Re: Example acrostic puzzle

Mark Jason Dominus <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:33:17 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.qotw.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Sorry, but it's still not right. 

I'm really glad I didn't send it to the main list, then.

> You're missing 20 and 23 in the clues section, and you've got two
> 33s and two 40s.

Both typos.  Notice that space 20 is labeled "20E", and 23 is labeled "23A".

Here's the corrected version.  Thanks!

___ ___ ___     ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___     ___ ___
1G  2A  3C      4A  5B  6F  7C  8G  9E  10D 11G     12B 13E


___ ___ ___ ___ ___     ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___     ___ ___ ___
14D 15G 16F 17E 18B     19B 20E 21D 22F 23A 24G     25C 26F 27G


___ ___ ___ ___     ___ ___ ___ ___     ___ ___     ___ ___ ___ 
28A 29F 30B 31G     32A 33G 34E 35D     36C 37B     38A 39D 40C




A. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___              Fly headlong
   2   4   38  28  32  23

B. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___              Where the sun comes up
   19  18  12  30  5   37

C. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___                  Relinquish
   40  25  36  7   3

D. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___                  Valuable property
   39  10  21  35  14

E. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___                  Dangerous
   9   17  13  34  20

F. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___                  Formerly yours
   22  29  6   26  16

G. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___      Why you're like your dad
   15  8   24  11  27  33  1   31