Sunday, April 11, 2021

ANSWERS: Semicircle Sorting 2

It's been almost two weeks since the final puzzle using my old "hint star" system, "Semicircle Sorting 2", was posted onto this blog. It went out with a bang, too, as a stupendous nineteen people have successfully solved it, all of whom are listed below:

  • Grant Fikes ****
  • Cindy Heisler ****
  • Giovanni Pagano ****
  • Pavel Curtis ****
  • Kevin Orfield ****
  • Sam Levitin ****
  • Karen Spencer ****
  • Marich ****
  • Tyler Hinman ****
  • Stephen Potter ****
  • Mom ****
  • Charles Flaster ****
  • Wendy Walker ****
  • Dave C ****
  • Debbie Benford ****
  • Lynn Sweeney ****
  • Peter Abide ****
  • Tamara Brenner ****
  • Dan Simonds ****
Now head below the break for the answers as well as a couple solvers' comments!

[The letters in each set of parentheses represent the letters in each semicircle]

(GUN) + (SELG) = SNUGGLE
(KEU) + (PTA) = UPTAKE
(MFI) + (REAR) = FIREARM
(NEW) + (TYT) = TWENTY
(DRAW) + (OCYL) = COWARDLY
(OXMA) + (TCHB) = MATCHBOX

The two words that combine to form the name of a rock band are MATCHBOX TWENTY


Patron Pavel Curtis said that this was "Another fun one to do entirely in my head!  Yay!  Sadly, the very first two circles I finished were, in order, the name of the band, so there was a bit of an anticlimax there, but still fun to work out the remaining ones.  Some nice misdirections in there... :-)" [As it turned out, I had multiple people get "MATCHBOX" and "TWENTY" as their first two answers as well]

Solver Tamara Brenner said that "These puzzles are an educational experience for me when it comes to popular culture. :)"

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