Comments on: Inquisitor 47 – Missing Letter by Schadenfreude

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:03:22 +0000

I went back to this puzzle to see. It’s a really good finish – and a sign of a top puzzle that the final step is hard to find (I didn’t) but that there’s no doubt about it when you see it or are shown it.

By: HolyGhost

HolyGhost — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:29:40 +0000

32A: ‘quiet’ = ST (defined as “hush” in Chambers); ‘blocking’ refers to ‘OR’ being inserted into ‘ST-M’ if memory serves me well.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:04:25 +0000

I did not get the final step here – like the blogger “Missing the M” suggested itself but did not add up. Not got the puzzle now, so looking forward to going back to it to see esp what Quixote refers to. The clues themselves I found quite easy by IQ standards.

By: Duncan Shiell

Duncan Shiell — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:45:58 +0000

Ah! – At least see I was right in what I was hoping for, but wasn’t clever enough to detect it! Will try harder next time.

If you start at the third column, second bottom row and follow up the column to the second top row and then continue in the shape of an M, you spell out the phrase:

Solvers are to shade these cells

By: Quixote

Quixote — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:01:17 +0000

I don’t have the completed grid to hand, but there’s a big M shape in the grid that consists of a message telling the solver to shade it if I recall correctly. The right hand column of the M gives the game away rather nicely.