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Family Reunion
Happy New Year to all our readers. We are happy to start a new season of 1ACGrids with “Family Reunion” from “Mathrix”, exclusively for our solvers. Incidentally, the setter Mathrix, aka Ian VanderSchee celebrates his birthday on the 9th. On behalf of our blog and solvers, we wish him a terrific birthday. Answers can be
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1AC Clue Writing Contests – 2023 Roundup
Over the last year, we had 46 weekly contests and 18 different setters winning the weekly contests, broadly similar to the previous years. Satyen Nabar had the maximum wins (14), followed by Textrous (6) and Ramki (4). There were two occasions when there was a tie for the Top Spot. As in previous years, Dr.
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1ACGrids Final Leaderboard – 2023
We ran 21 new puzzles custom made for our solvers, fortnightly, during 2023, 1 less than 22 in 2022. Three puzzles each were set by Aquifer, Bingo and Mathrix, two by Saral and one each from Ambrosia, Avtaar, Eclogue, Hypatia, Inswinger, Scratch, Sideswipe, Smasher and Veeyares. In addition, one special grid was put together as
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Sweetie Pie – Solutions, Annotations and Results
Stats: The puzzle page was loaded 738 times. 59 visitors had a go at it. 31 solvers completed both the puzzle and bonus forms. 2 solvers did not submit the bonus form. The remaining 28 solved it partly or fully but did not submit. 12 solvers got the full score.
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1ACCWC 458 – SUSPEND – Results
This week’s contest had 20 clues and 21 voters. Thanks to Bhalchandra Pasupathy, Mona Sogal and Simon Hill who took time to vote though they did not set clues in this contest. Two participants did not vote. Both were first timers and no points were deducted this time. All participants are urged to familiarize themselves