Mets Puzzle

[Benjamin Grimm]

I've been playing some online Acrostic puzzles lately, and decided to try my hand at creating one. (I found a utility that makes it pretty easy. Doing it by hand would be maddening.)



Anyway, here it is. It's Mets-related, so it belongs in this forum. If I make more of them I may fully incorporate it into the UMDB.



If you've never done an Acrostic before, you fill in the answers in the lower section and as you do, you start to be able to fill out the boxes in the upper part, which contains a quotation. The first letters of each solved clue at the bottom spells out the author of the quote.



If I haven't explained it well, there's a more comprehensive explanation here: https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/puzzles/acrostic-puzzles.htmhttps://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/puzzles/acrostic-puzzles.htm



Anyway, here's the puzzle. I hope you enjoy it.



https://leaptoad.com/mets/puzzle1.phphttps://leaptoad.com/mets/puzzle1.php

[Lefty Specialist]

This. Is. Totally. Awesome.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Let me know what you think. Too easy? Too hard?

[Edgy MD]

It's totally puzzling.



I believe the second clue should be four words.

[whippoorwill]

I love acrostics!

Not feeling well so I'm printing it out to work on in bed

[Benjamin Grimm]

Edgy MD wrote: I believe the second clue should be four words.

Yes, I caught that myself a few minutes ago and have corrected it.

[seawolf17]

I have qualms with your "F" clue. I'd go with "Oscar nominee for 'Juno'" or something along those lines.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yeah, but she was "Ellen" then. I originally had it as "She used to be Ellen" but realized that was bad, and changed it to "He".

[seawolf17]

Yeah, but it's bad form to deadname.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Hmmm. I wasn't aware of that.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Okay, I changed it. Thanks for pointing it out.

[whippoorwill]

Realized pen and paper were not going to work since it's interactive lol



Love the idea though!



Personally I suck at Proper nouns

[Benjamin Grimm]

It would have worked on paper, it's just harder to correct mistakes.

[cal sharpie]

Very nice. I'm a big acrostic fan and have done the NYT acrostic every other Sunday for probably 30 years. They don't use punctuation which makes it more difficult.

[metsmarathon]

wow, that was hard. the formatting was messing with my head. 94 is part of the same word as 95. that had me stumped for a long ass time.

[whippoorwill]

cal sharpie wrote: Very nice. I'm a big acrostic fan and have done the NYT acrostic every other Sunday for probably 30 years. They don't use punctuation which makes it more difficult.

Cal not even apostrophes? That's the first thing I look for

[cal sharpie]

Yeah, no apostrophes - never mind commas or periods. Also, much longer than this quote.

[Fman99]

This is great and I had no clue on hardly any of it. More please

[Benjamin Grimm]

Both puzzles are available on this page: http://leaptoad.com/mets/puzzles.phphttp://leaptoad.com/mets/puzzles.php



For the second puzzle (dated August 16) I was able to have some of the clues relate to the Mets.

[whippoorwill]

Oh my heart I love this

[Edgy MD]

It looked kinda small on my screen, but I was able to work it out.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yeah, I had to use the zoom option in my browser for the larger puzzle.

[Edgy MD]

My browser wouldn't blow it up with a zoom-in. All the other elements of the page enbiggened, but not the puzzle.

[Benjamin Grimm]

There's now a third puzzle.



http://leaptoad.com/mets/puzzles.phphttp://leaptoad.com/mets/puzzles.php

[Edgy MD]

What is a "British male monarch"? I've never heard of such a thing.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Should it be "male British monarch" instead?

[Edgy MD]

I just think it's funny, because I've practically come to think of the UK as a by-definition matriarchal society.



It's been a long time since that lyric has been sung in earnest.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The fourth puzzle has been posted.



http://leaptoad.com/mets/puzzles.phphttp://leaptoad.com/mets/puzzles.php

[whippoorwill]

‘E' had me stumped. Good one!

[whippoorwill]

Btw I also did not know that about Todd Zeile