ANSWERS: Vanishing Act 6

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Vanishing Act 6" was posted on this blog, and quite a few people have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cathy Bowen
• Cindy Heisler
• Joe Bernard
• Marie desJardins
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Okieboy2008
• Wendy Walker
• Sam Levitin
• Chris Kochmanski
• Patrick Jordan
• Mom
• Derek Allen
• Steve Gunter

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #596: Vanishing Act 6

PUZZLE #596

VANISHING ACT 6

Below are a set of what are supposed to be valid words, but instances of one duplicated letter in each word have all disappeared! Your job is to reinsert the missing duplicate letters into each numbered string of letters so that the resulting words all match up to the provided clues (listed in no particular order). The number in square brackets next to each group shows how many of the same letter need to be inserted into it. For instance, if one of the groups is "XAMPL [2]", then you'll need to insert a letter two times ("E" in this case) to get "EXAMPLE".

Once you've completed everything, the letters that have been added back in, in order, will form another incomplete string of letters. Insert three more of the same letter to get the FINAL ANSWER: an 11-letter noun

CLUES

• 1996 tornado movie that got a sequel 28 years later

• Broadway play that was brought back, say

• Chocolate candies from Hershey's with paper strips sticking out of them

• Hit song by one-hit wonder Shawn Mullins whose chorus contains the word "rockabye"

• Mass multiplied by velocity

• Silencing someone with a tied-up handkerchief, perhaps

• Small booklet with instructions on how to play an Atari 2600 game

• Triangular flag waved by a baseball fanatic

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: Vanishing Act 5

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Vanishing Act 5" was posted on this blog, and twenty people have solved it since then:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #541: Vanishing Act 5

PUZZLE #541

VANISHING ACT 5

Below are a set of what are supposed to be valid words, but instances of one duplicated letter in each word have all disappeared! Your job is to reinsert the missing duplicate letters into each numbered string of letters so that the resulting words all match up to the provided clues (listed in no particular order). The number in square brackets next to each group shows how many of the same letter need to be inserted into it. For instance, if one of the groups is "XAMPL [2]", then you'll need to insert a letter two times ("E" in this case) to get "EXAMPLE".

Once you've completed everything, the letters that have been added back in, in order, will form another incomplete string of letters. Insert three more of the same letter to get the FINAL ANSWER: an 11-letter plural noun

CLUES

• 1982 arcade game where you control a soapy sphere in a sink

• Buccaneer's big ball shooter

• It cuts paper, but gets smashed by rock

• Knowingly giving false testimony

• Like the solutions to shikaku and sudoku puzzles

• Overused expression such as "It was a dark and stormy night"

• "_____ to Love" (Robert Palmer music video with women in heavy makeup)

• Volkswagen auto that's the subject of a '60s car-spotting game called "Slug Bug"

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: Vanishing Act 4

It's been nearly two weeks since "Vanishing Act 4" was posted on this blog, and a whopping nineteen people have solved it since then:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #477: Vanishing Act 4

PUZZLE #477

VANISHING ACT 4

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!

Below are a set of what are supposed to be valid words, but instances of one duplicated letter in each word have all disappeared! Your job is to reinsert the missing duplicate letters into each numbered string of letters so that the resulting words all match up to the provided clues (listed in no particular order). The number in square brackets next to each group shows how many of the same letter need to be inserted into it. For instance, if one of the groups is "XAMPL [2]", then you'll need to insert a letter two times ("E" in this case) to get "EXAMPLE".

Once you've completed everything, the letters that have been added back in, in order, will form another incomplete string of letters. Insert three more of the same letter to get the FINAL ANSWER: an 11-letter noun associated with the Armed Forces

CLUES

• Door banger that turns into Marley's face in A Christmas Carol

• Funhouse's warped reflector

• In a way that could lead to you being arrested

• James Cameron film with a sequel subtitled The Way of Water

• Motorcycle's accelerator

• Regularly recurring

• Sort of sugar on snickerdoodles

• What hearts represent in The Legend of Zelda

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: Vanishing Act 3

It's been about two weeks since "Vanishing Act 3" was posted on this blog, and I've gotten a total of seventeen solvers since then! Take a look:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #427: Vanishing Act 3

PUZZLE #427

VANISHING ACT 3

Below are a set of what are supposed to be valid words, but instances of one duplicated letter in each word have all disappeared! Your job is to reinsert the missing duplicate letters into each numbered string of letters so that the resulting words all match up to the provided clues (listed in no particular order). The number in square brackets next to each group shows how many of the same letter need to be inserted into it. For instance, if one of the groups is "XAMPL [2]", then you'll need to insert a letter two times ("E" in this case) to get "EXAMPLE".

Once you've completed everything, the letters that have been added back in, in order, will form another incomplete string of letters. Insert three more of the same letter to get the FINAL ANSWER: an 11-letter noun associated with the human body

CLUES

• Ceramic dog offered as a prize in early seasons of Wheel of Fortune

• J or D, for J. D. Salinger

• Like Mount Kilimanjaro, compared to every other mountain in Africa

• Mythical hybrid that Splash Woman from Mega Man 9 resembles

• "Old news" or "original copy", say

• Support for Tiny Tim

• Take over a body, like an evil ghost

• Type of cloud that resembles cotton

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: Vanishing Act 2

Happy Mother's Day! I'll be busy being with my own mother for most of today, so I'll make this quick and list the eighteen people who solved "Vanishing Act 2" from two weeks ago:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Chris Kochmanski
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Tyler Hinman
• Sam Levitin
• Brittany Trofimovich
• Tamara Brenner
• Michael Lebowitz
• Steven McKinney
• Lynn Sweeney
• Mom
• Charles Flaster
• Wendy Walker
• Mike Armstrong
• CromsFury
• Peter Abide

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #384: Vanishing Act 2

PUZZLE #384

VANISHING ACT 2

Below are a set of what are supposed to be valid words, but instances of one duplicated letter in each word have all disappeared! Your job is to reinsert the missing duplicate letters into each numbered string of letters so that the resulting words all match up to the provided clues (listed in no particular order). The number in square brackets next to each group shows how many of the same letter need to be inserted into it. For instance, if one of the groups is "XAMPL [2]", then you'll need to insert a letter two times ("E" in this case) to get "EXAMPLE".

Once you've completed everything, the letters that have been added back in, in order, will form another incomplete string of letters. Insert three more of the same letter to get the FINAL ANSWER: an 11-letter noun associated with the military

CLUES

• App whose avian logo is named "Larry"

• _____ Bottom (home of SpongeBob SquarePants)

• Casual video game that involves swapping and matching gems

• Color of a beret in a hit song by Prince

• High-tech computer from the ‘80s cartoon Jem (or a business buzzword meaning "cooperation")

• Maybelline product for eyelashes

• Vampire's bed

• Woolly creatures voiced by Ray Romano and Queen Latifah in the Ice Age series

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: Vanishing Act

Boy, my first "Vanishing Act" puzzle from two weeks ago must've been really popular and/or easier than usual, as a whopping twenty people have successfully solved it since then, and they all made it onto the list below:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• M. Sean Molley
• Giovanni Pagano
• Joe Bernard
• Pavel Curtis
• Dave C
• Tyler Hinman
• Kevin Orfield
• Patrick Jordan
• Karen Spencer
• Sam Levitin
• Meg Duvall
• Joe Sampson
• Wendy Walker
• Tamara Brenner
• Mom
• Charles Flaster
• Debbie Benford
• Peter Abide

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

PUZZLE #343: Vanishing Act

PUZZLE #343

VANISHING ACT

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!

Below are a set of what are supposed to be valid words, but instances of one duplicated letter in each word have all disappeared! Your job is to reinsert the missing duplicate letters into each numbered string of letters so that the resulting words all match up to the provided clues (listed in no particular order). The number in square brackets next to each group shows how many of the same letter need to be inserted into it. For instance, if one of the groups is "XAMPL [2]", then you'll need to insert a letter two times ("E" in this case) to get "EXAMPLE".

Once you've completed everything, the letters that have been added back in, in order, will form another incomplete string of letters. Insert two more of the same letter to get the FINAL ANSWER: a ten-letter noun

CLUES

• Alignment of three celestial bodies

• Grilling gas sold by Hank Hill from King of the Hill

• Megan Thee _____ (female rapper)

• Morgan Freeman's role in March of the Penguins

• Participant in what's widely regarded as the first Thanksgiving

• Swimmer's eyewear

• What the title "To Serve Man" referred to in a Twilight Zone episode

• Windshield cleaner at a gas station

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!