M2M Day 265: Challenge complete!
This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For July, my goal is to solve a Saturday New York Times crossword puzzle in one sitting without any aid.
Yesterday, I completed the 1/14/17 Saturday NYT puzzle with only two mistakes, so I knew it wouldn’t be long before I perfectly cracked one of the 2017 puzzles.
Today, I continued on to the next Saturday of 2017, with the January 21 puzzle.
After 21 minutes and 35 seconds, I filled in the last square, and for the first time ever on a Saturday puzzle, I was shown this message…
In other words, I perfectly solved the puzzle, officially completing this month’s challenge, which I’m quite excited about.
(The last letter of the puzzle was a guess, so I was particular happy when I saw the “Congratulations” message. It could have gone either way.)
Here’s the timelapse of my solve…
And here’s the full video with commentary…
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