Dan's clue for 5/3 DLC | Forums

[DanAmrich]

I've had a rough week, so this week's puzzle is a little barebones in the design department, and it requires a little explanation anyway.

Each phrase below is missing five letters. Those five letters, in order, spell out a word related to that phrase. The numbers are character counts for the words in the phrase. The gray boxes among, when correctly interpreted, will lead you to next week's artist.

Any graphical inconsistencies (boxes that might have their borders a little thinner) are because I was in a hurry this week and are not significant to the solution. Being in a hurry is also why it looks pretty bland.

Fingers crossed that the clues are all correct; I am on strong meds right now. Credit to my puzzle spirit animal Mike Selinker, who created a more difficult version of this puzzle as Shades of Things to Come, for his book The Maze of Games. I stole the structure and simplified it, but I never would have come up with this mechanic on my own. Many thanks to both my wife Kat and fellow ComDev CeeCee Smith for helping build the clues!

[DanAmrich]

I've had a rough week, so this week's puzzle is a little barebones in the design department, and it requires a little explanation anyway.

Each phrase below is missing five letters. Those five letters, in order, spell out a word related to that phrase. The numbers are character counts for the words in the phrase. The gray boxes among, when correctly interpreted, will lead you to next week's artist.

Any graphical inconsistencies (boxes that might have their borders a little thinner) are because I was in a hurry this week and are not significant to the solution. Being in a hurry is also why it looks pretty bland.

Fingers crossed that the clues are all correct; I am on strong meds right now. Credit to my puzzle spirit animal Mike Selinker, who created a more difficult version of this puzzle as Shades of Things to Come, for his book The Maze of Games. I stole the structure and simplified it, but I never would have come up with this mechanic on my own. Many thanks to both my wife Kat and fellow ComDev CeeCee Smith for helping build the clues!

[drsjdprince]

I was wondering if there's a problem with the fifth clue. It has 18 letters, so you'd expect an answer of length 23, but the total letters given for the phrase is 11+6+2+3 = 22.

Fashionable Cravat ?? Tie

.. or something.

[drsjdprince]

BTW get better soon Dan! Kind of amazed that you came through with a clue this week.

[Nyarlah]

Are the letters in the correct order reading through each phrase, or is it anagram-style ?

[beerysteve]

Fifth on down
Fashionable cravat or tie - ascot

[sladeums]

tAbLe for the sAcRed
ALTAR

fAShionable Cravat Or tie
ASCOT

[Pausanias828]

The seventh one is Faint - Far in the distance, I reckon

[Mystic_Dan]

Looks like the letters are in order.
I also think #5 is goofed I think the last a is not supposed to be there. A solution could be ASCOT - fashionable cravat or tie

[thealphajerk_]

run to the distance?

[Nyarlah]

#6 immergeables ? boats or ships ?

edit: I might mix up a french word there, not sure.