Midweek book puzzle II
A Strange Paragraph
For those of you who haven’t encountered a paragraph puzzle before they are basically a normal looking paragraph written to a certain rule. This rule is normally (but not always) present in every sentence. For example I might write a paragraph puzzle in which every word in every sentence was in alphabetical order, or every sentence contained a palindrome etc… There is quite a famous paragraph puzzle which you may have seen in which the letter E doesn’t appear once, that being the rule for that particular paragraph puzzle.
Your job is just to find the rule in my paragraph below.
Strewth, the straight dope’s first paragraph puzzle. Something of a puzzling landmark don’t you think guys? However, this one must still be solved. It’s nothing special. Not just yet. Whether it becomes special depends on you. Memorable puzzles have to be solved else they’re failures. Worthwhile puzzles can’t be solved by all and sundry, however. Overly simple puzzles are failures too. Therefore only some may solve in order to succeed. Worthless puzzles like this are easy pickings for everyone. That’s why I’m stopping now. Before it becomes far too easy. Merely find the rule to writing. Here’s hoping that y’all succeed!!
As with last weeks book puzzle, could you tell me whether you liked it, whether you thought it was interesting, fair, too tough, too easy etc…? All your responses will help me figure out the sort of puzzles I will eventually put in my book, if I get published that is.
Cheers
