Ultimate Cryptic Crossword Challenge: Brutally Hard Edition

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@Smokinsomebasil 6 ай бұрын

Hawk tuah from dweeb after literally thousands of hours of straight-laced scrabble commentary has completed ended me. I shall die happy

@phyphor 6 ай бұрын

Of all the creators I follow I wouldn't have expected it to be you to make a hawk-tuah reference!

@dweebovision 6 ай бұрын

I wanted to make the Listener Crossword more relatable for younger viewers

@phyphor 6 ай бұрын

@@dweebovision that's certainly one way to go about it!

@ericfox7021 6 ай бұрын

lol what time stamp?

@danecarter5454 6 ай бұрын

32:35

@richardcutler5517 6 ай бұрын

Not sure what's more surprising, just quite how insane that puzzle was, or the hawk tuah gag from the most unlikely of sources 🤣. That really was fantastic. Well done chap.

@joedavies1524 6 ай бұрын

Good grief. As a Telegraph daily cryptic solver this is completely mind boggling. Thank you so much David for this wonderfully crafted and prepared explanation of the solve.

@trelina 6 ай бұрын

That was amazing. The instructions were so difficult I couldn't even make sense of them. Thank you for breaking down the whole puzzle and instructions. I like this format where you showed in the dictionary how you got the answers and the breakdown of point of origin.

@Ray_Ridley 6 ай бұрын

David, I remember in a previous video you said that solving this had nearly made you ill. I think I would have been climbing the walls too ! As for the "hawk tuah", I almost spat out my mouthful of tea, which I suppose is a fitting reaction, in a way.

@dweebovision 6 ай бұрын

Yes, I hit a brick wall after giving up on leviathan and spent hours getting nowhere, but I couldn't stop thinking about it

@benbush1742 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing. I struggled with this one for at least four days. I don't remember going down the "leviathan" rabbit hole but I definitely saw "bible". I think I, too, stumbled across the answer by googling some plausible letter combinations. They *used* to say that you should be able to solve the Listener with nothing more than Chambers and a couple of other reference books. I wouldn't have stood a chance without a pattern matcher to find those fish and Google to steer me towards Lear. Incredibly tough but equally satisfying to finally get over the line.

@mikechappell5849 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful presentation, made everything as clear is possible with such a fiendish puzzle

@dzl999 6 ай бұрын

And I feel pleased when I complete the Metro cryptic. Wow, this is on a completely different level! Magnificent.

@cycklist 6 ай бұрын

Wonderful in every regard. There are so few of these on youtube and I have watched and rewatched them all. Thank you Dweeb.

@dannylfcmeatloaf 6 ай бұрын

Seriously, how many people in this world could even begin this, let alone finish it? I knew about 3 words in the solved puzzle. Cant imagine there are many who attempt it.

@dweebovision 6 ай бұрын

Not many, probably a few hundred around the world, this is as hard as it gets

@Ray_Ridley 6 ай бұрын

Usually between 300-500 correct solutions each week depending on difficulty. IIRC the 4000th puzzle was solved by around 270 entrants.

@peterfranklinrouth895 6 ай бұрын

I managed 50 correct out of 51 entries a few years ago and there were some by Sabre in there (and Shackleton - also very hard, and my favourite). I think I did 3 years of Listeners but then gave up, partly out of protest/sulk at a puzzle I considered unfair and partly because it was leaving too little time in my life for other interests.

@Ray_Ridley 6 ай бұрын

@@peterfranklinrouth895 Most impressive ! Didn't Simon Anthony have a huge run of well over 300 puzzles some years ago? I think he stopped because, like you, it was taking up too much of his time. May be misremembering this totally, but I believe in an interview he said that at one stage he was taking the puzzle along with him to football matches to maximise his solving time !

@peterfranklinrouth895 6 ай бұрын

@@Ray_Ridley I don’t know names but the top solver when I stopped was on something like 450 correct and counting (so 9 years!). And there are four a year which are entirely numerical/mathematical. I would do them in the weekend afternoons, but if I were away I might end up having to do two in time for the postal deadline, which was a bit too reminiscent of university essay crises!

@richardclegg8027 6 ай бұрын

Appreciate the time you took to animate this. It is fascinating.

@spasaire 6 ай бұрын

Fantastic vid and congrats on the milestone! You made 4 days of effort seen so easy, I listen get confused just by the preamble to the Listener! More of this please, one day maybe I to will be able to hawk tush on that thing! (Was not expecting that, well played sir, well played).

@sucrose11 6 ай бұрын

I was so exited for this video and it did not disappoint! Thank you Mr. Webb my mind has been blown 😱

@stephenmccormick6584 6 ай бұрын

4 days? I couldn’t solve in a million years!

@twentyrothmans7308 6 ай бұрын

This hurts my brain, badly. ("Badly" is not an anagram indicator).

@grenvillephillips6998 6 ай бұрын

Every now and again I am reminded that they are amongst us!

@Prazzie 6 ай бұрын

Fantastic, I was unaware of the Listener crossword. It looks diabolical. 😅

@williambarnes3868 6 ай бұрын

60 years ago two of us attempted to solve The Listener crosswords. Mostly we failed!

@MultiNacnud 6 ай бұрын

Brilliantly solved (as usual), well beyond my capability but I did sense something fishy was going on from reading the instructions🐟

@carteryott7710 5 ай бұрын

I was not expecting the Hawk Tuah

@paulthompson1466 6 ай бұрын

Extremely impressively! I wonder how other people solved it. Was it 4 days non-stop or did you have a break in the middle?!

@dweebovision 6 ай бұрын

I started Friday night and finished Monday morning so maybe 15 hours of solving, 2 of which was reading Job

@luwhk3315 6 ай бұрын

Increíble!

@dandoesyoutube2498 Ай бұрын

What took longer, the puzzle or editing this video? Good work

@dweebovision Ай бұрын

Definitely the video editing, had to learn lots of video techniques not used in the regular videos

@andrewgrant6516 6 ай бұрын

Happy centenary. I actually got jute.

@JorWat25 6 ай бұрын

The Listener is to cryptic crossword solvers what a normal cryptic crossword is to normal people.

@mpeterll 6 ай бұрын

Wow, what a puzzle, and what an amazing solve. You completely lost me with the decoding of the description of the runcible cat, however I think you may have given a big clue about the nature your job that you're not allowed to talk about. I always suspected that you had an IQ in the 200 range, and this video seems to confirm that. What is the snitch rating of this puzzle?