robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) (11/06/84)
References: Sender: Reply-To: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Followup-To: Distribution: usa Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton Keywords: The Sunday New York Times Crossword Puzzle (11/4/84) contained one of the funniest puzzle premises I have ever seen. I recommend to puzzle and word fans. Be carefull now! In the rest of this memo I am going to give away much of the fun... The puzzle takes the phrase "all for one and one for all" literally. There are several definitions, well-marked, where one can see the results of this. For example, one question, for which the answer ought to be "Stallone", actually has the answer "Stoneall". The requested quote from the Ancient Mariner is: alall, alall, one, one alall The practice of refusing to answer a question is: stallwoneing. etc. - Toby Robison (not Robinson!) allegra!eosp1!robison or: decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison or (emergency): princeton!eosp1!robison
ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow) (11/08/84)
-- >> The Sunday New York Times Crossword Puzzle (11/4/84) contained >> one of the funniest puzzle premises I have ever seen. I recommend >> to puzzle and word fans. Be carefull now! In the rest of this >> memo I am going to give away much of the fun... >> The puzzle takes the phrase "all for one and one for all" literally. >> There are several definitions, well-marked, where one can see the >> results of this. For example, one question, for which the answer >> ought to be "Stallone", actually has the answer "Stoneall"... >> - Toby Robison (not Robinson!) Yes, the 11/4 puzzle was one of the better ones. But back before Maleska (and before Will Weng, too), the NYT Sunday puzzles were a lot more inventive. My favorite still is the one titled "Blankety- blank", where for the first time ever, *NOT* filling in every square was necessary for a correct solution, as the space (pronouned "blank") was a legal character. It took me hours to figure out how to spell "blanket" in 3 letters, though "point blank" in 6 was quite obvious thereafter. Another fun one had the solutions to all the special clues spelled backwards or bottom-to-top. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 07 Nov 84 [17 Brumaire An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7188 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***