ANSWERS: Dial Tunes 6

It's been almost two weeks since "Dial Tunes 6" was posted on this blog, so now it's time to take a look at all nineteen people who have solved it since then:

• Marie desJardins
• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Cathy Bowen
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Michael Lebowitz
• Chris Kochmanski
• Steve Gunter
• Eli Zarconi
• Okieboy2008
• Wendy Walker
• Derek Allen
• Ryon Chan
• KeoFam
• Nicholas Weaver
• Sam Levitin
• Mom
• Lynn Sweeney

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #565: Dial Tunes 6

PUZZLE #565

DIAL TUNES 6

This puzzle type was suggested by Patron Grant Fikes. Support me on Patreon at $25 per month to suggest any puzzle type of your choice every month!

First, answer as many of the numbered clues as you can and enter them into the first grid. Each clue ends with an arrow indicating the direction its answer should be entered: from top to bottom [↓], from bottom to top [↑], or even either way [↕]. For example, if the answers were JIB [↓], IRE [↓], SAD [↑], EVE [↕], AT [↑], and O [↕], you would enter them like this:

Next, try to decode the message (in the form of song lyrics) by replacing every circled letter with another letter that shares the same number on a telephone keypad, which we've provided on top of these directions (for example, B can be replaced by A or C). The decoded message should be entered into the second grid, as shown here (note that the bold vertical lines indicate divisions between words):

(From "Row, Row, Row Your Boat")

The FINAL ANSWER is the name of the song containing the decoded lyrics.

Place the answers to the following clues here

1) Myrtle Beach’s st. [↓]

2) Rocker Diddley who played on a distinctive rectangular guitar [↑]

3) Obtained victory [↓]

4) Result of a successful turn in Battleship [↓]

5) Biblical shepherd slain by Cain [↓]

6) Tall Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends character named after NBA star Chamberlain [↑]

7) Sleepyheaded protagonist of Little Busters! (answer hidden in STRIKING) [↑]

8) Centers of car wheels [↑]

9) Acclaimed Charli XCX album with a lime-green cover and zero Top 40 hits (unless you count its remixed version) [↑]

10) Soil-scraping garden tools [↓]

11) Second-largest Hawaiian island, after Hawaii [↑]

12) NFL player's most reasonable option for 4th and long [↓]

13) Company that's still making Beanie Babies even after 30+ years [↑]

Place the decoded lyrics here

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: Dial Tunes 5

It's been almost two weeks since "Dial Tunes 5" was published on this website, and a whopping twenty-one people have successfully solved it since then:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #505: Dial Tunes 5

PUZZLE #505

DIAL TUNES 5

First, answer as many of the numbered clues as you can and enter them into the first grid. Each clue ends with an arrow indicating the direction its answer should be entered: from top to bottom [↓], from bottom to top [↑], or even either way [↕]. For example, if the answers were JIB [↓], IRE [↓], SAD [↑], EVE [↕], AT [↑], and O [↕], you would enter them like this:

Next, try to decode the message (in the form of song lyrics) by replacing every circled letter with another letter that shares the same number on a telephone keypad, which we've provided on top of these directions (for example, B can be replaced by A or C). The decoded message should be entered into the second grid, as shown here (note that the bold vertical lines indicate divisions between words):

(From "Row, Row, Row Your Boat")

The FINAL ANSWER is the name of the song containing the decoded lyrics.

Place the answers to the following clues here

1) Only consonant used for a blood type [↕]

2) Bass _____ Shops (sporting retailer with a pyramid-shaped location in Memphis) [↑]

3) Ascots, cravats, and clip-ons [↓]

4) Cab that you drive in the 1994 computer game Quarantine [↑]

5) Type of "pit" at a rowdy punk rock concert [↑]

6) Antacid whose advertising jingle is to the tune of the Dragnet theme [↓]

7) Canadian First Nations tribe (answer hidden in DECREES) [↓]

8) '80s Tom Hanks movie with a wish-granting Zoltar machine [↓]

9) Alphabetically-first conjunction mentioned in "Conjunction Junction" [↑]

10) "A long time _____ in a galaxy far, far away...." [↓]

11) Like a fiddle, in an alliterative saying [↑]

12) Greek letter preceding Xi [↑]

13) Machine such as the Atari ST or Acer Aspire (which runs Windows) [↓]

Place the decoded lyrics here

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: Dial Tunes 4

It's been close to two weeks since "Dial Tunes 4" was posted on this blog, and a whopping twenty people have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Chris Kochmanski
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Tyler Hinman
• Mike Armstrong
• Mike Lebowitz
• KeoFam
• Wendy Walker
• Alex Milton
• Mom
• Patrick Jordan
• Al Sisti
• Sam Levitin
• Steve Gunter
• Tamara Brenner
• Lynn Sweeney
• Perry Groot
• Shannon Milbourne

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #455: Dial Tunes 4

PUZZLE #455

DIAL TUNES 4

First, answer as many of the numbered clues as you can and enter them into the first grid. Each clue ends with an arrow indicating the direction its answer should be entered: from top to bottom [↓], from bottom to top [↑], or even either way [↕]. For example, if the answers were JIB [↓], IRE [↓], SAD [↑], EVE [↕], AT [↑], and O [↕], you would enter them like this:

Next, try to decode the message (in the form of song lyrics) by replacing every circled letter with another letter that shares the same number on a telephone keypad, which we've provided on top of these directions (for example, B can be replaced by A or C). The decoded message should be entered into the second grid, as shown here (note that the bold vertical lines indicate divisions between words):

(From "Row, Row, Row Your Boat")

The FINAL ANSWER is the name of the song containing the decoded lyrics.

Place the answers to the following clues here

1) Boater, bowler, or beret [↓]

2) Smallest branch on a birch [↓]

3) Unwell [↓]

4) Mafia member's hired muscle, maybe [↓]

5) Redheaded heroine from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (anagram of PRAY) [↑]

6) Relaxing resorts [↓]

7) Ukulele's fingerboard ridge [↑]

8) Jane _____ (novel by Charlotte Brontë) [↑]

9) Ridicule (answer hidden in YOGI BEAR) [↑]

10) Claim something as false, especially if it's actually true [↑]

11) Three French birds given as a gift in "The Twelve Days of Christmas" [↓]

12) Mister _____ (Saturday morning cartoon starring an actor from The A-Team) [↕]

13) First elemental symbol on the periodic table [↕]

Place the decoded lyrics here

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: Dial Tunes 3

"Dial Tunes 3" from two weeks ago may have been on the elaborate side, but that didn't stop a whopping twenty of you from solving it, as detailed below:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Joe Bernard
• Dave C.
• Kevin Orfield
• Ray Youstra
• Sam Levitin
• Al Sisti
• Karen Spencer
• Tamara Brenner
• Michael Lebowitz
• Mindy Moore
• Tommy Weigle
• Tyler Hinman
• Stephen Potter
• Meg Duvall
• Mom
• Peter Abide
• Wendy Walker
• Lynn Sweeney

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #361: Dial Tunes 3

PUZZLE #361

DIAL TUNES 3

First, answer as many of the numbered clues as you can and enter them into the first grid. Each clue ends with an arrow indicating the direction its answer should be entered: from top to bottom [↓], from bottom to top [↑], or even either way [↕]. For example, if the answers were JIB [↓], IRE [↓], SAD [↑], EVE [↕], AT [↑], and O [↕], you would enter them like this:

Next, try to decode the message (in the form of song lyrics) by replacing every circled letter with another letter that shares the same number on a telephone keypad, which we've provided on top of these directions (for example, B can be replaced by A or C). The decoded message should be entered into the second grid, as shown here (note that the bold vertical lines indicate divisions between words):

(From "Row, Row, Row Your Boat")

The FINAL ANSWER is the name of the song containing the decoded lyrics.

Place the answers to the following clues here

1) Journey _____ the West (classic Chinese novel) [↓]

2) Letter after lambda [↑]

3) Measurement of a Mensa member: Abbr. [↑]

4) "Best Costume Design in a Musical", for one [↓]

5) Extremely fast The Incredibles character [↑]

6) Chick-_____ (fast food chain that wants you to "Eat Mor Chikin"): Hyph. [↓]

7) Stimulate, as an appetite [↓]

8) Native American in Arizona [↑]

9) Banker's offer in a Howie Mandel-hosted game show [↑]

10) Tacky light shaped like a leg in A Christmas Story [↓]

11) Grain in a Cheerio [↓]

12) Metric unit of elec. [↑]

Place the decoded lyrics here

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: Dial Tunes 2

It's been roughly two weeks since "Dial Tunes 2" was posted onto this blog, and thirteen people have solved it since then, as you can see in the following list:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Izak Bulten ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Debbie Benford ****
• Mom ****
• Laura-Leigh Mohr ****
• Lynn Sweeney ***

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

HALLOWEEN MONTH II! PUZZLE #304: Dial Tunes 2

HALLOWEEN MONTH II!

PUZZLE #304

DIAL TUNES 2

First, answer as many of the numbered clues as you can and enter them into the first grid. Each clue ends with an arrow indicating the direction its answer should be entered: from top to bottom [↓], from bottom to top [↑], or even either way [↕]. For example, if the answers were JIB [↓], IRE [↓], SAD [↑], EVE [↕], AT [↑], and O [↕], you would enter them like this:

Next, try to decode the message (in the form of song lyrics) by replacing every circled letter with another letter that shares the same number on a telephone keypad, which we've provided on top of these directions (for example, B can be replaced by A or C). The decoded message should be entered into the second grid, as shown here (note that the bold vertical lines indicate divisions between words):

(From "Row, Row, Row Your Boat")

The FINAL ANSWER is the name of the song containing the decoded lyrics.

Place the answers to the following clues here

1) Occasional vowel [↕]

2) The final _____ in the coffin [↓]

3) It's typed out in Microsoft Notepad [↑]

4) Still, like seas [↓]

5) Type of table containing data that defines the appearance of a TrueType font's characters (Alright, it's a homonym for GLYPH) [↑]

6) _____ of the d'Urbervilles (Hardy novel) [↓]

7) The Bee Gees or the Beastie Boys, e.g. (but not the Beatles) [↓]

8) "Stronghold" made of snow [↓]

9) Bills with Thomas Jefferson on them [↑]

10) Runs for fun and fitness [↑]

11) Mobster's goon [↓]

12) Out of the womb [↓]

13) Bottommost face button on a PlayStation controller [↕]

Place the decoded lyrics here

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: Dial Tunes

Since one of the answers to this puzzle is AMP, here's Luna from The Loud House rocking out on two of them! [click here for the full picture, done in the style of a newspaper comic]

Pretty good picture I've made, no? Well, before we get to the answers to "Dial Tunes", I've got some updates regarding my Patreon page. Since I've been doing more art lately, I've added two art-related tiers over there: one that removes the watermark from some of my pictures for a dollar a month, and one that lets patrons request a drawing from me for only $5 each! Not only that, I've lowered the two highest tiers (the ones that allow patrons to request a word/phrase and request an entire puzzle type, respectively) by five bucks each, so now they're worth $15 and $25 a month! I've even changed the "Support Me On Patreon" picture on the right-hand side into one that features my Yoshi persona rather than someone else's picture that uses the old (albeit better-looking) logo! So now that you're all up-to-date, here's all eleven people that have solved my puzzle from thirteen days ago:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Stephen Staver ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Mom ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Dan Simonds ****
• Debbie Benford ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****

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

MUSICAL MARCH! PUZZLE #223: Dial Tunes

🎵 MUSICAL MARCH! 🎵

PUZZLE #223

DIAL TUNES

It's the final week of Musical March, and when I first conceived of this theme month, I knew I just had to make a puzzle of this type! Back when I got my first puzzle accepted by Games Magazine, one of my solvers from back then, Christian H.P., told me about how he got an original puzzle called "Ring Tunes" published by them as well (it was in the June 2015 issue, for those curious). After I finished making this puzzle, I dug up his email address and sent him a message, and to my surprise, he replied back, saying he was "flattered" that I made a puzzle that he created. So if you're reading this, Christian, I hope you'll enjoy it! For everyone else, I have to warn you that this puzzle's pretty elaborate, so bear with me here...

First, answer as many of the numbered clues as you can and enter them into the first grid. Each clue ends with an arrow indicating the direction its answer should be entered: from top to bottom [↓], from bottom to top [↑], or even either way [↕]. For example, if the answers were JIB [↓], IRE [↓], SAD [↑], EVE [↕], AT [↑], and O [↕], you would enter them like this:

Next, try to decode the message (in the form of song lyrics) by replacing every circled letter with another letter that shares the same number on a telephone keypad, which we've provided on top of these directions (for example, B can be replaced by A or C). The decoded message should be entered into the second grid, as shown here (note that the bold vertical lines indicate divisions between words):

(From "Row, Row, Row Your Boat")

The FINAL ANSWER is the name of the song containing the decoded lyrics.

Place the answers to the following clues here

1) Bass guitar booster [↑]
2) Current CBS sitcom starring Anna Faris and Allison Janney [↕]
3) Lode load [↓]
4) Last name of General Thunderbolt from The Incredible Hulk [↓]
5) Summon with a beeper [↑]
6) Neural transmitter [↑]
7) Defrost, like frozen food [↓]
8) Second-largest members of the deer family [↑]
9) Weapon for Devo or Indiana Jones [↓]
10) Nick @ _____ (evening programming block) [↓]
11) DVR introduced in 1999 [↓]
12) + [↑]
13) Spirit from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword whose name reverses to a conjunction [↓]

Place the decoded lyrics here

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! I've even included a second version to print out by converting it into a .PDF file and embedding it below the usual .PNG file along with two Google Docs links!