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ODDS AND ENDS

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2023 Portland Pie Party puzzle

PDF

PUZ*

*Across Lite format solvable online; ZIP file holds .puz file

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I decided to take the challenge for EnigMarch in 2022, and release a puzzle a day during the entire month.  Some of these puzzle types will be old standards, but others will be variations or mashups of the puzzles you know and love.  Some puzzles will be inspired by other puzzle and game writers' work.  I'm looking for variety!

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I will try to post these daily as close to midnight PST as I can.  Each day will have a puzzle file and a separate answers file posted the next day.  Each day, EnigMarch sends out a "prompt" to inspire that day's puzzle.  Even though I've written parts of these puzzles to stock up, I'll do my best to incorporate the day's prompt.

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ERRATA

3/7:  It's come to my attention that Nurikabe #5 from the 3/6 set currently has multiple solutions.  I'll be working to revise it so that there's one solution.

3/8:  An early version went out with the incorrect clue number 30-41; it has been corrected to 30-42.

3/10:  Correction in final paragraph from "non-unique" to "unique." 

3/23:  Just realized Puzzle #3, without any given letters in the answer, is ambiguous enough that I had to add a letter already written into the solution to disambiguate everything.

3/31:  And that's it!  Solutions are up to 3/31.  I will try to redo #5 from the Nurikabe when I can.

The Puzzles
(each in PDF)

WEEK 1

Tuesday, March 1:

DITCODES

PUZZLE    

ANSWER

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Wednesday, March 2: 

FLOWER POWER

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Thursday, March 3:

THE SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Friday, March 4:

UNDER LOCK AND KEY

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Saturday, March 5:

NO TIME LIKE THE SERPENT!

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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WEEK 4

Sunday, March 20:

YEAH, THAT TRACKS

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Monday, March 21:

SAGITTA, THE ARROW

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Tuesday, March 22:

DO AS I SAY

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Wednesday, March 23: 

MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Thursday, March 24:

THE MISSING OWLS ROUND

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Friday, March 25:

WOW, WHAT ARE THE ODDS?

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Saturday, March 26: 

LEAVE YOUR NAME AND NUMBER

PUZZLE

ANSWER

WEEK 2

Sunday, March 6:

NURIKABE

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Monday, March 7:

RÄTSEL-CHAOS

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Tuesday, March 8: 

ANGLING

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Wednesday, March 9: 

ANTIMAZE

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Thursday, March 10:

RISKY QUIZNESS

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Friday, March 11:

CONNECT THE SPHERES

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Saturday, March 12: 

BEE RANCH

PUZZLE

ANSWERS

WEEK 5

Sunday, March 27:

KNOW WHEN TO HOLD 'EM

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Monday, March 28:

*YOU ARE HERE

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Tuesday, March 29: 

GOT A FLAT?

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Wednesday, March 30: 

PHANTOM TREAD

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Thursday, March 31:

PLUS ÇA CHANGE

PUZZLE

ANSWER

WEEK 3

Sunday, March 13:

COMPACT DISC

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Monday, March 14:

SOMETHING DIFFERENT

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Tuesday, March 15: 

COME FLY WITH ME

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Wednesday, March 16: 

LOWERED HEX-PIC-TATIONS

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Thursday, March 17:

TRIVIA-CROSS

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Friday, March 18:

SPELLFOUND

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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Saturday, March 19: 

CHECK IT OUT!

PUZZLE

ANSWER

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