Puzzles
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Back to Square One – Solutions, Annotations and Results
Stats: The puzzle page was loaded 480 times. 56 visitors had a go at it. Though 43 solvers completed the grid, only 40 solvers completed both the puzzle and bonus form and 3 solvers did not submit the bonus form. The remaining 13 solved it partly or fully but did not submit. 35 solvers got the full
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Family Reunion – Solutions, Annotations and Results
NOTE: The post has been amended on 28th Jan. 2024, after initially publishing on 27th Jan. 2024. Clue 22D has two equally valid answers EGENCE (in the original post) as well as EGENCY. The scores and leaderboard have been updated to reflect this. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Stats: The puzzle page was loaded 264 times. 60 visitors had
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Back to Square One
Our second grid for this season is “Back to Square One” by Metacryptix. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD Friday, 9th February 2024. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our leader board for 2024. Annotations for the puzzle will be posted in the
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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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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