Timeline for The horrible wordsearch: Can you decypher the word-search puzzle to find the final clue?
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 8:22 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Commonmark migration
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| Dec 9, 2014 at 17:37 | history | edited | BmyGuest | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited title
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| Dec 2, 2014 at 10:13 | vote | accept | BmyGuest | ||
| Dec 2, 2014 at 10:13 | answer | added | BmyGuest | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 2, 2014 at 7:12 | answer | added | xnor | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 2, 2014 at 4:19 | comment | added | xnor | Is it "The Hound of the Baskervilles"? I want to check before posting. | |
| Dec 1, 2014 at 20:10 | answer | added | Warlord 099 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 1, 2014 at 9:32 | history | edited | BmyGuest | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Some more clarification on the puzzle in the introductionary text.
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| Nov 30, 2014 at 22:04 | comment | added | Victor Stafusa | @Kevin I would not assume such thing. Those puzzles are so crazy that anything except the obvious could be possible. | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 22:02 | comment | added | Kevin | @Victor that's not straight lines, which I'd expect in a word search. | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 21:59 | comment | added | Victor Stafusa | @Kevin, the T at line 9, second H at line 10, E at line 11; The same T at line 9, the A at line 8, L, E and S in line 9 following the T. | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 21:24 | history | edited | BmyGuest | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited typo.
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| Nov 30, 2014 at 21:21 | comment | added | A E | yay:) I'm thinking maybe the six 'a to b' symbols mean a six-position shift. | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 21:19 | comment | added | Kevin | @Victor where do you see "TALES" or "THE"? | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 21:17 | history | edited | BmyGuest | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
replaced "auxiliary" by "important" for "clues".
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| Nov 30, 2014 at 21:15 | comment | added | A E | Blue Screen Of Death | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 21:12 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor | @Victor - If you want to include "A", you should include "I" too! And what's "BSOD" doing there?? | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 21:10 | comment | added | warspyking | Time to write up a program to scan for words in the dictionary... Nah too much work, manual probably be easier XD | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 21:09 | history | edited | BmyGuest | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added initial hint to clarify. The puzzle *does* contain a word search element. It's tagging is correct.
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| Nov 30, 2014 at 21:01 | comment | added | Victor Stafusa | I found the words "THE", "OF", "A", "AN", "ATE", "GUM", "DOG", "FAR", "FART", "FALL", "FAT", "MASK", "ANNA", "ANNE", "TALE", "TALES", "DUG", "TO", "TOP" "RYE", and "BSOD". And probably there are plenty others. | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 20:30 | comment | added | A E | @Kevin, ah, I see. Given the 'cryptogram' tag I've been assuming that something more complicated was going on. ;) Checked wordsearch for all 25 variations of Caeser cipher, nothing jumped out at me. Is there a Waterloo-related cipher? Or maybe try 'Waterloo' as a keyword for something like vigenere? A cipher used at the battle of Waterloo maybe? | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 20:27 | comment | added | Kevin | @AE I was thinking all words came from the word search, which doesn't contain "the", see my follow up question. | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 20:25 | comment | added | A E | Also I'd like to point out that Charles Dickens wrote "A Tale of Two Cities" while staying in the Waterloo Hotel. | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 20:25 | comment | added | A E | @Kevin, I'm interested, why are you thinking that the title doesn't contain 'the'? You might well be right, I just hadn't spotted that myself. | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 20:17 | comment | added | Kevin | Hmm, a 5-word title without "the"? Are all the words in the title supposed to appear in the word search? | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 20:05 | comment | added | Kevin | Words are all straight, right? No boggle-type any-adjacent-letter thing? And all in a row, no every-other, every-third, etc? | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 19:48 | comment | added | A E | Liking it very much! "It was the best of wordsearches, it was the worst of wordsearches". | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 19:20 | comment | added | tjbtech | I found "FART," but I'm not sure that's in the answer. Did Dickens ever write a book of poo jokes? | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 19:05 | history | asked | BmyGuest | CC BY-SA 3.0 |