AGS Cryptic

Started by Wyz, Mon 29/09/2014 19:08:21

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Wyz

Anyone into cryptic crosswords? I've been lately (not in English though) and it might be fun to come up with our own (possibly AGS related) ones.

So let's start off easy:

A cup to steal for (3)


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6 Day Assassin
A Date in the Park
A Second Face
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AGS Awards
AGS Wiki
Alien Time Zone
AnasAbdin
AprilSkies
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Background image
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Baron
Beginners' Technical Questions
Ben Jordan
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Blackwell
Blade Runner (of course)
Blue Cup
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Captain Disaster
CaptainD
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Chewbacca
Chris Jones
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Community
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Crimson Wizard
Cryptic
Curtis
Custom dialog
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Danger Mouse
Dave Gilbert
Dennis
Deponia
Dialog
Discworld
Donald Dowell
Dreamfall
Eeyore
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Enter
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Forums
Function
Games in Production
Gemini Rue
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Grim Fandango
GUI
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Han Solo
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HenMan Origins
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Hotel Exotica
Indiana Jones
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MAGS
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selmiak

Sounds way to complicated for me and I wonder how you can even solve these and have fun doing so on top of that.
About your cryptic clue... something with AGS?

cat

Wild guess:
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mug
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miguel

Even wilder guess:
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a dude with 3 testicles
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Wyz

Nope! :D

Quote from: selmiak on Mon 29/09/2014 20:32:48
Sounds way to complicated for me and I wonder how you can even solve these and have fun doing so on top of that.

The harder the puzzle the more rewarding when you solve it. ;)

Quote from: cat on Mon 29/09/2014 22:03:14
Wild guess: (...)

Yes, you have guessed correctly! :)

Should I do another one or do you want to think of one?
Life is like an adventure without the pixel hunts.

Baron

Quote from: Wyz on Mon 29/09/2014 19:08:21
A cup to steal for (3)

Hang on.  I've always wondered about these crazy cryptic clue thingies, so now is the moment of the post-mortem dissection to see if I can figure out what the Willie Beamish just happened here.  So what's with the preposition "for" in the clue?  Why would anyone steal for a cup?  Is it some sort of oath-bond that makes me do it, or is it for love?  What's my motivation?  Is the cup a legal accomplice?  Or is it just some inanimate object that is completely oblivious to the fact that it has become the beneficiary of my kleptomania?   I get that a cup could also be a mug, and that informally a "mug" might refer to a low level criminal (although more correctly the slang refers to a person's face, ie a "mug shot").  Mug also means to rob, as in a mugging, but even then the cup would be an active party to the crime, not the reason for doing it.  So "A stealing cup" I'd get, but "A cup to steal for" doesn't work for me, unless someone can explain.

In the mean time....  A sticky interface (3)


Gurok

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Quote from: Baron on Tue 30/09/2014 04:34:31
Hang on.  I've always wondered about these crazy cryptic clue thingies, so now is the moment of the post-mortem dissection to see if I can figure out what the Willie Beamish just happened here.  So what's with the preposition "for" in the clue?  Why would anyone steal for a cup?  Is it some sort of oath-bond that makes me do it, or is it for love?  What's my motivation?  Is the cup a legal accomplice?  Or is it just some inanimate object that is completely oblivious to the fact that it has become the beneficiary of my kleptomania?   I get that a cup could also be a mug, and that informally a "mug" might refer to a low level criminal (although more correctly the slang refers to a person's face, ie a "mug shot").  Mug also means to rob, as in a mugging, but even then the cup would be an active party to the crime, not the reason for doing it.  So "A stealing cup" I'd get, but "A cup to steal for" doesn't work for me, unless someone can explain.

I think it involves some supposition, i.e. suppose you really wanted to get a mug (shot). Stealing would be the obvious way to get one.
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selmiak

my nose is sometimes sticky and interbetween my face, but has too many letters...

when you mug someone you steal from that person. After reading the solution it is so obvious :-D

miguel

That's so obvious Baron:
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a dude eats fried chicken while coding a radial menu
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Baron

Miguel and Adeel are both right.  But Adeel stuck to the word count, so he's slightly more correct. :=

Wyz

Yes so the post-mortem dissection of 'A cup to steal for' would be:
Another word for cup is mug, and 'to steal' could also mean 'to mug'.

Let's do another one, a different variant but similar:

Commercial endeavour? (9)
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Baron

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A commercial could be an advertisement, or an "ad" for short, while an endeavour could be a "venture", so.... ADVENTURE!
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Wyz

Good show! Very much correct. :D
Life is like an adventure without the pixel hunts.

Baron

;-D

Plagued sailor (11) (2 words)

Baron

Clearly a little bit tooooooooo cryptic. :P

Hint:
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Plagued (5): What was a typical vector for this specific disease?

Sailor (6): Bit of word play.... What does a sailor do that defines him in the popular imagination?
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Adeel

The second one is pirate, obviously. I'm not sure about the first one. Curse, maybe?

Gurok

I think the second word is pirate too, Adeel. I was thinking scurvy for the first word, but that has six letters. ??? Still no idea. :/
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Wyz

Thanks for the hint because I was severely stuck. :D
I'm going to guess that the first part is
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fleet?
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CaptainD

I'm thinking the first word is actually
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Black - as in "Black Death" for the Great Plague
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