Monday, March 27, 2017

Puzzle #22: A Rebus Puzzle

Congrats to Dan Feyer on his 7th victory at the ACPT! It was exciting to follow along from home.

Here's this week's crossword (pdf, puz, pdf solution). Enjoy!


6 comments:

  1. i don't know much about rebus puzzles ... but don't gjryir qbja naq sbegl-guerr qbja oernx gur ehyrf? (ROT13 the spoiler part)

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    1. I had a first draft that avoided that, but it had pretty crappy fill. Depends how you interpret the rules, though... technically, the rebus element is gjb qvfpbagvahbhf ryrzragf, naq gjryir qbja naq sbegl-guerr qbja qba'g unir gur jubyr guvat, so I'm fine with bending the rules slightly, but your mileage may vary.

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    2. thanks for the reply! like i said, i don't know much about them in general, and certainly not about making them. just curious, though -- vs gjryir qbja naq sbegl-guerr qbja qba'g arrq gb sbyybj gur ehyr (orpnhfr bayl bar cneg bs gur erohf vf gurer), jung bs sbegl qbja be sbegl-bar qbja? be qb gubfr trg n cnff orpnhfr gurl'er npghnyyl cneg bs npebff ragevrf? (gunax lbh sbe gur erfcbafrf -- naq gur rqhpngvba ba erohf chmmyrf!)

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    3. Lrnu, gung jnf gur vqrn - gubhtu fvapr zbfg erohfrf unir n fvatyr erohf fgevat, gurer nera'g ernyyl pbqvsvrq ehyrf sbe guvf fbeg bs guvat. V whfg jrag jvgu gur jnl gung znqr zbfg frafr gb zr.

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  2. I think there may be an error in the .puz version. The answer to the last theme answer shows as an error when I fill it in properly (I'm trying to say this without spoiling the puzzle)

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    1. For some reason, things went weird during the export to .puz, but only in the last theme entry - everything else was fine in the original fine, and exported fine to the .puz, so I couldn't figure out what happened there. If you just enter the first letter, it should work fine.

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