Sunday, April 13, 2025

ANSWERS: Gryptics 9

Two weeks have passed by since "Gryptics 9" was posted on this blog, and an impressive twenty-two people have solved it since then:

  • Grant Fikes
  • Cathy Bowen
  • Marie desJardins
  • Cindy Heisler
  • Pavel Curtis
  • Kevin Orfield
  • Okieboy2008
  • Michael Lebowitz
  • Sam Levitin
  • CP80
  • Chris Kochmanski
  • Derek Allen
  • Stasi Gustafson
  • Craig Leach
  • Wendy Walker
  • Tamara Brenner
  • Mom
  • Lynn Sweeney
  • KeoFam
  • Steve Gunter
  • SquishmallowsUnited
  • Patrick Jordan
Now head below the break for the answers as well as a couple solvers' comments!

Monday, April 7, 2025

PUZLLE #538: Semicircle Sorting 7

PUZZLE #538
SEMICIRCLE SORTING 7

Below are 12 semicircles, each containing three or four letters. Your job is to combine them all into six circles so that a common word (either 6, 7, or 8 letters long) can be read either clockwise or counterclockwise in each circle. However, in order to do that, six of the semicircles need to be rotated 180° upside down so that they can be correctly matched up with the remaining six semicircles.

Once all of the circles have been solved, select two of the resulting words and combine them to get the FINAL ANSWER: the two-word name of a hit disco song


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!

Sunday, April 6, 2025

ANSWERS: Fumble

Roughly two weeks have gone by since my tribute to Jumble called "Fumble" was posted on this blog, and twenty-one people have solved it since then:

  • Grant Fikes
  • Cindy Heisler
  • Marie desJardins
  • Cathy Bowen
  • Pavel Curtis
  • Joe Bernard
  • Kevin Orfield
  • OkieBoy2008
  • Michael Lebowitz
  • Sam Levitin
  • Derek Allen
  • Craig Leach
  • Tamara Brenner
  • Chris Kochmanski
  • Mom
  • CP80
  • Lynn Sweeney
  • SquishmallowsUnited
  • Wendy Walker
  • Steve Gunter
  • Stasi Gustafson
Now head below the break for the answers!