The Return of Weekender
These are some of the puzzles that we attempted from American Airlines Flight magazine.
Let's warm up:
1. Fill up the blanks with words synonymous to the meanings on left and right.
Form of Precipitation -------- Greeting
Part of a Wheel -------- Uttered
Uniion Term -------- Assault
Allow -------- A License
2. Another Lap.
K N I T
N - - -
I - - -
T - - -
Fill in this 4X4 Matrix with 3Es, 2As, 2Ds, 1M and 1O to have valid words Down and Across. 9 Blanks and 9 Letters.
3. "How much I love thee? Let me count the ways."
The answer to this is hidden in the following grid. Start with any letter and complete the sentence, the next letter would be adjacent to this letter in *any* direction. When you finish the sentence you would have travelled the whole grid.
(I could not change the font to equal-width one, so it might be better if you write these letters in a grid yourself on a piece of paper.)
A L C F Y R O
T U L O I R S
O A Y R G P S
R C M T O O O
Hint: Do you need one hint or O hints?
Let's warm up:
1. Fill up the blanks with words synonymous to the meanings on left and right.
Form of Precipitation -------- Greeting
Part of a Wheel -------- Uttered
Uniion Term -------- Assault
Allow -------- A License
2. Another Lap.
K N I T
N - - -
I - - -
T - - -
Fill in this 4X4 Matrix with 3Es, 2As, 2Ds, 1M and 1O to have valid words Down and Across. 9 Blanks and 9 Letters.
3. "How much I love thee? Let me count the ways."
The answer to this is hidden in the following grid. Start with any letter and complete the sentence, the next letter would be adjacent to this letter in *any* direction. When you finish the sentence you would have travelled the whole grid.
(I could not change the font to equal-width one, so it might be better if you write these letters in a grid yourself on a piece of paper.)
A L C F Y R O
T U L O I R S
O A Y R G P S
R C M T O O O
Hint: Do you need one hint or O hints?
posted by Nikhil at 11:05 AM
7 Comments:
I dont understand the third one, but here are the answers I have ...
Hail, Spoke, ??, Permit
K N I T
N O D E
I D E A
T E A M
Tea & biscuits!
Good Job so far. That "??" was the only one we also could not get. It is not that difficult though.
About the last one. Lets say the answer that we are looking for is:
"Cincinnati Rocks"
These words could be coded in the grid as:
c n t i r
i c a o c
i n n k s
Start from the Upper Left 'C' and you can get the two words by choosing the next letter that happens to be "adjacent" in some direction.
Have a good flight!
Hint: Start with an 'O'
PS: About the KNIT grid, there are two ways to solve it. Which one did you choose?
Nice hint for the 3rd question...you didn't have to state it so explicitly again.
I am surprised that you guys didn't get "strike", especially, coming from the land of strikes. Maybe you need to visit your country more often.
You cracked it DP :) That was pretty good. You got the most complicated word first.
About Strike, I had misinterpreted the "Union Term" clue. I was thinking on the lines of "Term of n years in office".
I solved the KNIT puzzle the conventional way (tried to find the four letter word starting with 'I'). My mom used the elegant way of symmetry.
'E' being three in numbers could be there in only one set over there. D and A could be in one of the two sets of 2 and O and M could be in one of the two places.
That's it for this weekender. Hope you guys had fun.
Hmm...how does 3 E's imply the current position? There are quite a few other possibilities. In fact, there are total 3! x 3! = 36 possibilities, of which only one results in dictionary words.
All one can say is that E, O, M will be on the diagonal as there are an odd number of them. And there are three position pairs for the remaining letters (D, E, A).
Theoretically 36 but if you apply the reflection and try to find the words, practically it is much faster, especially with O, E and M movement.
Yes, with only one, I had discounted other possibilities with no dictionary words. More later, I am late for work today also. Damn!
Let me put it this way, if we had to write a program for this, for a 5x5 grid, this approach will have the best worst case scenario.
And it is very easy to settle on this combination of Es as no other combination gives us any valid word with other letters. I had not given the full explanation, just mentioned it casually in my last comment. So although, theoretically it is 3! x 3!, it boils down to 3! + 3!
And it feels better to have used some additional logic :)
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