Comments on: Inquisitor 1125 – Disaster by Schadenfreude

By: scarpia

scarpia — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:07:35 +0000

I thought this was a super puzzle.Like everyone else I solved most of the top half and was curious as to where the blank squares would turn out to be.
Was impressed that after the sinking we were still left with real words.

By: HolyGhost

HolyGhost — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:30:42 +0000

Top half solved very quickly, and LUSITANIA just jumped out. (Rows – or columns – with lots of bars are often a signal.) So I “sunk” the liner, which helped me complete the lower half. Spotted U-BOAT quite soon (more consecutive bars), followed by TORPEDO. The boat sunk in 18 minutes, but it took a little while longer to finish a fairly easy, yet engaging, puzzle.

Agree that there’s a typo in 41a (“i” for “it”), and, on reflection, with Pete’s reading at 22a (dialect vs. the obsolete PIERT).

By: petebiddlecombe

petebiddlecombe — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:29:34 +0000

Mike,

I’ve looked daft in public too many times to claim that a puzzle has a mistake in it without checking very carefully indeed. This counts double for things to be shaded in grids, which I often have trouble finding correctly.

By: Mike Laws

Mike Laws — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:34:03 +0000

I received a number of emails suggesting that “12 squares” should have been “14 squares” in the preamble, and simply replied that there was no mistake, without giving any further hints.

When I first solved the puzzle, it didn’t even occur to me that “Lusitania” should be highlighted – since it had already been moved to the bottom, there wouldn’t have been any point in highlighting it as well, then U-BOAT and TORPEDO stood out quite readily.

Thanks, Peter, for not assuming I’d introduced a mistake into an impeccable Schadenfreude puzzle!