Unusually for me, I have been playing some online word and number puzzle games and I seem to have got addicted to them. I used to do the paper versions and then stopped when they went online or rather I stopped getting the papers. I started off on Wordle and then came across waffle and of course I ended up playing Sudoku which is where it all started for me.
I am rather enjoying these games and thought I’d put up a few links here is anyone else might be interested. I play them as they offer me some relief and distraction as well as keeping the brain challenged!
I don’t sign up as you can play without an account but some games can only be accessed via an account.
As a dyslexic they are mind blowing for me and end in parallel universe of sorts, however that being said I once worked on the railways and started crosswords. About a year in could get even things like broadsheets cryptics done in 30 minutes. Worked out that they kinda were almost all the same.
Many many years ago, well before I had a stroke, a bit weird really, I met a guy who was disabled much as I am now. He was a cryptic crossword fanatic but his disability prevented him from entering letters into the puzzle.
He recruited me to act as his right hand and I would enter the answers as he instructed me.
I had no idea how cryptic crosswords work but after a while and a little discussion I began to learn his strategy and method for solving the puzzles.
We parted company and for my service as ‘right hand man’ I gained the ability to both solve and create cryptic clues.
It is strange that after all these years I should suffer a stroke and become right side disabled.
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For the cryptically inclined amongst us. A puzzle, really. Can you solve it?
Stroke Forum mix up on clone immunity.
(two words, 6, 9)
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Two of the words are synonymous with the answer. Some of the words, are an anagram.
Mrs5K - for someone who claims to be rubbish at cryptic crosswords, I suggest you were incredibly lucky (not!!) or perhaps you are too modest and not as rubbish as you might think.
Great clue @Bobbi - it’s so obvious (the answer that is) once you read it (thanks Mrs5K). I feel had I not cheated, I might still be scratching my head.
I think I should do one months worth of the cryptic crosswords as found in the free Metro newspaper. This will benefit me in two ways viz
Exercise as I will have to walk to the station to pick up the paper (I might have to get the bus back)!
Exercise my brain and learn to solve the cryptic clue.
OK, I think I have this (and I haven’t checked Ann’s answer, but will check after I’ve submitted mine, just to be sure.
My deductive reasoning and final answer …
Towards Asia = in an Easterly direction, but then when you decapitate the B - East , you end up with EAST as your answer.
I suspect these are just warm ups and they will likely get harder should you choose to challenge us
Tricky one this and so I have to employ my “let it stew” technique to see if I can get the answer.
I have read the clue and so far nothing.
So I now move on to other things, allowing my brain to solve this in the background, for this is what the brain does. How long it takes is another matter, but often, I can come back to a problem that I couldn’t solve immediately and find I can solve it having allowed the brain to do its job.
Let’s see if it works on this one.
I’ll repeat the problem so my brain gets working on it " One hundred shouts of pain frightens (4)"
