Comments on: Independent 6617/Virgilius

By: Al Streatfield

Al Streatfield — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:27:07 +0000

The Listener that used the “thinking outside the box” idea was “No Pen” by Charybdis. (Can’t remember what number) It combined it ingeniously with the concept of “lateral thinking” (Edward de Bono etc.) so that the letters THIN and KING had to be written outside of the grid on each side of it, creating new words when added to the appropriate across answers in the grid…

By: petebiddlecombe

petebiddlecombe — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:06:46 +0000

More applause from here – I stupidly failed to understand “thinking outside the box” even after seeing the point of the other sticky-outy bits.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:49:17 +0000

Yes, this was good – tougher than normal for Virgilius. Re ENVELOPE, I think this does not refer to a letter, but is a scientific usage that passed into general language.

A Listener used the same “thinking outside the box” idea fairly recently and that did help me along.

By: Mike Laws

Mike Laws — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:45:45 +0000

Fascinating Nina. The Indy is certainly breaking new ground in its custom daily grid facility!

BTW, the apology for the “production error” appeared at the bottom of page 7 in this Jan 1 paper.