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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Sunday, August 26, 2018
Aug. 26, 2018
|| basso, occur, lizard, saloon, "cross" roads. || though, bookie, thwart, finite, campus, flaunt, from that point on.
Hi everybody. I had trouble with parts of this one. I didn't think the first word was quite fair. But I bumbled around and finally beat it into submission.
Why all the rules about revealing anything? Why would someone come here to read the comments if they hadn't tried the puzzle and wanted help or confirmation? I would assume all the readers want to discuss the words or solution and where they struggled. But that's just my two-cents worth.
If the answer is just laid out, it"s hard to avoid reading it, and people often do come here for hints before they've solved. (And I prefer to read the poem before anyone else's comments, btw.)
Bill, just to add a bit: You can find jumble answers on a number of other sites. That's not really the intent of this one, I think.It's quite possible to describe where you struggled or didn't without mentioning the actual words, as you know because you just did it. And if you feel like it, working in to your comment some hints to the jumble words adds to the challenge and the fun.
Rango is about a lizard who walked across the road, Went into a saloon, and started bragging to a toad. With a phony basso voice Made up a story of his choice, An occurrence killing seven with a single bullet load!
Who would have thought a college would have such a course? A scholarly disquisition though, on how to handicap a horse! It was a change of pace for a campus of staid deportment, To have some shady bookies in the math and stats department!
Gambling one-oh-one was planned with solemn studiousness. The class of finite probabilities and such math mysteriousness! They'd also touch psychology, that stepchild of real science, On when to flaunt your expertise, and when better to keep silence!
There were units for casino men, on how to thwart card-counting, Cheating indications, spotting tells; and specialized accounting. How to best roll craps, with the physics of cubical rotations. Analyzing pips on die, and impact from that point on calculations!
Owen, first I love the scene the daily poem lays out, and the Sunday story is fascinating with all the specialized references (are you a gambler??). But it sort of hurts my feelings (sob, sob)to have psychology, my very own field of study, referred to as a stepchild. And of "real" science? C'mon, psychology deals with its phenomena in a rigorous way; give us a break!
Oh, Sandy! Just keep in mind everything I write is fiction. I've never gambled beyond Publisher's Clearing House, don't know if "finite probabilities" is really a thing, and never psychologized!
And if you've seen the movie "Rango" I think I got the opening scenes depicted quite well!
Well, this was a Sunday Jumble toughie at first, and ironically I had trouble with item 5, which happens to be where I worked for 30 years. But eventually I got them all and when it became to clear to me that the first and last words of the solution would not be nouns, it all made sense and I got the point of the puzzle.
Sandy, Owen has inadvertently brought up a point which has become quite the debating point . Both Jung and Freud have been assailed by some kind of "new" scientific criticism to the POINT of phrases like "discredited".
Jung talked about something that is called Synchronicity. I don't need to mention Freud and his detractors. And... I've never even had Psych 101 .
Btw. I just couldn't get the riddle though I had all the letters. I knew POINT would be the five . Heck, I nearly had the entire Sunday xword finished before grok'ing that we were adding BALL.
The"Ranga" tale sounds familiar. Reminds me of Stagger Lee(shot Billy).
I basically agree with Steve. Except I know Misty used to come looking for "hints". But, Owen had all the words and the riddle in his poem????
And generally the hints given were just like saying the words* .
Perhaps moving up the timeline to 6:00 pm edt/est.
WC
*I tried cryptic Haikus, I don't know if they helped .Possibly with dislodging something stuck in the throat. I've got to hand it to that Harry guy at the other place. Puns are not my specialty either. But... This framework provides Owen the freedom to write poetry as opposed to the Limerick.
And, btw .Owen has described the principle of"Prescience". So.. I have somehow come from Owen's "Stepchild" to Jung and the critics of "Synchronicity" around the horn to Owen again on prescience.
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| basso, occur, lizard, saloon, "cross" roads. |
| though, bookie, thwart, finite, campus, flaunt, from that point on.
Hi everybody. I had trouble with parts of this one. I didn't think the first word was quite fair. But I bumbled around and finally beat it into submission.
ReplyDeleteWhy all the rules about revealing anything? Why would someone come here to read the comments if they hadn't tried the puzzle and wanted help or confirmation? I would assume all the readers want to discuss the words or solution and where they struggled. But that's just my two-cents worth.
I'm interested in seeing how you others respond to Bill's question.
DeleteIf the answer is just laid out, it"s hard to avoid reading it, and people often do come here for hints before they've solved.
Delete(And I prefer to read the poem before anyone else's comments, btw.)
Bill, just to add a bit: You can find jumble answers on a number of other sites. That's not really the intent of this one, I think.It's quite possible to describe where you struggled or didn't without mentioning the actual words, as you know because you just did it. And if you feel like it, working in to your comment some hints to the jumble words adds to the challenge and the fun.
DeleteRango is about a lizard who walked across the road,
ReplyDeleteWent into a saloon, and started bragging to a toad.
With a phony basso voice
Made up a story of his choice,
An occurrence killing seven with a single bullet load!
Who would have thought a college would have such a course?
ReplyDeleteA scholarly disquisition though, on how to handicap a horse!
It was a change of pace for a campus of staid deportment,
To have some shady bookies in the math and stats department!
Gambling one-oh-one was planned with solemn studiousness.
The class of finite probabilities and such math mysteriousness!
They'd also touch psychology, that stepchild of real science,
On when to flaunt your expertise, and when better to keep silence!
There were units for casino men, on how to thwart card-counting,
Cheating indications, spotting tells; and specialized accounting.
How to best roll craps, with the physics of cubical rotations.
Analyzing pips on die, and impact from that point on calculations!
Owen, first I love the scene the daily poem lays out, and the Sunday story is fascinating with all the specialized references (are you a gambler??).
ReplyDeleteBut it sort of hurts my feelings (sob, sob)to have psychology, my very own field of study, referred to as a stepchild. And of "real" science? C'mon, psychology deals with its phenomena in a rigorous way; give us a break!
Oh, Sandy! Just keep in mind everything I write is fiction. I've never gambled beyond Publisher's Clearing House, don't know if "finite probabilities" is really a thing, and never psychologized!
DeleteAnd if you've seen the movie "Rango" I think I got the opening scenes depicted quite well!
Well the gambler remark was meant as a joke. Never seen "Rango", but may now.
DeleteWell, this was a Sunday Jumble toughie at first, and ironically I had trouble with item 5, which happens to be where I worked for 30 years. But eventually I got them all and when it became to clear to me that the first and last words of the solution would not be nouns, it all made sense and I got the point of the puzzle.
ReplyDeleteMe too, Misty. That was my last position, and for me it was just 20 years on from the start of my employment there to the point of retirement.
DeleteWeren't we lucky, Sandyanon, to have had such great jobs!
DeleteMisty - you worked at ORNERY? Must have been unpleasant. Sorry for you.
ReplyDeleteSandy, Owen has inadvertently brought up a point which has become quite the debating point . Both Jung and Freud have been assailed by some kind of "new" scientific criticism to the POINT of phrases like "discredited".
ReplyDeleteJung talked about something that is called Synchronicity. I don't need to mention Freud and his detractors. And... I've never even had Psych 101 .
Btw. I just couldn't get the riddle though I had all the letters. I knew POINT would be the five . Heck, I nearly had the entire Sunday xword finished before grok'ing that we were adding BALL.
The"Ranga" tale sounds familiar. Reminds me of Stagger Lee(shot Billy).
I basically agree with Steve. Except I know Misty used to come looking for "hints". But, Owen had all the words and the riddle in his poem????
And generally the hints given were just like saying the words* .
Perhaps moving up the timeline to 6:00 pm edt/est.
WC
*I tried cryptic Haikus, I don't know if they helped .Possibly with dislodging something stuck in the throat. I've got to hand it to that Harry guy at the other place.
Puns are not my specialty either. But...
This framework provides Owen the freedom to write poetry as opposed to the Limerick.
And, btw .Owen has described the principle of"Prescience". So.. I have somehow come from Owen's "Stepchild" to Jung and the critics of "Synchronicity" around the horn to Owen again on prescience.
ReplyDeleteMaybe It's just my own "Horn".
WC
Back one more time. "First" word unfair??? THOUGH??? Difficult yes .Then V8 hit . He means BASSO. Most of us P&I people only get the 6*6 on Sunday.
ReplyDeleteYes, I thought so too . Scrabble brawls have broke out for less. I guess you'd call that a Scrabroughaha. Or, Brouhabble
WC