Monday, December 9, 2024

PUZZLE #521: Anagram Chambers 12

PUZZLE #521
ANAGRAM CHAMBERS 12

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!

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


• [Body lacking limbs and a head] + _ = [Groups of Girl Scouts] + _ = [Atom parts other than electrons and neutrons]
• [Pass into law] + _ = ["Hypnotic" subgenre of electronic dance music] + _ = [Human-horse hybrid seen in the "Pastoral Symphony" segment of Fantasia]
• [Angela's _____ (Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir)] + _ = [Stock market units] + _ = [Strapped device that can hold your horses]
• [What's left of a chopped-down tree] + _ = [It separates the nostrils in a human nose] + _ = [Kermit, Fozzie, Gonzo, and so on]
• [Word preceding "piano" or "prix"] + _ = [Fire-breathing creature such as Spyro] + _ = [Doting or devoted]
• [Narrator and protagonist of To Kill a Mockingbird] + _ = [Specially made] + _ = [Any outfit worn by contestants on Let's Make a Deal]
• [My Dinner with _____ (minimalist movie from 1981)] + _ = [Made money] + _ = [#1 Bruno Mars song named after a throwable explosive]

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!

4 comments:

  1. This puzzle sounds like such a brain workout. I love how it combines wordplay with logic—definitely keeps things interesting!

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  2. The idea of "Anagram Chambers" is brilliant. The use of colors and hints makes it feel like solving a visual and linguistic maze!

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  3. Supporting on Patreon seems like a great way to contribute to such creative puzzles. Hats off to M. Sean Molley for the idea!

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  4. I appreciate that you're open to giving hints. It's great to have the option while still keeping the challenge alive.

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