Normal service is resumed on Wednesdays again, now we have dealt with all nine TCC puzzles, six of which each of our “UK elite” had already had in front of them, if not completed.This to … Read more “Times 26931 – Back to the past?”
Author: piquet
Times 26925 – TCC Final final (#3) – if you can’t explain it, it’s almost certainly wrong.
Having already used up my allocated hour and more on the first two Finals puzzles (see previous Wednesdays’ blogs) I wasn’t expecting this to be easy, and it wasn’t. Even if I had been there … Read more “Times 26925 – TCC Final final (#3) – if you can’t explain it, it’s almost certainly wrong.”
Times 26919 – TCC Final, puzzle #2 – count me out!
Well last week’s puzzle took me 20 minutes, so I’d have had 40 remaining to crack this one and the one yet to come. Fat chance! In spite of a fast start, I crept over … Read more “Times 26919 – TCC Final, puzzle #2 – count me out!”
Times 26913 – TTC Finals puzzle #1. Calm before the storm?
For some reason I whizzed through this (by my standards) in just under the par of 20 minutes. Some nice clues but not the spectacular I was expecting for a Finals puzzle. Can’t find anything … Read more “Times 26913 – TTC Finals puzzle #1. Calm before the storm?”
Times 26907 – TCC heat 2 puzzle 3 – no slowing down please.
Some time ago I suggested, when the answers to a particular puzzle prompted the idea, that we had a little competition to see who could create a short but readable story using all the words … Read more “Times 26907 – TCC heat 2 puzzle 3 – no slowing down please.”
Times 26901 – TCC heat 2 puzzle 2 – not done (Mistress) quickly enough?
The fifth in the series I’m coping with on Wednesdays (only 4 more to go) and IMO the hardest yet, not least because it requires some general knowledge as well as some smart wordplay. We’ve … Read more “Times 26901 – TCC heat 2 puzzle 2 – not done (Mistress) quickly enough?”
Times 26895 – TCC heat 2 puzzle 1. Planting an idea or two.
I had fun with this one, IMO the easiest yet of the four Heats puzzles so far published. I’d have finished it in well under the par of 20 minutes were it not for the … Read more “Times 26895 – TCC heat 2 puzzle 1. Planting an idea or two.”
Times 26889 – Puzzle #3 in the TCC round 1. One wrong?
Another 25 minutes of pleasure with this one, apart from 1a where I had heard of the word as a make or brand of electric guitars but not in connection with horses; and 9a where … Read more “Times 26889 – Puzzle #3 in the TCC round 1. One wrong?”
Times 26833 – A matter of wavelengths.
A strange one, this. At first I couldn’t get going, then all of a sudden I seemed to tune into the lateral-thinking mode necessary to see which was the definition and which was the derivation … Read more “Times 26833 – A matter of wavelengths.”
Times 26877 – TCC Qualifier heat 1 – Not the New Testament then.
A cunning puzzle for the Championships, I thought, not too difficult as a first round test but with a couple of places where you can easily get one letter wrong; I see only 30 of … Read more “Times 26877 – TCC Qualifier heat 1 – Not the New Testament then.”