ANSWERS: Section Six 12

It's been roughly two weeks since "Section Six 12" was posted on this blog, and seventeen people have solved it since then, as you can see by the following list:

• Marie desJardins
• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Cathy Bowen
• Pavel Curtis
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Okieboy2008
• SquishmallowsUnited
• Sam Levitin
• Michael Lebowitz
• Wendy Walker
• Chris Kochmanski
• Derek Allen
• Steve Gunter
• Mom
• Lynn Sweeney

Now head below the break for the answers as well as a solver's comment!

PUZZLE #608: Section Six 12

PUZZLE #608

SECTION SIX 12

This puzzle type was suggested by Patron Grant Fikes. Normally, you can suggest a puzzle type of your own choice over on my Patreon page, but both slots are still full, so you might have to resort to PayPal if you still want to make a request of your own.

This puzzle's grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise OR counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outermost ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, and each answer’s starting points are marked with a dot [•]. However, which direction they proceed in is for you to figure out. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you figure out the letters in the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section's outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Once you're done, unscramble the six spaces with stars in them to get the FINAL ANSWER: a six-letter word.

RING 1

1) "YEOW, that hurts!"

2) Welded together

3) Joey formerly of *NSYNC (answer hidden in SOLFA TONES)

4) Drop the ball, if you're a clumsy NFL player

5) CVS _____ (America's largest drugstore chain)

6) Completely dead, as dodos and dinos

RING 2

• Electric current unit whose symbol is the first letter of the alphabet

• Deceptive poker ploy

• The Phil _____ Show (1967-96 daytime talk show)

• Merit badge earner

• Imprecise

RING 3

• Spots or sees

• Amount that fits into a fist

• Word following "balance" or "laser"

• Before the government's share is added to a grocery bill, say

RING 4

• Don't Forget the Lyrics! hostess Niecy (or a bandmate of Crosby and Stills)

• Quoted out of _____

• Went on and on with tangent after tangent and with seemingly no real point to be made

RING 5

• Beach umbrella's offering

• "Un-Break My Heart" singer Toni

RING 6

• Boston baseball team featured in the 2005 film Fever Pitch: 2 wds.

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: Section Six 11

Two weeks have passed by since "Section Six 11" was posted on this blog, and nineteen people have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Marie desJardins
• Cathy Bowen
• Cindy Heisler
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Okieboy2008
• Sam Levitin
• Michael Lebowitz
• KeoFam
• Wendy Walker
• Steve Gunter
• Mom
• Tamara Brenner
• Derek Allen
• Lynn Sweeney
• Stasi Gustafson
• Pavel Curtis
• Craig Leach

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #547: Section Six 11

PUZZLE #547

SECTION SIX 11

This puzzle (suggested by Patron Grant Fikes) 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!

This puzzle's grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise OR counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outermost ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, and each answer’s starting points are marked with a dot [•]. However, which direction they proceed in is for you to figure out. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you figure out the letters in the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section's outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Once you're done, unscramble the six spaces with stars in them to get the FINAL ANSWER: a six-letter word.

RING 1

1) Covering for a classic Kit Kat bar

2) Her #1 song "Raise Your Glass" went five times platinum

3) Sun blocker on a baseball cap

4) Poison used in old Agatha Christie mysteries

5) Like a bug in a rug

6) _____-Webster (dictionary company)

RING 2

• Blondie's pet dog in Blondie (or an oxeye flower, e.g.)

• The "C" in the mathematical memory aid "SOH-CAH-TOA"

• Crucially important, like a literal turning point?

• _____ of the board (male committee leaders)

• Strongly advise

RING 3

• Status of a volcano currently erupting lava

• Too loud

• Calvin Klein, or the type of clothes his company makes

• Video game plumber who appears as a baby in Yoshi's Island

RING 4

• Supercuts' parent company (or former Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? host Philbin)

• Manufacturer of the Airblade hand dryer

• British Queen with an African lake and an African waterfall named after her

RING 5

• Letter between Romeo and Tango

• Novelty song by C. W. McCall based on the CB radio fad of the 1970s

RING 6

• Johnny who hosted over 6,700 episodes of The Tonight Show

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: Section Six 10

It's been almost two weeks since my tenth "Section Six" puzzle was posted on this blog, and seventeen people have solved it since then:

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

Now head below the break for the answers as well as a solver's comment!

PUZZLE #484: Section Six 10

PUZZLE #484

SECTION SIX 10

This puzzle's grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise OR counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outermost ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, and each answer’s starting points are marked with a dot [•]. However, which direction they proceed in is for you to figure out. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you figure out the letters in the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section's outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Once you're done, unscramble the six spaces with stars in them to get the FINAL ANSWER: a six-letter word.

RING 1
1) Turn the Big Wheel on The Price is Right, say

2) Concrete playground with handrails and halfpipes

3) Decorated with a piping bag

4) The Adventures of Sharkboy and _____ in 3-D (2005 family film)

5) Word after "horseshoe", "domino", or "conspiracy"

6) Animated character often mentioned in crossword clues for "OGRE"

RING 2

• Smelly onion-like clove that Wario loves to eat

• Darth _____ (Sith name of Anakin Skywalker)

• Islamic country with Islamabad as its capital

• Synonym for "Annoys" that has only one vowel

• Pennsylvania town with streetlights shaped like chocolate Kisses

RING 3

• Party where "happy hardcore" techno may be played

• Where visiting NHL teams fight Flames?

• Tiger voiced by George Sanders in 1967’s The Jungle Book: 2 wds.

• Polynesian carving

RING 4

• Fiddles around (with)

• Wife of Hägar the Horrible

• Fish eggs mentioned in a closing catchphrase from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous

RING 5

• Uber, to Lyft, e.g.

• Little pickle

RING 6

• Temperature scale with no negative numbers

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: Section Six 9

It's been nearly two weeks since "Section Six 9" was posted on this blog, so now's the time for me to reveal the list of everyone who has solved it since then:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #426: Section Six 9

PUZZLE #426

SECTION SIX 9

One of the clues in this puzzle contains a word 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!

This puzzle's grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise OR counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outermost ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, and each answer’s starting points are marked with a dot [•]. However, which direction they proceed in is for you to figure out. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you figure out the letters in the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section's outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Once you're done, unscramble the six spaces with stars in them to get the FINAL ANSWER: a six-letter word.

RING 1
1) Law force that Riggs and Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon work for: Abbr.

2) Goro from Squid Girl, e.g. (HINT: he saves beachgoers from drowning)

3) Key & Peele's Peele

4) Places to insert quarters in an arcade game cabinet

5) Furry alien that worships C-3PO as a god

6) Commandments (anagram of PETER'S PC)

RING 2

• Spaceley's Space _____ (business where George Jetson works)

• Answered a "Help Wanted" ad

• Part of "FDA" or "DEA"

• Retired NBA player Kidd who currently coaches the Dallas Mavericks

• Shakespearean synonym for "resided"

RING 3

• Swamps, marshes, and bogs

• Arbitrated

• Michelangelo sculpture enshrined in Vatican City

• Hybrid cutlery that gets turned into a toy in Toy Story 4

RING 4

• 2011 Lady Gaga single named after a Biblical betrayer

• MTV and MeTV, for two

• Lukewarm, like a reaction or room-temperature water

RING 5

• Wide receiver Terrell in the Pro Football Hall of Fame

• Gas giant with moons named Callisto and Io

RING 6

• "_____ Funk" (#1 song by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars)

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: Section Six 8

Happy Super Bowl Sunday everyone! I can't think of a way to smoothly segue from that, so here are the fifteen people who have solved "Section Six 8" from thirteen days ago:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Sam Levitin
• Meg Duvall
• Tamara Brenner
• Wendy Walker
• Tyler Hinman
• Al Sisti
• Mom
• Michael Lebowitz
• Lynn Sweeney
• Mindy Moore
• Peter Abide

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #372: Section Six 8

PUZZLE #372

SECTION SIX 8

This puzzle's grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise OR counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outermost ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to figure out. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section's outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Once you're done, unscramble the six spaces with stars in them to get the FINAL ANSWER: a six-letter word.

RING 1
1) "Sugar Pie" or "Honeybunch", e.g.: 2 wds.

2) Tiled artwork

3) Too talkative and rude

4) "Gray", "Flay", "Sway", and "Pay", say

5) Vijay Singh, for one

6) Authorized stand-in

RING 2

• Resident of a country formerly known as Siam

• Movie director's audio track on many a DVD

• _____ Puzzler (Game Show Network show based on a specific celebrity magazine's crosswords)

• Steams (up), like eyeglasses

• "Yo! Over here, bub!": 2 wds.

RING 3

• 5 1⁄4-inch computer diskette

• Amorous

• Fifth month in Mexico

• Aviator Howard who once ran RKO Pictures (poorly, I might add)

RING 4

• Bok _____

• Knickknacks' ledge

• Arsonist's favorite Def Leppard album?

RING 5

• Tweety's species

• Like pulp-filled oranges

RING 6

• Naomi Watts' starring role in The Ring (2002)

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: Section Six 7

It's been thirteen days since the final puzzle in Circular Month, "Section Six 7", was posted onto this blog, and a seriously impressive twelve people have solved it since then, all of whom can be seen in the list below:

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

Now head below the break for the answers as well as a few comments from my solvers!

CIRCULAR M◎NTH! PUZZLE #293: Section Six 7

CIRCULAR M🟢NTH!

PUZZLE #293

SECTION SIX 7

This puzzle's grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise OR counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outermost ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to figure out. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section's outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Once you're done, unscramble the six spaces with stars in them to get the FINAL ANSWER: a six-letter word.

Special thanks to Grant Fikes for making this grid for me

RING 1

1) Perhaps (or perhaps not)

2) Metal thingy at the tip of a hose

3) Umbrella-wielding foe of Batman

4) "That's not what I _____ to say!"

5) The last letter in "UFO"

6) #1 Blondie song that ends with Debbie Harry rapping

RING 2

* Make water fizzy with SodaStream, say

* 12-year-old guitar-playing main character of Pixar's Coco

* "Girl of the 21st Century" from a 1999 Disney Channel movie (whose name sounds like the 54th element)

* Equine on packs of Fruit Stripe gum

* Entice

RING 3

* Mercedes-_____

* Pea or peanut, for one

* Napoleon's surname

* Passover bread

RING 4

* Okra soup

* Sequestered

* Commit check fraud, e.g. (on a side note, please don't ever commit check fraud)

RING 5

* Knotted snack

* Latin dance-based fitness program that inspired a series of Nintendo Wii "exer-games"

RING 6

* Round button pressed by contestants on Press Your Luck and other game shows

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: Section Six 6

In the obscure DOS game Lexi-Cross, this is what your avatar looks like if it hails from SATURN
(SATURN being one of the answers to this puzzle)

Almost two weeks have gone by since my sixth "Section Six" puzzle was posted on this blog, and eight people since then have successfully solved it, as you can tell by the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Adam Weaver ****
• Mom ****
• Dan Simonds ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Lynn Sweeney **

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #238: Section Six 6

PUZZLE #238

SECTION SIX 6

This puzzle's grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise OR counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outermost ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to figure out. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section's outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Once you're done, unscramble the six spaces with stars in them to get the FINAL ANSWER: a six-letter word.

RING 1
1) Spiro who was the second Vice President to resign
2) They're no amateurs
3) Sketch comedy show from Rowan & Martin: Hyph.
4) Type of "reality" provided by the Oculus Rift
5) Very run-of-the-mill
6) Resident of Belgrade

RING 2
* "_____ Wood" (Beatles song)
* Hold responsible
* The evil Lord of the Rings from The Lord of the Rings
* Specialty of Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer
* Shell-less gastropod

RING 3
* Autobiography that was adapted into the film What's Love Got to Do with It: 2 wds.
* Deceptive scheme
* Japanese comic book that's read right to left
* "Sweet" opening track from the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers: 2 wds.

RING 4
* Island nation that was the only known home of the dodo
* Fully matured
* "All your _____ are belong to us" (poorly-translated quote from Zero Wing)

RING 5
* Instruments for Carlos Santana and Slash
* Bruce Wayne's estate

RING 6
* This puzzlemaker's favorite planet (HINT: It involves the number 6)

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 two versions you can print out: a .PNG and a link to a .PDF!

ANSWERS: Section Six 5

Before I reveal the answers to "Section Six 5" from a couple weeks ago, I just wanted to let you know that this month's exclusive Patreon Puzzle is a 9x9 Cryptic Crossword. If you want to solve it, simply support me on Patreon.com at $5 a month or more for this as well as other exclusive puzzles! Now with that plug out of the way, here are the seven people that have solved my latest "Section Six" puzzle:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Dan Simonds *
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Mom ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****

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

PUZZLE #163: Section Six 5

PUZZLE #163

SECTION SIX 5

This puzzle's grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise OR counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outermost ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to figure out. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section's outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Once you're done, unscramble the six spaces with stars in them to get the FINAL ANSWER: a six-letter word.

​RING 1
1) Scare the behoozits out of someone
2) Movie studio that distributed Forrest Gump
3) Related (to)
4) Floridian Senator Marco
5) Buzzing instrument
6) Breakable box in the Crash Bandicoot games

RING 2
* Transforming via CGI effects, like in Willow
* Alternative to a Halloween "trick"
* Chess piece required for castling
* What a reindeer is called in North America
* Mortal Kombat character who wields a razor-edged fan (HINT: Her name is one vowel off from a Japanese sword)

RING 3
* Full Metal Jacket director Stanley
* The largest artery
* Type of angle that isn't acute or obtuse
* Country that includes a tourist attraction known as "Dracula's Castle"

RING 4
* Place to hang a fedora: 2 wds.
* _____ Faso, Africa
* Leave out, as from a list

RING 5
* Giant winged insect monster who fought Godzilla
* Elaborate Japanese stage drama

RING 6
* Rasputin's bat-ty sidekick from Anastasia (1997)

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: Section Six 4

It's been almost two weeks since I've posted "Section Six 4", and I was kinda surprised that eight people have solved it since then. Take a look:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Lynn Sweeney **
• Chris Hendricks ****
• Mom: 0 stars (she stinks at scrambling, and had no idea what she was doing throughout this puzzle)
• Debbie Benford ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Alex Milton ****

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #131: Section Six 4

PUZZLE #131

SECTION SIX 4

This puzzle's grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise OR counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outermost ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to figure out. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section's outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Once you're done, unscramble the six spaces with stars in them to get the FINAL ANSWER: a six-letter word.

RING 1
1) Mumbai music
2) Nintendo's garlic-eating antihero
3) Really, really huge
4) The Little Foxes playwright Lillian and others (HINT: It's one letter off from a mayonnaise brand)
5) Fill the lungs
6) Ecstasy's opposite

RING 2
* Goliath or Demona from a Disney Afternoon show, e.g.
* Spider-like trickster from African folklore
* Place to pick up "pale" potables, perhaps
* Real first name of Marilyn Monroe
* 1987 Eddie Murphy stand-up movie

RING 3
* Shandling who voiced Verne in Over the Hedge
* _____ the Insatiable (animated Fox show)
* Assumed names
* A, S, D, F, J, K, L, and ; on a keyboard: 2 wds.

RING 4
* Similarity comparison
* Happiness Is a _____ Blanket, Charlie Brown (TV special)
* Perfume ingredient from a thorny flower: 2 wds.

RING 5
* Discoverer of Jupiter's four largest moons
* Tia or Tamera from Sister, Sister

RING 6
* Yoshi's _____ World (Wii U game)​

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: Section Six 3

Boy, did "Section Six 3" prove to be another toughie! Yet despite the difficulty, I still managed to get a decent amount of solvers for this puzzle:

• Eric Maddy ****
• YYW ****
• Adam Weaver ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Grant Fikes √** (an explanation for this weird star count is in the solver comments below the break)
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Mom **
• Tyler Hinman ****

And now it's time to reveal the answers to that hard puzzle! Just go below the break to see them, along with a couple solver comments!

PUZZLE #51: Section Six 3

PUZZLE #51

SECTION SIX 3

Happy Thanksgiving week! Before we get to this week's puzzle, I'd just like to remind everyone that last week's Contest Puzzle will be open until next Sunday, so make sure you get your entry in before then! The number of solvers for that puzzle has already passed the double-digit mark, so I'll be giving away a second copy of the December 2015 issue of GAMES Magazine in addition to the first one! Now with that update out of the way, let's get to the directions of this week's puzzle!

This puzzle's grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise OR counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outermost ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to figure out. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section's outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Once you're done, unscramble the six spaces with stars in them to get the FINAL ANSWER: a six-letter word.

RING 1
1) Vehicle that's perfect for flinging Koopa shells from: Hyph.
2) Slime girl from Monster Musume
3) With "The", high-heeled teacher from AAAHH!!! Real Monsters
4) Heavenly Sword protagonist
5) Smash Mouth song featured in Mystery Men and Shrek: 2 wds.
6) _____-squeezed orange juice

RING 2
* Seven of Nine used to be one
* _____ Krab (Spongebob's workplace)
* Ben 10's phantom-like alien form
* Contest loser by a wide margin: Hyph.
* Romanian coin (Hidden in ALEUTIAN)

RING 3
* _____ and Janis (newspaper comic)
* Yamaguchi and Lipinski, e.g.
* Dannon products filled with bacteria
* The _____ Identity (my mom's all-time favorite book)

RING 4
* What Bluto from Popeye is sometimes called
* Places for pearls
* Asian country that was split up after World War II

RING 5
* PewDiePie has the most subscribers on this website
* Formerly fat weatherman Al

RING 6
* Ben Franklin famously preferred this bird over the bald eagle

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 (don't forget that it's a Contest Puzzle!). 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!