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For every 3 non-theme words you find, you earn a hint. Hints show the letters of a theme word. If there is already an active hint on the board, a hint will show that word’s letter order.
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
The New York Times has used video games as part of its journalistic efforts, among the first publications to do so, [13] contributing to an increase in Internet traffic; [14] In the late 1990s and early 2000s, The New York Times began offering its newspaper online, and along with it the crossword puzzles, allowing readers to solve puzzles on their computers.
The leaflets are 7 to 12 cm (2.8 to 4.7 in) long and 5 to 12 cm (2.0 to 4.7 in) wide. The species is deciduous in the dry season. [3] The tree blooms between August and September producing scarlet to orange-red pea flowers that are 3 to 4 cm (1.2 to 1.6 in) long are found on terminal racemes 5 to 25 cm (2.0 to 9.8 in) in length. [3]
The earliest escape-the-room game, called 'Origin', dates back from 2006. [2] It was created in Silicon Valley by a group of system programmers. In the same year, similar games became popular throughout China and Japan. From 2007, the concept became a worldwide phenomenon, with over 306 companies currently running live escape games. [3]
[3] Dirk Gently (2010–2012) starred Stephen Mangan in the title role in a pilot broadcast on BBC 4 in 2010 and a three-episode series broadcast in 2012. The series includes several plot lines from The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul , including Dirk's Zen navigation, his psychological battle with his cleaning lady, and a horoscope that is ...
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...
Derek Carver reviewed Clue Quest for Games International magazine, and gave it 3 stars out of 5, and stated that "We all enjoyed the playtest well enough with one member keen to continue after the agreed number of rounds. I would give it a couple of stars but the player who was more enthusiastic than I would, I am sure, give it four.