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- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:27 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
41D Super Sprint
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:24 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
34D Simulator
37D Bobby Bearing
39D Yes, Prime Minister
37D Bobby Bearing
39D Yes, Prime Minister
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:59 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Sorry, I wrote the wrong number for Street Cred Boxing.
6D Super Space Invaders
25D Rogue Trooper
30D Castle Master
6D Super Space Invaders
25D Rogue Trooper
30D Castle Master
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:58 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
34A Survival
40A White Heat
1D Match Day
40A White Heat
1D Match Day
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:52 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
3A Star Control
11A Strider
12A Street Cred Boxing
11A Strider
12A Street Cred Boxing
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:37 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Oh only the grid image is lost which is obviously not important ;) I've reverse-engineered the grid, ParadigmShifter https://i.postimg.cc/284V1HRJ/Picture1.png The symmetry breaks down in the bottom right. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=10177#p10177 SOLUTION https://i.postim...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:41 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
The Bard's Tale
I'm off to try to get some sleep.
I'm off to try to get some sleep.
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:31 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
How many letters?ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:26 am Crazy Stealth Bread
is another one of mine I remember fondly
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:23 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
There's a library of premade clues here: viewtopic.php?p=23589#p23589
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:13 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Think of it as an extra challenge.ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:11 am Oh only the grid image is lost which is obviously not important
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:09 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
It's definitely more Daily Star level than Times/Guardian anyway ;) I'm sure a 15x15 symmetric grid would be possible if we included BASIC keywords/tokens, peripherals, hardware terms, Z80 opcodes etc. It's just really hard with games only. The closest I got was this one, though the grid image is n...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:02 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
7D Skool Daze
10D The Birds and the Bees
20D Hungry Horace (Oddly I was thinking of your clue before you mentioned it.)
10D The Birds and the Bees
20D Hungry Horace (Oddly I was thinking of your clue before you mentioned it.)
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:59 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Should 26D be 8 letters?
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:57 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
42A Terra Cresta?
46A Airwolf
47A Viz
46A Airwolf
47A Viz
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:52 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
22A Rambo
27A Game Over
44A Finders Keepers
27A Game Over
44A Finders Keepers
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:47 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
OK. Sorry if I got it wrong.
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:41 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
I remember the clue. What do you mean about the credit, though?ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:37 am EDIT: Also "canonised pigs lacking one roman numeral" which you credited to someone else, tsk.
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:40 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Yes. It's near impossible. I've never quite managed it.ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:37 am It's difficult doing a proper crossword (rotational symmetry and proper crossers so defo no more than 3 non-crossing letters in a row - I'm looking at you Metro cryptic crossword) themed on speccy games though.
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:18 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
There's an error in the grid. 1D needs an extra space on top.
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:06 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
29A Ace of Aces
31A Imagine
33A Jet Set Willy (No, he wasn't; that was the fictional Micro Men version!)
31A Imagine
33A Jet Set Willy (No, he wasn't; that was the fictional Micro Men version!)
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:46 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
15A Tai-Pan
16A Monty Mole
17A Starglider
No rotational symmetry. Tsk.
16A Monty Mole
17A Starglider
No rotational symmetry. Tsk.
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:36 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
2A Gunrunner
6A Spy vs Spy
8A RoboCop
6A Spy vs Spy
8A RoboCop
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 9:06 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Zaxxon, should have been better for 1985
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Re: Zaxxon, should have been better for 1985
HATE was 1989. Highway Encounter was 1985, but does not scroll.zup wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 6:07 am H.A.T.E., and Highway Encounter demonstrates that isometric scroll may be done, and the first is also a 1985 game.
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 10:39 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 5
- Replies: 41
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Re: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 5
9. 10th Frame
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 12:43 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: Re: Cover Artists 2
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Re: Cover Artists 2
The first two letters look like S and C, consistent with the initials on the other games. I'm not sure about the next few letters. The first looks a bit like W, but that makes no sense. Maybe it's a U. There might be an R next, or maybe another letter and an E. The last couple of letters look to me ...