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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