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Monday, July 4, 2022

4 July 2022

|JUMBLE|
|| _kiosk, clone, modest, gyrate, skyrocketing.
Image(s) from the Internet.

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.

11 comments:

Ol' Man Keith said...

Today’s hints:
Begins with S; a verb, meaning to cut…

Wordle 380 1/6

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

—§—

Guests at the wedding took aim, to engage in some friendly…

Rice-spocketing!

“Modest gyration
leads to natural cloning,”
~ thus, kiosk signage.
~ OMK

OwenKL said...

Wilbur, did you happen to tell Archie what time to do this? I waited for an hour past posting time, and when there was no sign of any activity, went ahead and set up a fresh day myself. Using these blurry images, it took me less than 5 minutes, and I bet I can do it in less than 1 minute if I'm challenged. The puzzle becomes available at 11 PM Mountain Time, and I try to get it up just after 12 Midnight.

Wilbur Charles said...

Owen, he had a long day. I'll check on him.

Here's myWordle 380 5/6

🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Note it took three tries at middle letter: W,D,V

I had SMOTED for #3 today. Riddle-solution was easy if I played with it longer.

WC

Misty said...

"Romance"

After a visit to his mosque
he met a girl at the kiosk.
She was beautiful and modest
and he saw her as his goddess.
She was there all alone,
as unique as a clone,
and she made his heart gyrate
at an extraordinary high rate.

He bought her a lovely locket
which made her heart sky-rocket.
And so for six great months they dated
and last week they were blessedly mated.

Misty said...

Took me forever to get this--I should have paid attention to your hint, OMK.

Wordle 380 6/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨
🟨🟩🟨⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Ol' Man Keith said...

That was all the hint I had, Misty, and you saw how it worked for me.

Your piece today is a very smooth read!
I think it a classic.

~ (Never one to mislead) OMK

Ol' Man Keith said...

WC ~ And I believe Wordle had SMOTE (or SMITE?) recently.
Isn’t that right?
~ OMK

Misty said...

Loved your wedding haiku too, Ol' Man Keith).

Ol' Man Keith said...

Thank you, Misty.

Yes, I believe we are all in favor of "natural cloning."
(Regardless of our position vis-à-vis "Dolly" the ewe.)
~ OMK

CanadianEh! said...

Late to the party today. We had company.
Wordle 380 3/6*

⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
🟩⬜🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Loved your Romance Misty.

Wilbur Charles said...

Omk, smote/smite sounds familiar but wordle leaves my brain as fast as it goes in.

Outside of trying to fit clone into a poem about romance Misty indeed composed an entertaining, readable tale

With her trademark happy ending.

Owen, it's been another long day for Archie but he might give it a try about 2am EDT

30 minutes until wordle

WC