Colin Seftor
Arlington, VA
Arlington, VA
The answer Apollo VII makes no sense. The Apollo (and Mercury) missions have always been referred to using Arabic numerals (i.e. Apollo 7), only the Gemini missions used Roman ones. I'm surprised the editors didn't catch this (a simple Google would have surfaced the issue) or, if they did, allowed this. Now I know the constructor would have had to totally redo the lower left quadrant without it, but standards are standards after all. The editors should have at least qualified the clue by stating the answer was a variant (or something similar to calling it a variant). As it is, the mismatch between the needed answer and the correct one was an unnecessary obstacle toward completing the puzzle.
Yeah, same for me. Solved the puzzle, didn't get the trickery until reading Wordplay, and the animation didn't work; I solved online via a computer browser. Turned out it depended on the browser I used; I looked at the solved puzzle using Chrome and it work. Go figure...
@VaerThanks. It didn't work for me. Having now seen it, I must admit it's a pretty lame one. If the NYT goes to all the trouble of creating one, you'd think they'd make sure it worked on all major browsers!
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