ANSWERS: Color Wheels 5

It's been almost two weeks since "Color Wheels 5" was posted on this blog, and seventeen people have solved it since then (the most I've gotten for this puzzle type!). Take a look:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #474: Color Wheels 5

PUZZLE #474

COLOR WHEELS 5

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!

The five- and six-letter answers in this puzzle go in three directions: straight across, uphill (up diagonally), and downhill (down diagonally), all from left to right, with one letter per triangle. Each entry is marked with a colored pointer: red for across, green for uphill, and blue for downhill. This is important, because all the answers are grouped according to the direction that they're entered into the grid. To make things a tad easier, six letters have already been entered into the grid.

Once you've completely filled in the grid, the two unclued blue entries will combine to make the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a well-known businessperson

ACROSS (marked with red arrows)

• "O Canada", for Canada

• Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center, e.g.

• The largest dam in Egypt

• Emperor Julius who was not the namesake of a salad

• Ethan Frome author Wharton

• Failed Ford cars from the '50s

• Wink Martindale-hosted game show based on blackjack (or a sacrificial chess opening)

• Charles de _____ Airport

• "May _____ your order?": 2 wds.

• Certain blue pill whose function I can't exactly describe in a family-friendly manner

UPHILL (marked with green arrows)

• Guinea-_____ (small African country)

• Avoid or evade

• Pain resulting from lifting something too heavy

• Tiny Greek vowels?

• London-based market that once insured Gene Simmons' tongue

• Musician Janelle with the Gold-certified song "Tightrope"

• Oyster lining also known as "mother-of-pearl"

• Expert in a very specific field

• "_____ Magically Delicious!" (Lucky Charms' slogan)

• Wascally animal hunted by Elmer Fudd

DOWNHILL (marked with blue arrows)

• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

• _____ Republic (clothing store owned by Gap Inc.)

• Rusted-up Tin Man's request in The Wizard of Oz

• Pokémon _____ Ruby and Alpha Sapphire (pair of Nintendo 3DS games)

• Took care of fallen autumn leaves without a leaf blower

• With "The", Jason Mraz hit subtitled "(I Won't Worry)"

• Positioned, as a building

• Heavy overcoat (anagram of RESULT)

• Former 20/20 co-anchor Elizabeth (or last name of YouTuber Angry Joe)

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: Color Wheels 4

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Color Wheels 4" was posted on this blog, and quite a few people since then have correctly figured it out, all of whom are listed below:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Joe Bernard
• Chris Kochmanski
• Kevin Orfield
• Mike Armstrong
• Tyler Hinman
• Sam Levitin
• Wendy Walker
• KeoFam
• Peter Abide
• Lynn Sweeney
• Mom
• Michael Lebowitz

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

PUZZLE #399: Color Wheels 4

PUZZLE #399

COLOR WHEELS 4

The five- and six-letter answers in this puzzle go in three directions: straight across, uphill (up diagonally), and downhill (down diagonally), all from left to right, with one letter per triangle. Each entry is marked with a colored pointer: red for across, green for uphill, and blue for downhill. This is important, because all the answers are grouped according to the direction that they're entered into the grid. To make things a tad easier, six letters have already been entered into the grid.

Once you've completely filled in the grid, the two unclued red entries will combine to make the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a streaming-only animated series

ACROSS (marked with red arrows)

• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

• Skeletal puppet who often shouts "Silence!! I keel you!"

• SS _____ Doria (sunken ship)

• Ten-time Grammy winner Streisand

• Seller of the No. 5, No. 19, and No. 22 perfumes

• Failed Ford car described as "an Oldsmobile sucking on a lemon"

• Skewered slabs of meat

• Controversial YouTuber Paul who signed with WWE in 2022

• Robotic villain who sings a song from Pinocchio in the second Avengers movie

UPHILL (marked with green arrows)

• Badalamenti who composed the music for Twin Peaks

• Soaked in a hot tub

• Ornate ornamental pin

• "You Send Me" singer Sam

• "_____ in your mouth, not in your hand" (old M&M's slogan)

• "Flowery" liquid consumed by hummingbirds

• Add more seasoning to an icy road, maybe

• Everybody Loves Raymond's Ray

• Smell or sight, e.g.

• Turn on its head

DOWNHILL (marked with blue arrows)

• Yo-Yo Ma's instrument

• Latina princess from a 2010s Disney Junior show

• Costume that's basically a bedsheet with two eye holes

• Windowsills

• The world's second-smallest country by area (after Vatican City)

• Gasoline rating

• Batman: Arkham Asylum character who gives Batman information (like a certain prophet from Delphi)

• Basic fighting game move that uses a fist

• Flattened anglerfish named after a flying mammal

• _____ rasa (philosophical concept from the Latin for "blank slate")

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: Color Wheels 3

Thirteen days have gone by since "Color Wheels 3" was posted on this blog, and it must've been on the harder side, since the number of solvers dipped a bit to just nine:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Mom ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Elliott Frankfother ****

No solver comments this week, either, but you can still head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #323: Color Wheels 3

PUZZLE #323

COLOR WHEELS 3

The five- and six-letter answers in this puzzle go in three directions: straight across, uphill (up diagonally), and downhill (down diagonally), all from left to right, with one letter per triangle. Each entry is marked with a colored pointer: red for across, green for uphill, and blue for downhill. This is important, because all the answers are grouped according to the direction that they're entered into the grid. To make things a tad easier, six letters have already been entered into the grid.

Once you've completely filled in the grid, the two unclued green entries will combine to make the FINAL ANSWER: the name of an actress

ACROSS (marked with red arrows)

• "No, not that I'm ___ of"

• 1959 Heston film that won 11 Oscars (or its 2016 remake that won 0 Oscars): Hyph.

• Winery's storage space

• Mother of Huey, Dewey & Louie from DuckTales (2017-21)

• Hamster relative with a furry tail

• Stuck with the same old routine: 3 wds.

• Internet hookup device

• Cheesy Mexican snacks first created in 1940

• Where MLK's march to Montgomery began

• Street where Abby Cadabby and Elmo live

UPHILL (marked with green arrows)

• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

• Where Davy Crockett died

• Sandwich with two all-beef patties, special sauce, and so on: 2 wds.

• "Chariot" singer Gavin

• _____ Inside® (computer chip slogan)

• Expire, as a Sam's Club membership

• Sonia Sotomayor or Selena, e.g.

• Deal or No Deal host Howie who also created Bobby's World

• Money used in Pakistan or Hyrule

DOWNHILL (marked with blue arrows)

• Battlebots competitor made up of twin robots (just like the zodiac sign)

• American "Age" that preceded the Progressive Era

• Double-edged scalpel

• The Cleveland Browns suffered 16 of these in the 2017 NFL season

• Death Becomes Her star Streep

• Weeping statue from Greek mythology

• Caregiver that players can employ in Theme Hospital

• The 25th Annual _____ County Spelling Bee (Tony-winning musical)

• Watch a film in theaters a second time, say

• Walmart rival with a red and white logo

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: Color Wheels 2

A Goomba holding a RACKET (one of the answers to this puzzle)

Neat animation, huh? Anyhoo, before I reveal who solved "Color Wheels 2", I wanted you to know that I've added my first goal to my Patreon page! Right now, I'm at $19 monthly, so if I get at least $20 a month, I'll add a second Patreon-exclusive puzzle every month! Okay, so it's not a very good goal, as it only applies to the three people that currently support me at the $5 level, so let me know in the comments or through email if there are any better goals that I can add in addition to the one I've already set. Now with that bit of news out of the way, here are the nine people that solved my puzzle from thirteen days ago!

• Grant Fikes ****
• Pavel Curtis ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Mom ****
• Debbie Benford ****
• Lynn Sweeney ***
• Dan Simonds ****

Now head below the break for the answers as well as some solver comments!

PUZZLE #213: Color Wheels 2

PUZZLE #213

COLOR WHEELS 2

D'oh! Sorry I'm late! Forgot to schedule this one! Anyway, here's a type of puzzle that I haven't done in a really long time!

The five- and six-letter answers in this puzzle go in three directions: straight across, uphill (up diagonally), and downhill (down diagonally), all from left to right, with one letter per triangle. Each entry is marked with a colored pointer: red for across, green for uphill, and blue for downhill. This is important, because all the answers are grouped according to the direction that they're entered into the grid. To make things a tad easier, six letters have already been entered into the grid.

Once you've completely filled in the grid, the two unclued blue entries will combine to make the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a British TV show

ACROSS (marked with red arrows)
* First island sung in The Beach Boys' "Kokomo"
* Idiotic green-haired fairy from The Fairly Oddparents
* Letter after gamma
* The Fog of War documentarian Morris
* _____ out (went overboard on describing nerdy stuff)
* Egged on
* Fire-type starter Pokémon that evolves into Incineroar (HINT: It rhymes with the name of a baby cat)
* Arcade game with Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde: Hyph.
* Airport runway surface
* "I Want YOU for _____" (words on an iconic Uncle Sam poster): 2 wds.

UPHILL (marked with green arrows)
* Insurance company with a quacking mascot
* More appropriate
* "Do a _____ roll!" (Star Fox 64 quote)
* Presidential proclamation
* Bulletproof vest material
* Succeeded in hitting the big time: 2 wds.
* Last name of Stan from South Park
* Ornate 18th-century architectural style
* Use your tongue's buds
* Late Mother with a Nobel Peace Prize

DOWNHILL (marked with blue arrows)
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* _____ Point (Ohio amusement park)
* Lassie's species
* Detroit-based soda brand that Insane Clown Posse sprays their fans with
* Stories about ancient Egyptian gods, say
* E-commerce site owned by eBay until 2015
* Tennis tool with strings once made of catgut
* Family Video offering
* Pearl Jam singer Eddie

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 version you can print out!

ANSWERS: Color Wheels

Before we get to the answers and solvers for my "Color Wheels" puzzle, I want to focus our attention on last week's puzzle, considering that only 6 people have solved that one so far. I believe that number could be a bit higher, so I'd like to remind you that you can ask me for hints through my "Hint Stars" system that I set up a while ago. Right now, however, the only people using them are those that I meet in person, which begs this question: why aren't you using your Hint Stars? Is it pride? Do you just dislike asking for help even more than looking up the answers? Or is it something else entirely? Let me know either in the comments section below or via email, and I'll try to take your feedback into consideration. So with that out of the way, let's reveal who solved the "Color Wheels"!

• Eric Maddy ****
• YYW ****
• Adam Weaver ****
• Grant Fikes ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Paolo Pasco ****
• Mom ***
• Lynn Sweeney **
• Debbie Underwood ****

Now head below the break for the answers, along with some solver comments!

PUZZLE #35: Color Wheels

PUZZLE #35

COLOR WHEELS

This next puzzle is based off a grid I found in one of my old issues of GAMES magazine (yes, I saved them; after all, why would you want to throw away something with beautiful Paint By Numbers and/or Link-A-Pix puzzles that you worked so hard on?). Speaking of which, I should probably renew my subscription now that I'm going to get published! Read on for the directions while I do that...

The five- and six-letter answers in this puzzle go in three directions: straight across, uphill (up diagonally), and downhill (down diagonally), all from left to right, with one letter per triangle. Each entry is marked with a colored pointer: red for across, green for uphill, and blue for downhill. This is important, because all the answers are grouped according to the direction that they're entered into the grid. To make things a tad easier, six letters have already been entered into the grid.

Once you've completely filled in the grid, the two unclued red entries will combine to make the FINAL ANSWER: the name of an actor.

ACROSS (marked with red arrows)
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* P-body's companion in Portal 2's co-op mode
* Two-part season 4 premiere of The Office (the second half of this answer is the same as the second half of one of the uphill answers. Whoops!): 2 wds.
* On Deadly _____ (stinky Steven Seagal movie)
* Betted on two horses, say
* Actor Gary who played Commissioner Gordon
* Subtitle of the first Guitar Hero game for Nintendo DS: 2 wds.
* Aired an old TV show again
* Cardcaptor _____ ("magical girl" anime)

UPHILL (marked with green arrows)
* Name that precedes "The Giant" or "3000"
* Cartoon Network character with a secret laboratory
* Hey Arnold! character with a tall afro
* Greek letter used in the Half-Life logo
* _____ Work ("Overkill" band): 2 wds.
* Classic Sega arcade game where you drive a red Ferrari with a blonde girl: 2 wds.
* Moscow money
* Still in the original packaging
* First single off of Foreigner's 4
* Final word of Nirvana's final album

DOWNHILL (marked with blue arrows)
* Fluttershy's pet bunny (who, more often than not, doesn't live up to his name)
* Archie or Edith
* Political refugee
* Grip firmly
* _____ specus (logical fallacy with a name coined by Sir Francis Bacon)
* Pounds potatoes to a pulp
* Crimson covering of a fox: 2 wds.
* Oklahoma's second-largest city
* Tank's top
* Weezer tune also known as "The Sweater Song"

Once you believe you've figured out the FINAL ANSWER, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net (the main email for my home computer) or itsredhead64@gmail.com (the main email for my tablet and whenever I'm not at home) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in roughly 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. If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for a version you can print out!