Saturday, 27 January 2024

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's Oriental House: https://youtu.be/21FLybhMJGk

Every Monday, I like to pitch my wits against the quizzers on University Challenge and every time, I utterly fail.

But all that changed when I answered a question eluding all of the contestants:
'With examples including early Greek writings and some Etruscan texts, what term denotes the style of writing whereby alternate lines are read left to right, then right to left with the letters reversed? It comes from the Greek for "as the ox turns".'

I am announcing this fully expecting to be humiliated by how many of you will know this. But for just a moment, I felt that I could take on Mark Labbett and Anne Hegerty simultaneously.

.eno tseuqer dna reswna ot nosrep tsrif eht rof elbaliava si retto sunob enO.

In this Supersized Juosan, you will need to write both vertically and horizontally.

Rules: Place a horizontal or vertical line into each cell, traveling from edge to edge. A number in a region represents how many horizontal or vertical lines it contains - whichever there’s at least half of. There may not exist a run of three consecutive cells containing parallel distinct lines anywhere in the grid.

This puzzle is breaking its own rules because Juosan has already appeared twice in GAPP:
2022-03-27-tyrg: Archive: Monday, 27 March 2023
2022-03-07-jovi: Archive: Monday, 7 March 2022

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 5:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 10:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Linear Least Squares Tern 🐦

Example (Puzz.link) by jovi: https://tinyurl.com/asatajuz
Puzzle (Puzz.link): http://tinyurl.com/32nky8zw (landscape)
Puzzle (Puzz.link): http://tinyurl.com/5eb3b4u2 (portrait)