Abigail

okay i LOVE a rebus. like i’m in the trenches every thursday defending rebus puzzles in the comments. they’re my faves. but i’m a bit confused as to why there was no revealer? don’t get me wrong, i figured there was a trick and solved the rebus no problem, but a worldplay revealer always felt like an essential part of a rebus puzzle to me. they’re what helps a rebus puzzle solve feel like an “ohhhh AHA!” and not just “um ok i guess?” anyways…a super fun idea with potential and i loved the rebus clues, but it just didn’t give me that satisfying wordplay solve feel when i “figured it out” without having that revealer. (if ONEEIGHTIES was supposed to be the revealer i feel like it should’ve said “…or a hint to x number of squares/clues in the puzzle, etc.) maybe that’s just me though!

ELON alum here celebrating a saturday PB (9:39)!! Thanks Grace & Greg for the collegiate shout-out :)

Personal best and first ever sub-3 minute time!! 2:58 :) Buttery smooth solve with almost no pauses for thinking hard or skipping clues—thanks Nate!

ELON grad loving the representation this week lol!

such a shame. brilliant puzzle idea but turned frustratingly difficult for me with no circles in sight. once a technical error is reported to the NYT, why are we not putting a note in the puzzle details itself?? many solvers like myself wait to come to wordplay—and certainly the comments—until we have finished solving to avoid spoilers. updating my app made the circles appear, but i didn’t know about that until AFTER i finished. i got the loopdeloop theme quickly, but with no circles on my puzzle i spent perhaps triple the time trying to guess where the answers might loop back and around. i didn’t feel satisfied, just frustrated. it’s such a disservice to the clever puzzle creators. cmon, NYT, let’s get our act together.