PUZZLE #307
ANAGRAM CHAMBERS 8
This next puzzle is one that should be familiar to long-time solvers, as I've been making these since the number of puzzles I've made was only in the single digits. However, I think this particular puzzle type has just set the record for the most revisions I've made to it. First, the clues were inside the yellow rectangles, then I moved the clues to their own separate areas and labelled each now-empty chamber (first with numbers, then with lowercase letters), and finally, I've gotten rid of these labels altogether after my test-solver pointed out "why are the chambers labeled a-g if we are going to rearrange them?" So now that the chambers' labels are gone, the directions have been altered to reflect this, so go ahead and read 'em:
For this puzzle, there are several dark-green "chambers" with yellow
rectangles and light green squares in them. For each chamber, you take a
word in the first yellow rectangle as hinted at by the clue, add a letter
from the light green square, and scramble them to get a word in the second
yellow rectangle, then you repeat the process to get the word in the third
yellow rectangle. Unfortunately, none of the chambers are labeled, and all
seven sets of clues are in no particular order, so you have to figure out
which set of answers go to which proper chamber so the columns of light
green squares will both spell out words reading vertically.
Once all of the chambers are in the correct order, the light green squares
will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a two-word phrase
• ["For _____ About to Rock (We Salute You)" (AC/DC song)] + _ = [Red Monopoly pieces] + _ = [Despises entirely]
• [Light beam used in some welding] + _ = [Birth country of KISS bassist Gene Simmons] + _ = [Makes a comeback after trailing in touchdowns]
• [Dead or _____ (fighting video game series)] + _ = [Practical, as a plan] + _ = [Cockle, clam, or scallop]
• [Jada Pinkett Smith's role in The Matrix Reloaded] + _ = [Plane manufacturer whose 737 MAX model was grounded in 2019] + _ = [Following orders]
• [It can cause the loss of a cur's fur] + _ = [Cypher machine that Alan Turing helped decode] + _ = [Picture in one's mind]
• [Dawson's Creek actress Holmes] + _ = [Quantity of food consumed] + _ = [What rhino horns are made up of]
• [Someone who hasn't quite hit puberty yet] + _ = [Most recent] + _ = [Rawhide genre]
Once you think you know what the FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com (though I'm more likely to check the second one) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in about two weeks. You can also use those email addresses to give me some comments and feedback (or get a hint from me in exchange for a "hint star", more details for that are on the sidebar to the right) or send me the answer to last week's puzzle, if you haven't already figured it out. If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!
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