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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Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Sept. 4, 2018
Computer problems, so the picture is a bit more cropped than usual.
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faint, cagey, sliced, lounge, one last fling.
Larry was feeling strange and foggy, as if he weren't all here. He couldn't tell quite where he was, although he felt no fear. It seemed to be a bright-lit lounge, with no one else in sight, And then faint memory seeped in about that final fight!
The big guy had been cagey about talking up his girl. Larry couldn't let that pass, and so he braced the churl. Fist flew fast, each gave what for, and Larry held his own, Until the brute pulled out a knife, and sliced him to the bone!
He flung his fist just one last time, then fell onto the floor. What happened next, he did not know, for Larry was no more. Now he was just a ghost, with no body to hold his soul, He was just the strangest feeling, and like a fog, away he stole.
Whew! Downer theme but I love the way you told the story. Maybe the big guy was the husband? I always look for your twist to the solution and this was a great one. Thanks. The jumble solution just jumped out at me again today, but in this case it helped with the last word clue, which for some reason was elusive at first.
Ok, went back and read Owen's laying tracks explanation FLN. Now I get it, and thanks. Also, Owen, congratulations on your coping ability with uncooperative and/or unfamiliar computers.
Yes. The last J was slow to come, not so the riddle.
Yes, perhaps the poem is the denoument of the affair. Not to be overly smart but there was a smidgen of an idea . If one broke it down as I often do lying in bed.
Fun Jumble this morning. I just couldn't get that last item, so I went on to look at the cartoon, and the solution just popped out immediately. I wrote it in, and that gave me the letters for #4 and now I got it. A different but fun way to solve a Jumble. And it's always a pleasure to find all the words in your poem, Owen.
Owen, I agree with Misty. It's fun to find the words in your poem. Today's was really easy. I'm not completely dyslexic but have a tendency toward it and weirdly that helps to unscramble the words.
I couldn't see where this was going right away. But I relied on my method of first solving the short words. Given the sense of the cartoon caption, the first word might have been "the," but there was no "h" in any of the prelim words. The next logical short word, a singular word, fit. Next in the final answer came the second word. Maybe "more"? Nope - no "m" to be found. The word of finality was the next reasonable word. By then, the only letters left gave up the final answer. And it was fun this time. I hope it was for the cartoon lovers...
Still behind. The words came easily, but I had frisbee block on the sol.. I could not see the 3 letter first word until I got a hint on the first letter. Then the golf disc flew.
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Larry was feeling strange and foggy, as if he weren't all here.
ReplyDeleteHe couldn't tell quite where he was, although he felt no fear.
It seemed to be a bright-lit lounge, with no one else in sight,
And then faint memory seeped in about that final fight!
The big guy had been cagey about talking up his girl.
Larry couldn't let that pass, and so he braced the churl.
Fist flew fast, each gave what for, and Larry held his own,
Until the brute pulled out a knife, and sliced him to the bone!
He flung his fist just one last time, then fell onto the floor.
What happened next, he did not know, for Larry was no more.
Now he was just a ghost, with no body to hold his soul,
He was just the strangest feeling, and like a fog, away he stole.
Whew! Downer theme but I love the way you told the story. Maybe the big guy was the husband?
ReplyDeleteI always look for your twist to the solution and this was a great one. Thanks.
The jumble solution just jumped out at me again today, but in this case it helped with the last word clue, which for some reason was elusive at first.
FLN. The "Track" metaphor worked the other way too eg. Laying tracks meant he followed a plan of recovery eg.
ReplyDeleteIn the tracks of his recovery he followed Bob and Bill*
The Book they wrote, the plan they laid is helping many still
WC
* Authors of AA
Ok, went back and read Owen's laying tracks explanation FLN. Now I get it, and thanks.
DeleteAlso, Owen, congratulations on your coping ability with uncooperative and/or unfamiliar computers.
Yes. The last J was slow to come, not so the riddle.
ReplyDeleteYes, perhaps the poem is the denoument of the affair. Not to be overly smart but there was a smidgen of an idea . If one broke it down as I often do lying in bed.
WC
Fun Jumble this morning. I just couldn't get that last item, so I went on to look at the cartoon, and the solution just popped out immediately. I wrote it in, and that gave me the letters for #4 and now I got it. A different but fun way to solve a Jumble. And it's always a pleasure to find all the words in your poem, Owen.
ReplyDeleteOwen, I agree with Misty. It's fun to find the words in your poem. Today's was really easy. I'm not completely dyslexic but have a tendency toward it and weirdly that helps to unscramble the words.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't see where this was going right away. But I relied on my method of first solving the short words. Given the sense of the cartoon caption, the first word might have been "the," but there was no "h" in any of the prelim words. The next logical short word, a singular word, fit.
ReplyDeleteNext in the final answer came the second word. Maybe "more"? Nope - no "m" to be found. The word of finality was the next reasonable word.
By then, the only letters left gave up the final answer.
And it was fun this time. I hope it was for the cartoon lovers...
~ OMK
Lucina, my son is dyslexic and I wondered whether that would be said Jumble advantage
ReplyDeleteWC
Still behind. The words came easily, but I had frisbee block on the sol..
ReplyDeleteI could not see the 3 letter first word until I got a hint on the first letter. Then the golf disc flew.