There are several other Jumble blogs, but the ones I checked all started off by listing the answers. In this blog, answers can be either hinted at or masked by burying them in comments. No overt spoilers!
All hints are in the comments!
Jigsaw Puzzles & The Hobbit
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Thursday, August 23, 2018
Aug. 23, 2018
|| thumb; gauze; accent; myself; game, set and match.
Video games can be dangerous, I now know. This happened to me about a week ago. I was sitting in front of my computer screen Punching buttons until I let out a scream!
My thumb had got caught in a button's well, The crevice between the key and the shell! A freak accident, I've since been told, All I knew was it hurt and had a solid hold!
Finally tore myself loose, with a digit all bloody! Wrapped it in gauze, vowed to get a new hobby! My thumb has a purple accent color and a patch. Games? I set myself up to just watch the match!
I was sure you would write a tennis theme, but you were more inventive than that. And managed to get everything into the last verse, wow! The first two turned out to be the long buildup to the climax. The jumble itself was pretty obvious to any tennis fan. And twins even -- wonder if their name is Bryan, lol.
Wow, I never even noticed they were all in that last verse! Two of them were used before then, so just coincidence they were repeated, and I had thought 'accident' would do for another until I saw a better chance in the penultimate line!
BTW, I did try to think of a tennis theme, but figured a different kind of game would be close enough. Tho now that I think about it, it could have been a tennis game the narrator was playing!
Woohoo! Woohoo! Based on Owen's poem, I think I got this Jumble--all 4 items plus the solution which your final line confirmed, I think. Gets my morning off to a good start.
It took me a few minutes to work this out this morning. The riddle was obvious so Owen really didn't reveal anything. The two six letter words #3 with the CsCand I had to find my bewspnews to get #4 (again).
I have a strange syndrome (Wilbur's LAMENT?) in which I immediately forget any Jumbles I've dolved- no matter how recently.
Since I solve from the newspaper I have to habh a pen handy.
I couldn't find #4 even from Owen's verses even though I'd found it 3 minutes earlier.Of course he had it cleverly hidden.
Btw, was it ATARI or SEGA. We've had both recently*
Wilbur, I think the problem is just seniority. I get the Lancaster paper mailed to me from Pennsylvania, and it has Jumbles I've already solved in the Los Angeles Times. But I almost always have to pretty much start all over again, although once I get it again, I remember, "Oh yeah, of course, that's what it was." I think we tend not to remember trivial things like this that have no personal significance for us.
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| thumb; gauze; accent; myself; game, set and match.
Video games can be dangerous, I now know.
ReplyDeleteThis happened to me about a week ago.
I was sitting in front of my computer screen
Punching buttons until I let out a scream!
My thumb had got caught in a button's well,
The crevice between the key and the shell!
A freak accident, I've since been told,
All I knew was it hurt and had a solid hold!
Finally tore myself loose, with a digit all bloody!
Wrapped it in gauze, vowed to get a new hobby!
My thumb has a purple accent color and a patch.
Games? I set myself up to just watch the match!
This is fiction. I've never even held a controller, tho I do play some of the simpler ones on my laptop.
DeleteBut I believe in you. You're a fine observer.
DeleteI was sure you would write a tennis theme, but you were more inventive than that. And managed to get everything into the last verse, wow! The first two turned out to be the long buildup to the climax.
ReplyDeleteThe jumble itself was pretty obvious to any tennis fan. And twins even -- wonder if their name is Bryan, lol.
Wow, I never even noticed they were all in that last verse! Two of them were used before then, so just coincidence they were repeated, and I had thought 'accident' would do for another until I saw a better chance in the penultimate line!
DeleteBTW, I did try to think of a tennis theme, but figured a different kind of game would be close enough. Tho now that I think about it, it could have been a tennis game the narrator was playing!
DeleteWoohoo! Woohoo! Based on Owen's poem, I think I got this Jumble--all 4 items plus the solution which your final line confirmed, I think. Gets my morning off to a good start.
ReplyDeleteWoo woo!
DeleteGood for you!
😃🎈
But sometimes, the final answer is too obvious to amuse. I would have hoped for a switch of initial letters at least.
ReplyDeleteI know I know. Wah, wah, wah ...
Sorry!
~ OMK
I fully agree!
DeleteI'm trying to figure out how switching initial letters could result in three real words. Same and get, yes, but satch or gatch???
DeleteSnatch, get, and maim?
DeleteSounds like a very dangerous game.
DeleteNo, it doesn't work
Delete(Which was my point.)
Hm, a switch of the initial letters would have turned this tennis match into a much wilder game, wouldn't it?
ReplyDeleteAn incoherent one.
DeleteIt took me a few minutes to work this out this morning. The riddle was obvious so Owen really didn't reveal anything. The two six letter words #3 with the CsCand I had to find my bewspnews to get #4 (again).
ReplyDeleteI have a strange syndrome (Wilbur's LAMENT?) in which I immediately forget any
Jumbles I've dolved- no matter how recently.
Since I solve from the newspaper I have to habh a pen handy.
I couldn't find #4 even from Owen's verses even though I'd found it 3 minutes earlier.Of course he had it cleverly hidden.
Btw, was it ATARI or SEGA. We've had both recently*
WC
* In fact today for #1 .
Wilbur, I think the problem is just seniority. I get the Lancaster paper mailed to me from Pennsylvania, and it has Jumbles I've already solved in the Los Angeles Times. But I almost always have to pretty much start all over again, although once I get it again, I remember, "Oh yeah, of course, that's what it was." I think we tend not to remember trivial things like this that have no personal significance for us.
ReplyDelete