I'm glad you liked the dog show structure, even if the opening skit was tiresome.
21 teams submitted FOOLPROOF BREEDERS for the Obedience Training meta a total of 28 times, and 11 teams submitted the FALA backsolve a total of 13 times. We needed the GOOFPROOF answer for the dog show meta, but the teams calling this in probably hadn't figured that out yet!
Re On the Road: When I got this puzzle as the first test-solver, it was called Down the Pike, there were no maps, the letter parts of the clue numbers weren't there. I had no clue. A later version added all this stuff and eight extra unlabeled clues interspersed with the others (still in alpha order by answer) which resolved to the titles of songs which were streets (like Electric Avenue and Telegraph Road), and which actually existed as streets in these eight cities, but the road aha was achieved in test-solving by a solver recognizing America's Cup and other roads in Newport, and the songs were just confusing to testers as they weren't used again, so they were dropped.
Trubled Monicas: This was one of mine and I am glad you liked it. Wow! There were 103 answer submissions on this puzzle, including 12 STARZ (but only one STA). The Utah Starzz are a WNBA team, but I guess a combination of few people watching the WNBA and fewer people paying attention to how their names were spelled made this kind of obscure, but the clue phrase was trying to tell you to advance the last letter by 7 and double it.
Sorry if King Arthur bothered you. The idea was that the knights were supposed to go out on a series of Arthurian quests. Theme rounds have been done before, such as the all-sports round in the seven deadly sins hunt, but we don't do them often, and this is probably why.
High Rollers: In testing I actually had both paths, and decided the one where they hit the 1-house properties first was more likely, but I never hit on the idea of starting the house counting at the third square.
Your experience on Gravitational Pull was almost identical to mine.
My test-solve comment on Endymion: Moon Type is long overdue for Mystery Hunt. It has been in my puzzle-solving "kit" for 14 years and not used once.
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Date: 2016-01-23 03:04 pm (UTC)21 teams submitted FOOLPROOF BREEDERS for the Obedience Training meta a total of 28 times, and 11 teams submitted the FALA backsolve a total of 13 times. We needed the GOOFPROOF answer for the dog show meta, but the teams calling this in probably hadn't figured that out yet!
Re On the Road: When I got this puzzle as the first test-solver, it was called Down the Pike, there were no maps, the letter parts of the clue numbers weren't there. I had no clue. A later version added all this stuff and eight extra unlabeled clues interspersed with the others (still in alpha order by answer) which resolved to the titles of songs which were streets (like Electric Avenue and Telegraph Road), and which actually existed as streets in these eight cities, but the road aha was achieved in test-solving by a solver recognizing America's Cup and other roads in Newport, and the songs were just confusing to testers as they weren't used again, so they were dropped.
Trubled Monicas: This was one of mine and I am glad you liked it. Wow! There were 103 answer submissions on this puzzle, including 12 STARZ (but only one STA). The Utah Starzz are a WNBA team, but I guess a combination of few people watching the WNBA and fewer people paying attention to how their names were spelled made this kind of obscure, but the clue phrase was trying to tell you to advance the last letter by 7 and double it.
Sorry if King Arthur bothered you. The idea was that the knights were supposed to go out on a series of Arthurian quests. Theme rounds have been done before, such as the all-sports round in the seven deadly sins hunt, but we don't do them often, and this is probably why.
High Rollers: In testing I actually had both paths, and decided the one where they hit the 1-house properties first was more likely, but I never hit on the idea of starting the house counting at the third square.
Your experience on Gravitational Pull was almost identical to mine.
My test-solve comment on Endymion: Moon Type is long overdue for Mystery Hunt. It has been in my puzzle-solving "kit" for 14 years and not used once.