Current Events > CE NYT Mini (and Daily) Crossword Topic - Part 5

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blistr
05/15/24 5:56:43 AM
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0:37 for Tuesday

Daily in 35:45

https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/mini

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TendoDRM
05/15/24 2:13:28 PM
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51 seconds for Wednesday. Kept mistyping (on phone).

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Serious_Cat
05/15/24 11:15:43 PM
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:30 for Thursday. Daily in 22:03 with some Google help (and had to outright read the blog to figure out the gimmick after I solved it.)

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TyVulpine
05/15/24 11:46:01 PM
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:49 Thursday

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pegusus123456
05/16/24 2:07:36 AM
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33 seconds

Not bad for only knowing two of the across

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UnholyMudcrab
05/16/24 4:40:01 AM
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:27 for Thursday

Aha, familiarity with the International Phonetic Alphabet pays some dividends

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blistr
05/16/24 6:20:14 AM
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0:53 for Thursday

Daily in 46:37

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Serious_Cat
05/16/24 11:19:14 AM
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blistr posted...
0:53 for Thursday

Daily in 46:37
Did you see what the theme was on the daily while you were solving?

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TendoDRM
05/16/24 5:09:47 PM
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1:16 for Thursday. Didn't notice the cursor jumping around caused me to change a letter.

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TyVulpine
05/16/24 10:44:04 PM
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:23 Friday. Only needed Across clues.

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Serious_Cat
05/16/24 10:59:43 PM
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:39 for Friday. Daily in 18:16, surprisingly legitimately too.

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UnholyMudcrab
05/17/24 1:20:42 AM
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:20 for Friday

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blistr
05/17/24 3:55:40 AM
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0:44 for Friday

41:12 for the Daily

Serious_Cat posted...
Did you see what the theme was on the daily while you were solving?

In all honesty, I did see there was a theme but given it was getting on in the evening when I solved it I didn't really look into it.

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TendoDRM
05/17/24 2:22:45 PM
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35 seconds for Friday

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Serious_Cat
05/17/24 10:27:39 PM
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1:03 for Saturday. Daily in 18:22 with Google help.

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TyVulpine
05/17/24 10:30:15 PM
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1:34 Saturday

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UnholyMudcrab
05/18/24 1:07:25 AM
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1:22 for Saturday

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pegusus123456
05/18/24 1:42:52 AM
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3:01

Got really hung up on a few.

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TendoDRM
05/18/24 10:53:15 AM
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2:29 for Saturday

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Serious_Cat
05/18/24 9:19:56 PM
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:39 for Sunday. Daily in 38:17.

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TyVulpine
05/18/24 10:37:39 PM
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1:04 Sunday

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pegusus123456
05/19/24 12:01:50 AM
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54 seconds

Funny, didn't seem like I got stuck that long.

I will admit, I don't get the connection between Tic-Tacs and OOO. Some ad campaign I'm forgetting or ignorant of?

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TyVulpine
05/19/24 12:45:31 AM
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pegusus123456 posted...
54 seconds

Funny, didn't seem like I got stuck that long.

I will admit, I don't get the connection between Tic-Tacs and OOO. Some ad campaign I'm forgetting or ignorant of?
Tic-tac-toe....(3 X's in a row or 3 O's.)

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pegusus123456
05/19/24 1:24:32 AM
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TyVulpine posted...
Tic-tac-toe....(3 X's in a row or 3 O's.)
Ah, yes.

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blistr
05/19/24 4:16:49 AM
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3:56 for Saturday.

DNF the daily.

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blistr
05/19/24 4:59:38 AM
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1:06 for Sunday.

I won't have time for the daily today.

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UnholyMudcrab
05/19/24 8:49:50 AM
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:26 for Sunday

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TendoDRM
05/19/24 11:54:22 AM
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2:20 for Sunday...felt longer honestly. I got nothing on my first pass except for 3 down.

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Serious_Cat
05/19/24 7:46:45 PM
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:23 for Monday. Daily in 7:30

blistr posted...
1:06 for Sunday.

I won't have time for the daily today.

A reminder that the subscription includes the archives too, so if you don't finish you can go back and look at the tougher ones. I'd personally only been doing Monday through Wednesday until you started doing the dailies. I'm shooting for under 5 minutes on Mondays but realistically have been getting 6 or 7 lately and average 8:22.

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TyVulpine
05/20/24 12:01:12 AM
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:26 Monday

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pegusus123456
05/20/24 2:01:21 AM
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37 seconds

Good enough

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blistr
05/20/24 5:43:52 AM
#32:


0:38 for Monday

32:16 for the daily

Serious_Cat posted...
A reminder that the subscription includes the archives too, so if you don't finish you can go back and look at the tougher ones. I'd personally only been doing Monday through Wednesday until you started doing the dailies. I'm shooting for under 5 minutes on Mondays but realistically have been getting 6 or 7 lately and average 8:22.

I've not really looked at crosswords until lately. The mini suckered me in, though I'll never be as quick at it as some peeps here lol. The daily is a bit of fun, and youre right in that it starts out easier on Monday and gets more difficult as the week rolls on. I'll have to look at the archive to see how i go with some of the more difficult ones.

Speaking of archives, I've noticed lately that Wordle has an archive too. Is that available to everyone or only those subscribed, like the Wordle bot?

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UnholyMudcrab
05/20/24 7:34:16 AM
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:32 for Monday

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05/20/24 7:42:18 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5c7ea487.jpg

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TendoDRM
05/20/24 2:11:19 PM
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37 seconds for Monday

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TyVulpine
05/20/24 10:24:36 PM
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2:16 Tuesday. Really got stuck on 5-Across/5-Down

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Serious_Cat
05/20/24 10:48:37 PM
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:55. Daily in 5:22.

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blistr
05/21/24 7:20:26 AM
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1:56 for Tuesday

39:42 for the daily

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UnholyMudcrab
05/21/24 8:31:32 AM
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1:04 for Tuesday

That was rough

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Serious_Cat
05/21/24 10:14:11 PM
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:21 for Wednesday. Got it without looking at the down clues, but did make judgements based on what I thought they might be.

Daily in 9:41. Had to hunt down a mistake.

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TyVulpine
05/21/24 11:05:40 PM
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1:42 Wednesday crap

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blistr
05/22/24 6:40:00 AM
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0:51 for Wednesday

Daily in 43:19

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TyVulpine
05/22/24 10:06:57 PM
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:41 Thursday much better

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Serious_Cat
05/22/24 11:23:46 PM
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:28 for Thursday.

Daily in 29:54, but I had to resort to using the check option and some Google. I saw roughly what the trick was but was at a complete loss as to how it worked.

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blistr
05/23/24 7:07:08 AM
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0:46 for Thursday

Daily in 49:56

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UnholyMudcrab
05/23/24 7:47:17 AM
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:37 for Thursday

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Serious_Cat
05/23/24 9:59:42 AM
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blistr posted...
0:46 for Thursday

Daily in 49:56
I need opinions on the daily. I sometimes check to see what people say on r/crosswords and I'm not the only one who fell into the same trap and had to use the checker to see what was wrong. I saw that the puzzle wasn't working with the clues as written, then correctly realized that the clue about braids meant that the letters were twisted in some way, but I thought it was the three sets of across clues that were twisted instead of down, which makes no sense because it's clearly supposed to be four pairs that are braided.

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Serious_Cat
05/23/24 10:19:01 PM
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:30 for Friday. I somehow got the daily in 8:07 legitimately.

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TyVulpine
05/23/24 10:46:06 PM
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:28 Friday

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blistr
05/24/24 6:01:39 PM
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0:36 for Friday

Didn't attempt the daily as I've picked up a head cold and was feeling like absolute shit last night (I still am this morning too).

Serious_Cat posted...
I need opinions on the daily. I sometimes check to see what people say on r/crosswords and I'm not the only one who fell into the same trap and had to use the checker to see what was wrong. I saw that the puzzle wasn't working with the clues as written, then correctly realized that the clue about braids meant that the letters were twisted in some way, but I thought it was the three sets of across clues that were twisted instead of down, which makes no sense because it's clearly supposed to be four pairs that are braided.

I too had to use the checker, but once I corrected my errors the rest just fell into place. To be honest I didn't really notice the theme. I'm not sure what you mean by the clue about the braids. I'm using the NYT Games app and I didn't see any clue about braids (unless you mean the coloured squares in which I didn't associate them with braids at all).

Edit: I have noticed missing features with the app in Wordle (the Wordle Bot wasn't in the app until a few days ago, and even then it wouldn't load and just returned an error) so I wouldn't be surprised if I wasn't seeing a vital clue to the daily crossword.

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