TETRIS MONTH!
PUZZLE #20
WORD SQUARES: TETRIS EDITION
This puzzle's inspired by the fact that it's impossible to create a perfect square using the seven Tetris pieces; if you try and do that, you'll get three extra tiles sticking out of a 5x5 square, like in the example above.
Fill in the squares below with the words hinted at by the clues. Each square has five words going across and five going down, thought it's up to you to figure out which direction they go. All of the words are five letters long, except for three words in each grid, which are six letters long. The six-letter words will have either its first or last letter sticking out of the grid. To help you, each grid has a set of seven Tetris pieces, or "tetrominoes", to be placed in the grid. Each tetromino has four letters already placed inside, but be careful, as some of the pieces have letters that are rotated in the incorrect direction, and it's up to you figure out the correct orientation (For example, the I-Block's letters in the first grid are rotated upside-down, thought the letters themselves stay in the same squares).
Once you're done, the letters sticking out of the 5x5 grids will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: the name of two related video game characters (one per grid and three letters each) whose names combine to spell out a six-letter weapon.
GRID #1
* "Airy" vocal music piece
* It comes after "November" in the NATO phonetic alphabet
* Horse _____ (infamous DLC for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion)
* "Wonderfilled" cookies
* The solo artist who has the most #1 singles on Billboard
* Puppeteer Lewis who had to repeatedly endure "The Song That Never Ends"
* Robot girl from the Xenosaga series
* #, in music
* Groundhog, for one
* Purple dragon created by Insomniac Games
GRID #2
* Defunct oil company with a torch in its logo
* Azerbaijan's currency
* "You _____ Beautiful" (Joe Cocker song)
* Ingredient in a Reese's Fast Break
* Walter Bishop is always screwing up this Fringe character's name
* Japan's largest national trade union center (Hidden in VARENGOLD)
* Jack Narz-hosted game show that was instrumental in the 1950s quiz show scandals
* Its capital city is Apia
* The Binding of _____ (disturbing indie game)
* _____ Center: Under the Knife (Nintendo DS game)
Once you think you know what this week's FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com within the next two weeks and your name will be placed on a solvers list for all to see. You can also use those e-mail addresses to give me some feedback/comments/constructive criticism and/or send me the FINAL ANSWER to last week's puzzle (the version that's too hard is located here, while the version that's too easy can be found here). If you want a version of this puzzle you can print out, just click on "Read more" on this post to see it!
PUZZLE #20
WORD SQUARES: TETRIS EDITION
This puzzle's inspired by the fact that it's impossible to create a perfect square using the seven Tetris pieces; if you try and do that, you'll get three extra tiles sticking out of a 5x5 square, like in the example above.
Fill in the squares below with the words hinted at by the clues. Each square has five words going across and five going down, thought it's up to you to figure out which direction they go. All of the words are five letters long, except for three words in each grid, which are six letters long. The six-letter words will have either its first or last letter sticking out of the grid. To help you, each grid has a set of seven Tetris pieces, or "tetrominoes", to be placed in the grid. Each tetromino has four letters already placed inside, but be careful, as some of the pieces have letters that are rotated in the incorrect direction, and it's up to you figure out the correct orientation (For example, the I-Block's letters in the first grid are rotated upside-down, thought the letters themselves stay in the same squares).
Once you're done, the letters sticking out of the 5x5 grids will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: the name of two related video game characters (one per grid and three letters each) whose names combine to spell out a six-letter weapon.
* "Airy" vocal music piece
* It comes after "November" in the NATO phonetic alphabet
* Horse _____ (infamous DLC for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion)
* "Wonderfilled" cookies
* The solo artist who has the most #1 singles on Billboard
* Puppeteer Lewis who had to repeatedly endure "The Song That Never Ends"
* Robot girl from the Xenosaga series
* #, in music
* Groundhog, for one
* Purple dragon created by Insomniac Games
GRID #2
* Defunct oil company with a torch in its logo
* Azerbaijan's currency
* "You _____ Beautiful" (Joe Cocker song)
* Ingredient in a Reese's Fast Break
* Walter Bishop is always screwing up this Fringe character's name
* Japan's largest national trade union center (Hidden in VARENGOLD)
* Jack Narz-hosted game show that was instrumental in the 1950s quiz show scandals
* Its capital city is Apia
* The Binding of _____ (disturbing indie game)
* _____ Center: Under the Knife (Nintendo DS game)
Once you think you know what this week's FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com within the next two weeks and your name will be placed on a solvers list for all to see. You can also use those e-mail addresses to give me some feedback/comments/constructive criticism and/or send me the FINAL ANSWER to last week's puzzle (the version that's too hard is located here, while the version that's too easy can be found here). If you want a version of this puzzle you can print out, just click on "Read more" on this post to see it!
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