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| Id: | 1263582127 |
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| IP: | 121.73.154.58 |
| Name: | Phi |
| Email: | pfhenderson@clear.net.nz |
| Title: | Re(6): Listener 4066 - Rentokil by Jago |
| Text: | This fell straight into one of my categories of poor puzzle - about a 5-10 minute solve followed by several hours of trying to work out what form the submitted grid should take, a ridiculous division of labour.
I found over 60 different origami 'birds' (to be fair, a number were clearly named 'owl' or 'stork' or similar, however merely birdlike they looked), three of which were 'classic'. Two of those three were the same, but, given the grid size, produced a bird on which no more than two squares were legible in any direction. The third did produce something of reasonable size, and WREN could be discerned more or less collinearly (in fact I suspect I may have found the same one as Robin). So I submitted that with the schemata I'd used (which also served to contain my address details). I never did see the version Jago used among the dozen or so web pages I consulted. But with no 'reference' cited, how can anything that has WREN in some form be marked wrong? Apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play? Actually, this wasn't a bad concept for a puzzle, but at an early stage I'd have sat back and wondered how on earth I was going to ensure solvers would hit on the right model bird. I don't think that happened here. Paul |
| Date: | 2010-01-15 19:02:00 |
| ThreadId: | 1263573611 |
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