Crash and burn

[rhu]

So the Starbucks tiebreaker has been out for over an hour. The answers I'm sure of are fewer than the fingers on one hand. And ACPT multi-time champion qaqaq says he had the answer in about 10 minutes.

So there's my answer. I'm not even close to the top solvers.

Oh, well, it was still fun.

I hope the winner was someone I know, and I hope (for all our sakes) that Qaqaq's suspicion that the winner took a wild guess turns out not to be the case.

Comments

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you still did better than the vast majority.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

How kind of you to say. But (a) the "vast majority" were already eliminated, (b) I wanted to gague how far back I am from the elite, (c) I had FOUR correct words after ONE HOUR.

Two in Forty-Five

[jeffurrynpl.livejournal.com]

I had two words I was sure of in forty-five minutes (and of course, answers I knew but didn't get how to put them in the grid, which was probably your issue as well), so you weren't the worst.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Did they actually issue rankings?

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

No official rankings, but the community has been comparing notes on various blogs. (And I should refine my earlier stats: I had 4 entries about which I was certain; about a dozen of my other guesses were correct. Nothing to be ashamed of for someone solving alone.)