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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is definitely NOT required.
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
ReplyDeleteHint: The last of the sun; ends in T.
Wordle 388 2/6
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Background: In the court in our marshy neck-o’-the woods, His Honor’s Sergeant-at-Arms makes sure to call the most murderous cases first…
”The Charge, Sarge?”
Up Azalea Creek,
our gritty old judge wields a
mean hangman’s gavel.
~ OMK
I wasted my second guess (by repeating that correct letter in the wrong location) and nearly ran out of guesses. Fortunately I didn’t choose F on my last chance.
ReplyDeleteWordle 388 6/6*
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"Flower Power"
ReplyDeletePete lived alone near a creek
and his prospects for marriage looked bleak.
But he worked with a gal who was pretty,
though her temper was a bit gritty.
Still he wooed her with an azalea,
and the next day a lovely dahlia
whose effects on his girlfriend were large,
and gave their romance a whole new charge.
A year later their was no need to dabble--
their marriage had been sealed with a gavel.
I was going to give up on
ReplyDeleteWordle 388 5/6
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But between the
two hints it dawned on me. I wasted #4 to get rid of four letters. One of which was F. OMK, did you start with SAINT?
I never found a tbtimes on Sunday which put me way behind. Gerbil was a fun word.
Misty how did you mean OMEGA?
OMK, my old St Pete friend used to go to casino with mom and have a great time blowing $200 at the slots
Foreign to me. Losing $ kills me
I'm waiting on Misty to get a final riddle-solution hint
And...
I'm trying to wrap up the C&L saga
WC
Duh, I looked back at OMK's title and a word in Misty's tale and finally got the horrendous pun..
ReplyDeleteWith your helpful and clever clue, I should have gotten this Wordle much sooner, OMK:
ReplyDeleteWordle 388 3/6
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Wilbur ~ No, my first word was GLINT.
ReplyDeleteI hate to lose $$ too. But I forgot to mention one of the main reasons those ladies blow their dough at the slots: they actually feel they’re part of the action. They’re paying for the entertainment.
Agree as to today’s horrendousness!
And I am eager to read your next C&L installment…
CEh! ~ That’s what the hints are for. Today’s par was 2.
Still, glad it came through for you in the end.
Misty ~ For the gritty girl’s sake, I am glad Pete could overlook minor flaws.
Flowers do have a curious ability to charm the female spirit. I like flowers too, but isn’t it strange that men are not plied with them to win our favor?
Why not?
What is there about plant life that human society deems to be feminine?
~ OMK
CEh! ~ Was your 4th word GIRTH?
ReplyDeleteMisty ~ Does that mean you didn’t use my hint?
Or, that you did, and it didn’t work?
Looking back, I should have written “the end of the sun.”
~ OMK
A freebie--
ReplyDelete"Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me
If I spring a leak, she mends me
I don't have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one..."
Ah, poetry!
~ OMK
OMK- yes, my fourth guess was GIRTH.
ReplyDeleteI start from scratch with no hints. I like to use STEAR or STARE, BEAST, or ADIEU if I feel like eliminating vowels.
The asterisk on my 6/6 result means that I am using Hard Mode
“Any revealed hints must be used in subsequent guesses“. This prevents me from doing what WC did (“wasted #4 to get rid of four letters”). I like the challenge.
Beauty at Large
ReplyDeleteDown came the gavel. “Sold to the highest bidder”.
The gritty creek hindered the sale,
The colourful azaleas sealed the deal.
Night fell on the large estate.
Ach! I had trouble using all the unrelated words today.
Loved your haiku OMK.
I see that Misty succeeded!
Thank you, CEh!
ReplyDeleteYou’re right: those J-words are truly “unrelated.” But I can see how you were working to unite them with the sales theme.
I don’t use hard mode, but I usually aim to keep all the discoveries in subsequent tiers. For tomorrow’s (389), though, I started with the wrong hint, so my 2nd level was almost completely fresh.
~ OMK