Stats: The puzzle page had 319 views and was attempted 159 times (lower than 234 last time). Seems to have been tougher than prior times since only 30 had submitted and 27 got the final XWordle correct. Some solvers did not submit in the blog.
Solutions:
1 Match involving woman replacing one present (5)
THERE: T(-i+HER)E, Def Present, Replacement of I with HER in TIE
2 Women had resistance to Adam’s ale (5)
WATER: W ATE R, Def: Adam’s Ale
3 Each woman rarely on vacation (5)
EVERY; EVE + R(-arel)Y
4 Arabian ruler and woman joining Indian king (5)
SHEIK: SHE + I + K
5 Both sides welcoming first woman in party (5)
REVEL: R (EVE) L, R and L sides, with insertion of EVE for Party – Revel
6 The final XWordle
TALES
After solving the individual clues, these answers needed to be placed in the Grid correctly as below.
The grid had letter hints in the Pink Squares to help slot the answers. For eg, the V indicated, only an answer with V in the 2nd position could be in Place 1 (narrrowing down to EVERY). The H and E indicated SHEIK or THERE had to be in the 2nd and 4th spots. 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 “TALES”. The “Stories” in the title was an allusion to the Final XWordle
Here’s the link to the PUZZLE – Her-Stories
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Only two people scored high based on time taken plus accuracy while submitting, These were Sandhya Jagadish and Satyen Nabar. Here’s our Leaderboard based on submissions in the blog.
| First 10 | |
| Name | Comment |
| Ramki Krishnan | |
| Supriya Mithal | Nice |
| rentawagon72 | Lovely, as usual. 🙂 |
| VENKATESAN P. | Excellent |
| Tejas Siddharth | Quite an interesting tale 😛 |
| Ian VanderSchee | |
| Ratna Rao | Wonderful Wordle |
| adman_i | Struggled with Sheik. Thought it ended with an ‘h’ 🙂 |
| Jyothish Balakrishnan | Excellent |
| ‘@SatyenNabar | Lovely |
| Others | |
| Name | Comment |
| Ganesh Nayak | |
| ‘@madhu367 | Final word not connected to theme == Is it wrong ? |
| Aashwina | |
| Debasmita | Not sure |
| Mona Sogal | Amazing 🙂 |
| Al Sanders | |
| Veera Raghavan | Nice puzzle |
| Amrita | Great puzzle! |
| ‘@usharameshnj | |
| Ashit Hegde | Very enjoyable . |
| Geoff | |
| Madhup Tewari | |
| Sandhya Paruchuri | Good one! |
| Max Jackson | |
| ‘@KrittiAKL | Very interesting clues. It was good not to have the picture hints for a change.
Looking forward to more in future! |
| Magi | |
| Nick Loader | |
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