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Whew!! Actually, the first Playfair was not too bad, as a code phrase that long tends to lead to a bunch of letters left over that, as long as one or two of them appear in the hints, help a lot. I admit to enlisting on-line assistance for the other one, though. I'm not a great fan of 'book' as used in 19,21 -- it seems like a bit of a cop-out. A good challenge, though, so thanks to -- well, you know who you are.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I'm finding this exceptionally tough. It seems designed to defeat online playfair code crackers. I had to work out the one using the anagram since the code phrase I got initially from a code breaker seemed to work but then it failed with later solves. The main one seems a lot harder. I have two answers where I have all the plaintext except an unchecked cell in each. Even trying every letter of the alphabet for unchecked cells I haven't found a playfair code breaker that gives a useful result. Most of the time I get "no result found."
In the end I worked on what I had and worked out most of the key phrase myself. I've often found that I can get there without online code-breakers, and it is a bit more satisfying, though I have nothing against their use. Just three letters to place, which I cannot do until I have solved a couple more clues, though I think I know who the setter is. Not who I thought it was going to be.
Wow - that was really tough! Most unusually for me I cracked the 'word search' long before either playfair and with only a few letters which enabled a bit of extra filling. The ultimate playfair had me stuck for ages until I sussed out enough to try a search - and as I'd never heard of the code phrase I'd have been lost without the web. 10 out of 10 for difficulty. Thanks Torquemada. Oops! ;¬)
That was hard work! I've finally stumbled over the line. I'm not sure that I would have finished without having guessed the obliquely thematic word early, allowing me to fill the bottom left corner.
I have to say that I'm not convinced by the clue to 14D, but maybe I'm parsing it incorrectly.
At least the single clue Playfair proved reasonably easy to unscramble, given the theme.
I have to say that I'm not convinced by the clue to 14D, but maybe I'm parsing it incorrectly.
At least the single clue Playfair proved reasonably easy to unscramble, given the theme.
I was tidying my desk yesterday evening, and putting my rough copy into the wastepaper basket (I always work on a print-out from the web but post in a standard-sized cut-out from the paper to ease John Green's filiing), and I'm sure I forgot to transfer the shading of the obliquely thematic word to my fair copy. That's a few hours work down the drain! What was it I used to tell my students? Oh yes - always check your answers.
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