Author: Verlaine

I was quite pleased to solve this somewhere north of the 8 minute mark, as, with the added insight from having had to write it all up, I’d say it ranks quite high on the … Read more “Times 27,131: Maxim Gun vs Epigram Cannon”

Well, either I’m still jetlagged or this was a pretty tough week of Times puzzles: this was the third in the row to push my solving time over the 10 minute mark, and had the … Read more “Times 27,125: Meet The Barents”

Obviously things can go either way on a Friday, but this was a relatively straightforward puzzle and so I was able to finish it and bash out a quick blog in time to leave on … Read more “Times 27,119: Like Taking Scandi From A Baby”

Your roving blogger is writing this from a beautiful forested peak on Pender, one of the Gulf Islands lying somewhere between Victoria and Vancouver (whither he will be travelling by ferry early tomorrow morning). Excessive … Read more “Times 27,113: Return To Pender”

An abbreviated blog from me tonight that will scarcely do justice to this fabulously intricate puzzle – I’m in Seattle, drinking wine with friends and watching Jaws with one eye while solving with the other, … Read more “Times 27,107: The Battle in Seattle”

You will have to forgive me for an abbreviated blog this week – I am writing this from Pender Island in British Columbia, somewhere between Vancouver and Victoria, I can’t really work out how to … Read more “Times 27,101: Oh Canada”

Any nagging suspicions that the Times 15×15 have been leaning towards the gentle side of late are unlikely to have been defused by this puzzle – the top left corner having all gone pretty much … Read more “Times 27,095: A-Solving We Will Go”