Monday, 9 April 2012

Easter puzzling

Right folks - I went down to deepest darkest Devon again this Saturday to attend another of James Dalgety's legendary puzzle parties, and while I haven't had a chance to write up my experiences yet, I can share this with you ... 

It's customary at these events to take something along for the others to puzzle over, and this was my contribution - not sure if anyone's actually solved the final puzzle yet, so if you want to have a bash and submit an answer you can earn the admiration of both of the other folks who read this blog! :-)



Link to PDF Doc: allard's Mechanical Puzzle Dingbat Crossword Puzzle thing
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11 comments:

  1. Oli9 April 2012 at 18:00

    I have the grid filled in, but I still can't work out what the letters within the highlighted cells spell out!

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  2. Kevin9 April 2012 at 18:01

    I give up - done all except the 11 & 15 D (2 Z's)

    Great puzzle Allard!

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  3. Neil Hutchison9 April 2012 at 19:48

    I think there's an error in the clues. The Nest Nest Lock has 20D as the designer, but I'm pretty sure that's not correct ... not to mention the 2 bats also points to 20 D, which does fit, and is not the same designer as the previous picture ... unless I'm wrong!

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    1. allard9 April 2012 at 20:42

      I might be splitting hairs, but I'm sticking to my answers for now... ;-)

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    2. Neil Hutchison9 April 2012 at 22:59

      I'll graciously accept your reasoning on the answers, and declare it a fun puzzle that had me scratching my head for a while. Very good show Allard!

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    3. allard10 April 2012 at 07:35

      Cheers for that Neil -glad it were fun!

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  4. Neil Hutchison9 April 2012 at 20:03

    Done. Email sent.

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  5. allard9 April 2012 at 20:41

    I hereby declare Neil "The Juggler" Hutchison to be the first ever "allard's Mechanical Puzzle Dingbat Crossword Puzzle thing" champion!

    Well done Neil, and thanks for playing! :-)

    allard

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  6. allard9 April 2012 at 21:13

    ...with Oli - the Puzzle-Obsessed one - coming a close second... :-)

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  7. allard11 April 2012 at 17:29

    ...and Chris "My thesis is almost finished, I promise" Purssell taking the figurative bronze medal - Thanks for playing! :-)

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  8. Barcared26 April 2012 at 09:07

    Just saw this yesterday and solved it this morning. Very clever and appreciated!

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