31. Match Game
EDIT: The meta has been withdrawn, and I'm declaring this one a dud, which will happen now and again. I will try to rectify that moving forward the best I can. Obviously, I need to own it, and - in advance - I'm sorry. There is heavy crossover with this site and the Muggles forum here , and I made too many assumptions going into this one that turned out not to be true, as I should've recognized. I am a huge fan of Matt Gaffney's weekly meta, which can be seen here , and I am a copious data nerd, which caused me to chronicle (in a spreadsheet, of course) all the titles, statistics, etc., of the meta since I started solving. I decided to make a tribute puzzle (which, in retrospect, could've been done in a much fairer way) by using four of his titles as theme entries. I tried forever to get something else to spell out, but I could only get MATT, which I thought was clever based on the symmetry. (You had to match up the four themed entries to titles of his meta puzzles ...