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Comment on A game of 52 pick-up by georgethebastard

georgethebastard — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:50:25 +0000

Yep, read through the solutions and the setter’s blogs – I think I was close, but just couldn’t make the next steps from where I got to. Oh well, better luck next time!

Comment on A game of 52 pick-up by Jaguar

Jaguar — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:12:19 +0000

This was a tough puzzle and it took some getting used to the rules before I was able to see my way to the finish. The solution note on the Times website is pretty dismissive: ” Rules of poker scoring, card ordering, and availability of unplayed cards enabled further deductions.” If only it were that easy!

The LWO blog has provided two fully-worked solutions. A bit late, perhaps, but I hope that they clear up the route. It took me longer to work out where I’d been than to go there, though!

Comment on Dam I missed by georgethebastard

georgethebastard — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 16:06:04 +0000

Thanks for the comments, Dave and Jaguar – wasn’t around the computer yesterday so took me a while to get them approved.

I’m in the US, so A4 editing isn’t going to help – I just live with printing it and writing in whatever clues get chopped in the cut.

“Gotten” is prevalent here and it is annoying, so I try to use it as much as possible! It is in Chambers, I’ll have to make sure I work it into a puzzle sometime.

I’m being honest – all I knew about the Dambusters was the end of the movie (which is two words) . I don’t recall much of WW2 being high school knowledge in Australia (and history was a subject I regularly tuned out of), and I’m 42, so it’s not really in the memory of myself or my parents.

But I know more now, sorta!

Comment on Dam I missed by Dave Russell

Dave Russell — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 05:42:19 +0000

It only takes a few minutes to edit the crossword in Openoffice Word to fit on a single A4 sheet – so much more convenient.

What a dreadful word “gotten” is!

As for some people never having heard of the Dambusters (one word), I am flabbergasted.

Comment on Dam I missed by Jaguar

Jaguar — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 10:38:38 +0000

Over on the LWO blog Shirley referred to a “young crossword setter” who had difficulty extracting the theme. Well, I certainly couldn’t see it at first. The MOON at both ends of the trail of O’s led me for a long time to reading about the Moon landings! Whoops. Needed to be pointed the right way in the end.

If people struggled to access the theme, it wasn’t for lack of effort by Ifor. Once you see what’s going on there’s so much to draw on in the clues and grid, but it only fits together afterwards. 44a reads as an innocent clue but obviously is referencing the theme once you see it; 17a, 1a, 43a even all link together. I think over on LWO a few more are described.

A wonderful puzzle, anyway.