opiate. 1  a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain. 2  any sedative, soporific, or narcotic. 3  anything that causes dullness or inaction or that soothes the feelings. 4  mixed or prepared with opium. 5  inducing sleep; soporific; narcotic. 6  causing dullness or inaction. 7  to subject to an opiate; stupefy.
Each puzzle has one and only one unique solution, and each can be solved using only pure logical deduction-guessing and trial-and-error methods are never required for these puzzles. If you're new to numbergrids, try the smaller puzzles first, then move on to the larger ones.
Complete the grid. Now comes the most enjoyable part: filling in the rest of the squares with legitimate words, abbreviations or phrases (Figure 3, below right). It usually takes me a good three or four hours to put together a 15Ã15 puzzle.now the rules. To begin with, a puzzle should fit into one of five grid sizes: 15Ã15, 17Ã17, 19Ã19, 21Ã21 and 23Ã23. Many publications accept 13Ã13 and smaller, but 15Ã15 and larger sizes are generally accepted as standard, with 15Ã15 being the most common size.