nerve back.
Next in the series? … "More Shiftless Than Usual" ?
Less shiftier than usual.
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Will start new post
Test. Ignore. Scram.
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Test. Ignore. Move along, now.
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M&A
Excellent blog, Congrats to the Web Master, nice colors and text.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your knowledge. God bless you.
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Geetings from Venezuela
test, go away.
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ReplyDeleteAnother day-um test. Avoid lookin at directly with yer eyes, at all cost.
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