Comments on: Inquisitor 1152: Tirade by Loda

By: scarpia

scarpia — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:39:35 +0000

Thanks HolyGhost.
I also looked at the other diagonal,it would have given a really nice finish to the puzzle if Loda could have worked that in!( I don’t ask for much do I?)
Thought this was another super puzzle in the Inquisitor series,just about the right level of difficulty for me.

By: Simon Harris

Simon Harris — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:23:28 +0000

Sorry, disregard that rather presumptuous correction. I was thinking of a different, later, puzzle where the opposite situation may have applied.

By: Simon Harris

Simon Harris — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:16:54 +0000

Enjoyed this puzzle a lot; Inquisitor is still my favourite of them all.

I agree with Mike re unchecked squares (though I suspect you meant “effectively checked”?) I’ll admit to a small double-take, but it all added up quite swiftly.

Many thanks to HolyGhost for the excellent blog.

By: anax

anax — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:37:43 +0000

Coming to this blog fairly late – but would just like to declare this is the second Inquisitor I’ve tackled and solved! I’m chuffed with 2 out of 2 (which is a double whammy really – it means I’ve solved the puzzle and understood the preamble).

As for the way the unchecked letters were presented, I always understood it was rule anyway that thematic cross-checking answer cells had to be included in the ‘list’, so I wasn’t thrown by that. I was thrown entirely by some of the wordplay though, so many thanks to HG for clearing them up.

By: Mike Laws

Mike Laws — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:58:20 +0000

My attitude is that where unclued words cross each other, the letters in those squares are effectively unchecked, so I didn’t see it as an error in Loda’s preamble. In addition, leaving the unclued words untinted helps the solver check letter-counts, thereby confirming which squares contain the letters in the phrase.

By: Hi of Hihoba

Hi of Hihoba — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:32:17 +0000

I enjoyed this, though Ba was concerned about the blasphemy! Nicely clued and several required some serious thought.
Was I alone in finding that three “unchecked” letters in the phrase “BARRY . . GO” were actually mutually cross-checked, meaning that I had three letters left over (Y, D and I) after the elimination of the unchecked?