ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ YOU CAN'T SAY THAT AGAIN]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ YOU CAN'T SAY THAT AGAIN]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
Well, anyway, what's the over/under that Dan Feyer does today's puzzle in 2:15? I'll take the under. Now that I think about it, what the hell are the odds for who's winning this whole ACPT thing that's happening next week anyway? Tyler Hinman, the fivepeating returning champ, has to be the favorite, right? Is there a gambling site out there that lists the lines? I couldn't find any. Fine, let me propose a handful (prop bets only, not individual performances, thank you. And remember, gambling is illegal):
- Number of contestants: 675.5
- Number of contestants named "David": 15.5
- Constructors with puzzles in the tournament making their ACPT debut: 1.5
- Percentage of people who finish Puzzle #1: 92.5%
- Percentage of people who finish Puzzle #5: 20%
- Percentage of people who want to kill the constructor of Puzzle #5: 85.5%
- The constructor of Puzzle #6 is Maura Jacobson: Even
- Appearances of the word AREA in the eight tournament puzzles: 3.5
- Number of people who solve all the puzzles clean: 50.5
- Number of people liveblogging the ACPT: get a life people, er, I mean 4.5
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