Saturday 29 September 2018

Friday 28 September 2018

Word Puzzle no 2

How many words can you make using the letters in the table below?
Each word must have at least three letters and must include the red letter in the middle.
Target = 19 words:


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Thursday 27 September 2018

Solution to Puzzle no 271

Sudoku Puzzle no 271 (Diabolical)

Erick Middleton, a member of my Sudoku Puzzles Facebook group, sent me some more puzzles a day or two ago. He creates them using a Perl script (whereas I use a C program). Here is one of his puzzles. It starts easily but has three tough / diabolical positions towards the end:


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Saturday 22 September 2018

Tuesday 18 September 2018

Friday 14 September 2018

Thursday 13 September 2018

Solution to Puzzle no 1

cent
cite
entice
epic
except
excepting
excite
exec
exigent
exit
expect
expecting
gee
gene
genetic
genie
gent
get
ice
inept
net
next
nice
niece
pectin
pee
peeing
peg
pen
pence
pent
pet
pie
piece
pine
tee
teeing
teen
ten
tie
tine
tinge

Word Puzzle no 1

How many words can you make using the letters in the table below?
Each word must have at least three letters and must include the red letter in the middle.
Target = 42 words:


Read all the rules 

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British English Rules

All words must have at least three letters.
There is at least one nine letter word.
All words must include the red letter in the centre of the table.
If a letter appears once in the table, you may only use it once in each word.
If a letter appears twice in the table, you may use it once or twice in each word and so on.
You may only use British English spelling for this puzzle.
Plurals are allowed.
Verb conjugations are allowed. 
Comparatives and superlatives (e.g. big, bigger, biggest) are allowed.
Some well known abbreviations are allowed (e.g. gent, which is short for gentleman).
Proper nouns e.g. Andrew, London and Thames are not allowed. You can recognise these as they begin with a capital letter.
Local dialect is not allowed.
Offensive swear words are not allowed.
Acronyms, e.g. CIA, DVLA and MEP, are not allowed. 
The answers will usually be published a day or two after the puzzle.

Thursday 6 September 2018