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Sloggers & Betters, York 2015? Show of hands, please!

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A message from John Henderson …

The possibility of a S&B in York in October along the same lines as the 2014 event was mentioned by a number of people at the recent get-together in Cambridge. I’m more than happy to put this together if there is a consensus, and have checked that the same venue that we used last year is available again. To avoid event clashes, the date would have to be a week earlier than last year’s fixture, so before I go ahead, please could I have a show of hands for Saturday, October 24? Naturally, for those wishing to make a weekend of it, there would be a quizzical Ale Trail on the Friday night, and a “Recovery” session on the Sunday morning at the York Tap…

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A Reminder

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Because many comments containing multiple links are spam, WordPress, the software this site runs on, is set so that any comment with three or more links in it is placed in a moderation queue if … Read more >>

Everyman 3568

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Due to unforeseen circumstances, the blog for this puzzle has been delayed but it should be available by late afternoon/early evening.

S&B Cambridge – 25/4/15

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According to the National Rail Enquiries website, the only trains running to/from Cambridge on April 25th will be those from/to London and Norwich. There will be a replacement bus service between Peterborough and … Read more >>

TfTT Christmas Turkey

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The bloggers and commenters of TfTT have again put together a cryptic puzzle for Christmas. It can be found here if anyone wishes to pit their wits against their counterparts.  

Araucaria Anniversary – a message from Sandy Balfour

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It’s a year since John died. For some years his brother, Stephen, has set a cryptic quiz and donated the proceeds to various charities. This year, and partly in John’s memory, the chosen charity is Medicin sans Frontieres.

Solvers who would like to sample a different version of the Graham wit are invited to download the puzzle and make a small donation here.

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Good News!

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Those of you who have been visiting this site for a while now will no doubt remember the appeal I made back in December 2012 for help towards the annual hosting costs when … Read more >>

Site Maintenance

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Edit (0730 13/11/14): The site should now be back to normal. Sorry for any inconvenience to users of a mobile device. In an attempt to track down the cause of excess CPU usage … Read more >>

General Discussion & Site Feedback

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A software update this afternoon has caused an elderly WordPress plug-in to malfunction, resulting in an error which created display abnormalities. This plug-in generated the ‘paged comments’ in the above two posts. To avoid the error I … Read more >>

Fifteensquared is now Twocubed

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Eight years ago today the first blog was published on Fifteensquared by the site’s founder neildubya (it was for a Janus puzzle in the Guardian which had appeared two days earlier). Since then we have … Read more >>