Dear MGWCC Solver:

Welp, that one (MGWCC #688) was kind of a dud. My intended answer was COMEDY CENTRAL since the five movies hidden in the theme entries (ELF, BIG, BORAT, RANGO, DINER) are all comedies and they’re located in the dead center of their entries.

BUT: “Diner” is more of a comedy-drama, and many solvers sent in other logical answers, such as LIFETIME since it conceals “E.T.” in its exact center. So I’m going to officially declare MGWCC #688 a dud.

Which means: if you got my intended answer of COMEDY CENTRAL then you’re good to go. If not, you still have another chance to get full credit for #688 by solving the attached Week 1 puzzle, “Urban Design”. Just enter on the leaderboard under #688 and your answer will be counted as correct (assuming you get it right). You can enter for fun even if you already got the original #688 correct.

Deadline for this puzzle is THURSDAY, August 12th at noon ET. So that’s pretty quick (48 hours instead of the usual 96) but I suspect you will handle it without much trouble.

Apologies again for the dud of a puz. Onward and upward!

INSTRUCTIONS:

This puzzle’s contest answer is a major U.S. city.

–Matt