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Listener 4255 - On The Rocks By Dipper
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I think I got (unusually) lucky with the gridfill on this, but even so, it was not quite as intimidating as the preamble led me to fear. A fun and fair workout with some entertaining clues. Thanks, Dipper.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Well, I have to hand it to you lot, knocking this off so quickly. The gridfill was fairly straightforward, but I don't see how to begin filling the blank spaces with rocks in the absence of any checked letters. I cannot believe that I've coped with some of the tough puzzles in the last couple of months, only to be defeated by Dipper.
I do have one idea about the final grid, but if I'm right, the rock from the misprints is extremely misleading and the grid fails to comply with Listener rules in respect of consecutive unching.
I do have one idea about the final grid, but if I'm right, the rock from the misprints is extremely misleading and the grid fails to comply with Listener rules in respect of consecutive unching.
Hoorah, dunnit! I had fallen into what was probably a trap for the unwary but finally the pdm arrived and the seven letters now make sense. Although this didn't satisfy some of the more curmudgeonly posters, I thought it was great fun and look forward to a bit of colouring in to finish off. Also, I now can get on with other things without having to keep visiting Much-staring-at-the-grid.
Scorpius, read the preamble again and then think whether you've done what they require.
I have always liked Dipper's puzzles and this has held true with the latest offering. I solved all but five of the clues reasonably quickly but 'The Stupid Cup' (a new trophy just this minute created) has to go to me this week: I was making the gridfill much more difficult than it really was by introducing an enormous number of extra possibilities. Without giving anything away I can't be more specific ... but stupidity was certainly the name of the game.
As for the artwork, I think my rocks will have the form of a number of straight lines with an accompaniment of right angles (needless drawing is not on my Listener syllabus thankfully).
Thanks Dipper, look forward to your next garden-themed puzzle!
I have always liked Dipper's puzzles and this has held true with the latest offering. I solved all but five of the clues reasonably quickly but 'The Stupid Cup' (a new trophy just this minute created) has to go to me this week: I was making the gridfill much more difficult than it really was by introducing an enormous number of extra possibilities. Without giving anything away I can't be more specific ... but stupidity was certainly the name of the game.
As for the artwork, I think my rocks will have the form of a number of straight lines with an accompaniment of right angles (needless drawing is not on my Listener syllabus thankfully).
Thanks Dipper, look forward to your next garden-themed puzzle!
I found these clues much easier than the usual alphabetical order clues and got them into the grid quite easily leaving the voids. I think at first I thought these were to be filled by names of rocks, but on second reading I think the art work is sufficient. Should I use water colour or acrylic I wonder!
How many stones and boulders grow
In a 12 by 12 grid garden?
I’ll tell you now of five (listed below)
Those I miss you'll surely pardon?
Small outcrops of pegmatite,
Granite, flint, diatomite,
Softest chalk and hard rhyolite.
None of these fit, so maybe they’re not right
For any place in Dipper’s garden!
Thanks Dipper.
In a 12 by 12 grid garden?
I’ll tell you now of five (listed below)
Those I miss you'll surely pardon?
Small outcrops of pegmatite,
Granite, flint, diatomite,
Softest chalk and hard rhyolite.
None of these fit, so maybe they’re not right
For any place in Dipper’s garden!
Thanks Dipper.
I think I'm happy with my submission now other than with my feeble degree of artistic creativity. For no reason other than idle curiosity I wondered if the original misprinted letters in the seven definitions would lead anywhere - and a two word expletive regarding aforementioned creativity emerged! Is this merely a bizarre coincidence I wonder ... ;¬)
Having decided overnight that my inkling about the final grid is probably correct (which some comments here seem to confirm), I have to say I think it's a faintly ridiculous puzzle, and certainly very disappointing. I don't see how anyone can be sure of their solution since I can think of an alternative final grid that fully complies with the preamble. I have no idea which one the setter has in mind.
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