[[ClueCentric]] - The primarymechanic of thispuzzleis answering crossword clues,which,for the mostpart, aretraditionalAmerican crossword clues.
[[Blocked Crossword]] - This puzzle presents itself as a traditional American crossword. The first part of the solve tasks the solver with answering clues to fill out the crossword grid. Some of the clues require knowledge of the puzzle mechanics, but the vast majority do not and can be solved in a standard crossword fashion.
[[Crossword]] - This puzzle presents itself as a traditional American crossword. The firstpart of thesolvetasks the solver with answering clues to fill out the crossword grid. Some of the clues requireknowledge of the puzzlemechanics, butthevast majority do not and can be solved in a standard crossword fashion.
[[Clue Centric]] - The primary mechanic of this puzzle is answering crossword clues, which, for the most part, are traditional American crossword clues.
[[Video games]] - This puzzle requires knowledge or research of the popular video game franchise Pokémon.
[[Video games]] - This puzzle requires knowledge or research of the popular video game franchise Pokémon.
Natural Order is a crossword puzzle from Round 1 of the 2021 Silph Puzzle Hunt. Beyond a given enumeration of (5 8) below the puzzle, this puzzle presents itself as a standard crossword.
Solve Path
This puzzle is indeed a standard crossword, but some of the clues may hint solvers as to what the next step may be.
25 across, Town in a video game series this puzzle's theme relates to, which clues to PALLET, lets solvers know that this puzzle somehow relates to Pokémon.
135 across, Word in this puzzle's title that isn't hintful, which clues to ORDER, hints that somehow the word NATURAL, in the context of Pokémon, is used in this puzzle.
1 down, What the central 5x5 block represents, in this puzzle, clues to CHART.
48 across, What this side of the central 5x5 square represents, clueing to DECREASE, and
68 down, What this side of the central 5x5 square represents, clueing to INCREASE, solvers now have axes for the chart.
Searching for Pokémon chart natural or something similar will direct the solver to a 5x5 chart of natures in Pokémon games, with the top axis representing an increase, and the left axis representing a decrease.
Some of these natures are found in this puzzle as answers to crossword clues. In fact, there are exactly 10 words that solvers answered in the crossword grid that are also Pokémon natures. Each nature can be associated to a letter by finding it in the 5x5 grid of Pokémon natures, then looking at the 5x5 grid of letters they filled in the puzzle and taking the letter from the corresponding position. Reading these letters from top-to-bottom left-to-right in grid order yields the clue phrase TYPE I ERROR. Answering this clue with an answer length of the given enumeration (5 8) yields the final answer to this puzzle.
Final Answer: Click to revealFALSE POSITIVE
Puzzle Elements
Blocked Crossword - This puzzle presents itself as a traditional American crossword. The first part of the solve tasks the solver with answering clues to fill out the crossword grid. Some of the clues require knowledge of the puzzle mechanics, but the vast majority do not and can be solved in a standard crossword fashion.
Clue Centric - The primary mechanic of this puzzle is answering crossword clues, which, for the most part, are traditional American crossword clues.
Video games - This puzzle requires knowledge or research of the popular video game franchise Pokémon.
