While I enjoy the puzzles posted on this blog, I'd like to make an observation regarding the solutions - Using a substitution like H2O for water is brilliant, as long as you know it has something to do with water.
But a solver, on encountering the word Dhaly , has no reason to think of H2O or for that matter Water. You do not give the solver a fair chance to arrive at the solution. Either there should be an additional clue indicating the mechanism used for coding or there should be a clear way to arrive at the solution.
That's just a thought. Nimish seems to getting the answers anyway!
i won't be doing any spoon feeding. already the puzzles are a tad too easy. these h20 kinda clues will be there somewhere. you'll only feel it when you've savoured the puzzle completely.
Sowmi Rajamani - 20 Q - 15 Tony Sebastian -10 UK - 5
The Rules
1. I'll give you a cryptic clue. Your job will be to decode it. 2. The cryptic clue may use an arcane code or a code you might already be aware of. Your challenge will be to pick the right code to crack open my cryptic clue. You can take the help of the net to get up to speed about the arcane codes. 3. Usually, the level of difficulty might offer you a hint about whether to use an arcane code or not. 4. There are many levels of difficulty. The highest level is called codi5 you can't crack it. The level of difficulty will be indicated using tags. 5. You get a day to solve a puzzle. The first person to crack a puzzle gets 5 points or a fiver. Sometimes, I might use my discretion and award 10 points to the deserving. 6. Puzzles that haven't been solved will be labeled as Unsolved. The answers for the same will never be disclosed.
WATER (Shifting all letters back by 8)
ReplyDeletethe code is h2o (use an alphabet where letter h is letter o). the movie is water. nimish earns a fiver.
ReplyDeleteWhile I enjoy the puzzles posted on this blog, I'd like to make an observation regarding the solutions - Using a substitution like H2O for water is brilliant, as long as you know it has something to do with water.
ReplyDeleteBut a solver, on encountering the word Dhaly , has no reason to think of H2O or for that matter Water. You do not give the solver a fair chance to arrive at the solution. Either there should be an additional clue indicating the mechanism used for coding or there should be a clear way to arrive at the solution.
That's just a thought. Nimish seems to getting the answers anyway!
i won't be doing any spoon feeding. already the puzzles are a tad too easy. these h20 kinda clues will be there somewhere. you'll only feel it when you've savoured the puzzle completely.
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