My name is Ramsey, but you may call me: The Puzzleboy.
February! The shortest of the months! The month of love! And for The Puzzleboy, the month with the shortest turnaround time between puzzles! Rather than 30 days, you need wait only 28 until Puzzle Eleven. What a gift those Gregorians gave you!
This month, we use the Japanese Futoshiki puzzle format to help the owner of a sleepy café meet the man of her dreams… and then four more!
But even more timeless than a Hallmark movie plot is the names that are etched into The Puzzleboy Pantheon every month. Is yours next?
Love is in the air at The Chamberbrook Brew Space because it’s time for their bi-monthly speed dating night!
After years of running the show, Janine, the local coffee shop owner, has finally decided to throw caution to the wind and her hat into the ring. She’s this close to finding Mr. Right…
…assuming she can reconstruct her scorecard.
In a third-act twist worthy of cable television, the original rankings were lost. Janine remembers two of the scores, and a handful of comparisons (this guy scored higher than that one). There were no ties in any category, and only one possible way it could all have shaken out.
Help Janine find her hunk!
Fill in the squares so that each digit from 1 to 5 appears exactly once in each row and each column.
Greater-than and less-than signs indicate the relationship of only the two adjacent squares. The larger number is on the open side of the symbol.
Think of the numbers as rankings: 1 = “eh,” 5 = “why am I blushing?”
To submit your answer, please click this link and fill out the form. You have until 11:59pm ET on February 25th to submit. There is no advantage to being first, so take your time!
NOTE: You are more than welcome to use the comment section of this post, but this is decidedly not the place to submit your answer or share hints. Doing so may result in your disqualification.
In other words, this comment section should have a rating of “5” for Sincerity but a “0” for Answers to the Puzzle.
