Comments on: Independent 6295 by Virgilius – F-words in the Indy! http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/12/19/independent-6295-by-virgilius-f-words-in-the-indy/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 19:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: <![CDATA[colinblackburn]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/12/19/independent-6295-by-virgilius-f-words-in-the-indy/#comment-468 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:27:48 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=132#comment-468 Oops, just read the first comment properly. He has done an I. My excuse is that I was away.

]]> By: <![CDATA[colinblackburn]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/12/19/independent-6295-by-virgilius-f-words-in-the-indy/#comment-467 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:25:35 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=132#comment-467 When I saw the grid my immediate thought was that it was one of those cons, a 13×13 grid in a 15×15 frame. I then saw the double unches and realised they were there to make it effing obvious. A couple of answers in the bottom right quickly confirmed the theme and reduced the number of unches dramatically.

So, Virgilius/Brendan has done H, X and F that I know of. The H grid inverted would give an I grid—has he done that one yet? I guess we can look forward to C, E, L, M, n, S, T, U W and Z at some stage.

Colin

]]> By: <![CDATA[petebiddlecombe]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/12/19/independent-6295-by-virgilius-f-words-in-the-indy/#comment-460 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:08:06 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=132#comment-460 I only realised when l was looking at the solution that there’s a thumping great F at top left made by black squares. I think that’s the “prominent” one, with its “symmetry buddies” in the other corners.

]]> By: <![CDATA[michod]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/12/19/independent-6295-by-virgilius-f-words-in-the-indy/#comment-466 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:58:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=132#comment-466 fair enuf

]]> By: <![CDATA[eimi]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/12/19/independent-6295-by-virgilius-f-words-in-the-indy/#comment-465 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:49:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=132#comment-465 Virgilius claims that once you’ve worked out the theme you’ve effectively got three checked letters in the five-letter words, and there was no other way of getting such prominent Fs in the diagram. A blinding display of effing, one might say.

]]> By: <![CDATA[michod]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/12/19/independent-6295-by-virgilius-f-words-in-the-indy/#comment-464 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:26:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=132#comment-464 My only gripe was the two five-letter words with only the first and third checked. I suppose this abnormal grid was a function of filling frame wif effing effs.

]]> By: <![CDATA[nmsindy]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/12/19/independent-6295-by-virgilius-f-words-in-the-indy/#comment-463 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:42:04 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=132#comment-463 Thanks for that, Conrad, that makes sense.

]]> By: <![CDATA[conradcork]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/12/19/independent-6295-by-virgilius-f-words-in-the-indy/#comment-462 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:39:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=132#comment-462 8 down. Song is ‘Tea for Two’ which goes on ‘and two for tea’

]]> By: <![CDATA[neildubya]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/12/19/independent-6295-by-virgilius-f-words-in-the-indy/#comment-461 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:52:56 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=132#comment-461 Virgilius: crazy name, crazy grid.

What a great puzzle. I twigged the theme very early on and my first thought was that it was going to have to stretch here and there to make it all work but I was wrong. This seemed to me like a harder feat to pull off than the “i’s” puzzle in the G last week.

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