Supernundrums

[Fiona T]

At the recent MK event, those who were masochistic enough (most attendees!) joined a jamboree of lunchtime supernundrums.

A supernundrum is where you solve nine individual conundrums, then the first letter from those 9 answers create a new conundrum. The answer to the supernundrum (and the only one you have to give) is that final solve.

There were five supernundrums, in increasing difficulty, played as a "last man standing" - once you got one wrong, you were out. Players had a full minute to solve them. An impressive number of people solved the first two, the third thinned the field a lot, and after the fourth, there were just two players left - Jack Hurst and Ronan Higginson.

The last conundrum was on the buzzer - Jack buzzed first with the correct answer to become the first crowned king of the supernundrum! Well done Jack

If you fancy a go, you can find them below. I haven't added the timer, so feel free to be generous How many can you get? Solutions are in the links.

Good luck!

[Fiona T]

Supernundrum 1 -



Solution

[Fiona T]

Supernundrum 2 -



Solution

[Fiona T]

Supernundrum 3



Solution

[Fiona T]

Supernundrum 4 (set by Phil Stanton)



Solution

[Fiona T]

Supernundrum 5



Solution

[Philip A]

These are really good. Tough workout!

[George Armstrong]

Following on from MK, I decided to utilise this trend and wrote a few promotional ones over the weekend to help advertise CO:Sheffield next May. Shameless plug :

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[JackHurst]

Thanks for setting this up Fiona, I thought they were great fun, and I think we had plenty of people in the room who managed to solve at least one, so that was great to see.

I think they are not for everybody, but for Elite vs Elite games where it's a crucial, a Supernundrum is a much better climax than a standard Conundrum. Especially now that since the dictionary cull, there is such a scarce supply of properly challenging Conundrums.

[Tracey Anne Mills]

I got most of those but seven of them eluded me

[JackHurst]

I got most of those but seven of them eluded me

Coming here to boast that you got minus two out of five is a bold move

[Jamie Weisenberg]

I could do this with one arm tied behind my back. Congrats to Jack Hurst.

[Graeme Cole]

I could do this with one arm tied behind my back. Congrats to Jack Hurst.

Do you normally solve conundrums with both arms?

[Stephen R]

What's nerdier than supernundrums? Supernundrums that work in two languages!

Going by the apterous dictionaries, there are 48 conundrum scrambles that have a valid English solution and a valid Welsh solution. The nine below form a supernundrum in both languages. Solutions in links below. Thanks to Fiona for the formatting.



English solution
Welsh solution

[Callum Todd]

Love this, Stephen. I think I have the English answer but not sure on one of the 9 answers so I might have a letter wrong in my end answer, and even that took me probably at least 2 minutes to get.

No point me even attempting the Welsh.