Comments on: Independent 6638 / Phi Where was Les SylPHIdes?

By: Phi

Phi — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:05:54 +0000

Just to answer Dave’s titular query: the ballets are all specifically composed for the stage, Les Sylphides is a choreographed selection of pre-existing music. If I go the ballet, it is generally for the music, so I approach it from the composer’s side. This happily keeps me away from anything by Minkus.

If Eimi’s keeping to my submitted order, you’ll have even more fun next week…

By: petebiddlecombe

petebiddlecombe — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:17:42 +0000

Good stuff – knew the ballets except Raymonda, but hadn’t spotted the outrageous ‘Big E’ in BINGE.

By: tilsit

tilsit — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:57:27 +0000

Some of us are still stuck on Level 6 of Chukie Egg on our BBC Micros!

By: neildubya

neildubya — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:38:19 +0000

3d – Pokemon is indeed a computer game. Pokemon Diamond and Pearl are the latest incarnations for the Nintendo DS system.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:06:25 +0000

X = times (by) multiplication Note (n) in Big E

By: NealH

NealH — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:03:18 +0000

I finished this one, but there were a couple of clues I didn’t quite follow. I didn’t entirely follow 26 dn – “Drunken affair, note in Estonia’s capital ?”. Obviously, the answer is binge (=drunken affair), so it’s looks as if we’ve then got b (note) + in + E. But where does the g come from ? Or have I misinterpreted it ?

I didn’t follow 23 down either. Clue is “Take surplus though not by holiday period”. I think the answer is “recess” (holiday period). So, presumably r (take) + excess. So does “x” = “by” ?

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:58:03 +0000

Thank you both – you might think from my comment that I never played them, but I did, and left my money in them.

By: rightback

rightback — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:14:48 +0000

A ‘nudge’ is something you can do on a fruit machine to move one of the scrolling fruity things by one item, to change a cherry to a strawberry (say) and thereby try to make a line or increase your chance of doing so. Or something. I’m afraid I’m no expert, having lost all interest in fruit machines as soon as I was old enough to play on them.

By: tilsit

tilsit — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:14:15 +0000

If you play a fruit machine it sometimes offers you a “Nudge” feature, to drop reels to possibly produce a win.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:04:35 +0000

My knowledge of ballet is v limited, but thanks to Phi for clueing them in a friendly manner. At the end, I was left with three which meant nothing so I keyed my guesses for them from the wordplay and ‘ballet’ into Google and all was confirmed.

One thing I do not understand (maybe I’m out of touch with something everyone else knows) what’s nudge (v clear from the wordplay) got to do with a fruit machine?

Bullet proof clueing as always from Phi.