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Welcome to the Party – Solutions
As you all know, the puzzle was an attempt to predict the winner of the elections in the United States and that The Oracle was clear that the winner is D…. In typical double speak of The Oracle, this could mean Democrats or Donald Trump! The party is now over and you would have heard…
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Welcome to the Party – Hall of Fame
Puzzle – Welcome to the Party Stats: 32 persons submitted answers, some with both grids. The following persons (in alphabetical order) submitted both the grids: Aashwina Mouli, Ashley Smith, Brian Dungate, Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, Manish Misra, Mona Sogal, Ramki Krishnan, Rengaswamy Narasimhan, Supriya Mithal and Uma Raghavan. The following persons (in alphabetical order) submitted one or…
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Welcome to the Party
This Halloween, ‘The Oracle” encountered a coven of witches, some sundry wizards, diviners, augurs and soothsayers. Having read tea leaves, coffee grounds, entrails of myriad creatures, and tons of other stuff – they instructed “The Oracle” to make a puzzle and to put this one across to you all..So, “Welcome to the Party..” Submissions of the completed grid should…
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Grid 5 – Solutions
We had 29 submissions of which 16 were all correct. For scoring purposes, I first ranked the submissions based on number of correct entries and then based on the time of submission (for a total of 85 points). Further, points were given to identification of the theme (6 points) and for number of theme words…