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!
Our world is not one single place. Each land on it has a different face. In Asia, tigers roam thru lush surrounds. In Antarctica, no flora is to be found!
South America, swaths of jungle are intact. In Europe, man has had a great impact. In the Middle East, Islam's a ruling factor. In the Mid-West, Protestants have the answer.
Salty brine covers most of our Earth, But of running fresh water there is a dearth. Diversity is our planet's gift and grace. Our world is not one single place.
A nurse's day is so seldom placid. Emergencies come, sudden and rapid. From an ambulance rolls a gurney, Responses happen in a methodic flurry!
In another unit, a woman in labor Soon will have an infant to savor. Babes wading into the sea of life, Watched over by nurses, day and night.
Elsewhere, geriatrics, an elder crew, With all if the maladies age accrues. Leaning on canes, like italic people, Most still hale, some growing feeble.
Post-op, an attitude of wait and see. Was the outcome good from surgery? Looking toward years in this universe, Tended and cared for by a nurse!
Needed your help.on both jumbles today. The fourth clue word of J4 just eluded me, so I had to solve backwards from the solution -- obvious but cute. Once I knew the "w" must be used in that fourth clue, started searching your poem and found the word. Aha!
It was the first word in the Sunday jumble that gave me a problem -- and the solution did as well. Much letter crunching later, I searched your poem and found the clue word, which was great, but didn"t help with the solution. Finally I realized what that last, eight-letter combo must be, and found both of your solution references. Clever of you! Your poems were as always entertaining and so very different topically from each other. Wish I could be that creative.
It's really too bad that we seem to have such a small group of regular users of this blog. Would a post on the Corner briefly explaining how much fun it is be helpful? If you wouldn't feel comfortable doing that, perhaps one of us could?
I thought that Italianate word was going to be extra difficult, but when it came I thought it perhaps the best line of the whole poem!
I think we've got all we're going to get from CC. A mention on some of the other cw or word game blogs might draw a few. And if you notice the stat bar at the bottom of the page, we're getting about a hundred hits per day -- low by Internet standards, but not chopped liver, either. The disappointment is that so few of them comment. 😟
Nothing interesting to say, but OK. On the 6er, had to write all of them out, with varying numbers of permutations before the right word appeared, some just a few, some most of a page. If I have no idea (usually the case) I try to do it methodically, starting with each letter and going through all the possible combinations until I see a word. The quotes in the answer indicate a pun, but it took me awhile and rearranging the letters several different ways (alphabetically, separating vowels/consonants, letter pyramid) to see it. The Daily (4) seemed a bit easier, but I still had to write them out and try out several possibilities to get them. I've always been weaker at anagrams than most any other type of word play. When they have them on Jeopardy I'm still trying to figure out the first one when they've already cleared the category.
Mike, I've concluded that I can be too influenced by the way I first see the letters arranged in a clue. So, unless a word pops right out, I reorganize the letter into vowels, then consonants, each group in alphabetical order. The rigidity of that seems to free up my mind to form words. Anyway, it generally works for me.
I had the 6*6, not easily but it came. Then I wrote down all the letters but nothing came. I finally decided to come here. I read Owen's poem. Nada. Then I read it again and there was the gist of it.
I still have some work to do. He didn't exactly give it to me on a platter. eg there's no AND, THE etc.
Heads up: I just finished working tomorrows Jumble, and want to warn you the Shockwave site will not give you a ta-da when you finish correctly, and the Chi.Trib. site left out a set word from the solution, it needs to be [][] [][] his [][][][][]. But Chi.Trib. does recognize the correct answer. Other sites don't have that puzzle up yet.
| tiger, fauna, intact, answer, "running" water. |
| italic, sudden, toward, gurney, infant, accrue, "wade in sea" attitude.
9 comments:
Our world is not one single place.
Each land on it has a different face.
In Asia, tigers roam thru lush surrounds.
In Antarctica, no flora is to be found!
South America, swaths of jungle are intact.
In Europe, man has had a great impact.
In the Middle East, Islam's a ruling factor.
In the Mid-West, Protestants have the answer.
Salty brine covers most of our Earth,
But of running fresh water there is a dearth.
Diversity is our planet's gift and grace.
Our world is not one single place.
A nurse's day is so seldom placid.
Emergencies come, sudden and rapid.
From an ambulance rolls a gurney,
Responses happen in a methodic flurry!
In another unit, a woman in labor
Soon will have an infant to savor.
Babes wading into the sea of life,
Watched over by nurses, day and night.
Elsewhere, geriatrics, an elder crew,
With all if the maladies age accrues.
Leaning on canes, like italic people,
Most still hale, some growing feeble.
Post-op, an attitude of wait and see.
Was the outcome good from surgery?
Looking toward years in this universe,
Tended and cared for by a nurse!
Needed your help.on both jumbles today. The fourth clue word of J4 just eluded me, so I had to solve backwards from the solution -- obvious but cute. Once I knew the "w" must be used in that fourth clue, started searching your poem and found the word. Aha!
It was the first word in the Sunday jumble that gave me a problem -- and the solution did as well. Much letter crunching later, I searched your poem and found the clue word, which was great, but didn"t help with the solution. Finally I realized what that last, eight-letter combo must be, and found both of your solution references. Clever of you!
Your poems were as always entertaining and so very different topically from each other. Wish I could be that creative.
It's really too bad that we seem to have such a small group of regular users of this blog. Would a post on the Corner briefly explaining how much fun it is be helpful? If you wouldn't feel comfortable doing that, perhaps one of us could?
I thought that Italianate word was going to be extra difficult, but when it came I thought it perhaps the best line of the whole poem!
I think we've got all we're going to get from CC. A mention on some of the other cw or word game blogs might draw a few. And if you notice the stat bar at the bottom of the page, we're getting about a hundred hits per day -- low by Internet standards, but not chopped liver, either. The disappointment is that so few of them comment. 😟
Wow, I normally do this on my phone and never noticed a stat bar. Yes, a lot of hits, but few comments.
Wish more people would say something, no matter how short a post.
Nothing interesting to say, but OK. On the 6er, had to write all of them out, with varying numbers of permutations before the right word appeared, some just a few, some most of a page. If I have no idea (usually the case) I try to do it methodically, starting with each letter and going through all the possible combinations until I see a word. The quotes in the answer indicate a pun, but it took me awhile and rearranging the letters several different ways (alphabetically, separating vowels/consonants, letter pyramid) to see it. The Daily (4) seemed a bit easier, but I still had to write them out and try out several possibilities to get them. I've always been weaker at anagrams than most any other type of word play. When they have them on Jeopardy I'm still trying to figure out the first one when they've already cleared the category.
Mike, I've concluded that I can be too influenced by the way I first see the letters arranged in a clue. So, unless a word pops right out, I reorganize the letter into vowels, then consonants, each group in alphabetical order. The rigidity of that seems to free up my mind to form words. Anyway, it generally works for me.
I had the 6*6, not easily but it came. Then I wrote down all the letters but nothing came. I finally decided to come here. I read Owen's poem. Nada. Then I read it again and there was the gist of it.
I still have some work to do. He didn't exactly give it to me on a platter. eg there's no AND, THE etc.
WC
Heads up: I just finished working tomorrows Jumble, and want to warn you the Shockwave site will not give you a ta-da when you finish correctly, and the Chi.Trib. site left out a set word from the solution, it needs to be [][] [][] his [][][][][]. But Chi.Trib. does recognize the correct answer. Other sites don't have that puzzle up yet.
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