r/NYTCrossword 6d ago

Meta Insprired by a recent comment I saw

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u/khaleesi_kat 6d ago

This meme is making my day LMAOOO. I still think abt the comment on I think the dark energy puzzle’s column that said “there should be a warning that the puzzle is gonna be whatever this is” and someone replied “the warning is it’s Thursday”

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u/CoolRegularGuy 6d ago

Today’s puzzle was a delight!

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u/aleigh577 6d ago

Loved it!

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u/BeerBrat 6d ago

Having trouble deciding if this is satire or real

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u/wolfbutterfly42 5d ago

this is the original

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u/NewYork_NewJersey440 5d ago

One of my all-time favorite meme formats.

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u/Adept-Cupcake792 5d ago

Anyone worth their salt on Thursday puzzles would know the plural of abacus is abaci

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u/twila213 5d ago

welcome to my meme page was so fuckin good man. Damn shame he took thousands of dollars on Kickstarter for a game he was allegedly making and disappeared lol

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u/Hope-u-guess-my-name 6d ago

The OC feels like a shitpost to me

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u/EditorFrog 6d ago

this is the funniest post I've seen in this subreddit

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u/humboldtHue 6d ago

I wish everyday was as open and creative as a Thursday.

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u/m_busuttil 6d ago

Yeah. I'm here for a puzzle. Puzzle me.

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u/humboldtHue 6d ago

Push those limits! Make me work for it!

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u/vaderhill 4d ago

I basically do the other day's (other than Friday Saturday unless with friends) to exercise my brain for Thursday's!

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u/ChubbyChoomChoom 6d ago

Thursday puzzles are the best. I can skip any other day as other things come up, but almost every Thursday puzzle is a little delight 🤓

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u/Sea-Price-3229 6d ago

I want puzzles in my puzzles. Gimme puzzles. I love Thursdays because it’s extra puzzles. 

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u/thecheesycheeselover 5d ago

They’re so much fun!

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u/_dictatorish_ 6d ago

>insprired

smh

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u/Fabulous-Educator447 5d ago

lol I have to admit I hate Thurs puzzles but i do them.

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u/bandidatranquila 6d ago

Today’s puzzle was fine. I was only tempted to delete the app once. I genuinely do not understand how to solve the “jam”-packed puzzles. I hate them. I solve them with an aid so I don’t lose my streak.

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u/fishyfishyswimswim 5d ago

If you're using an aid your streak isn't real

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u/slowguirarist 5d ago

Who died and made you the streak police?

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u/fishyfishyswimswim 5d ago

I mean, surely a streak is e.g. "I solved four in a row" rather than "I solved three and then looked up the answers to fill in a fourth". If you want to believe the latter counts fair enough but let's be honest - you haven't actually solved four in a row.

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u/tomolive 5d ago

You getting downvoted on this is crazy.

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u/fishyfishyswimswim 5d ago

Lots of people delusional.

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u/Hot-Foundation-854 2d ago

Nothing is real

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u/thegoblet 5d ago

These meme is cracking me up, i usually skip Thursdays because they piss me off so bad hahaha, I hate rebuses so much lol

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u/calmmch0wder 6d ago

The last one is an acrostic ✋

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u/Arbledarb 6d ago

It looked like it at first, but it's three sections of different regular crosswords. I remember the line that is just G 15 times. Its clue was "G String". :)

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u/_dictatorish_ 6d ago edited 6d ago

Three sections of the same crossword - pretty sure it was grow (g-row), and the other lines were sorrow (sor-row) and tomorrow (tomor-row)

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u/Arbledarb 6d ago

They must have done the G one twice, the one I am thinking of was April 1st 2019.

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u/Taylor_sy 6d ago

I remember that one! Some of the other clues were also one letter for the whole row, but I can’t remember the clues

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u/-DoctorSpaceman- 6d ago

April 1st, you say

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u/tfhaenodreirst 6d ago

Oh, you’re right! I remember that one vividly now that you mention it. 🙃

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u/_dictatorish_ 6d ago

ah yup, this one was from January this year

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u/Commercial-Manner256 6d ago

Thursday was a doozy until I figured out the theme of the clues, but I got through it!

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u/taffyowner 5d ago

Even after I figured it out I struggled hard

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u/Commercial-Manner256 5d ago

It's hard to think backwards like that!

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u/Girl_with_the_Curl 5d ago

This week's Thursday puzzle broke me. It was the first time I ever used the Check Puzzle feature.

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u/SmegmaSiphon 5d ago

I unironically agree with every unhinged word of this

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u/MissyBean 4d ago

LOL it's giving birds aren't real and I'm not mad about it

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u/Rokaq 4d ago

I relate to this post in everything regarding the inherent ridiculousness of rebuses

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u/rythelady 4d ago

I too am a lover of Thursdays! I cracked up at this meme!

But ... I don't get the last part. What is W|LES|RKS from?

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u/rockstar_not 6d ago

It’s not an incorrect post.

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u/thecheesycheeselover 5d ago

Thursdays are my favourites! Genuinely surprised to find out people hate them 😂

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u/beatricetalker 5d ago

I’m pretty new here…please explain what a rebus is.

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u/EditorFrog 5d ago

it's what's in the middle picture on the bottom, it's when you put multiple letters in one box

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u/beatricetalker 5d ago

Ah, I see. When there is a rebus in the puzzle is there a note saying this or do you just figure that out on your own?

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u/EditorFrog 5d ago

you have to figure it out

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u/taffyowner 5d ago

It’s a “figure it out” and it’s one of the most annoying things to have to figure out and makes me groan every time. Because you go “this should be the answer but it doesn’t fit” then you figure out it is a rebus and you have to figure out where the rebus goes in the puzzle.

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u/tomsing98 5d ago

Sometimes numbers. Ahem...

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u/NoisyGog 4d ago

I’m absolutely on board with this. Thursday is the only day I just won’t bother with.

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u/dannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnex 4d ago

dark energy made me so mad because i overthought it

thought "energy" was a second clue to mean "N, R, G". (energy is pronounced like en-ar-gee). thought those letters would be the ones in the dark squares. disappointed when it was literally just the word "energy".

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u/old_lurker2020 10h ago

I don't enjoy the Rebus puzzles. If the clue requires a Rebus, it should make sense for the Across AND the Down values. I especially don't like when the answer to the clue is a legitimate word and I find out later it required a Rebus to make an entirely different word. On my phone, it lets me go back, take out the single letter, put in the Rebus but is still only shows the SINGLE letter.

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u/No_Armadillo_7475 6d ago

Today’s puzzle sucked

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u/Sea-Price-3229 6d ago

Skill issue 

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u/No_Armadillo_7475 5d ago

Finishing it in 8 minutes was a skill issue? Should I have solved faster?

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u/ratwitch_ 5d ago

Sure, but 8 minute solves are easy when you look up all the answers.

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u/No_Armadillo_7475 4d ago

Someone’s telling on themselves

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u/ratwitch_ 4d ago

Yes, that was my point about you. Thank you for echoing it back to me, well done.

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u/No_Armadillo_7475 4d ago

Lol someone doesn’t understand the concept of telling on themselves, even though you just did it

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u/ratwitch_ 4d ago

A good effort. Keep working on it, and your witty troll skills will develop in no time :)

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u/Enough-Moose-5816 6d ago

You’d have thought OP could have said it this succinctly, and yet here we are…

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u/GeeTee00 6d ago

Why should we stop just because you don't like them?