ACME, Email, Getopt, Date?
On 27 August 2012 02:17, Smylers <smyl...@stripey.com> wrote: > Hello. Happy Bank Holiday, for those of you in England, Wales, or > Northern Ireland. If anybody's in the mood for a puzzle, here's one I've > created: > > It's in the style of the Connecting Wall round of BBC4's 'Only Connect'. > Here are 16 clues. The puzzle is to sort them into 4 groups of 4, with > each group having a connection that links its items. Some clues could be > a valid member of more than one group, but there's only one way of > arranging the items perfectly, assigning them such that each group has 4 > distinct items. > > book crunch bash email > acme ping ash date > clang cog getopt kapow > awk biff comm woolfy > > All the clues are in lower-case (erm, as you can see); capitalize any > letters as required when putting them in their groups. > > It's allowed for London.pm to solve this collaboratively -- if you think > you've got a group of 4 items, post a follow-up mail suggesting them and > I'll say whether they are a valid group. (Of course, if you wish to have > a go at solving it without any help, ignore any follow-up mails on this > thread.) > > Please don't look clues up on the internet, or elsewhere; that's > cheating. > > Good luck! > > And if you like puzzle-based quizzes, the new series of 'Only Connect' > (some questions written by me) starts tonight on BBC4 at 20:30, and will > afterwards be on iPlayer here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m9ty9 > > Cheers > > Smylers > -- > http://twitter.com/Smylers2
