ANSWERS: Back-Oops 4

Two weeks have passed by since "Back-Oops 4" was posted on this blog, so now's the time to look at everyone who has solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cathy Bowen
• Marie desJardins
• Cindy Heisler
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Michael Lebowitz
• Okieboy2008
• Sam Levitin
• Derek Allen
• Stasi Gustafson
• Chris Kochmanski
• Patrick Jordan
• Wendy Walker
• Steve Gunter
• Mom
• Lynn Sweeney
• Eli Zarconi

Now head below the break for the answers (as well as a solver's comment)!

PUZZLE #573: Back-Oops 4

PUZZLE #573

BACK-OOPS 4

One of the clues in this puzzle contains a word or phrase suggested by Patron M. Sean Molley. Support me on Patreon at $15 or more per month to suggest one word or phrase for me to put into a puzzle every month!

Some words become different words when flipped around, such as PART and TRAP. The answers to this puzzle almost fit that description, but are a little off. To figure out what they are, fill in each space in the direction of the blue arrow with the answer to each corresponding numbered clue. Where a box is divided by a horizontal line, fill in a different letter below so that a new word is formed when read backwards through the pink arrow which matches one of the clues in the "Backward Words" section (listed in no particular order).

Once everything's filled out, the changed letters on the pink arrow, when read backwards, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a term used in computer animation

FORWARD WORDS (blue arrow)

1) Beaver-like rodent from South America (anagram of "IN A RUT")

2) Deeply dependent (on)

3) "Live and _____" (theme song from Sonic Adventure 2) (EASIER CLUE: Gain some scholarly information)

4) Giving a title to

5) Prophet inside a whale whom Archibald Asparagus played in the first VeggieTales movie

6) Muffles, as sound

7) One of Julius Caesar's assassins (or what Popeye's archrival is sometimes called)

BACKWARD WORDS (pink arrow)

• City outskirts where many a sitcom is set

• Humility, chastity, or charity, e.g.

• Mercilessly mean

• Movie preview that may reveal too much (or too little) of the plot

• Resident of Bonn or Cologne

• Tower of _____ (disc-stacking puzzle named after Vietnam's capital)

• Went "ACHOO!"

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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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!

ANSWERS: Back-Oops 3

It's been nearly two weeks since "Back-Oops 3" was posted on this blog, and nineteen people have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Cathy Bowen
• Joe Bernard
• Pavel Curtis
• Marie desJardins
• Mike Armstrong
• Kevin Orfield
• Sam Levitin
• Derek Allen
• Michael Lebowitz
• Stasi Gustafson
• Chris Kochmanski
• Wendy Walker
• KeoFam
• Josie Giles
• Steve Gunter
• Mom
• Tamara Brenner

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #522: Back-Oops 3

PUZZLE #522

BACK-OOPS 3

Some words become different words when flipped around, such as PART and TRAP. The answers to this puzzle almost fit that description, but are a little off. To figure out what they are, fill in each space in the direction of the blue arrow with the answer to each corresponding numbered clue. Where a box is divided by a horizontal line, fill in a different letter below so that a new word is formed when read backwards through the pink arrow which matches one of the clues in the "Backward Words" section (listed in no particular order).

Once everything's filled out, the changed letters on the pink arrow, when read backwards, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a term used in video games

FORWARD WORDS (blue arrow)

1) Large amount of soup or stew

2) Cut-and-_____ (simple and straightforward)

3) Winter sport for Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn

4) With "The", classic rock band that did "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"

5) Completely immerse

6) Lighthearted parody

7) Famous vampire Count whom Batman fought in a non-canonical comic book

BACKWARD WORDS (pink arrow)

• April _____ Day ('80s slasher film where, as a prank on the audience, nobody dies)

• Compact computer also known as a "notebook"

• Endurance that runs out when Lara Croft sprints for too long in Tomb Raider III

• Handicapped permit hung off of a car's front view mirror, for one

• Metamorphic rock that sounds pleasant?

• Quirky and quite odd

• Well-versed in a language

Once you believe you've figured out the FINAL ANSWER, 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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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!

ANSWERS: Back-Oops 2

Roughly two weeks have gone by since my second "Back-Oops" puzzle has been posted on this blog, and over eighteen people have solved it since then, all of whom are listed below:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Chris Kochmanski
• Pavel Curtis
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Tyler Hinman
• Michael Lebowitz
• Mike Armstrong
• Sam Levitin
• Perry Groot
• Mom
• KeoFam
• Tamara Brenner
• Patrick Jordan
• Lynn Sweeney
• Steve Gunter
• Wendy Walker

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #440: Back-Oops 2

PUZZLE #440

BACK-OOPS 2

Some words become different words when flipped around, such as PART and TRAP. The answers to this puzzle almost fit that description, but are a little off. To figure out what they are, fill in each space in the direction of the blue arrow with the answer to each corresponding numbered clue. Where a box is divided by a horizontal line, fill in a different letter below so that a new word is formed when read backwards through the pink arrow which matches one of the clues in the "Backward Words" section (listed in no particular order).

Once everything's filled out, the changed letters on the pink arrow, when read backwards, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a computer game that has sold over 2 million copies

FORWARD WORDS (blue arrow)

1) The 7th Voyage of _____ (1958 adventure movie with a stop-motion cyclops)

2) Common material for dishwashing gloves

3) Revolving parts of tanks

4) Jackal-headed god who appears in the video game Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy

5) More hoarse-sounding, like a sled dog?

6) Descriptor of "planets" like Ceres and Eris

7) Closely-guarded recipe, e.g.

BACKWARD WORDS (pink arrow)

• 2006-2010 NBC series with characters such as Mohinder Suresh and Sylar

• Calf bone

• Electoral _____ (illegal act such as rigging votes)

• Foothold for a horse rider

• Put out a new printing of an album, say

• Something picked in a round of "She loves me, she loves me not"

• Wreckage remnants

Once you believe you've figured out the FINAL ANSWER, 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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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!

ANSWERS: Back-Oops

It's been thirteen days since a new puzzle format called "Back-Oops" was posted on this blog, and you guys must've liked it, as nineteen people have solved it since then!

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Joe Bernard
• Chris Kochmanski
• Kevin Orfield
• Tyler Hinman
• Meg Duvall
• Mindy Moore
• Sam Levitin
• Patrick Jordan
• Mom
• Michael Lebowitz
• Al Sisti
• Wendy Walker
• Elliott Frankfother
• Lynn Sweeney
• Tamara Brenner
• "Dot"
• Peter Abide

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #375: Back-Oops

PUZZLE #375

BACK-OOPS

One of the clues in this puzzle contains a phrase suggested by Patron M. Sean Molley. Support me on Patreon at $15 or more per month to suggest one word or phrase for me to put into a puzzle every month!

Some words become different words when flipped around, such as PART and TRAP. The answers to this puzzle almost fit that description, but are a little off. To figure out what they are, fill in each space in the direction of the blue arrow with the answer to each corresponding numbered clue. Where a box is divided by a horizontal line, fill in a different letter below so that a new word is formed when read backwards through the pink arrow which matches one of the clues in the "Backward Words" section (listed in no particular order).

Once everything's filled out, the changed letters on the pink arrow, when read backwards, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a classic rock song.

FORWARD WORDS (blue arrow)

1) Kansas City baseballer (or the shade of blue on his uniform)

2) Belonging to those guys

3) "Papa Was a _____ Stone" (#1 song by The Temptations)

4) "Hungry Hungry" board game animals

5) Ten-legged crustacean

6) Frosty and Olaf, for two

7) Type of cloud in the name of Harry Potter's first broom

BACKWARD WORDS (pink arrow)

• Audrey Tautou's role in The Da Vinci Code

• Brain cells that the average human has about 100 billion of

• Christian rock band that shares its name with a column

• Dudley Do-_____

• Gave toys to Toys for Tots, for example

• Lasagna section

• Send in an entry to The New Yorker's Cartoon Caption Contest

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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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!