I note that you have changed the achievement levels of your Word Wheel puzzle in the print edition, expanding from three (average, good and excellent) to five (beginner, good, brilliant, superb and genius). I appreciate the promotion from excellence to genius that this implies, but tend to the opinion that you have overestimated my abilities, which I suspect to be no better than superb, and on some days merely brilliant. Also, I am surprised at the paltry target that you have set for beginners. If you can’t make more than one word from nine letters, you are not a beginner at Word Wheel, but at basic literacy.
Chris Walsh
Reading
• I’m delighted to discover that I have gone from being “average” to being “superb” in the course of just four days (Word Wheel, Friday to Monday), without any effort on my part.
Ruth Cartlidge
Okehampton, Devon
