Stats: The puzzle page had over 400 views and was attempted over 250 times. We had 61 submissions (lower than 73 last time). All except 1 were correct and some solvers did not submit in the blog.
Solutions:
1 People following God for food (5)
RAMEN: RA+MEN
2 Taste a Kurma containing beef (5)
STEAK: Hidden in Plain Sight
3 Turkish pastry broke off (5)
BOREK: BROKE*
4 Energy behind second rice cake (5)
MOCHI: MO+CHI
5 Bear eats you finally for a spicy dish (5)
CURRY: C(-a+U)RRY
6 The Final XWordle
After solving the individual clues, these answers needed to be placed in the Grid correctly as below.
The grid had letter hints to help slot the answers. For eg, the pink E indicated, only an answer with E in the 4th position could be in Place 1 (narrrowing down to either BOREK or RAMEN). The Pink R, indicated, CURRY or BOREK had to be in the 2nd spot and so on. 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 “BACON”.
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Here is the list of people who submitted correct answers in the blog and some feedback on the puzzle.
| Sno. | Name | Comments |
| 1 | Kenny Koh | Nice and fun puzzle! |
| 2 | Gayathri Viswanath | Super fun and learnt some new names of dishes |
| 3 | Manjunath Gawade | |
| 4 | Ratna Rao | Excellent one. |
| 5 | Ramki Krishnan | Nice one. The Turkish pastry was tough, due to the alternate spelling used! |
| 6 | Anantakrishnan N. | |
| 7 | Priya Shyam | |
| 8 | Tejas Siddharth | Very nice surfaces. Nice one 🙂 |
| 9 | Himanshu Rajurkar | So much fun! |
| 10 | Aashwina mouli | Good one |
| 11 | Magi Venkat | Fun wordle |
| 12 | Lakshmi Prakash | Wonderful x wordle..Not very tough but a nice brain teaser all the same |
| 13 | Suyash Roongta | This was tough. Needed the hint and Google for some of the exotic dishes. |
| 14 | Thejaswi Udupa | |
| 15 | Ganesh Raman | Superb – found it to be a bit easier than the ones I have tried earlier. |
| 16 | ChaplinFoody | Delicious! 🙂
* Chomp chomp * |
| 17 | Anu Ananth | |
| 18 | Ian VanderSchee | Love these! |
| 19 | Supriya Mithal | Lots of fun thanks Sowmya for coming up with something fun so regularly |
| 20 | Rathnakumar V | TOO good |
| 21 | sandhya paruchuri | |
| 22 | Ganesh Nayak | Enjoyed it! |
| 23 | Anand Ranganathan | |
| 24 | Ramesh Swaminathan | Nice |
| 25 | Meera | Fun one, but I did need the pictures for a couple of the clues 🙂 |
| 26 | VENKATESAN P. | Nice. |
| 27 | Hari Kumar | |
| 28 | Matt Zinno | |
| 29 | Arunthathi C | |
| 30 | Mona Sogal | Great puzzle |
| 31 | Alison Crutchfield | Mochi is a bit obscure. I had to Google it. |
| 32 | Madhup Tewari | This continues to grow better and better. |
| 33 | Deepak Gopinath (Col.) | Nil |
| 34 | Geoff Lee | BOREK and MOCHI were new to me. |
| 35 | Venkatraghavan S. | Lovely stuff |
| 36 | Shrikanth T. | |
| 37 | Chris Evans | I didn’t get the answer in 5 – enjoyed the swap in CARRY -> CURRY; and people following God for food is incredibly vague! (Though I love the imagery) |
| 38 | Nicholas Loader | Another awesome puzzle! Great title, excellent wordplay all round 🙂 Favourite clue of course is #5, hilarious 😀 Best clue in Xwordle so far imo. Favourite wordplay was for MOCHI and loved the surfaces in 1, 2 and 5. Loved the vocabulary of a food like BOREK. Still fairly easy overall, possibly got lucky deciding to try BOREK up the top first of all but yeah, still feel it could be slightly harder. One day I’ll be up all night trying to solve it and finally regret constantly asking for the difficulty to be increased, until then, though… make it spicier please 😉 |
| 39 | Veera Raghavan | Challenging and interesting puzzle. |
| 40 | Liari | |
| 41 | Ashit Hegde | Great puzzle. Getting tougher ( That’s the way I like it) |
| 42 | Amrita Majumdar | |
| 43 | Usha Dronamraju | good one! |
| 44 | Krishnan Anantheshwaran | The Xwordle part seemed somewhat easier than before but the clues were harder. Needed to cheat by revealing the picture to one clue. |
| 45 | Maya Sharma | A nice one. |
| 46 | Lakshmi Vaidyanathan | Nice puzzle. |
| 47 | Sohil Bhagat | |
| 48 | Max Jackson |
Nice puzzle ! Thanks to you for entertaining us always 🙂
Thanks:) Glad you’re having fun too.