WE HAVE ACHIEVED PEAK PUZZLE: [ PDF]
PROGRAMS: [Across Lite] [Adobe Reader]
Go figure. I’ve made yet another puzzle that cannot be done with software. That’s two in one month’s time. Can we make it three by the end of the year? Watch this space and find out for yourself. Anyway, no Across Lite today. No on-line solve today either. Just the good old fashioned way of PDF. Dust your printer’s off and go to work.
One more reminder, if you’re thinking about a custom puzzle for a loved on this holiday season, get in touch with me before it’s too late. Like I always say, a custom puzzle is a once-in-a-lifetime gift, unless you give two of them.
Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.
Boo. My printer doesn’t work.
well, this sucks. (
You write: ” Dust your printer’s off and go to work.”
Um, what’s an “off”, how does it work, and where is it on a printer?
Well, I solved it, but anyone get the gimmick?
Will the puz formatted puzzle link be provided? I have across lite and would like to save the file to my pc to solve off-line.
No reason whatsoever you can’t solve this with AcrossLite. That you make a big deal of that not being the case unnecessarily misleads.
Haven’t solved it yet, but I’ll bet it works just fine in Puzzazz — if there was a .puz file to be imported.
OK, just noticed the extra clue set, which would not be present in the .puz file. Puzzazz does support additional clue sets (we have puzzles with as many as six, I think), as does ipuz format, so, theoretically, any app that supports ipuz would work with the third clue set.
Very clever! And yet another great aha! moment from BEQ.
The extra clues could also be supplied as “Puzzle Notes” in Across Lite format.
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If “across” clues start at the number and go across, and “down” clues start from the number and go down, the “peak” clues start at the number and do what?
Very tricky. I’m not sure I’ve stared at a completed puzzle for longer wondering what the hell the trick was before figuring it out.
Please explain.
Not that much of a spoiler for me. It works for 19, but I get nothing but random letters for 25, 52, & 57.
Spoiler? I just see 5 dots. I need a Spoiler!
Good one. I too think this could have been done in Across Lite with explanatory notes.
It took me a long time to be comfortable with the answer to 52 Puzzle. I wanted it to be longer than 6 letters but then I realized that 19 Puzzle was also only 6 letters.
This is a tour de force of puzzle construction, Brendan. I don’t know how your mind works; I am awed.
I solved the main puzzle immediately, but it took a full week for me to understand the PEAK puzzle. Well done, you crazy bastard.
Yes. I have stared at this for a week. In fact, I lost the original paper, solved the main puzzle again to have something to work on, and STILL had to stare at it for an hour, even after contemplating your hint. I got it, I’m confident to say, but man! BEQ is not like other humans, is he?!?
Please, please, please publish the answer(s)? I’m all filled in but no place to go …
Look for 4 “puzzle” peaks