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1ACCWC 413 – HIGH-FLYER Results
We had 29 clues and 30 voters. Anant was our host and here’s his summary of the results… We had a flying start to the New Year with a very keenly contested game between the top two. Eventually and aptly (@lowdowncryptic) Larry Kline was “picked as the winner” with 42 points for Greetings! Good handoff…
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1ACGrids Final Leaderboard – 2022
We ran 22 new puzzles custom made for our solvers, fortnightly, during 2022, 3 more than 19 in 2021 (excluding the Gridfest which featured 25 puzzles) Three puzzles each were set by Bingo, Mathrix, and Metacryptix. Two each were from Saral and Aquifer. There was one each from Avtaar, Eclogue, Hypatia, The Zodiac, Pixie Dust,…
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Bidding Sequence – Solutions, Annotations and Results
Stats The puzzle page was loaded nearly 500 times. 62 visitors had a go at it and 25 solvers managed to complete and submit. Of those who submitted, only 11 managed to get the full scores on both the grid and bonus questions. The first 10 all-correct submissions were awarded early bird bonus points from 10…
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Cut Corners
Happy New Year to all our readers. We are happy to start a new season of 1ACGrids with “Cut Corners” from “Mathrix”, exclusively for our solvers. Incidentally, the setter Mathrix, aka Ian VanderSchee celebrates his birthday tomorrow. On behalf of our blog and solvers, we wish him a terrific birthday. Answers can be submitted by…
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1AC Clue Writing Contests – 2022 Roundup
Over the last year, we had 47 weekly contests and 20 different setters winning the weekly contests, broadly similar to 2021. Madhusudan H had the maximum wins (6), followed by first timer Ganesh Raman (5), Dr. Nabar (4) and Textrous (4). There was only one occasion when there was a tie for the Top Spot.…