| || acute, elder, snappy, scarce, caused a "seen".
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
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12 comments:
Owen, I hope you're ok, maybe just really tired? September 10 is there, but no jumble with it.
I went ahead and did the jumble on the Chicago Tribune site. Three of the clues came easily, but I had to get the solution and work backward to get the fourth clue. The solution was not difficult, and pretty cute, I thought.
When first our ancient ancestors happened on the scene
All the world was pristine, all the forests green.
Fruits and berries to be gathered easily were seen,
And hunting game for meat caused men to form a team.
But as the climate changed, with an ice age on the way,
Favorite foods grew scarce, once snappy forage took all day.
Hunters roamed afield, tribes would sometimes clash.
Shortages grew acute, the situation could not last.
Over generations, the elders of the tribes
Came to two solutions to help their species thrive.
Some moved farther north, then spread far and wide.
Others took up farming, forming cities to abide.
ShockWave ran Sunday's puzzle again as Tuesday, and I went to sleep before UClick turned their day. Way over slept, so didn't get the puzzle up until around 6 (MDT).
Really glad you're ok. Great story poem; reads as though it could be the beginning of a long saga.
I on the other hand had trouble with the fives but 3 and 4 were easy. "Trouble" is marking down the letters in a different order.
It was the clever machinations of the English and French that kept the various tribes divided and clashing.
Sitting Bull united them for one last glorious victory but that was it.
WC
Lovely poem, Owen, and it really does feel like the beginning of a saga. I can't believe how you manage to continue to do this great work for our blog while you're in hospital care--you're amazing, and thank you so much. I had to work a bit to get the second and fourth words of today's Jumble, but then the solution came quickly, and I found it a delight. I love seeing the colored version of the cartoon when I come here to the Jumble blog, and this morning all the different shirt colors and hair do colors are especially delightful. I wish the Jumble cartoon artist would check in here so that we could thank him (I'm guessing it's either David or Jeff). Anyway, this helped my morning get off to a great start.
Misty, the artist, Jeff, does not approve of this blog, so he'll never see it. But there's a link to his Facebook page in the info column on the right, if you want to head over there to talk to him directly.
Wilbur, the tribes you're thinking of are a few millennia later than the early hominids in the poem.
Saga! Saga, saga!
We're tuned in. Give us the rest!
The marines are famous for not leaving a man behind. Ideally, there is never such a thing as a lost marine!
~ OMK
Well, if he doesn't like our blog, Owen, I won't bother to look him up. But I still love the Jumbles.
What's with this saga bit? I took them from hunter-gatherers to the dawn of civilization, from 100,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago, and did it in only 3 stanzas! And you want more?
Kind of depends on the next set of jumble words, but you are very ingenious, Owen!
I hit on 'tribes" and thought of America. I'm not sure how different the tribes were in 1700 AD vs 5700 BC.
I suppose forming cities changed tribes to something else.
Re. Jeff... 1. We're too small for him to worry. 2. 3/4 of us do the Jumble in the newspaper. Granted, newspaper publishers have vague ideas at best of the reader's likes - evinced by TBTimes dropping Prince Valiant.
Not to speak of the NYT Sunday xword.
So... This blog enhances Jeff's work*
WC
* Now I doubt he'll give you a cut, Owen
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