1ACross is happy to present “A Leap of Faith”, from “The Oracle“, exclusively for our solvers.
Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 27th November 2019.. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our leader board for 2019.
Annotations for the puzzle will be discussed at 1ACross on Thursday, November 28, 2019.
Happy solving.
NOTE FROM THE ORACLEWhen we take the letters of the English alphabet and their numerical position in the alphabet, we end up with:
A1 signifying the best or top quality
B2 A stealth bomber plane or Riboflavin
C3 One half of a humanoid robot from Star Wars
D4 Dark Dreams Don’t Die, a video game…
Not entirely satisfactory, isn’t it? How about switching the positions of the letter and the numeral and getting….
4D
Well, friends, have a go at this 4D puzzle in these times when 3D puzzles are a rage.
This puzzle has four dimensions as against the normal two dimensional crossword.
They are
Across
Down
Leap Across
Leap Down
Now it’s time to make a Leap of Faith…
Thanks to Sowmya for running this tiny grid and to Viresh for tweaking Exolve in no time to make this work.
Apologies for the small size of the puzzle. Hope we will see larger 4D puzzles in the future.
Here’s the link to the Interactive Version The grid needs to be done interactively due to the special nature of the puzzle. If you need it, you can get a PDF, by opening the grid and then choosing File, Print and Print to PDF