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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: notyou on August 05, 2010, 01:28:49 PM
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Hi all --
I infrequently pick-up the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine when we're at breakfast joint that has a copy or my parents' house.
The inside-back-page features "Merl Reagle's Word-O-Rama". On at least two occasions the puzzle there was the same as the one in the Philadelphia Inquirer, but this past week it appears it was a "locals-only" puzzle that included a contest about the meta. To wit:
http://www.sundaycrosswords.com/MYSECRETVACATION.htm
A friend and I could not ferret out the secret puzzle. Did anybody else, and can you clue us in? If you think it'd be ok, I can post the grid, for folks who aren't local to the Bay Area.
On a related note, does anybody know the schedule of these "local-only" puzzles? Maybe I should have my parents start saving the magazine for me.
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Sorry, I recycled my paper already or I'd take a shot at it. Didn't know the paper sometimes had different ones. Thanks for the tip. Just imagine, a weekend with two Merl puzzles! What a treat.
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Well, not sure how often Word-O-Rama runs, but ah, yes, the Philly/syndicated version is in the back of the Pink Section (Datebook).
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Found a copy. Contest is over, so I assume it's okay to post. The cities are Dallas, Seattle, El Paso, and Oakland -- running counter-clockwise (on the diagonal) from the D in EDNA at 78A. Cute. I assume the airline was Southwest.
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Oh darn, should've checked here first. Well, I Litzed it, in case anybody else wanted to give the puzzle a try too: http://www.rudebadmood.com/wordorama.20100801.puz