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!
Maria wanted to sing on the stage, It would bring in a princess-ly wage! She needed to project, not just mumble, Train her vocal chords to be not humble!
Off to the city she went with high hopes, To find a mentor to show her the ropes! A lot were con men, trying only to bed her, Till she found Dave, to make her much better!
Dave trained her voice thru-out the summer, But her lack of natural talent was a bummer. So to hedge her chances he added acting -- Now she's a movie star, and wealth attracting!
All 4 words came easily. The sol. looked impossible. Only 3 vowels, but P & P prevailed sans hints. I feel much better. I'm glad Maria made the grade. So did your poem sir.
The toughest so far in, say, the last ten days. But D4E4H is right: P&P (of the longer list, P&P&P&P) were all it took to prevail. I relied on the old method of hitting the shorter word first and expected it to have only one of the few vowels. I started to scribble the possible 4-letter words. The 4th word I jotted - after the sequence of DUMB, DRUM, and CHUM - turned out to be right. And the remaining letters popped into place to provide the corny pun.*
~ OMK ____________ * Owen ~ I can see how hard it was for you to avoid giving it away at the end of that 2nd verse!
Easy four words but the final solve had me pondering for quite a long while. With only three vowels there wasn't much choice in the four letter fill and once that was in the remaining letters popped out at me. What a bummer if I hadn't seen that! Owen, good stuff! Nothing to mumble about.
Well, I got all 4 items but could not get the solution for the life of me. So I came here, hoping for help, and Owen and Ol'Man Keith, you did it! Many thanks! Would not have gotten it without both of you.
Both 5 letter clues came fairly quickly, but I had to try out a lot of possible combinations to get the last two. Never quite sure - if there are double letters together in the jumbled word, they're NOT together in the answer; but it a letter is repeated in the clue, but not doubled, they MAY or MAY NOT be together in the answer.
I'm pretty sure they do this on purpose with the double letters, but just to keep people from getting complacent, they make exceptions every once in a while. Ditto with the first letter of the scrambled sequence, which is almost never the first letter of the solution.
Considering that there were only three vowels available, e, e, and u the choice was limited for the first solve; much gave itself away. Then the dd jumped out.
I wasn't sure that BUMMER was a legitimate word but that and BEDDED fit. I got the letters down as they appear but if I jotted the letters from the far left and moved down I had C, H, M, (B), U for the first riddle word.
I hate to be a pain, but I do ask that you not reveal the solution words until after 9 Pacific, 10 Mountain, 11 Central, or midnight Eastern Time. Make your own adjustments if you're in one of those weird places that don't use daylight saving time. And please DON'T ALL-CAP them if you use the words embedded in your comment before the closing time!
Ya gotta have a system! I usually find that if I start to jot down the possible combinations - as in my example above - the right word will spring up sooner-rather-than-later. In the above I focused first on the shorter word & figured it could afford to use only one of the vowels. Next, I chose the "u" as more likely to be used in a short, single syllable word. And sure enough, by the time I tried three combinations, the correct word (nearly the reverse of my 3rd attempt) popped into the Ol' Walnut. Hope these steps help.
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|chord, hedge, mumble, bummer, much "bedder"
Maria wanted to sing on the stage,
ReplyDeleteIt would bring in a princess-ly wage!
She needed to project, not just mumble,
Train her vocal chords to be not humble!
Off to the city she went with high hopes,
To find a mentor to show her the ropes!
A lot were con men, trying only to bed her,
Till she found Dave, to make her much better!
Dave trained her voice thru-out the summer,
But her lack of natural talent was a bummer.
So to hedge her chances he added acting --
Now she's a movie star, and wealth attracting!
All 4 words came easily. The sol. looked impossible. Only 3 vowels, but P & P prevailed sans hints. I feel much better.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad Maria made the grade. So did your poem sir.
The toughest so far in, say, the last ten days. But D4E4H is right: P&P (of the longer list, P&P&P&P) were all it took to prevail.
ReplyDeleteI relied on the old method of hitting the shorter word first and expected it to have only one of the few vowels.
I started to scribble the possible 4-letter words. The 4th word I jotted - after the sequence of DUMB, DRUM, and CHUM - turned out to be right.
And the remaining letters popped into place to provide the corny pun.*
~ OMK
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* Owen ~ I can see how hard it was for you to avoid giving it away at the end of that 2nd verse!
Yes, very corny pun. But it made me chuckle. And that line was very creative, Owen. But then, you Always are.
ReplyDeleteEasy four words but the final solve had me pondering for quite a long while. With only three vowels there wasn't much choice in the four letter fill and once that was in the remaining letters popped out at me. What a bummer if I hadn't seen that! Owen, good stuff! Nothing to mumble about.
ReplyDeleteWell, I got all 4 items but could not get the solution for the life of me. So I came here, hoping for help, and Owen and Ol'Man Keith, you did it! Many thanks! Would not have gotten it without both of you.
ReplyDeleteMisty, it was an oddity if I may borrow from last night. Pun wise i mean .
ReplyDeleteI wondered how Owen was going to use #4 and the riddle but he did it standing on the bed. I mean on his head. I mean easily.
WC
Both 5 letter clues came fairly quickly, but I had to try out a lot of possible combinations to get the last two. Never quite sure - if there are double letters together in the jumbled word, they're NOT together in the answer; but it a letter is repeated in the clue, but not doubled, they MAY or MAY NOT be together in the answer.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure they do this on purpose with the double letters, but just to keep people from getting complacent, they make exceptions every once in a while. Ditto with the first letter of the scrambled sequence, which is almost never the first letter of the solution.
DeleteThe solution took some thought - figuring out which 4 letter words were available first.
ReplyDeleteConsidering that there were only three vowels available, e, e, and u the choice was limited for the first solve; much gave itself away. Then the dd jumped out.
DeleteI wasn't sure that BUMMER was a legitimate word but that and BEDDED fit. I got the letters down as they appear but if I jotted the letters from the far left and moved down I had C, H, M, (B), U for the first riddle word.
ReplyDeleteWC
If you noticed, it's in quotation marks which indicates something is different.
DeleteI hate to be a pain, but I do ask that you not reveal the solution words until after 9 Pacific, 10 Mountain, 11 Central, or midnight Eastern Time. Make your own adjustments if you're in one of those weird places that don't use daylight saving time.
DeleteAnd please DON'T ALL-CAP them if you use the words embedded in your comment before the closing time!
BTW, I also wondered if bummer was an acceptable word. The creators are usually very diligent in using only simple vocabulary, so no slang.
DeleteI couldn't manage the Jumble without this blog--thank you all!
ReplyDeleteYa gotta have a system!
ReplyDeleteI usually find that if I start to jot down the possible combinations - as in my example above - the right word will spring up sooner-rather-than-later.
In the above I focused first on the shorter word & figured it could afford to use only one of the vowels.
Next, I chose the "u" as more likely to be used in a short, single syllable word.
And sure enough, by the time I tried three combinations, the correct word (nearly the reverse of my 3rd attempt) popped into the Ol' Walnut.
Hope these steps help.
~ OMK
Oh, and the 4 Ps are Patience & Persistence & Perseverance & Pronunciation. Each has its own important color.
ReplyDeleteThe last is the ultimate, used when the rest have failed. It's when I start saying the possible words aloud to jiggle my ear-trigger.
Oh, and in case you missed it, the fifth P is ... Pedantry.
Love,
~ OMK