Author: petebiddlecombe

Apologies for the marginal lateness of this – a BT network outage, though one that was fixed just after I’d finished typing – inevitable when you’ve sent a text message and warned about a sub … Read more “24691 – Championship Preliminary Round 2, Puzzle 1”

Solving time: 8:45, on the Sunday night after getting home from Cheltenham This puzzle is out of the obvious sequence for the Championship prelims, presumably because the normal order would have given us the same … Read more “24,685 – Championship Preliminary Round 2, Puzzle 2”

Solving time: probably between 9 and 11 minutes on the day. I’m pretty sure I solved this in one go, as a diversion from being stuck on one corner of No. 2. As far as … Read more “24679 – Championship Preliminary Round 1, Puzzle 3”

This was the first puzzle I solved in this year’s championship, and I’m pretty sure it was the easiest – my guess is that it took about 7 minutes of the 27 or so that … Read more “Times 24667 – Championship Preliminary Round 1, Puzzle 1”

Solving time: 10:58 I thought this would be my first report on a puzzle published on the new club site, but it looks like the last from the old one. It’s definitely my last before … Read more “24661”

Solving time: 10:48 A curious mixture this one – a bit old-school in having five double definitions, which some may say is too many – I didn’t mind, as only one of them had a … Read more “24655 – a cliché is born?”