Puzzle – And Then There Was A Word..

Stats:  Our game post had over 700 views, which is a very good number of people who saw this special X Mas puzzle by “The Oracle”.

We had  21 successful submissions from the following people, who managed to solve and submit the grid. In alphabetical order, they were

Aashwina Mouli, Abhai Jawa, Akshay, Ashit hegde, Ashley Smith, Ganesh Nayak, Jayanth Ramesh, Loks Subtrahmanyam, Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, Madhup Tewari
Mohsin, Mona Sogal, Mukundala Balasubramanyam, Neelima Rai, R B iyengar, Ramki Krishnan, Supriya Mithal, Tulika Das, Usha Mehta, Vasant Srinivasan and Vinayak Rao Ekbote

Congrats to each of you who managed to persevere with this formidable grid and also submit it.

Quite a few of the participants missed by just one point. Congrats to Aashwina Mouli, Abhai Jawa, Ashit hegde, Ashley Smith, Ganesh Nayak, Mohsin, Mona Sogal, Neelima Rai, Usha Mehta, Vasant Srinivasan and Vinayak Rao Ekbote who all scored 145 on 146, missing the HoF by just a point.

19 out of 21 participants got the directions correctly. 16 out of them were able to identify the “Cross” in the puzzle and 15 out of them also spotted the “Crossword” correctly. However, only four participants Abhai Jawa, Akshay, Lakshmi Vaidyanathan and Mohsin spotted the Pangram.

Amongst all the paricipants, only Akshay Bhandarkar  not only scored full on the grid, but also managed to spot all the “hidden” aspects of the puzzle. Without further ado, we are happy to announce “Akshay Bhandarkar” as the Winner of this puzzle.

Here are the names of those who submitted correct entries and they go into our Hall of Fame.

Hall of Fame entrants

Congrats Akshay and all our HoF entrants on that fabulous performance. Thanks to “The Oracle” Kishore for  this entertaining puzzle and hope you all enjoyed solving it. Do comment / write to us with your feedback.