Schrödinger puzzle!
Yesterday in which year? This is ancient.
No idea. It was my first time seeing it, so I just thought it was neat and wanted to share.
Me too, I appreciated it.
A long time ago. In a crossword far away.
It’s from the February 6, 2022 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Evil that “It’s a trap” only works with Star Trek.
But “It’s a wrap!” is a perfectly valid answer for filming either.
Yes, but “it’s a trap!” is a star wars reference
But you have to know the details of both franchises to pick the best, so it’s a fair clue.
They had to show their bias somehow ;)
I think you meant Star Wars, since that is where the meme comes from.
If you write “Star Wars,” then the correct answer is “It’s a wrap,” even though the Star Wars fan will likely think of “It’s a trap” first. If you write “Star Trek,” then the correct answer is “It’s a trap!” which does not come from Star Trek.
No they mean the answer to the clue is “it’s a trap” only if you answer “star trek” to the which sci fi is better value.
I doubt I would have ever figured “leased” as something being “let out, in a way”.
This appears to be from early 2022.
https://kotaku.com/new-york-times-crossword-sunday-star-wars-star-trek-puz-1848495939
Thanks, I was wondering this. I checked 70 across in the last four Sundays and it wasn’t there.
It’s interesting that when tweets are shared, they almost never include the date. I wonder if that’s basically natural selection? I.e., if the date is on there, people are less inclined to share it once it’s outdated, so the ones that survive as memes are the ones that let people assume the tweet is still current?
MOST social media don’t have an actual date on it for a long time. Heck, look at these posts here. Most of them say “2 hours ago” or whatever relative time. Right now the OP says “1 day ago” for me. Which could be anywhere from 24-48 hours ago, or even a wider range depending on how they round those numbers.
If someone screenshots your post, then it gets reposted in 10 years, we’ll have no context for when it happened.
When I watch an old YouTube video, it might say “6 years ago” which could be a video created before COVID quarantine, to well within the window. The UI makes it very difficult to see the actual date/time that things were posted.
I think they reused the gimmick because I definitely remember this from a few days ago
Props to the designer, that must have felt amazing to turn in
while i love star wars, its not science fiction
is it a documentary?
If a story has prominent fictional science, then it’s science fiction. FTL travel, freezing people in carbonite and reviving them, midichlorians, etc etc etc, - Star Wars is definitely science fiction.
star wars is officially a space opera
If a story has prominent fictional science, then it’s science fiction. FTL travel, freezing people in carbonite and reviving them, midichlorians, etc etc etc, - Star Wars is definitely science fiction.
It’s also officially science fiction
Yesterday puzzmo.com did it with “what colour was the dress”. You could either answer blue or gold and it fit. But it wasn’t as good as this one. And I don’t think You can access archived crosswords on puzzmo.
Edit: It was today, so You can still access it for a couple of hours.
Solution here for reference:
spoiler
Seems they spelled “Stargate” incorrectly. 😞
Tremors: The Series
You misspelled “Battlestar Galactica”
Just as long as we are talking about the OG BSG of course. 😋
You both goofed when typing Duck Dodgers (in the 24½th Century)
Stargate doesn’t work, call the editor.
If I were doing this I’d be saying “what the fuck is StarWAEK?”
Star wrek? At first I read it as star twerk.
Gamorrean thots up there making their cheeks clap
But one is a space western 🤔
…what do you think space westerns are, romantic comedies?
And they’re both space westerns. Trek is about a frontier, and Star Wars is a literal western with space cowboys, set in space.
Of course, space westerns aren’t science fiction. Cowboys were constantly traveling to other worlds. Why do you think they always ride off into the sunset? They’re doing a slingshot around the sun so that they don’t wear out their horses.
Exactly! But fair point. They do lean a lot more into the fiction though.
Minor nitpick but it’s not “It’s a wrap”, it’s “that’s a wrap.”
Both are common, I think.
Which just proves Stark Trek is the real answer.
Now that’s pretty clever.
Huh. Doesn’t work.
“It’s a crap!”
When Mario gets fed up with the “in another castle” bit
Funny,
Lexxonly has four letters…You missed BABYLONV.
It’s a larp!
Oh snap it does fit
Just need to tighten my woistband a bit
Maybe that one is from Spaceballs, which is just the woist. :)
“It was the best of times, it was the WOIST OF TIMES‽”
Leaeed indeed
Indeed: Grap, wAist, payeTs, leaEed
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