I want to solve the Jane Street Puzzle that I found recently:
Title: New York Minute
The Jane Street Puzzle Master has twenty-three errands (don’t worry, almost all of them are tiny!) that she needs to cross off her to-do list (above) on her day off. If she can manage that small task, she plans ...
I'm writing a puzzle book for young readers where there are a lot of simple riddles and puzzles. For instance: "It belongs to you, but your friends use it more. What is it?", and the answer is of course:
But in a book I don't have spoiler tags. I would also like to avoid convoluted solutions, li...
i thought it would be H+A (two notes) plus N (abbreviation for note) and was wondering whether there was an italian composer who was some kind of d-bag
Well, I fed *DEL* (and the other "of the" variants) to Onelook. I do know about Handel, but didn't think about him. I also missed Vivaldi when considering composer minus DI.
The problem with H is that it isn't a note in English, as you already pointed out with your alternative notation for BACH. (But Do Re Mi can also be clued as note. Perhaps we can extend it to Fis, Gis, Es and so on for extra, er, variety.)
That's how it's pronounced, anyway. (Well, händbäg, really.)
thoughts on "x next to y" to clue y+x? i think i've been told that it's unfair at some point
or "written by" as here
to me it seems ok since a word like "next to" is valid regardless of the order of the components, but i see how doing it in the wrong order makes solving a bit more difficult
No, I think it's okay. On 15², there's the occasional discussion whether "X on Y" can clue y + X, and consensus seems to be that it's okay. I find "X next to Y" even less ambiguous as to alowing both orders than "X on Y".
(There may be a reservation about "X on Y" meaning Y + Y in a down clue, though.)
@Jafe @Ankoganit only nitpick i have (because the clue itself is great anyway) is that "bread" and "bad" may not have the same vowel sound for all people (which applies to me: i do roughly [ɛ] for the "bread" and [æ] for "bad")
At this point, no one would really care, but the [ɛ] there should be [e].
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