CCCWC October competition voters’ comments on Clue no. 3

CCCWC October competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 3: American tourists shot in Harrods

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1.	Nice surface reading for both versions. By far my favourite clue.

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I feel strongly that the undevilled version should make complete sense and read naturally. For the devilled version, it should read grammatically, and should have at least some meaning, although it might sound a bit weird. So for instance, in 17 "I shot at coop to get chicken and eggs" is a perfectly acceptable devilled version, although logically one wouldn't shoot at a coop to get chickens and eggs. There were some quite ingenious clues, as well as some unexciting ones. My preference is for clues where the two versions are distinctly different in meaning. Clue 3 stood out for me as achieving this in a completely natural way.

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I feel strongly that the undevilled version should make complete sense and read naturally. For the devilled version, it should read grammatically, and should have at least some meaning, although it might sound a bit weird. So for instance, in 17 "I shot at coop to get chicken and eggs" is a perfectly acceptable devilled version, although logically one wouldn't shoot at a coop to get chickens and eggs.

There were some quite ingenious clues, as well as some unexciting ones. My preference is for clues where the two versions are distinctly different in meaning. Clue 3 stood out for me as achieving this in a completely natural way.

CCCWC October competition voters’ comments Clue no. 3: American tourists shot in Harrods

CCCWC October competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 3: American tourists shot in Harrods