The more I think about the delay of clues related to the new ruler, the less sense it makes to me. Bonnie has stated that people should have their rulers sometime after New Year’s Day; but the reveal the last two years has been on New Year’s Day.
If people still won’t have their rulers when the delayed clues are announced next week and the week after (and since there are alternate methods of making those units), what was the point of delaying those clues? The only way the delay makes sense to me is if Bonnie intends to delay those clues until after she has shipped the rulers. But she says she is leaving on a teaching trip Jan 3, so she would have to administer the delayed clues while traveling (which I suppose would be possible).
So what I’m wondering is, those of you who have done more than the last two mysteries, have there been years when clues were still being released after New Year’s Day?