Comments on: Guardian Prize 25,814 / Paul

By: Ian Payn

Ian Payn — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:14:07 +0000

James (@29), so it was. I did, and I didn’t.

By: James

James — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:09:32 +0000

Ian (@27)- the advert was for Dr Pepper!

By: rhotician

rhotician — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:52:40 +0000

Wiki confirms RCW’s guess about Key Lime Pie. It requires less skill to make than Lemon Meringue Pie and persian limes do well enough.

The in’s and out’s of cricket can also be accessed via Google.

I must learn how do links. Maybe next year.

By: Ian Payn

Ian Payn — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:54:30 +0000

You don’t have to go to the USA to find out what a Key Lime Pie is. A trip to the supermarket will do. Try it – you’ll like it (which was an American advertising slogan for something, but I can’t remember what. It wasn’t Key Lime Pie).

By: Eileen

Eileen — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:54:41 +0000

Hi Biggles A and NeilW

Thanks for your help. As I’ve said before, I always forget that there’s an annotated solution but the blog’s always done long before that’s available, anyway. [I can’t remember now whether I originally saw the missing T and left it out by accident – or not!

By: Biggles A

Biggles A — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 09:57:33 +0000

Hello NeilW. Yes, sorry, I misinterpreted Eileen’s amendment to her blog but at least we are all now in agreement. I saw the T was there in the annotated solution but thought it might need more explanation

By: NeilW

NeilW — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 02:54:29 +0000

Hi Biggles A. @23 was the parsing I was supporting, although I think I would go with Eileen’s decision to call it &lit. @22, I think you’ve misread the annotated solution, though, as the T is there (although why “part” rev?)

I only mentioned the THE MOST AT to show how dumb I’d been, missing the correct construction.

By: Biggles A

Biggles A — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:43:51 +0000

Thinking about 11 more carefully – THAT around T (temperature) and SOME both reversed about R seems to work. Definition – that which controls.

By: Biggles A

Biggles A — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:36:29 +0000

Thanks Eileen. Put me down as another who made it hard by carelessly entering KENTUCKY.

I see the annotated solution for 11 is in accord with your original explanation though I’m still not quite sure there isn’t still a T to be properly accounted for. I had seen it NeilW’s way but wasn’t very happy.

Weren’t the fourpenny seats in the cinema the cheap ones?

By: tupu

tupu — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:30:20 +0000

Hi RCW

I too read 4d as you and Eileen did. The second cricketing reference seems to me a nice addiitonal twist (a witticism as you put it) rather than ‘the’ correct reading.