5/16/05 | 2:07 pm | Solution: Moon Is A Sickle Cell
A nice number of solutions for this one, and not many red herrings. One thing I predicted for this clue was that the “Mr. Packer” part of the clue was definitely not enough for most people to solve it and thus I added “see you” as the kicker at the end. What I wasn’t prepared for was how many actually got it just from the “see you” part of the clue and didn’t even use Packer! Josh C was the only person to figure out that part of the reference, since he had been there:
As soon as I saw “See You” I knew it, CU Boulder. Ate at the Alferd Packer Memorial Grill when my wife went to check out their grad school.Oh and the Sickle Cell is so named because it looks like a Sickle, or a Crescent Moon.
So yeah, according to JCP, CU is probably the only college to have a eating place named after a cannibal… I believe I should have changed it to “A. Packer” instead of “Mr. Packer”. Here are various people who didn’t need that part of the clue:
Golux13:
5 minutes. I got the “see you”-CU reference immediately, and confirmed it with the clue drop. The rest of the clue didn’t help me at all — I still don’t get it — so I just scanned around Boulder until I found it.
Tonia:
Easiest one ever, I think I got lucky. I just put “cu packer” in google and got a link to University of Colorado-Boulder. I put it in the map and there it was. Max time- 5 minutes.
Brian G:
Not sure about the Mr. Packer line, but “see you” meant Boulder to me (as a former Big 12 guy). About 5 minutes today, which is good for work productivity. Pretty small building, I think I just got lucky finding it this quick.
Mike Z:
I got started really late on this one and I have no clue what the main part of the clue means. When I saw the “see you” on the end, I immediately thought of CU and after a short scan of Boulder near CU, there it was.
Shawn D:
Took about 15 minutes. Still don'’t get the Mr. Packer part of the clue. Reference to Billy Packer? Thanks for all your hard work.
Brian M:
I dont get the Mr. Packer part of the clue, the part that helped me was “SEE YOU”. Took about 5 min.
Jenny:
7 minutes. Figured that see you should be CU and then just looked around there.
JoJo:
The CU led me to Boulder Colorado and I really just stumbled upon when looking around. I still don’t understand the rest of the clue. 20 mins.
Also, I KNEW that people would think Green Bay but I left that in. Chris R:
Went to Green Bay first….. then figured it out.
Michael J:
Packer confused me… thought Green Bay but the sat images were not high res. On a whim tried Boulder because of CU. Turned out to be too easy, but I think it was luck. About 5 minutes.
Jason C:
Took about 2 mins, the “see you” made me go directly to Boulder for “CU-Boulder”. If not for that I probably would have started in Green-Bay Wisc, give the Packer clue.
Lastly, I was a bit disappointed that only one person got super magic bonus points, and he had to use google to do it (though Mike Z and Josh C DID come up with the correct literal meaning of the clue, that a person who has sickle cell anemia has cells shaped like a crescent) . But I was looking for what Jim M said:
Elliot Smith lyric - didn’t know it, though, had to google it. So I don’t think I deserve the bonus points.
All right, we are shaping up to have Mon - Wed - Fri clue releases from now on. I think that’s a good enough schedule, often enough that y’all come back but not so frequent that it makes me cragee. Yes, cragee as a fox. See you Wed at 9 …
