Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Puzzle Fifty-Seven: Come Back Here!

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Another one with a story behind it. Scroll down below the applet once you're done.

No .puz file for this (yet). You can generate a PDF using the Print function in the applet.


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Last summer I was trying to decide whether to submit this or another puzzle to the New York Times when Max Carpenter made his Times debut with a puzzle with the exact same concept and revealer. No stranger to being beaten to the punch on puzzle themes, I shrugged, figuring I'd at least saved myself a guaranteed rejection, set this one aside for the blog, and submitted the other puzzle. Which they also rejected.

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