Stats: The puzzle page had 432 views and was attempted 122 times (higher than 97 last time). All except 6 were correct and some solvers did not submit in the blog.
Solutions:
1 What’s unmentionable about a bachelor as well (5)
TABOO: T(A B)OO
2 Hard to split tax for board (5)
CHESS, C(H)ESS
3 Jean struggling to pick up German game (5)
JENGA, G in JEAN*
4 Terribly boring? Not right – Perfect! (5)
BINGO – BORING*-R
5 Some choose networking game (5)
SENET, Hidden in Plain Sight
6 The Final XWordle
CATAN – CA plus a jumble of T,N and A
After solving the individual clues, these answers needed to be placed in the Grid correctly as below.
The grid had letter hints in the Pink Squares to help slot the answers. For eg, the B indicated, only an answer with B in the 1st position could be in Place 2 (narrrowing down to BINGO). The S indicated CHESS had to be in the 3rd spot while the O indicated that the 4th spot had to be either TABOO or BINGO. Since BINGO can only be in 2, this confirmed TABOO had to be in the 4th slot. Although some solvers had said that SENET and JENGA could be interchangeably entered, this would leave SENET in its original spot – which cannot be correct since none of the solution words are in their correct slots.
So, you had to solve the puzzle like a logic game to arrive at the correct spots for the answers. After doing that, you had to use the letters in Wordle colors, to find the correct answer which was “CATAN”.
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The Top Scores based on the time and accuracy recorded in the system were
Alan Connor,
Mani Kadayam
V RATNAKUMAR
@SatyenNabar
Ian VanderSchee
rentawagon72
saralvaidy,
ChaplinFoody
Madhup Tewari
@sam_hayfield
Nicholas Loader
Based on the time of submission in the blog, here’s our Leaderboard and some feedback on the puzzle.
| First 10 | |
| Name | Comment |
| Mani Kadayam | |
| Aashwina | Nice one |
| Priya Shyam | |
| Gayathri | Interesting!!! |
| Ian VanderSchee | Still loving these! |
| mentalplaypark | Nice array of games here – though I think JENGA/SENET is ambigugous, they could go in each other’s places? |
| Ramki Krishnan | |
| V RATNAKUMAR | NICE |
| Lakshmi Prakash | Great puzzle.Some of the games were not known to me but a very satisfying solve |
| Ratna Rao | Harder compared to previous ones ,but a great one |
| Others | |
| Name | Comment |
| Magi | |
| rentawagon72 | Nice as always. Easier though. |
| Veena Venkataraman | |
| Arvind Ramaswamy | Interchanging 1 and 5 actually does not impact the final word but the game just mentions that one way of doing it is wrong. So had to interchange them to actually complete |
| ‘@manjugawade | |
| VENKATESAN P. | Even if we interchange 1 & 5, we can get the solution word. |
| N Anantakrishnan | |
| ‘@SatyenNabar | Nice |
| Ramesh Swaminathan | Nice again! |
| Vimal Panwar | Interesting |
| ‘@jonathanancer | Enjoyed the theme and the clue and love the concept |
| samit kallianpur | good one! |
| Max Jackson | I’ve not heard of the answer – my daughter had though. Positions 1 and 5 seem interchangeable. |
| Kabir Firaque | Entertaining as ever. A little tougher than last time. |
| Afterdark0600 | Challenging |
| saralvaidy | Nice one 🙂 |
| Tejas Siddharth | Nice one 🙂 |
| ChaplinFoody | Excellent one 🙂 |
| Supriya Mithal | Fun as always |
| Madhusudan H | |
| suyash666 | Good one |
| Sohil | Very breezy solve! |
| Madhup Tewari | Wonderful puzzle. |
| Liari (@liari77_becky) | |
| Joseph Amirtharaj A | VERY NICE!! |
| ‘@sam_hayfield | |
| Jyothish Balakrishnan | Intricately designed |
| Anu | |
| Mona Sogal | Good one 🙂 |
| ‘@MeeraTweetsToo | Kept me from getting board, I mean bored 😉 Great clues! |
| Arunthathi C | |
| Kavita Agrawal Mohanka | |
| shoiz786 | good one |
| ‘@wmacdonald13 | |
| Nicholas James Loader | |
| ‘@_Boycie75 | |
| Sparsh | Loved it |
| Al Sanders | |
| sandhya paruchuri | |
| Col Deepak Gopinath | Nil |
| Adamwqm | |
| Alan Connor | |
| quizquest | |
| Ganesh | Struggled a bit given lack of domain knowledge 🙂 |
| ‘@pvsivaram | Quite good |
| Ashit Hegde | Great fun as usual. |
| Ganesh Nayak | Fun puzzle! Initially switched places for Jenga and Senet, I think that works too? |
| ‘@KrittiAKL | Nice puzzle, discovered the names of a few board games which I had never heard of before. |
| Loks Subrahmanyam | Learnt about two games that are new to me. SENET and CATAN. Nice XWordle! |
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Excellent wordplay in all clues except I felt that board needed a def by e.g. ind. which is a shame because it had my favourite surface. Amusing name 🙂 Surfaces in 2, 3 and 5 are stellar. Nice vocab find and great wordplay for SENET Favourite clue: JENGA Good level of difficulty, feel like I only just scraped into the top 11 in terms of my time 🙂
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