This is the tenth and ultimate Chain Puzzle within the Tabletop Games sequence, during which all puzzles are themed round board video games, card video games, tile video games, and the like. Once this puzzle is solved, this Chain Puzzle sequence is full!
The reply to the earlier puzzle (which supplied the theme for this one) was RISK.
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This is a map just like the one used within the board sport Risk. Apart from the map, no information of the sport is required for fixing. The reply to every of the clues listed beneath is the identify of a spot in the true world situated in one of many numbered areas of the map, one per area. The solutions traverse the complete map, crossing land borders and utilizing maritime connections (marked with black traces).
For many of those solutions, there are a number of locations on this planet with the identical identify. The definition a part of the clue all the time factors in the direction of the right interpretation. For instance, if the reply is “London” and the definition is “nation’s capital” it’s secure to imagine the clue can seek advice from the London in England however not the one in Ontario.
Two letters in every clue should be highlighted, forming a ultimate 84-letter reply. Clues are divided into eight varieties. Four clue varieties require modifications to be made to at least one phrase of the clue – producing a brand new, actual phrase – earlier than fixing.
- Seven Pictionary clues have been rapidly scribbled collectively, and in consequence one line is lacking from the clue. (This could be a complete letter or a part of one – any line that may be drawn with one stroke with out lifting the pen or tracing again.)
- Six Maze clues show uncertainty about which strategy to go. As a outcome, one phrase has been written within the improper path.
- Three Sorry! clues have had one letter swap locations with one other letter in the identical phrase.
- Seven Targui clues have had the letters of 1 phrase cycled by shifting some variety of letters from one finish of the phrase to a different, with out in any other case altering their order.
In the entire above clue varieties, spotlight one letter instantly previous the modified phrase, and one letter instantly following it.
Four different clue varieties are regular cryptic clues with no modification wanted:
- Five Mornington Crescent clues have solutions that share a reputation with a London tube station. Highlight the primary and final letter of the clue.
- Four Clue clues have solutions that repeat themselves for no obvious purpose. Take the size of the repeated half, and spotlight one letter in that place from the beginning of the clue and one letter in the identical place counting backwards from the top of the clue. (E.g. if the repeated half is three letters lengthy, choose the third and third-last letter of the clue.)
- Five Yahtzee clues have solutions that comprise the identical letter 5 occasions (or extra). Highlight one letter from the beginning of the clue in the identical place as the primary occasion of the repeated letter within the reply, and one letter from the top of the clue in the identical place because the final occasion of the repeated letter within the reply counting backwards from the top.
- Five Scene It? clues have solutions that share a reputation with a movie or actor that has gained not less than one Academy Award. Most of the solutions are family names; one is considerably obscure and hails from Southeast Asia. Count the letters within the movie title or the actor’s first identify, and spotlight one letter of the clue in that place ranging from the start of the clue, and one letter in the identical place when counting backwards from the top of the clue.
Clues begin right here
1. Terrible date with gal displaying suburb of state capital within the south (7)
2. Ballplayer from Brazil put ball by way of hoop, taking aside an oil recreation displaying space of protected lands (6,8,4)
3. Top piece of wordplay Jack, conical Yankee, included in two articles (6,4)
4. Hero’s identify is utilized by this metropolis as two associates rise as much as shield college by the guts of suburbs (4-4)
5. Asgardian chief is forward of Loki, occupying 6’s historic metropolis (6)
6. In half, visiting authentic place the place many a monk prays (4)
7. Pea-brain’s city space (3,3)
8. Sun had spoilt swing in Basie’s capital (8)
9. Cryptic meal in metropolis of non secular significance (6)
10. Reduplicated 6 by Oscar’s space for wildlife conservation (10)
11. Like somebody who may spoon in entrance of entrances of Bali, unique resort island? (4,2)
12. Desert silver flipped, misplaced in paying Gambian (5)
13. Running Bangui wolf close to Bangui? (6)
14. City in Costa Rica: dwelling stability disrupted with removing of coronary heart in mattress (10)
15. Law enforcement officer with a prohibition to enter a taxi linked to each sandy space with the ocean in entrance of it (10,5)
16. Man in five-dollar invoice within the US metropolis situated in southern hemisphere’s west (7)
17. Head of navy has felt tactician struggling for lake (8)
18. Percussion instrument imported by Ollie heals very giant bay (9)
19. Denounce a pc with orderly passage between main waters (6,5)
20. Capital of state’s rich males, primarily working with textured end (8)
21. North Shore metropolis’s decapitated, say, tuatara? Warts initially seen on each side of it (4-4)
22. Mountain emit puncturing lemon for bananas (4,5)
23. Urban locality close to the border is fashionable, in a buzz (6)
24. Not puzzled after cleansing coastal state? (10)
25. People belonging to First Nations, carrying shirt, take fast look to search out small city (6,5)
26. Heights with brutal climate unit maintains union set proper (9,9)
27. Summit as soon as named for US head honcho railed peculiarly (6)
28. Rusty nail has to obtain Tokyo topping island (8)
29. Distillery based by Shinjiro Rats, supported by British conservative (7)
30. Auditor’s style that may be comfortable japanese capital (5)
31. Body of water’s giant, flowing leak interrupted by spot of hassle – an invasive katamaran appeared (4,6)
32. Long-haired cattle, caught at sea, struck head of caribou, Iberian arctic metropolis (7)
33. No hazard maintaining Mali as industrial metropolis? (7)
34. Most of Gobi, Ealing almost stuffed with cooked water (4,2,2)
35. Animal used when one’s Ingrid off Rubles Peak (5,6)
36. Say, VSOP lower with a little bit of OJ figuring out island municipality in area that is autonomous (6)
37. Having evacuated Keith, regal administration’s heads result in heavy smoker (5)
38. Vine stresses dynamic vary (5,7)
39. A battle web site is tense, sides being in armed battle… Behold, king has withdrawn (8)
40. Riviera city’s journey to uncover case (8)
41. Shiniest place round – notable tar decorates its partitions and ceiling (7,6)
42. Investor misplaced content material invested in California grin yielding capital (5)
Chain Puzzles are a novel strategy to puzzle sequence creation, during which the solver of the earlier puzzle within the chain turns into the setter of the following.
