Sowmya

  • With Lots of Love – Hall of Fame

    Puzzle – With Lots of Love Stats:  Our game post had close to 600 visits, indicating that a good number of people checked out “The Oracle’s” Valentine day special. We had  19 successful submissions from the following people, who managed to solve and submit the grid. In alphabetical order, they were Aashwina Mouli, Amrita Majumdar, Chandrasekhar, Chatur…

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  • With Lots of Love – Solutions

    Here’s the Solutions grid Colouring the “O”s in the grid, and also all white islets in the red sea (the blocks in-between), yielded a giant red heart. Find the shape again in the grid and colour it red” was the instruction to identify that the solution for 44D was “Heart” and to colour that answer…

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  • 1ACCWC -1ACross Clue Writing Contest no 129

    Update by Sowmya -25th February 2017 – We had a spectacular response for the contest and we’re swamped by a mind boggling 123 clues from 24 setters in 36 hours, breaking all previous records set here. Like last time, 38 of our members took time to vote and while it was a struggle for me…

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  • With Lots of Love

    “It’s time for sweet nothings!” ” The umpire at a tennis match announces “Love all”, whereas Robert Burns puts it a bit differently when he says, “O my Luve’s like a red,red rose, …“. So, why not paint the town red today? Look for love in the solved puzzle, and colour that cell red. Any…

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  • 1ACCWC -1ACross Clue Writing Contest no 128

    Update by Sowmya -12th February 2017 – We had a good response for the contest, though a bit muted compared to the previous contest. Nevertheless, we did manage to have  45 clues  set by 17 setters and also managed to get 38 members to vote in the contest. For some reason, quite a few votes were recorded multiple times and we only…

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