Comments on: Inquisitor #14/Just in Case by Nutmeg

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Chris Jones — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:41:29 +0000

Thanks, I’ve just seen the printed solution. Two weeks in a row now I’ve fallen at the last hurdle by reading too much into the preamble – a good puzzle, though..

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loonapick — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:59:33 +0000

Mike

The previous Inquisitor was hard, and obviously put some people off but don’t take it personally – in all walks of life people are quick to criticise and slow to praise. As long as a puzzle is fair, and the instructions in the preamble not too misleading, then serious solvers should appreciate the challenge. For me personally, I completed it in the end, but have yet to complete a Listener, so I think the difficulty level was acceptable. No 14 was considerably easier, and presented a different type of challenge.

Chris

Unless I am missing something, the answers required were JULIE(Andrews), MARY POPPINS and FAIR (just).

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Chris Jones — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:49:25 +0000

A great puzzle, I thought, although I was a little unclear on the words to be written below the grid. Was the name to be entered Mary or Julie ? As a representation of “just in case” I wrote CARPET FAIR BAG but I’m not totally convinced…

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Mike Laws — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:27:17 +0000

Where are the people who complained that the previous Inquisitor was too hard? Do they only comment when they want to moan? Was this one too easy to bother with?

I thought this IQ debut from Nutmeg (a Maragaret, naturally) was a delightful, well-clued, easy-going, light-hearted dip into popular culture.