Comments on: Enigmatic Variations No. 833 – Off Course by Glow-worm

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:37:27 +0000

Ken
Re your comment #4. This was explained in my blog (see 34a).

Ken MacKenzie — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:34:41 +0000

PTOLEMY.

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Gaufrid — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:34:32 +0000

Ken
Thanks for the clarification. I was beginning to think I had missed something relevant.

I can only assume that the shaded squares and the unclued 34a were just a final embellishment to what was otherwise a fairly straightforward puzzle.

Ken MacKenzie — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:33:16 +0000

Ah, just did some more digging. The GEOCENTRIC is .

Ken MacKenzie — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:27:25 +0000

Oops, finger trouble!

I meant GEOCENTRIC (from 34) – my excuse for that is that I was convinced for ages during solving that I was looking for egocentric.

Letters should be:

EMPYLOT

Gaufrid — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:03:01 +0000

Ken

Sorry but I don’t understand your second paragraph. There were only seven shaded squares in the grid and where does ‘egocentric’ come in?

Ken MacKenzie — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:40:30 +0000

I agree with your solution 100%. I too was puzzled by the “all of which aims at …” sentence.

What about the the EGOCENTRIC in the 8 shaded squares which didn’t seem necessary to complete the puzzle? I have them as (reading L-R, T-B):

EMYPLOST