Aries Puzzles: Meta Rows Garden - And it's a contest!

Friday, September 12, 2014

Meta Rows Garden - And it's a contest!

I’m excited to release this BONUS Rows Garden, and even more, it’s a meta contest!

Instructions for solving the meta are included underneath the title of the Rows Garden. You may find the need to consult external materials to arrive at the meta answer; this is more than okay and indeed encouraged.

Once you’ve found the answer, email me at aries.puzzles@gmail.com before next Wednesday, September 17th at 11:00 AM CDT with your answer in the subject line of the email. You only can send one answer, so make sure it’s right before submitting.

Two solvers who send in correct answers, chosen at random, will each receive a 2015 Aries Puzzles Rows Garden subscription, as well as an autographed copy of my upcoming book of standard crosswords, Creepy Crosswords.

Feel free to share this link with family, friends, or any other interested puzzle people.

Enjoy!

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Lucy M. ClarkApril 14, 2017 at 11:42 AM
Thank you all! Yes, the pollinators are the best employees ever. Just make sure they have food, water and places to find shelter and they will work for free!
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Tom BradlyJune 8, 2017 at 11:51 PM
Congrats to the lucky winner to this! It feels good to win something that you love doing - especially gardening!
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BrandonNovember 20, 2017 at 11:58 PM
Garden configuration is an exceptionally individual thing and is regularly a declaration of your identity. What I like you, you may not and tight clamp versa. A few people like perfect and clean gardens where there are no curve balls, others adore the excite of breezy ways, heaps of various plant material and not realizing what is around the bend.
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Rows Garden Instructions

Deviating from the standard Across and Down format of clues and entries, Rows Gardens offers its clues in two forms: Rows and Blooms. Each row, for the exception of the top and bottom, will have two entries consecutively; the first clue starts at the far left, and the starting point of the second clue is for you to determine. The top and bottom rows are a single entry, spanning the nine spaces provided. Intersecting these Rows are six-letter Blooms, segmented by the shade of the center dot: Light, Medium, and Dark. These answers can be placed clockwise or counterclockwise, and their starting points are left for you to determine.For additional assistance, notations like (2 words) or (Hyph.), usually not given in standard puzzles, are provided in the clues. Clues that do not have a notation are standard one-word, non-hyphenated entries.

In the Harder version of the puzzle, Blooms' clues are listed in alphabetical order, so their placement is reliant upon getting the answers to the Rows clues.

In the Easier version, the Blooms' clues are listed in the order they appear in the grid, always going top to bottom, left to right.

In 2014, I added two additional levels of difficulty.

In the Hardest version, there are no notations providing number of words, if hyphenated, etc. The Blooms are listed in alphabetical order. Only confident Rows Gardeners should attempt to solve using this version.

In the Easiest version, there are enumerations provided instead of notations. For instance, if RED ROSE was the answer, it would include the enumeration (3, 4) after the clue. Blooms are listed in order they appear in the grid, top to bottom and left to right. If you are new to Rows Gardens, I would suggest starting with this version.

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Meta Rows Garden - And it's a contest!

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