This sample puzzle is "medium." If you can complete it in 15 minutes
In pencil, 15:05. Not competitive, but better than I expected.
Two steaming cups of chocolate goodness. Courtesy of whomever I swiped it from out of the cupboard.
Ben ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
dcp - Jan 02, 2025 3:04:17 pm PST #4296 of 4336
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
JenP - Jan 02, 2025 3:33:31 pm PST #4297 of 4336
I doubt I'm competetive, but I will try that! After DH and I do today's puzzle for real, heh.
meara - Jan 02, 2025 3:46:49 pm PST #4298 of 4336
Dang dcp, that’s impressive to me!!
Jesse - Jan 02, 2025 3:59:13 pm PST #4299 of 4336
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Welp, I got a non-refundable hotel room and a changeable train ticket (in case I decide not to work all day Friday!) so I am IN. LFG!!
-t - Jan 02, 2025 4:03:29 pm PST #4300 of 4336
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I can't figure out how to print anymore, stupid work changing things. But yay for virtual options, I will look into that!
Jesse - Jan 02, 2025 4:14:13 pm PST #4301 of 4336
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think you can always get the puzzles after the fact?
I should start practicing more on paper!
JenP - Jan 02, 2025 4:40:30 pm PST #4302 of 4336
Yay, Jesse!
Yeah, I need to practice without DH and on paper.
I think I'll probably drive but maybe stay with my sister overnight in Yardley on Thursday; then it's only about two hours to Stamford. Ooh, and maybe on the way back I'll visit my friend in Pennington, NJ. Maximum peopling! I love the train, but it's so freaking expensive these days.
Sheryl - Jan 02, 2025 5:02:26 pm PST #4303 of 4336
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Happy New Year!
Our NYE was fairly quiet, but fun. We ended up with 4 of our friends(2 couples) coming over. We decided to order in for dinner since we wouldn't be able to fit all of us in Gary's car, and visitor spaces were much in demand so there was no guarantee they'd be able to find a spot after we got back. After dinner(Chinese from a place we often order from) we played a game one of our friends backed in Kickstarter. It was called Modern Problems require Fantasy solutions and the gameplay style was like Cards Against Humanity. Lots of silliness.
JenP - Jan 02, 2025 6:41:58 pm PST #4304 of 4336
Well, I did it in just over 16 mins., but I got hung up for a couple of minutes in a down and across set where I ultimately got a letter wrong. I didn't know the word for the down clue even though there was only one letter missing, and the across clue didn't help, because I had the wrong sense of the main word in that clue. BUT, the rest of it was a golden, so I feel OK!
Steph L. - Jan 02, 2025 7:26:50 pm PST #4305 of 4336
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I can do the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday NYT crosswords, but I hit Thursday and all my brain cells desert me.