Comments on: Inquisitor 1264: Centre Forward by Ferret

By: Neil Hunter

Neil Hunter — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:42:27 +0000

I also didn’t imagine that ‘one on the left’ and ‘one on the right’ referred to normal clues. Thanks to Holy Ghost for that – and also for noticing the rather clever detail that the languages are the right way round, or down.

I think the isolation of ‘back down’, plus the lack of a nice click when you got it, explains some people’s lack of excitement over this Inquisitor, especially given the recent very high standard. But I found it quite fun.

By: Trebor

Trebor — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:37:55 +0000

Think I more or less got all of this. Missed the point about the languages being in the direction they are written – a wonderful Easter Egg.
1st Inquisitor i’ve ever (nearly) finished…
And potentially the last given this week’s…

By: Bertandjoyce

Bertandjoyce — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:02:37 +0000

We don’t know why but this one didn’t really grab us. Yes, the clueing was good – nothing to complain about there. We did however miss CHINESE and thought that SCRIPTS was one of the five themed words which didn’t really make much sense given the other four! The preamble mentioned one on the left which we thought related to one of the themed words which somewhat confused us.

Thanks HolyGhost for putting us right.

By: starburst

starburst — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:50:04 +0000

Hmmmmm. I wasn’t a fan of this

As Jockie says, the 4,4 phrase needed to be completely unambiguous in this context and it wasn’t. I entered ‘TURN BACK’and was then utterly unable to make sense of ‘TURN BACK FORWARD’

By: Jockie

Jockie — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:22:15 +0000

I enjoyed this immensely, but was prevented from finishing the endgame by a red herring. Was it deliberate? The 4,4 phrase which I entered was GIVE VIEW which seems to me just as good a solution to the clue as the correct one. In addition the puzzle looked like a pair of spectacles so GIVE VIEW FORWARD made sense (well, a bit). Yes, and lurking there are clumps of letters spelling out EYE (on the left, so that bit seemed to work) and RETINA … but that’s where I got stuck. No complaints to Ferret, whose construction and clueing were as usual very good, but shouldn’t the Editor have noticed the red herring and asked Ferret to give a little more indication (perhaps by specifying that the hidden words were in a line)? So like Mma Makutsi only 97% for Jockie this time.