148. Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

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Hello hello! Somehow, the Cubs won the series against the Brewers, which righted the ship a bit. We're on a road series now against sub-par teams...hope this helps!

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1. Puzzle #146 answer: CIPHER

Correct entries: 68

Shortest explanation: You need to enter into the land of binary conversion for this one! Treat the six 8-letter entries as strings of binary, with "I"s being "1"s and other letters being "0"s. Each of these strings converts to a letter, per an online binary-to-text converter (or ASCII chart, as some have told me!). You'll get CIPHER, the answer to the meta.

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2. My planned Level 4 today is apparently a Level 44, so I need to go and figure out if that one's salvageable. Meanwhile, we have a Level 3.33 I've had on the backburner for a bit - Mr. Gaffney just had a puzzle with this title, so no time like the present!

Good luck, and may all your solves be beautiful!

Mikey G

The answer to the meta is an 8-letter word.