Letters – Solutions, Annotations & Results

Stats – What a fabulous response to the first grid of this year. You all surprised us with a whopping 57 submissions – a new record at 1ACross!.  Of those who submitted,  35 managed to complete the grid with zero errors but only 15 got the maximum possible score of 250.

Here’s the Puzzle

NOTE FROM THE ORACLE  Some time back, a certain correspondent who was miffed with me over something forbade me to write lettters. So, I wrote a missive in Morse, following the instruction to the letter. No, this puzzle doesn’t use Morse code, but in some cells, you will have to enter something other than letters. Some of these entries double as letters too for the checking words. Take care and remember to be vigilant round the clock – you might just end up getting perfect vision and see something. Letters know what you see by answering the questions..

Here’s the link to the Interactive Version If you need it, you can get a PDF, by opening the grid and then choosing File, Print and Print to PDF

Here’s the solution

The solvers had to answer the following questions after solving the grid: (1) Dark areas represent a light. What is the clue number of that light? (2) In the grid, which clue number represents Perfect Vision as mentioned in the introduction? The correct answers are 1) 40A (If you look at the grid, you can see 2020 in the black squares in the four corners of the grid) –  “Lights” refers to the term used for the grid’s answer slots) 2. 40A – A reference to Perfect Vision which is also called 20:20 vision You can access the Grid with solutions Here – Clicking Reveal ALL will show you the solutions, annotations and the answers to the bonus questions.

Here is the scorecard (sorted by total)

Congrats to the 15 people who maxed the score.

Grid Rating: The puzzle got a  good score of 8.4. It got 11 perfect 10s. The minimum score was 3. Top 3 Clues:  The most favorite clues were “OBJET D’ART” with 16 votes, “MACHETE” with 13 votes and “IN A NUTSHELL” with 11 votes each. Hope you all enjoyed this entertaining puzzle, brought to you by The Oracle. Did you like the puzzle? Do you have any feedback for us or for the setter? Please leave your comments in the blog.