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Logain · Stretch Armstrong

Well if you're trying to think of ways to alter the puzzle so that if it presented again might be more solvable....personally I think the poem should have held more of a clue. Maybe I would have used several lines mixed in that hinted toward another series of famous books (not blatantly, but enough to solve it), and then concluded/ended the poem or added an intro that it doesn't quite fit the diagram, but something along these lines might.

Samadhi · +1

For anyone who's curious, "no-body" was me.

3iff · very unbifflike

Never having read anything about Discworld there was almost no chance of me ever solving the puzzle unless I had been extremely lucky Googling (and I wasn't lucky).

I did used to try solving increasingly obscure puzzles which eventually reached the point where you needed to know the answer before you could understand the question. Pictures and diagrams were the hardest to solve as they are so difficult to research.

As Logain suggested, had there been a non-diagrammatic clue, possibly from a verse, then non-discworlders might have had a chance.

The puzzle was fairly interesting, but without a pointer to the right area, we were left guessing with no idea whether we were right unless we stumbled on the answer...

Dred Pirate Westley · Icarian Member

I agree. The mark of a good puzzle is one that gives just enough clues to bump the puzzler in the right direction without blatantly giving away anything. The person trying to solve the puzzle shouldn't have to "know the answer before understanding the question", espeically in a forum. In a math class, maybe. Finally, the solver of the puzzle should know when he's solved it, and have at least a fair degree of confidence in his answer.

This puzzle provided NONE of these, and so was not really a puzzle, but an elaborate exclusive guessing game.

MAJOR waste of time.
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DropOfaHat · Daedalian Member

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Guest · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:58 pm Post subject: 87

Ctorj · Did I spell that right?

I'm ready for a new puzzle.
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Tahnan · Daedalian Member

I know I should just let it lie, but--just when I thought it couldn't get worse: