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Welcome to Title Builder Beta.

This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

To build an easy to find question title simply select the paper and quiz, enter the quiz number if relevant and fill in the Publication Date. Once you’re happy click “Build Title” and the information should populate the Title field. Fill in the final required details of your question as you normally would, and click submit.

As this is a Beta we only have a limited number of papers and quizzes listed. If you think your favourite Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle should be listed here don’t hesitate to contact us.

Remember: You do not have to use the title builder - simply enter the title and question as you normally would and click submit!

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Listener 4699 Pentominoes By Child's Play

emcee | 20:49 Fri 18th Feb 2022 | Crosswords

6 Answers

A nice idea and much easier than I expected it to be.

Many thanks, Child's Play.

Eye Crossword 722

Mailword Large

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HawkCrossword

I concur, but I feel I had a couple of lucky guesses along the way. The realisation that so few entries were clued made me resort to solving it with the trial and error of a real pentomino puzzle.

I'm sure they've checked it carefully for alternative solutions, but it has the feel of a puzzle which might have them - I couldn't follow the usual logical path.

Many thanks, Child's Play!

Cruncher

Like HawkCrossword, I am wondering if there could be an alternative solution - which is somehow more right than mine - although my answers would appear to fit all the necessary criteria. If not then it is intriguing that a unique solution could have been clued with so little apparent information. Very nice not to have to resort to nasty Excel spreadsheets.

crosswhit99

A great little puzzle, thanks Child's Play. It is the case that of the four possible GKL/KL combinations only one is compatible with a grid containing 9 of the 12 pentominoes.

pushmi-pullyu

I dread mathematicals, but like emcee I found this easier than I feared. I wouldn't have minded a few more clued entries though.

Dim16

Great fun! Enjoyed combining the normal number work with shapes.

I didn't need any guesswork, hopefully that means I haven't screwed up anywhere.

Oyler

When I saw the pseudonym I was full of dread as they'd had 7 puzzles in the early days of The Magpie and I only managed to solve two of them. Thankfully this one was straight forward and a lovely puzzle. So in the words of ELP, "Welcome Back my friend" after 15 years!!

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