Instructions– Solutions, Annotations & Results

Stats – We had 37 submissions – a decent response for one of our toughest grids.  Of those who submitted 25 managed to complete the grid with zero errors and also went on to get the maximum possible score of 146. Here’s the completed grid.

The following questions had to be answered by the solvers..

What is the first instruction? A: Clue Acrostic reading “FOLD EACH CORNER BEHIND TO CENTRE”

What is the second instruction? (6,5) A: REPEAT AGAIN

What is the NINA? A: ORIGAMI

You can access the Grid with solutions Here – Clicking Reveal ALL will show you the solutions, annotations and the answer to the bonus question.

Here’s the Score card (sorted by total and then alphabetically).

Congrats to  the 25 solvers who maxed the score and to every one who participated. Very well tried.

Grid Rating: The puzzle got a good score of 8.54. It got 12 perfect 10s – i.e 32% of  those who submitted thought it was perfect. The minimum score was 4.

Top 3 Clues:  The most favorite clues were for “GREAT-GRANDSON” with 11 votes, “AIRCRAFT” with 8 votes and “RANI”  and “SATORI” with 7 votes each.

Hope you all enjoyed the brilliant puzzle. Thanks for  your support and wonderful comments. Sharing these comments with our readers..

Comments from solvers:

1. First puzzle on this site, very cleverly done with the interactive grid.
2. As the puzzle folds, pure excitement unfolds. Brilliant idea.
3. Nice and novel idea!
4. Great grid. Some of the clues did not really add up, but all in all, a great puzzle.
5. A very good puzzle with an adequate level of challenge to keep it interesting till the end. Liked the software driven special effects, but the validation check before each step is executed was as good as providing a means to check entries in grid and instructions – could have been avoided in a high quality puzzle
6. Almost not connected
7. The concept and grid design is really innovative. Loved the instructions and the NINA. The clue surfaces suffered because of this, though. The crossword solving was not as enjoyable as figuring out the instructions and NINA
8. Brilliant. How does one even construct something like this? Superb!!
9. EXCELLENT CREATION
10. keep em coming 1AC and Eclogue!
11. Found some of the defs too stretchy/misleading with complex wordplay, thought the WP could be more approachable for those clues. Was a bit of a slog though the end results were worth it.
12. Was very very tough..:) But worth it
13. Had to guess the wording for the second instruction, based on the fact that I thought I could see what the nina was going to be from an early stage. Some of the clues were very obscure!
14. Well constructed to get the folding to work. First fold brings empty picture in Opera browser, but flip and second work OK. 21D isn’t a SAGA one tale?
15. Most Enjoyable Puzzle!
16. please try and avoid using devices that the compiler has got and the solvers do not! what if I do not have a printer .? what if I do not have a software which is only known to the compiler ? let’s restrict ourselves to cryptic puzzles only, no matter however hard they are ! That will be a challenge to the solvers !
17. The printing of the grid and other instructions could have been avoided. The green buttons are yet to appear !!!
18. Found it tough
19. Amazing! Extremely innovative but challenging too
20. Grid was on the tougher side. But the instructions were fun to solve
21. Nice puzzle. A bit challenging
22. Looking forward to discussion and seeing solution to this puzzle
23. Too tough.
24. innovative and challenging
    “25. Tough clues, and some dialect words I didn’t know. Couldn’t fully anno a few, but fortunately the green buttons confirmed I had them right. Delightful surprises at the end.
    12d: be(s trow)ing also fits the wp in a different way! But not the def.”
25. Very tough grid. Loved the software behind the grid with all its hidden surprises.
26. Hard
27. Tough one for me. Missed the magic.
28. Very challenging. Thanks to Viresh for the special effects in the grid!
29. Wow!
30. Innovative concept
31. Really enjoyable puzzle! I had a lot of fun looking for the instructions and the nina. Most of the clues were good but I felt some of them were pretty tough. Haven’t managed to anno all of them. Nevertheless, the process of solving the puzzle step by step was extremely satisfying.
32. Eager to see the nina!
33. unfortunately couldn’t complete , bit frustrated
34. Submitting incomplete
35. Tough but well set.
36. Getting the feeling it’s really good, wish I could get all the answers