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- From: guy@ulysses.att.com (Guy Jacobson)
- Subject: CWC 30 announcement
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.224622.8321@ulysses.att.com>
- Sender: guy@ulysses (Guy Jacobson)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:46:22 GMT
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- By a conspiracy of the winners all refusing, I am the moderator of
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- CLUE WRITING COMPETITION NUMBER 30
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- Welcome to the Clue Writing Competition 30 (devised by Ian Gent). The
- rules, and this article, are much the same as used in earlier rounds.
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- The dates for CWC 30 are:
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- Thursday 28 January 23:59 EST Deadline for CWC30 entries
- Friday 29 January I'll post the CWC30 winners
- Friday 29 January I'll post an annotated list of entries.
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- The rules:
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- Later on in this posting you'll find two words or phrases. Both, in this
- contest, are fairly easy to clue. Note, however, that there is a special
- bonus competition, so you can submit a third clue of a special type.
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- You may submit clues for either or both words. I will accept only one
- clue per person for each word; If you send more than one for a word, I
- will accept the first one I receive. E-mail the clues, along with your
- name and e-mail address, clear explanations of how your clues work, and
- whether or not you could run the next contest, to me at the following
- address:
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- guy@ulysses.att.com
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- After the deadline, I'll pick my favorite clue for each word; thus
- there will be two winning clues. I'll pick my favorite of these two as
- the overall winner, inviting its writer to set the next round of this
- competition. I'll post separately a list of runner-up clues, and all
- the remaining clues, with as much commentary as I see fit.
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- IMPORTANT: Please DO NOT post your own clues, or anything else that
- might give away the answer words! Some readers of this group want to
- try solving the winning clues; please don't spoil it for them.
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- The words for CWC30 follow, "rot13" encoded for extra security, but
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- **** note the special BONUS COMPETITION described below the words ****
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- **** BONUS COMPETITION for CWC 30 ****
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- Along with your regular clues for the two words above, you may submit
- a "Printer's Devilry" clue for either of the two words above. A
- "Printer's Devilry" clue is *NOT* a normal cryptic clue. Here for
- example, is a (fairy crummy) P.D. clue for the word RANSOM:
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- Whole wheat flour has the beaver-age diet slack (6)
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- To make a P.D. clue, we start with a relatively normally worded
- sentence, that contains the answer we want as a hidden word:
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- Whole wheat flour has the bran some average diets lack.
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- we remove the hidden word, close the gap, and rearrange the
- sentence's punctuation and division into words, to get our P.D. clue:
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- Whole wheat flour has the beaver-age diet slack (6)
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- Note that there is neither a definition nor a cryptic indication of
- the word RANSOM in the clue. To be fair, P.D. clues should start from
- a meaningful sentence, and there should be enough left after removing
- the hidden word to give solvers a chance. The final clue should
- at least be readable, and it should be parsable is some crazy way.
- The more sensible the original sentence, and the more difficult it is
- to tell where the break is in the final clue, the better.
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- _________________________________________________________________
- Guy Jacobson (908) 582-6558 AT&T Bell Laboratories
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