Take the even letters of the second word and rearrange to name something associated with this --> ❤️Q: A man said to a friend: "I'm thinking of a 9-letter word that contains my name, Ian ("I-A-N"), embedded somewhere inside it. If you replace my 3-letter name with your 4-letter name, you'll get a familiar word in 10 letters." What are the two words, and what is the name of Ian's friend?
Edit: The even letters anagram to PULSE
A: APPL(IAN)CE --> APPL(ESAU)CE
To solve this puzzle, you’re really going to need a thoughtful strategy.
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ReplyDeleteGood clue!
DeleteThanks, Jan.
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DeleteThanks, WW.
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DeleteAlso, as an aside to viral diseases talk in my answer coming up Thursday, I met a 19 year old girl from CA staying at the same motel (She and her parents were there for her jugular surgery; I was there in the aftermath of a water remediation project.) Long story short: mom was bit by a tic when she was 8. No Lyme disease issues presented themselves until Covid. Covid seemed to activate the Lyme.
DeleteThe daughter who got Lyme from mom at birth is now struggling with Lyme/Long covid/chronic fatigue syndrome. She did not leave her hotel room for 13 days, except for the painful surgery to scrape tissue from around her 90 percent blocked left jugular vein.
Is one of the main reasons why covid is so devastating is that it activates or wakes up old viruses? It's a dreadful, harmful "catalyst," if you will, that won't let sleeping dogs/viruses lie.
What do you think, jan? Other MD, PA/medical folks?And others here with a virus interest?
Not an MD, but merely a geologist who would love to help her friend's son with long covid.
I've been pondering. . .
Lyme disease isn't caused by a virus; it's the spirochete Borrelia. I'm not aware of Covid reactivating previous viral infections, though, of course, some viruses, like herpes simplex and varicella zoster, can be reactivated by many non-specific stressors. As for long Covid, that's a complicated, controversial subject beyond my pay grade.
Deletejan, I didnt know that about the spirochete. Do you suppose covid acts more intensely/intently upon the corkscrew shape of that Lyme bacteria? More places to hook onto, if you will?
DeletePondering more...
From Open Evidence (outstanding medical AI app):
Delete“Current evidence does not support that COVID-19 reactivates Lyme disease, though both infections can result in similar post-infectious syndromes that may complicate clinical assessment. There is no documented mechanism or clinical data demonstrating that SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers reactivation of Borrelia burgdorferi.”
NYSOM, thanks for the scoop and the medical AI app reference.
DeleteYou know how on The Pitt, they'll be doing CPR on someone, and get a pulse back, only to have them flatline a little later?
DeleteI just got an unexpected email from the NJ Division of Consumer Affairs, telling me that the temporary reactivation of my PA license that was declared on March 9, 2020, expired at midnight, and I should cease practicing immediately.
So, don't trust any medical advice of mine from now on!
jan, so right before covid closed down the world, they closed you down? But didn't let you know for nearly six years? Sounds about right!
DeleteFrom Open Evidence (thanks NYSOM)
DeleteCOVID-19 can activate previous viruses in the body, most notably herpesviruses, through immune dysregulation and loss of immunological control, especially in severe cases or those with post-acute sequelae.
Multiple systematic reviews demonstrate herpesvirus reactivation in COVID-19 patients, with pooled cumulative incidence estimates of 45% for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), 38% for herpes simplex virus (HSV), and 19% for cytomegalovirus (CMV) among predominantly severe cases.
[1] A broader systematic review identified EBV, HSV, and CMV as the most frequently reactivated viruses, with patients commonly presenting with lymphopenia, elevated inflammatory markers, and complications including acute kidney injury.
[2] One study found that 83% of COVID-19 patients tested positive for at least one herpesvirus compared to 61% of SARS-CoV-2-negative controls with acute respiratory failure.
Reactivation appears linked to COVID-19 severity and long-term outcomes. CMV reactivation independently predicts COVID-19 severity and longer hospitalizations, while reactivation of three or more herpesviruses associates with increased need for ventilatory support.
Individuals with severe COVID-19 demonstrate higher antibody responses to latent viruses, and those with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) show elevated antibodies to EBV, varicella zoster virus, and WU polyomavirus even without prior severe disease.
The mechanism involves SARS-CoV-2-induced immune perturbations including T-cell exhaustion, persistent immune dysfunction, impaired epithelial health in gut and respiratory tract, and complement dysregulation. These changes compromise immunological control of latent viruses. Beyond herpesviruses, COVID-19 can trigger reactivation of adenovirus in the oral mucosa of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, suggesting broader effects on latent viral reservoirs.
Word Woman, I think you misunderstood the situation. I retired in the summer of 2019, and let my license lapse. When Covid hit, in March of 2020, the state declared my license (and those of all other recently lapsed PAs and MDs) to be reactivated, in order to increase the number of providers available to tackle the epidemic. Yesterday, they finally got around to cancelling those reactivations.
DeleteAh, jan, I see. So covid did reactivate something.
DeleteIris, Breeze/Bries was an inspired alternative to Draft in the on-air puzzle. You go girl!
ReplyDeleteYes, but Tom Brady wouldn't work (but is somewhat related to this puzzle).
DeleteYeah that was an eyebrow-raiser!
Delete(I’ve had a Sea Breeze at many a tavern, by the way.)
That part was edited; it was *far* more clear that I meant "Brees", not "breeze". One question was left off, "A china cabinet, college football, and a toilet". It was "bowls", but I needed a clue.
DeleteAn old friend posted on my FB, noting that they pronounced my name correctly. That's because I told Ayesha how to pronounce it!
Ayesha is great. Puzzlemaster is pleasant. I imagine he's more subdued now that pre-stroke.
You performed superbly on-NPR-air, Iris. You represented Blainesville wonderfully! Congrats!
DeleteLegoInAweOf"IrisOurRainbowWithAnInsanelyBrilliantBrainWow!"
There are at least two answers. One answer I got immediately suggests that there is an equivalent puzzle with a seven-letter and resultant eight-letter answer. But for the answer I think they are looking for, if you rearrange the even letters of the first word, you get something you might hear at a concert.
ReplyDeleteI have one answer. I have never met anyone with the second name. I'd be surprised if anyone else here has.
ReplyDeleteRight, as I said at the end of the last thread, the second name is quite unusual.
ReplyDeleteBut it makes sense to use it to replace another name!
I'm sure I have the same answer as Blaine, by the way.
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ReplyDeleteAnd I have, indeed, met someone with the second name.
Now that I've had coffee, here's the rest of the story.
DeleteWe kidded this 4-letter-named person that rather being in our geology conference he/she should be at a different conference being held concurrently with ours in the same large facility.
WW, did that other conference have any geologic theories of its own?
DeleteCurtis, indeed, big flood stuff and an earth around 6000 years old.
DeleteI have Blaine's answer plus another that ends in -ian, which is probably not in the spirit of "embedded inside."
ReplyDeleteif that is the case, there are at least 4 answers (I have 3) --Margaret G
DeletePHYSIC+IAN PHYSIC+ALLY (as in Sheedy)
DeleteProbably illegal because Ian is not embedded.
Also: tactician --> tactically, Ally
DeleteMy answer(s) seem to be what Rob is describing. I feel like there may be other equally good answers. Big congrats to Iris for a fine performance and a final bow to CAP who came up with a surprisingly tricky puzzle (surprising to me at least.) I thought there would be more correct submissions.
ReplyDeleteAhhhh! I see what most everyone else is referring to. (Including Rob. I had his alternate...)
DeleteThanks, JayB
DeleteJust popping back in to note that in the conversation that didn't make it on-air, Will wondered if he needed to make the puzzles easier. I said that if he makes them easy, there will be complaints, and if he makes them hard, there will be complaints. So, if you find the puzzle easy, remember that it is hard for someone else, and vice versa.
DeleteInteresting anecdote. Thanks for sharing! (I think this week's puzzle will also have a fairly low number of correct responses. I will go way out on a limb and predict more than 1000 correct responses for the next puzzle even though we haven't even heard it yet, lol!)
DeleteCute puzzle - I can see a connection to so many of our recent puzzles, including famous duos, a weight loss/gain item, and even a hooved animal that might go well with one of today’s words (as perhaps alluded to by Tortitude).
ReplyDeleteTV hint: The Brady Bunch
ReplyDeleteMusical clue: Kriss Kross.
ReplyDeleteNice clue!
DeleteThanks!
DeleteI have at least 3 answers, but all use moderately exotic names. One works well if you drop the last 4 letters of the words.
ReplyDeleteMusical Clue: Holding Back The Years
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming that when it says embedded, the letters stand together to spell the name. Would it be TMI if someone could say yes or no to my question?
ReplyDeleteYes. Embedded means the letters IAN are together in the word.
DeleteThanks Blaine
DeleteI now think of him as Bliane.
DeleteThere are some connections with the last puzzle.
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DeletePontius Pilate and Esau were both in the Bible. You can use apples to make apple pie and applesauce.
DeleteWell, I think I may have ironed this one out. But I'm not sure.
ReplyDeleteI didn't put the PE at the end.
ReplyDeleteI see a certain textural similarity between the second word and a word associated with the second name.
ReplyDeleteStrange. My dictionary search came up with 116 possible word pairs, and of the possible substitutions I see one that looks like a very common name, appearing in three of the pairs. However, none of the possibilities seem to match the clues that people are posting.
ReplyDeleteOK, I found the answer that several clues above are referencing. The name isn't exactly common (at least out here), but I imagine most will recognize it, and the words are perfectly common. This must be the intended solution.
DeleteI answered with APPLIANCE, APPLESAUCE, which my dictionary search found. Earlier I had seen RELIANTLY, RELEVANTLY in my results (along with grammatical variants), but that seemed less likely and didn't fit any of the clues here. These were the only plausible possibilities I noticed.
DeleteI have found two more words with embedded "ian" that make words if you substitute a different, more common, 4-letter name, but none of the word are common (at least according to the Moby word list).
ReplyDeleteI just bought the base components for the second word this morning. I won't say where I bought them; that might be TMI.
ReplyDeleteAlso - I'm reminded of Doublemint Gum
I'm looking for a loophole in the TMI rule.
ReplyDeleteLo and behold! Removing "lo" from "loophole" and rearranging yields "hoople", as in Mott the Hoople, whose lead singer was Ian Hunter. Jacob's brother ESAU was a hunter, and Mott's is a brand of APPLESAUCE.
DeleteR.I.P.
ReplyDeleteRobert Duvall
As Robert Duvall passed over to the other side, he was met by many deceased relatives and close friends who had preceded him. He was also greeted by his missing surfboard.
I too have multiple answers, some with very uncommon names or names that are only common outside of English speaking countries. I finally just got an answer that has a very common name in the second word, one that I'm sure everyone has heard of. (I know lots of people with this name, and I'm sure most of you know at least one.) However, this words does not fit any of the clues as far as I can tell.
ReplyDeleteMy first attempt had a fairly common name in the second word. Maybe it's the one that you came up with. I later came up with the one that most folks are dropping clues for but that has a less common but perfectly legit name embedded in it. The thing I don't like about my original answer is that neither word would be considered a "root" word so the answer seems a little contrived. I still haven't decided which answer to submit...
DeleteI think I have both of those answers, and I'm going with what seems to be the common (clued) one here, as the nature of that one makes me confident it's the intended one.
DeleteThat's what I ended up doing. Blainesville conventional wisdom has one heck of a track record.
DeleteI'll need to use a different name.
ReplyDeleteI saw an opening for the universal clue, so here we go: e.
ReplyDeleteChange the opening of the sentence from I to e and it starts with “e saw.”
DeleteThere is more than one answer to this week’s puzzle. I only sent one, though. What’s the point? No clue here.
ReplyDeleteI have two possible answers I have found: one with quite a common second name, but I don't like that one for reasons Rob outlined, and one with an uncommon second name, one I've only encountered with an alternative spelling in a book series my kids have taken a liking too (as well as a similar name in a grown-up book I haven't read.) The way those names fit into those words is quite elegant, though - just how I expect the intended answer to be.
ReplyDeleteNeither answer seems to fit other clues given elsewhere here, though.
DeleteCorrection! I got it!
DeleteJohn isn't the second name, but it feels apt.
ReplyDeleteWhen in Rome....
ReplyDeleteI know I have mentioned on here in the past that my life is filled with amazing coincidences, that I am convinced are not at all random, but am unsure about the lesser ones. That being said, I just moments ago had a lesser one I think is interesting.
ReplyDeleteI last week picked up a trade paperback book at the library that was published in 2006. "Two Guys Read the Obituaries," by Steve Chandler and Terrence N. Hill. They email each other a discourse on the obits they are coming across in the year 2005. Of course as i am continuing reading after dinner this evening I come across the name Jesse Jackson. Well he died today, not 20 years ago, but there is one of those minor coincidences I keep experiencing. I think it appropo that I quote verbatim a short bit from this book regarding Mr. Jackson.
"Terri Schiavo? I put a question mark there because I really don't get all the ballyhoo. I mean it's not just the conservatives who were lined up in favor of throwing her a bone — or a liquefied bone or however they do that in this high tech era. It was also liberals like Jesse Jackson. I gotta tell you i really don't have much time for any of those Jacksons — Jesse or Michael. To be honest Shoeless Joe was really the last of the Jackson boys I had any real emotional connection with.
I know that Jesse Jackson has these impeccable liberal credentials so I should be agreeing with everything he says, but the fact is if it came down to a shoot-out between Jesse and, say, Stonewall, well, I'd have to be behind the stone wall. My problem with Jesse — is that he is just too dumb."
My takeaway from this is that even liberals have no idea how racist they frequently are. Jesse Jackson was always in our collective face. And that was his strength and how he was able to accomplish all he did.
I find it rather refreshing that rather than calling it a hoax, King Charles III said he supported a “full, fair and proper process,” regarding the investigation of his brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
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ReplyDeleteNope, sorry. I'm now deleting the question.
DeleteNodd's clue helped me
ReplyDeleteOh well, I guess it has to go... with 30 minutes remaining.
DeleteThat has to be some kind of TMI endurance record.
Deleteb>APPLIANCE, APPLESAUCE
ReplyDeleteWord Woman Sun Feb 15, 06:12:00 AM PST
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And I have, indeed, met someone with the second name.
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Word Woman Sun Feb 15, 06:42:00 AM PST
Now that I've had coffee, here's the rest of the story.
We kidded this 4-letter-named person that rather being in our geology conference he/she should be at a different conference being held concurrently with ours in the same large facility
Cc: stands for chris cross, as in chriscross APPLESAUCE.
We kidded Geologist Esau that maybe he belonged at the Bible conference held concurrently in rooms down the hall.
Esau is a name associated with a biblical figure, but it is also the surname of Katherine Esau, a notable botanist and geologist known for her work in plant anatomy and viral diseases. She was born in 1898 in Russia and became internationally recognized in her field.
^^^Fascinating. Learned something new.
b>APPLIANCE, APPLESAUCE
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Word Woman Sun Feb 15, 06:42:00 AM PST
Now that I've had coffee, here's the rest of the story.
We kidded this 4-letter-named person that rather being in our geology conference he/she should be at a different conference being held concurrently with ours in the same large facility
Cc: stands for chris cross, as in chriscross APPLESAUCE.
We kidded Geologist Esau that maybe he belonged at the Bible conference held concurrently in rooms down the hall.
Esau is a name associated with a biblical figure, but it is also the surname of Katherine Esau, a notable botanist and geologist known for her work in plant anatomy and viral diseases. She was born in 1898 in Russia and became internationally recognized in her field.
^^^Fascinating. Learned something new.
APPLIANCE & APPLESAUCE [IAN & ESAU]
ReplyDeleteAPPLIANCE - IAN + ESAU = APPLESAUCE
ReplyDelete> I see a certain textural similarity between the second word and a word associated with the second name.
ESAU supposedly sold his birthright for a bowl of pottage, a thick, homogeneous lentil soup that I'd guess has a texture like applesauce.
> I have found two more words with embedded "ian" that make words if you substitute a different, more common, 4-letter name, but none of the words are common.
RELIANCES and RELIANTLY yield RELEVANCES and RELEVANTLY if you substitute EVAN for IAN.
I wrote, “There are at least two answers. One answer I got immediately suggests that there is an equivalent puzzle with a seven-letter and resultant eight-letter answer.” That’s RELIANTLY / RELEVANTLY / EVAN. “But for the answer I think they are looking for, if you rearrange the even letters of the first word, you get something you might hear at a concert.” That’s APPLIANCE (even letters spell CLAP)/ APPLESAUCE / ESAU.
ReplyDeleteAPPLIANCE, APPLESAUCE, IAN, ESAU
ReplyDeleteI've never met an ESAU.
I clued Musical Clue: Holding Back The Years because 1985's "Holding Back The Years" was the biggest hit from a band called Simply Red, a sweet song that was (as far as I could tell) the only hit from that band, fronted by a Mick Hucknall, a red-haired mop-headed alto.
In the Bible, Esau is referred to as hairy and red (more like ruddy and hunter-like than red-haired, but I'm no Bible scholar). So Simply Red seemed a telling but not overt clue.
Good job! I thought about cluing the word "red", but was sure it would get removed. Red can refer to Esau's ruddy appearance, as you stated Ben, but also the red lentil stew his brother gave him, and of course apple red.
DeleteMy clue was "When in Rome..." as in the apple variety Rome.
ReplyDeleteWe feature on this week's Puzzleria! a puzzle created by a marvelous puzzlemaker who has been contributing excellent puzzles to Puzzleria! (and to NPR) for as long as I can remember. It's our friend skydiveboy (Mark Scott) who has been sharing his puzzles with us on P! ever since we began uploading that blog weekly in 2014!
ReplyDeleteMark's puzzle this week is a Skydiversionary Appetizer titled "Landing some seafood, Skydiveboy-style."
And, it lives up to his sky-high standards!
We shall upload Puzzleria! very soon this very afternoon.
Also on our menus this week:
~ a Schpuzzle of the Week titled “Well I’ve been to the Desert playInn’ games with two names...”
~ a Ubiquitous Ambiguous Hors d’Oeuvre titled "Beauty and the Bug?"
~ a Blissful Slice titled "A couplet for couples"
~ a Fishtailing Dessert titled "Souped-up car?... Kinda fishy!" and
~ eight riffs of this week's NPR Puzzle titled "Appliance mixes up a mess o’ Applesauce!" (including six composed by riffmaster extraordinaire Nodd).
So, drop by. into mystery! Take the plungedownward into puzzledom. (You're bound to feel less dumb!)
LegoWhoOpinesThat"TheSkyDiveBoy'sTheLimit!"
appliance-Ian+Esau=applesauce
ReplyDeleteIan's friend is Esau.
APPLIANCE, APPLESAUCE, ESAU
ReplyDeleteI had provided the musical clue, Kriss Kross (a hip-hop duo). It was, of course, a reference to the expression, and song, Criss Cross Applesauce. (I have always spelled it Criss Cross, not Chris Cross.)
I, like Jan, had reliantly and relevantly with Ian/Evan. Additionally, I had compliant/complement but Emen is a name most common in the Middle East area, so I didn't think that would be the correct answer. (You can also do compliment but Imen is more commonly spelled Iman.) And if the "ian" could be at the end of the word rather than embedded inside it, I thought of physician/physically with Ian and Ally being the names.
ReplyDeleteHere are five other, unlikely possibilities: alliances —> allowances, Owan (variant of Owen); ambiances —> ambulances, Ulan (African); compliant —> compliment, Imen (Arabic, variant of Iman); suppliant —> supplement, Emen (Turkish); and if proper nouns were permitted Melodians —> melodramas, Rama (Sanskrit).
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ReplyDelete“I can see a connection to so many of our recent puzzles, including famous duos, a weight loss/gain item, and even a hooved animal that might go well with one of today’s words (as perhaps alluded to by Tortitude).”
- Famous Duos: Adam and Eve, for Adam’s Apple (applesauce)
- Weight gain from Pie Plates, for Apple Pie
- Hooved animals, such as a pig that is the source of Pork Chops,, which go “swell” with Applesauce, according to the Brady Bunch’s Peter Brady (as alluded to by Tortitude and others)
Appliance, applesauce, Esau
ReplyDeleteI responded to Word Woman: Yes, but Tom Brady wouldn't work (but is somewhat related to this puzzle).
In an episode of The Brady Bunch, Peter, in a Humphrey Bogart voice, repeated the day’s dinner of “Pork chops and applesauce.”
My clue was that although the second name is unusual, " it makes sense to use it to replace another name."
ReplyDeleteAlthough now that I think of it, it doesn't really, because Esau is the one who gets replaced (by his younger brother), in the bible story.
PIANISTIC => PARODISTIC, AROD
ReplyDeleteAt one point I was toying with P(IAN)ISTIC -> P(UGIL)ISTIC but couldn't find much evidence for UGIL as a name.
DeleteYou Gil Favor and I Rowdy Yates.
DeleteIs there any reason to believe that Ian's friend has to be a man? What if his friend was Ally, and we did clinician/clinically? Or physician/physically?
ReplyDeleteIt was mentioned by Lancek and DrK
DeleteTo quote William Carlos Williams out of context, “so much depends / upon” exactly what “embedded somewhere inside it” means.
DeleteI have some good news and bad news. The good news is that I got the call from NPR to play the puzzle on air. The bad news is that they asked me how I solved this puzzle. Unfortunately, I could not come up with the answer by myself, so I looked at the answer on Reddit. I did try to solve the puzzle for a while before that. However, the person from NPR said that because I looked the answer up, I could not do the puzzle. Therefore, somebody else will be solving the on-air puzzle on Sunday.
ReplyDeleteThis is outrageous! NPR and WS have in the past had guests who said they did not solve the puzzle, but their spouse or relative or dog did. And more importantly I clearly remember Will Shortz explaining on air that however anyone solves the puzzle is okay.
DeleteThe answer to today's WORDLE describes their discrimination to a T.
DeleteYou was robbed, Bobby!
DeleteWhat a ridiculous "policy!"
DeleteAnd completely uneven "policy."
DeleteSorry, Bobby. At the very least, it does seem capricious on the part of NPR.
DeleteWith the rise of AI, it strikes me as reasonable to want a HUMAN solver. Would you want to listen to Will playing against a bot on Sunday morning?
DeleteA "pallicy" if you will.
DeleteIs using a dictionary to find words containing "ian" cheating? How about an electronic word list? Can I work with a smart friend, or only a dumb one? This new policy is outrageous!
DeleteUsibg axdictionary, or an almanac
DeleteBobby, you could have said, "Oh, I hunted around with my Scrabble tiles," or something. No one in the world except you would know any different. But you, commendably in my view, told the truth. It's not right to be penalized for being honest, but it's right to be honest.
DeleteSorry….Using a dictionary or an almanac to research possible answers is like using a jack and a wrench to change a tire. Using AI, is like hiring a mechanic. It may get the job done, but isn’t the same as doing the job yourself.
ReplyDeleteSure, if you're trying to decide whether someone deserves to be hired for a paying job as a mechanic, or if you're promising a big cash reward to the first solver. But, shaming someone over a random drawing for a fucking lapel pin is bullshit.
Delete1) There was no shaming here. No one went on NPR to announce that Person X was denied a prize because he ie she used….
Delete2) Cheating is cheating. Hitting someone a little below the belt is hitting them below the belt.
3) At the same time, I’d like to see NPR explicitly state that solutions must be arrived at individually, without xxx, yyy, or zzz, so we all know the rules.
As I posted above, this was already done several years ago by Will Shortz himself when he clearly stated on air that however one arrives at the answer is okay. Beyond that you have every right to determine for yourself what you consider acceptable, but not for others.
DeleteTimes have changed. And rules (publicly stated) need to adjust to address those changes. The first Indianapolis 500 didn’t need to address downforce, wings, and active vs pasdive aerodynamics….but as the technology advanced, rules were written to ensure a level playing field.
DeleteFine, but those rules were not made my some lackey who happened to ask a question; they were decided upon and then made public. This reminds me of an incident that happened in competitive skydiving some years before I got into the sport. Back when most skydiving was still accomplished by using round canopies, and competitive accuracy was performed by the jumper landing downwind, which is not the normal way to land under a parachute canopy or in an airplane because it makes the contact with the ground much harder. In a competition one day, Jimmy Lowe was coming in and realized as he was just about to land in the pea gravel that he was going to overshoot the ten mm target disc in the center. He cutaway his main parachute and managed to drop over the disc, which he nailed with either one heel or toe, winning the match. Of course there was screaming for him to be disqualified for this outrageous breach of protocol. It was all to no avail, as they could not find anything in the rules that precluded cutting away in order to land on target, but they changed the rules shortly after.
DeleteTo quote Will Weng, Shortz's predecessor at the NY Times, "It’s your puzzle. Solve it any way you like." And, to quote their current advice for solving puzzles, "It’s Not Cheating, It’s Learning."
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