Comments on: Inquisitor 106 – Pared Down by Kea

By: Wil Ransome

Wil Ransome — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:49:59 +0000

I didn’t do this puzzle but the grid construction looks quite brilliant, and it looks as if a huge amount of work has gone into the blog. I hope the small number of responses doesn’t correcpond to the number of people who appreciated it.

The two transformations are equivalent to a single reflection, in the diagonal from bottom left to top right.

By: rayfolwell

rayfolwell — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:41:26 +0000

PARED DOWN is a hompophone of PAIRED DOWN and the down answers are paired with the across ones.

This puzzle was too hard for us in the aftermath of New Year.

By: HolyGhost

HolyGhost — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:42:55 +0000

The transformation mentioned is simply a reflection in the TR-BL diagonal. This implies that when the TL triangle above that diagonal is filled in with words whose reversals are also words, the BR triangle below that diagonal automatically sorts itself out. But still – no mean feat!

By: Colin Blackburn

Colin Blackburn — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:50:40 +0000

A rotation through -pi/2 followed by a reflection in h is just that, a compound of the two transformations. You could achieve the same result with other compounds of transformations.

Remarkable grid though!