{"id":232,"date":"2009-11-05T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2009-11-05T00:00:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T05:00:49","slug":"puzzle-120-vegas-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2009\/11\/05\/puzzle-120-vegas-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #120: &#8220;Vegas Odds&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><applet mayscript name=\"CrossYYYs\" code=\"com.beekeeper.xwd.CrossYYYsApplet\" codebase=\".\" archive=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/CrossYYYsApplet.jar\" height=\"461\" width=\"560\"><param name=\"puzzle\" value=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/VegasOdds.puz\"><param name=\"singleClueColumn\" value=\"true\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/VegasOdds.puz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Puzzle #120\" src=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/VegasOdds-small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/applet><\/p>\n<p>You may notice that this puzzle is harder than many we&#8217;ve published lately.  (My primary tester threatened me with death 4 times, which has to be counted as a success.)  Part of that is simply inspiration during the clue-writing process &#8212; once you&#8217;ve found a brilliantly sadistic clue it&#8217;s hard to pass it up &#8212; but part of it is because the grid itself was a particularly ambitious construction process.  You see, in addition to the obvious themes &#8212; four long answers and one explanatory item &#8212; there are also three extra hidden items related to this week&#8217;s theme.  It&#8217;s not necessary to go looking for them to enjoy the puzzle, but feel free to enjoy the extra scavenger hunt if you want a bit of extra challenge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>: Vegas Odds<br \/>\n<strong>Difficulty<\/strong>: Friday<br \/>\n<strong>Download<\/strong>: <a title=\"Across Lite puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/VegasOdds.puz\">Across Lite<\/a> or <a title=\"PNG image puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/VegasOdds-large.png\" target=\"_blank\">printable PNG<\/a> (w\/ <a title=\"PNG image solution\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/VegasOdds-solution.png\" target=\"_blank\">solution<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may notice that this puzzle is harder than many we&#8217;ve published lately. (My primary tester threatened me with death 4 times, which has to be counted as a success.) Part of that is simply inspiration during the clue-writing process &#8212; once you&#8217;ve found a brilliantly sadistic clue it&#8217;s hard to pass it up &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}