If I have something special I’d like to show you, I’ll post one here, too, but I’d like to know what the puzzle says to you. One tip: Links posted without a comment tend to get stuck in our spam filter, so please write a comment along with it. Profanity or that violates New York Times standards, but take something from the puzzle that really speaks to you and find something of interest to post. Please refrain from posting anything with Here’s an assignment for those of you who choose to do so, which some of you have already taken on: I’m going to turn the posting of links to videos over to you. Some time and distance between Tim’s puzzle and mine. It turns out that he had accepted it shortly after I made the final changes, but he wanted to put Then, two weeks ago, I got an e-mail from Will saying that at long last my puzzle would be published on April 28. I figured that Tim’s masterpiece had understandably bumped mine off the board. I never heard another word about it for two-and-a-half Around that time, my North/South/East/West puzzle seemingly went into the deep freeze.
The center square contained the word “EYE”Īnd all of the answers swirled around the center. Shortly thereafter, Tim Polin had a great Thursday puzzle about hurricanes and cyclones. “just one more change.” Paraphrasing, he said to “just fix the lower right-hand corner and we should be good to go.” I fixed the corner and resubmitted it. We went back and forth several times, before he asked for He expressed some interest, but asked for a few modifications. I first submitted it to Will back in the spring of 2013. I loved this, but oh, how I longed for a “type backwards” or a “type from bottom to top” on this one. So in the northeast, for example, all of the Across entriesĪre entered as you would normally read them, from west to east, but the Down entries are entered in a northerly direction, from bottom to top. No, he made his puzzle so that all of the entries in a sector have to be entered in that direction. Take advantage of exclusive store offers, online promo codes, and latest deals on B&N products. The thing is, Kurt Krauss didn’t stop there. Find official Barnes & Noble promo codes and coupons. What’s a compass reader to do? Write it inĪ westerly direction, like so: DNETSEW. The answer is WEST END, but you will soon realize that none of the crossings work. Is easy enough just write in EASTMAN, of EASTMAN-Kodak.Īnd the answer to 34A, the “London theater district,” is easy enough. The puzzle is easy enough, as long as you remember the direction in which you are headed.
#COMPASS ROSE PUZZLE HOW TO#
That compass rose and the entries branching off them are hints at how to write in your entries.
The puzzle is solvable in all formats, but there is a note pad in today’s puzzle that says, “In the print and web versions of this puzzle, the black square in the center of the puzzle contains an image Yes, you are being asked to write backwards. Please take a look at other works of mine linked below. All elements are separate objects, grouped and layered. Vintage Compass Vintage compass on parchment paper background. THURSDAY PUZZLE - No, you’re not crazy, especially if you’re a beginning solver. Vintage nautical compass rose in woodcut style.
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