ANSWERS: Deck It Out 6

It's been thirteen days since "Deck It Out 6", as well as the ad for solitairebliss.com that I got compensated for, were both published on this blog. A massive-to-me fourteen people successfully solved the puzzle since then, and all of them are listed below:

• Cindy Heisler ****
• Grant Fikes ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Mom ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Elliott Frankfother ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Dan & Lisa Simonds ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****

Now head below the break for the answers as well as a couple solvers' comments!

PUZZLE #319: Pieces of Nine 8

PUZZLE #319

PIECES OF NINE 8

Arrange the trigrams (blocks with three squares/letters in them) to make seven 9-letter words. After that, sort the new words so that the first one alphabetically is in row 1, the second one alphabetically is in row 2, and so on.

Once you're done, read down two of the columns for the FINAL ANSWER: a two-word phrase

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!

ANSWERS: Triangle Tangle 2

It's been close to two weeks since "Triangle Tangle 2" was posted on this blog, and twelve people since then have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Pavel Curtis ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Mom ****

Now head below the break for the answers as well as a couple solvers' comments!

PUZZLE #318: Deck It Out 6 [Sponsored Puzzle!]

PUZZLE #318

DECK IT OUT 6

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Fill in the answers to the clues below, then transfer the letters marked with playing card symbols to their proper places in the grid below. The number (or letter) of each clue will tell you what column to place those letters in. Once it's completely filled in, the grid will spell out a sentence that will provide a hint to the FINAL ANSWER.

This week's FINAL ANSWER is a noun

A) Beat _____ (Fox game show based off of a song-recognizing app)

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2) Artillery weapon that may shoot out a circus performer

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        ♢   ♡   ♠   ♣

3) Princess Jasmine's father

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    ♢       ♣   ♡   ♠

4) Season in South America when it's summer in North America

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        ♣   ♡   ♢       ♠

5) Baltic country directly south of Estonia

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        ♠   ♣       ♢   ♡

6) #1 song from the Flashdance soundtrack (other than the title tune)

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    ♡   ♣   ♢           ♠

7) Vehicle in "Jingle Bells"

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            ♡   ♣   ♢   ♠

8) Christina's World painter Wyeth

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        ♠   ♡   ♣   ♢

9) Raccoon from Sonic Rush Adventure (or one of "The Few, The Proud")

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        ♡   ♢   ♠       ♣

10) Video signal sent to networks airing live programming, say: 2 wds.

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    ♢   ♣   ♡           ♠

J) Canada's capital

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        ♡       ♣   ♠   ♢

Q) Feathered friend of Ronald McDonald (EASIER CLUE: One under par)

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        ♢   ♣       ♠   ♡

K) _____ Word Score (space on the corners of a Scrabble board)

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    ♠   ♡   ♣       ♢

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 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!

ANSWERS: Pathfinder 2

It's been almost two weeks since my second attempt at a "Pathfinder" puzzle got posted here, and an impressive twelve people have successfully solved it since then, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Pavel Curtis ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Peter Abide ****
• Lynn Sweeney ***
• Mom ****
• William Dunbar ****

Now head below the break for the answers as well as a couple solvers' comments!

PUZZLE #317: Triangle Tangle 2

PUZZLE #317

TRIANGLE TANGLE 2

To solve this puzzle, enter the 4-letter answer to each clue into the diagram either from top to bottom or diagonally upward. There are two numbers starting each clue; each answer begins in the triangle marked with the first number, and ends in the triangle marked with the second.

Once the grid has been filled in, there are two more words hiding in the topmost row of letters and the bottommost row of letters. Combine them both to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a winter sports video game

1-2) The only one of Donald Duck's nephews who doesn't have a five-letter name

2-3) Website for local restaurant reviews

3-4) Math symbol that shares the same keyboard key as "="

4-5) Canal that connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas

5-6) Humped cattle

6-7) Ridesharing company with an "Eats" subsidiary

7-8) Pack of paper

8-9) Gym class cushions

9-10) Education acronym that occasionally includes "A" for "Arts"

10-11) Honey-based beverage mentioned in The Canterbury Tales

11-12) "_____ California" (top-10 Red Hot Chili Peppers song)

12-13) Worshipper of Inti, the sun god

13-14) Eight, in Essen, Germany

14-15) Wielder of Mjölnir

15-16) Panic _____ (2002 Jodie Foster movie)

16-17) Obsessive-compulsive TV detective Adrian

17-18) Gold fort that Pinky and the Brain once tried (and failed) to steal from

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!

ANSWERS: Slide Show: Double Feature 2

Thirteen days have gone by since my second "Slide Show: Double Feature" puzzle was posted on this blog, and thirteen is also the number of people that have successfully solved it since then, and they're all listed below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Mom, with Alex & Eric Milton ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Dan & Lisa Simonds ****

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #316: Pathfinder 2

PUZZLE #316

PATHFINDER 2

In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered square, goes in the indicated direction, and makes at least one right-angled turn as it winds through the grid. When you're finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.

Once the grid is filled out, there should be another entry inside it that doesn't have a corresponding clue, nor does it start in a numbered space. This unlisted word is this week's FINAL ANSWER: A fictional race

1W) James Bond film that will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2021 [8 3 7]

2E) Horse-_____ cart [5]

3S) Extremely skeptical [11]

4N) Eyelash thickener [7]

5N) Amelia Bedelia, and others in her line of work [5]

6E) Deep, deep sleeps [5]

7E) Pixar movie featuring two blue elf brothers [6]

8N) Bank vault that tends to land on cartoon characters [4]

9S) Paula who was a judge on the first eight seasons of American Idol [5]

10E) Partner of "Bed" and "Bath" in a store's name [6]

11W) Wealthy teen girl from Archie comics [8]

12S) Film studio that originally distributed Clerks [7]

13S) Wisconsin's state animal [6]

14S) _____ En-lai [4]

14S also) Sprouting "pet" that comes in a "Weird Al" model [4]

15N) Church, like the one in Westminster [5]

16S) Create computer software [7]

17N) Like contestants on a reality show hosted by RuPaul [2 4]

18N) Instrument heard in the iPhone's default ringtone [7]

19S) What "♥" can represent [4]

20N) Laser_____ (DVD ancestor) [4]

21S) Strong string often balled up [5]

22W) Flag holder [4]

23W) Prove Darwin's theory right, in a way [6]

24W) Band that performed silly love songs like "Silly Love Songs" [5]

25W) Hubble whom a telescope was named after [5]

26W) With "The", Adam Sandler movie where he performs '80s songs like "Love Stinks" [7 6]

27E) Approximate [7]

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 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!

ANSWERS: Link-Letters 9

Happy New Year (and good bleeping riddance to 2020)! I can't think of anything to smoothly segue from that, so here are the twelve people who solved "Link-Letters 9" from thirteen days ago:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Mom ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Dan & Lisa Simonds ****

Now head below the break for the answers!