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Weekly Set Puzzle Challenge: February 21

It's Saturday, which means it's time for the deblog's Weekly Set Puzzle Challenge! (View a list of winners of the Weekly Set Puzzle Challenge here.)

This week's scores:

  • Debra -- 1:29
  • Andrée -- 3:09
  • Maxine -- 1:37
  • Tom -- 0:42
  • Karen -- 0:54
  • Susan -- 2:42

How to participate:

  1. Play the theoretically simple yet maddeningly difficult Set Puzzle. (Remember, the clock starts ticking the moment you open the Set window.)
  2. Post your time in the comments to this post.
  3. 3. The winner for the week gets to hoist the much-coveted winner's badge. This should be posted in a blog post rather than on your sidebar, say, because, after all, your time to bask in the glory of the win is likely to be ephemeral.

How to post the badge? Some possibilities:

a. Download the badge to your own space and link thereto.
b. Include this code in your post:

c. Alternatively, you're not obliged to post it. This is all in fun, after all.

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Comments

1.

3:09
See how honest I am? I'm so willing to embarrass myself to the world!

2.

Admirable honesty! I was doing great on this one until I hit the last one.

3.

1:37

4.

42 seconds. I thought this was fairly easy one.

5.

2:42...Join the club, Andree. I'm so bad at this that I seldom try any more.

6.

0:54

7.

Hey Susan - How about a blog update?

8.

Thanks, Tom! I didn't think anyone would give a hoot, it's been so long. I couldn't for a while, but I'm feeling much better now. ...Wonder if they'll even let me back on after such a long break...




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About the blogger: Debra is the mother of two preternaturally attractive girls and the author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece. She writes and blogs from her subterranean lair in North Haven, CT. Read more.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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