Quote from Stephen Lockyer on Wednesday 11th September, 2019, 18:00

Here is a list of graduated spoilers for you:

[spoiler]The words below link to two puzzles, Number 4 and Number 7[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Draw a grid seven squares across and four down, and fill the letters in.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Fill them in going down, from left to right.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]The riddle asks for a homophone for the metal used to make a cage and the sound a sheep makes.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]The answer is four letters long.[/spoiler]

Quote from kisanna12 on Friday 13th September, 2019, 07:56

the answer starts with... [spoiler]b[/spoiler]
it is SPOILER: [spoiler]bars[/spoiler]

Quote from Drewwasnever on Friday 20th September, 2019, 15:28

Can somebody please explain [spoiler] Where is the logic in removing the repeated 7 letters?[/spoiler] I get the puzzle but I don't get that bit!

Quote from morbus on Friday 20th September, 2019, 15:31

@drewwasnever: That is not a step for this puzzle. There are no repeated letters.

Quote from nikos12071 on Sunday 19th January, 2020, 20:07

I got the same typo on my book as well with the whole phrase it has in total 35 letters instead of 28

Quote from Bremster on Saturday 20th June, 2020, 14:08

There are 35 letters in my book as well.
TECANIHHTARDSEETARDSEEAGONYEMLEUOSP

How does this work for this puzzle? At all?

I would honestly like an answer as to how to get the answer listed above from this string of letters, because unless you have given up on solving these puzzles and are cheating, I can't see any way of reverse engineering it knowing the answer.

I am doing this now because my wife wants to do them and she wants me to be her clue giver, but honestly, there are some amazing puzzles out there, how did these get good reviews?

Update:
Oh - I see, you need to remove the extra letters put in with no hint as to why. Because of course you do.

So with a string of 35 letters and the code 4x7 you are supposed to figure out to put the letters into the grid, excluding the ones you don't because "reasons" and then figure out the answer from that.

I some of these are so badly designed that I massively regret that we got several of these books at the same time because the design is terrible.

Quote from enkiri on Sunday 5th February, 2023, 20:40

35 in mine as well

damn!