Comments on: Thursday, 2/4/10

By: Ellen

Ellen — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:39:40 +0000

Re snow: if someone’s plane couldn’t get to the ACPT, I wouldn’t be that upset

By: Brent H (floridaqqq)

Brent H (floridaqqq) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:00:33 +0000

Clever theme from Matt Ginsberg today — I figured out the anagram pairings without the hint, but the jumble of which clue fit which entry was an impressive curveball. I’ve solved about two dozen of his puzzles now and I have yet to find my comfort zone with them.

With the tournament two weeks away, a friendly warning to contestants not on the East Coast: prepare for snow. We in Virginia are about to get socked with another 20-inch snowfall, and NYC may get some of this before the weekend is over. The El Nino pattern this season is causing repetitive snowstorms/nor’easters to occur…I wouldn’t be surprised to see significant snowfall on tournament weekend.

By: ===Dan

===Dan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:28:06 +0000

I think the shared sense of “bans” and “blacks out” is “censors” as in text or body parts.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:46:23 +0000

There’s a LEGOLAND in California, too. My sister and family loved it.

http://www.legoland.com/California.htm

By: Matt Gaffney

Matt Gaffney — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:00:26 +0000

Fireball took me 10:31 in AL. The clue for APU was awesome and the grid was fun.

By: John Haber

John Haber — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:36:46 +0000

I was impressed, too, and very much enjoyed it. HOGAN and CAFTAN were hard or unfamiliar for me, too. I’m surprised no one found SARG as unfamiliar as I or commented on the Anti-Spam Act. Somehow that one slipped right by me, maybe because junk mail seems not to have diminished.

By: joon

joon — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:15:52 +0000

you wouldn’t believe how long i held myself up in the middle of the fireball because i had PEE instead of PRO for {Whiz}. well, that and RAS instead of TAS.