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!
Lake Tahoe is beautiful, placid and calm, A wonderful place to admire the dawn. Away from the bustling crowd in the city, Out where everything in nature is pretty!
When man intrudes, pristine scenes vanish. Cares resurface that we sought to banish. How we wish we could make taboo The likes of an atrocious mauve tattoo!
Inked up men looking vicious and mean On their souped up, noisy, cycle machines! Would be nice to challenge them, arms akimbo, To a dance contest -- run them out on a limbo!
I usually take 2 to 10 minutes, but this one took me over 20 minutes, and two of the words I got only by shuffling the tiles around, not even realizing I had a word until puzzle dinged at me!
Well, I had to play around a bit to get #2 and #4, but once I had them it took no time to get the fun reveal. Clever cartoon, puzzle, and answer, and a delightful poem, Owen. I also can't imagine how you can write these poems and have them contain the puzzle clues every day--amazing--many thanks.
Sigh. Again I forgot to come and post my comment after I finished the J. I found it somewhat easy; whoever gave the trick of placing the consonants and vowels side by side has my undying gratitude. The words almost jump out at me with that method. I think it might have been Canadian Eh! Include me, Owen, in my admiration for your ability to create meaningful poetry that includes all the given words and some interesting asides, too.
I do the consonant/vowel separation and then take aim first at the shortest words. Today this led me to fill the middle words with "TO A"... - before, heh heh, I saw that wasn't right.
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|. mauve, taboo, banish, placid, out on a limb.
I zipped through this one in 1:53 with 900 points. Whoo Hoo!
ReplyDeleteLake Tahoe is beautiful, placid and calm,
ReplyDeleteA wonderful place to admire the dawn.
Away from the bustling crowd in the city,
Out where everything in nature is pretty!
When man intrudes, pristine scenes vanish.
Cares resurface that we sought to banish.
How we wish we could make taboo
The likes of an atrocious mauve tattoo!
Inked up men looking vicious and mean
On their souped up, noisy, cycle machines!
Would be nice to challenge them, arms akimbo,
To a dance contest -- run them out on a limbo!
I usually take 2 to 10 minutes, but this one took me over 20 minutes, and two of the words I got only by shuffling the tiles around, not even realizing I had a word until puzzle dinged at me!
ReplyDeleteOwen,
ReplyDeleteI don't know how you can fashion such meaningful poems from the CW, and Jumble each day, but I am glad you do.
Another "piece o' cake" today!
ReplyDeleteOwen ~ Your "20 minutes" would take another at least half a day. Bless you!
~ OMK
Well, I had to play around a bit to get #2 and #4, but once I had them it took no time to get the fun reveal. Clever cartoon, puzzle, and answer, and a delightful poem, Owen. I also can't imagine how you can write these poems and have them contain the puzzle clues every day--amazing--many thanks.
ReplyDeleteNot 1:53 but quick except for#3 . I had to write the letters down to Grok the riddle .
ReplyDeleteWell under Owen's twenty though .
Two lakes in the first line of the poem I see.
WC
Sigh. Again I forgot to come and post my comment after I finished the J. I found it somewhat easy; whoever gave the trick of placing the consonants and vowels side by side has my undying gratitude. The words almost jump out at me with that method. I think it might have been Canadian Eh!
ReplyDeleteInclude me, Owen, in my admiration for your ability to create meaningful poetry that includes all the given words and some interesting asides, too.
I do the consonant/vowel separation and then take aim first at the shortest words.
ReplyDeleteToday this led me to fill the middle words with "TO A"...
- before, heh heh, I saw that wasn't right.
~ OMK
TO was not working. Where there's a B and an M they're liable to connect.
ReplyDeleteThose multivowel words are the hardest .
Riddles are like xword themes . I'm just not good at them. I never had a clue about the "ITs"
WC