股票交易
Ticker Treat
题目详情
本月难题的答案是字母表中的一个字母。
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The answer to this month’s puzzle is a letter of the alphabet.
- They cause auroras (5,5)
- Cross where it’s not too deep (4)
- Cricket owner (2&1)
- Ancient box-opener? (7)
- Wheel part, to a shark? (3)
解析
正如其标题所示，本月的难题与股票行情有关。 解决 5 条填字游戏式线索可得出 5 家公司的名称，其中 括号中是他们的股票代码：
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事实证明，最后一个问题相当棘手，但你们中的许多人都能够反求解—— 所讨论的“鲨鱼”是牌鲨，轮盘是 A-2-3-4-5 顺子。
将这些股票行情放在一起可以发现 SWIFT PACE（Sprint 的同义词）， 其股票代码为S，这是本月难题的答案。
恭喜那些提交正确答案的人，尤其是 Ricky O’Connor，本月随机选出的 Jane Street T 恤获胜者！
Original Explanation
As its title suggested, this month’s puzzle had to do with stock tickers. Solving the 5 crossword-style clues leads to the names of 5 companies, with their stock tickers in parentheses:
- They cause auroras (5,5) = Solar Winds (SWI)
- Cross where it’s not too deep (4) = Ford (F)
- Cricket owner (2&1) = AT&T (T)
- Ancient box-opener? (7) = Pandora (P)
- Wheel part, to a shark? (3) = Ace (ACE)
That last one proved pretty tricky, but many of you were able to backsolve — the “shark” in question is a card shark, and a wheel is an A-2-3-4-5 straight.
Putting those stock tickers together reveals SWIFT PACE, a synonym for Sprint, whose stock ticker is S, the answer to this month’s puzzle.
Congratulations to those of you who submitted a correct response, especially Ricky O’Connor, this month’s randomly-chosen winner of a Jane Street t-shirt!