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[gfroyle]

I get 206 solutions. Ask for your money back....

206 it is... independently confirmed again.

Gordon

[tarek]

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I've got 604 solutions !!!! (but 398 were repititions)

[Pappocom]

I've had no reply to my email to The Times, so will try again.

- Wayne

[stocku]

Wayne

I wonder if you have heard anything from the Times now? They have not replied to my questions.

[Pappocom]

No reply to my two emails, either.

- Wayne

[Pappocom]

I've had a response from The Times.

They say they acknowledge and regret the errors in the puzzles supplied in the booklet accompanying the board-game.

To avoid any false attribution of the faulty puzzles to Pappocom, they will add the words "Puzzles created by Mike Tier" to their webpage which promotes the board-game.

- Wayne

[gfroyle]

To avoid any false attribution of the faulty puzzles to Pappocom, they will add the words "Puzzles created by Mike Tier" to their webpage which promotes the board-game.

What I want to know is how someone gets a job setting puzzles that are fundamentally wrong or do you think that they just got a random sub-editor to do it?

Or being more charitable, that there were typos at the printing stage?

Gordon

[Pat]

What I want to know is how someone gets a job setting puzzles that are fundamentally wrong

The Times has been getting valid puzzles from Pappocom - they're so accustomed to receiving valid puzzles that it would never occur to them that there is any need to verify the puzzles they're given.

~ Pat