I know what you mean - they're subtly different though. "Class" to me means the event (that happens to take place at a certain time interval). If someone asks "what class do you have next?" you don't say "9:30 to 10:15".
("M∈nap, (5)" would probably be fine if you really wanted a shorter clue. It wouldn't be a good one, but it'd be valid.)
(Or "organ: (5)")
Oooh, that gives me an idea for a clue.
@Sp3000, have you put up the next clue?
@boboquack To be fair, I was writing "Plenty of Clues" for a while.
@Deusovi I've been working on it for a couple of weeks, on and off.
@Deusovi It's also rather arbitrary. I tried to use my best judgement, but there may be some that are marked that shouldn't be, and vice-versa.
Let me tell you, it was difficult sometimes to locate the solutions and/or the explanations. That's why I thought this would be useful. When you think, "Oh yeah, there was a CCCC three days ago that looked really interesting. What was the solution?", you don't have to go digging through pages of archives trying to find the solution.
I don't care about my clues' difficulty. I want them to be fun, not easy or hard - if a certain level of difficulty happens to be more fun, then I attempt to do that
I hear that you guys like puzzles, so here's one.
Recently, an individual has been anonymously linking a YouTube video to people through the website Curious Cat. It's an anon user, and a heart emoji accompanies the link. Myself and a few Twitter friends were sent the video. It's a short clip of a...
Ten people G, H, I, J, K, L, W, X, Y and Z live in a building with
four floors. Each floor has 3 flats flat 1, flat 2, and flat 3 in
the same order from left to right. Ground floor is numbered
floor 1 and top most floor is floor 4. Each flat is built
in such...
Proverb= cliche? ...no. Cliche means something overused and which has lost its significance. Proverbs are over used but they haven't lost their significance
Intended surface is Mario Kart, but I couldn't quite get it to fit right
As for "can make"/"could be", I've sort of avoided using "maybe"/"perhaps"/etc as anagrinds personally - "can become" for MICROTRANSACTION was sort of a one-off from me trying to (admittedly badly) &lit
@GentlePurpleRain Unless there's a mistake in it I haven't noticed, I think my FAUST clue is a "standard" one. For the broken "malaria" one, perhaps the explanation should say how it's broken, as some explanations of other "non-standard" clues do.
@GentlePurpleRain Is it true in every case that the solver of a clue is the setter of the next one in the spreadsheet? (I have the feeling there were a couple of cases where that didn't happen -- including e.g. when a setter realises that their clue is broken.) If it isn't, it would be nice to have a column saying who solved each clue.
(Then it would be possible to make it figure out who solved most clues, whether A solving a lot of B's clues means B is likely to solve a lot of A's clues, etc.)
Inspired by a student who was asked the typical question of
What is the missing number in the sequence
8, 15, 25, 38, ??, 73
I thought: Well, this type of question is silly; if the student knows about OEIS and it exists there, then there is no challenge and if it does not appear ther...
@n_palum It might not be any of them. Perhaps the clue involves anagramming "off-white crows". Perhaps "off-" is an anagram indicator and we need to anagram the letters of "white". Perhaps "start" indicates first letters and we're doing something with the letters OWCO.
The answer is made up of two words, but they are not independent of each other and form a phrase. The wordplay is for both and treats all 11 letters as one big word. That is, the space is not marked.
For example "Big dog upset tea garden (5, 4)" asks you to take an anagram of (TEA GARDEN)* to get GREAT DANE. The wordplay applies to both words. The solution is a fixed phrase.
The seven latters of "hatter's" make up the (3, 4) solution.
The thing with indicators is that they may be indicators for several things or nor indicators at all. For example, "new" could be an anagram indicator. It could mean N (as abbreviation) or "novel" (as synonym). Or it could just mean "new". And it can be part of the definition, of course.
The fun in solving is to find out which is which. The fun in setting is to try to mislead the solvers into making false assumtions.
Yes, @Techidiot, I've seen it. Looks a bit like I Ching. (But until now, the coins haven't fallen favourably. Not for me, at least, although I think I recognise the asterisk thingy.)
@GarethMcCaughan I think the issue mentioned regarding the FAUST clue was that the definition was not a straight definition; it used wordplay as well (SOLE -> SOUL). But I've removed the flag. I also added an explanation to the MALARIA clue.
@Sconibulus Refresh the page. It should be fixed now.
@GarethMcCaughan There were maybe half-a-dozen instance where the solver was not the next setter; I didn't think it significant enough to keep an extra column. But if someone wants to compile a list of clues where the solver was not the next setter, I will happily add it to the spreadsheet.
@GentlePurpleRain I think you did a brilliant job there. I didn't found a couple of clues and a couple of answers myself :) And I was too lazy to add the things like solver name/setter name/date created
I was struck with sudden inspiration for my first original riddle. I'm sure you puzzling pros will have this one solved quick.
A flightless bird is always my foe
A circus performer causes me woe
A mystery man is my enemy
A troublesome feline likes pestering me
All of these things are found...
It's just an obscure definition of satellites. It makes use of typical cryptic words such as "given" to imply insertion or "round" and "in circles" to make you think about anagrams. Usually, there aren't many of them in a crossword. The letters from crossing answers can help you to narrow down the answer.)
@dcfyj I published that one as a web page. I was planning to publish it as a spreadsheet, but that shares the name associated with my gmail account, which I don't particularly want to do. I'm looking at an alternate method of sharing.
I imagine of you named the account 'gentlepurplerain@gmail.com', then it would already be taken, y'know with that being such a popular name and all....
@dcfyj Okay, everyone -- I updated the link for the CCCC archive on the pin at the right. It should be a full-fledged spreadsheet now. For some reason it doesn't seem to show the filter view by default, but you can easily add a new filter view yourself, so you can filter/sort.
Ten people G, H, I, J, K, L, W, X, Y and Z live in a building with
four floors. Each floor has 3 flats flat 1, flat 2, and flat 3 in
the same order from left to right. Ground floor is numbered
floor 1 and top most floor is floor 4. Each flat is built
in such...
In addition to standard Kakuro rules, the grey shaded cells must form a valid Sudoku solution.
Inspired by a student who was asked the typical question of
What is the missing number in the sequence
8, 15, 25, 38, ??, 73
I thought: Well, this type of question is silly; if the student knows about OEIS and it exists there, then there is no challenge and if it does not appear ther...
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# 8 # # 4 # # 2 # # 6 # # 5 #
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I was struck with sudden inspiration for my first original riddle. I'm sure you puzzling pros will have this one solved quick.
A flightless bird is always my foe
A circus performer causes me woe
A mystery man is my enemy
A troublesome feline likes pestering me
All of these things are found...
