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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2018 0:49:34 GMT -5
This rings a bell in my head regarding the most recent puzzle, LIGHTWEIGHT BLAZER. That puzzle was easy because it is a big puzzle, and with the RSTLNE, you would have a limited range of possibilities.
Then again, I don't know why he doesn't do more short bonus puzzles along with the longer ones. Usually, short puzzles are difficult at times. For example, on a netgame, I was faced with a Thing and with RSTLNE and my picks (HDGO), this was what the puzzle was showing:
_ _ _ _ N _
I obviously didn't come up with BIKINI because there was very little breathing room to work on.
Now you could make this argument of "Harry likes long puzzles because he can use difficult adjectives to throw contestants off!" or "He can use X AND Y puzzles to throw people off!". I do agree with some "make-believe" statements, though. But if he was expecting a win, why go for very long puzzles over simple one worders? That is the thing that I kinda wonder about the bonus puzzles recently. Just my thoughts.
Anway, you all can discuss away!
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Post by tlc38tlc38 on Sept 14, 2018 6:30:27 GMT -5
I agree. To me, one-word puzzles are more difficult.
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Post by MarioGS on Sept 14, 2018 8:27:45 GMT -5
I feel like part of the reason is that the category spectrum is much broader now, so they can't take advantage of a five-letter Thing if it would now be considered Living Thing or Food & Drink. For example, we had OWL in 1996, before Living Thing existed. If they did that today, "_ _ L" for Living Thing would be a total gimme.
Another reason is that people can simply list off fitting words rapidly and stumble into the right anwswer. It's much harder to do that with two-word puzzles, or even the longer one-word ones they rarely use now.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2018 8:42:55 GMT -5
^ I also agree that the category spectrum can come into play on a lot of bonus puzzles as well.
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