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Curly Quote: WSJ, 01/22/21, by PB
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2021 5:14 pm
by ChrisKochmanski
Big fun!
In a Curly Quote, does PB always tell you that the top and bottom rows use exactly the same sequence of letters? Because that helped me A LOT. I got this one in less than an hour -- about 45 or 50 minutes. I'd normally take longer.
Re: Curly Quote: WSJ, 01/22/21, by PB
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2021 5:29 pm
by Meg
For a Patrick Berry, this one was on the easy side IMHO.
Re: Curly Quote: WSJ, 01/22/21, by PB
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2021 5:59 pm
by Wendy Walker
I agree, Meg.
Re: Curly Quote: WSJ, 01/22/21, by PB
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 12:25 pm
by Richard B.
ChrisKochmanski wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 5:14 pm
In a Curly Quote, does PB always tell you that the top and bottom rows use exactly the same sequence of letters?
Looks like the answer is yes. I found a few Curly Quote puzzles in the WSJ from prior years and the instructions, including the upper and lower row solving aid, are the same as this one.
I always get turned around every which way with the 4 ways to enter each answer into the grid. Even when you already have a couple of letters you may not have nailed it down.
Re: Curly Quote: WSJ, 01/22/21, by PB
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2021 6:32 pm
by ChrisKochmanski
One thing that I often DON'T like all that much about a Curly Quote -- and other sorts of puzzles that involve a lot of this way and that around a center space, with interlocking words -- is that they can involve so much trial and error. Which so often goes wrong! But this one, for me, zipped right along.