Day 3: A crossword


A classic challenge for any language lover! Full of synonyms, abbreviations, cultural references. Who's up for a crossword in English today?

Instructions for Day 3:

- Find the crossword I have more or less randomly selected for you here in this link.

- Start as soon as you can! This crossword tells you the time it takes you to complete it, and the timer will start running as soon as you open the tab. A little convention on this page is that correct letters will appear in black and wrong letters in red. Every wrong letter will give you a 10-second penalty.

- Complete the crossword to the best of your ability for 15 minutes ("I just feel like a mild challenge" mode) or 20 minutes ("I got hooked" mode). 

- Take a screenshot after that time and show us your result. 


Let's see who we consider to be the winner! You can see here my result for a different crossword. It took me a little while until I realised there were penalties, so my time was increased to nearly 25 minutes. Still, I'm pretty pleased with how I did it!

Ready? Words!






Here are your screenshots! Who did better? You judge!

Here's Daniel's attempt:


And here's Evelia's...




And here is Ana's!



Comments

  1. EvelitaMarch 16, 2020 at 11:35 AM

    My first English crossword! It's been entertaining and certainly challenging! :-) Thanks Bea . Although the result is not something to be proud of, I'm trying to paste my screenshot here by all manners of means. Can't find out how to do it... How did you do it Bea?

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    1. Shall I compare thee...March 16, 2020 at 12:02 PM

      Hi Evelia! How have you tried so far? If the comments sention doesn't allow it, you can always send it to me and I will insert it.

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  2. Carlos Roldán GalánMarch 16, 2020 at 11:54 AM

    Uf! Quite difficult this crossword! I wasn't able to complete it. In fact, I've been more than an hour trying it ;)

    It almost drives me crazy!!!

    Well, let's see nest challenge.

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    1. Carlos Roldán GalánMarch 16, 2020 at 11:57 AM

      Next challenge!

      Ah! I tried the crossword number two! I din't realized that it wasn't your crossword! Ha ha ha!!

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    2. Shall I compare thee...March 16, 2020 at 12:03 PM

      One hour! You really got hooked, Carlos! The crossword I uploaded is one I did the other day. Would you like me to try the one that you all did? I didn't want to show you any clues, hahaha!

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  3. fdgcMarch 16, 2020 at 1:41 PM

    Too much challenging for me. As I can´t paste the screenshot here, I´m sending it to you by email.

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    1. Shall I compare thee...March 16, 2020 at 2:23 PM

      But you tried, Daniel! Good job!
      The expression you want is either "too challenging" or "too much of a challenge".
      Keep it up, y'all!

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  4. ANAMarch 17, 2020 at 4:21 AM

    Hi mates! I'm Ana!!! I'm in with you from the very first day, but can't put any comments! I hope it works now! Technology isn't my field…. LOL

    I've sent my crossword to Bea

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  5. ANAMarch 17, 2020 at 4:21 AM

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  6. Shall I compare thee...March 17, 2020 at 7:26 AM

    I have tried my hand at this particular crossword and I have it nearly finished. Tell me if/when you want me to upload my screenshot!

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