Comments on: Guardian Prize 25,454 / Araucaria http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/21/guardian-prize-25454-araucaria/ Never knowingly undersolved. Mon, 20 May 2013 13:14:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mary http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/21/guardian-prize-25454-araucaria/#comment-172608 Mary Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:45:18 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35772#comment-172608 Re:23d

Hi ‘Stumped’ & ‘Molongo’

Surely ‘e’ means ‘drug’ and ‘others’ refers to (other) ‘drugs’

PS I didn’t like all the comments about Paul last week. I think He’s brill

My favourite clue of his:’Hyperint’ 3 6 2 4

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/21/guardian-prize-25454-araucaria/#comment-172545 Eileen Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:50:48 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35772#comment-172545 Thanks jvh – I always forget about the annotated solution!

]]> By: jvh http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/21/guardian-prize-25454-araucaria/#comment-172543 jvh Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:34:37 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35772#comment-172543 Eileen,

I’m sure you are right — and especially as I have now looked at the annotated solution!

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/21/guardian-prize-25454-araucaria/#comment-172538 Eileen Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:16:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35772#comment-172538 Hi jvh

I’m afraid I think it is – even for Araucaria! ;-)

]]> By: jvh http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/21/guardian-prize-25454-araucaria/#comment-172530 jvh Sun, 23 Oct 2011 07:47:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35772#comment-172530 Hi Eileen,

Sorry, I should have been more explicit. I was thinking of the version that continues “Went to bed with his trousers on” (as given in Wikipedia for example). Then taking ‘long pants’ to mean ‘trousers’ (‘long breeches’ in my Chambers) we have that John, son, was one wearing long pants.

Or is this too far out?

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/21/guardian-prize-25454-araucaria/#comment-172519 Eileen Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:21:23 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35772#comment-172519 Hi jvh

I’ve been pondering your comment all day butI can’t see how the [various] versions of the rhyme that know fit the clue. Can you clarify?

]]> By: jvh http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/21/guardian-prize-25454-araucaria/#comment-172502 jvh Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:21:57 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35772#comment-172502 Thanks Eileen,

I thought 18A might possibly be referring to “Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John”.

]]> By: Robi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/21/guardian-prize-25454-araucaria/#comment-172501 Robi Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:09:38 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35772#comment-172501 Fairly gentle for a prize puzzle.

Thanks, Eileen for a good blog. Like tupu, I didn’t see BRAN=refuse; I thought it was ban=refuse with an ‘r’ for roll. Peg for BRANDY AND SODA was new to me.

]]> By: tupu http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/21/guardian-prize-25454-araucaria/#comment-172499 tupu Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:43:32 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35772#comment-172499 Thanks Eileen and Araucaria

Pretty trouble free apart from ‘brandy and soda’ which took some time to parse because I did not immediately see ‘bran’ = ‘refuse’.

A pleasanr enough puzzle.

]]> By: Davy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/21/guardian-prize-25454-araucaria/#comment-172496 Davy Sat, 22 Oct 2011 08:30:06 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35772#comment-172496 Thanks Eileen,

I enjoyed this and the highlight for me was Arry using the term SADDO. This surprised me and indeed amused me greatly. I had visions of the erudite man himself saying to someone “You saddo”.

As someone said recently on the blog, I too find myself more in tune with Araucaria than with any other compiler. At the other end of the spectrum, I find Enigmatist to be the new Bunthorne.

Favourite clue was NOODLES. Thanks again Mr Graham.

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