Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 I do crossword puzzles for fun. There are times when the answer comes quickly and turns out to be right. This morning was different. My brain must have been on vacation as my initial answers to the following two clues were off the wall. Clue number 1: What many a thoroughbred becomes. 4 letters My initial guess: glue Upon further thought: stud Clue number 2: Locker room sprinkle. 4 letters My initial guess: pees Upon further thought: talc Obviously I was not on the same thought process as the crossword puzzle creator! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217 Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 LOL! I did that same puzzle and got them right. Must have been written by a woman. I do one crossword and several Beach Sudoku every day. Are the puzzles you do on The Washington Post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 47 minutes ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said: I do crossword puzzles for fun. There are times when the answer comes quickly and turns out to be right. This morning was different. My brain must have been on vacation as my initial answers to the following two clues were off the wall. Clue number 1: What many a thoroughbred becomes. 4 letters My initial guess: glue Upon further thought: stud Clue number 2: Locker room sprinkle. 4 letters My initial guess: pees Upon further thought: talc Obviously I was not on the same thought process as the crossword puzzle creator! Okay, you told us your initial guesses and your “upon further thoughts”. Were any of them correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 21 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: Okay, you told us your initial guesses and your “upon further thoughts”. Were any of them correct? Both further thought answers were the correct ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 1 hour ago, Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217 said: LOL! I did that same puzzle and got them right. Must have been written by a woman. I do one crossword and several Beach Sudoku every day. Are the puzzles you do on The Washington Post? Ms Allie Mo, They appear in the local paper, but may be syndicated by a larger publisher such as the WP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Mark Flint #31954 LIFE Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Glad to see you back. Sorry to hear about all that has been going on. Hope things are improving for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 I like cryptics. Not good at them, but I like them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 41 minutes ago, MizPete said: I like cryptics. Not good at them, but I like them. Me too. Try to do them without pencil and paper for a real challenge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 I used to love doing crossword puzzles. Nowadays I can’t seem to find any that sensibly challenge me. It’s almost as if all the great puzzle creators died and their immature off-spring took over. For was example NY Times puzzles used to kick my butt, mostly because they slipped clues in only a New Yorker would know. I would say my completion rate was 50%. That’s not great but considering I did LA Times crosswords at a 99% completion rate I felt I was doing pretty good. Two weeks ago I did a NY Times crossword puzzle in 8 minutes! There is something seriously wrong with that. Either I got real smart or The NY Times hired a couple of Stoners to create their puzzles...I don’t feel much smarter so I am going with the latter. LA Times puzzles just plain suck nowadays. I am pretty sure they got some brainwashed high schoolers to do these now. Sudoku? Not my thing at all. Never cared for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 11 hours ago, Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217 said: LOL! I did that same puzzle and got them right. Must have been written by a woman. I do one crossword and several Beach Sudoku every day. Are the puzzles you do on The Washington Post? I wouldn't know. I'd as soon cut my legs off with wooden spoon as read the Washington anydangthing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 I like the Jumble, but we no longer take the Leftist rag where it is published. Just for fun, I wrote a computer program to calculate all the N-prime combinations, cull out the duplicates, cull all the illegal letter combinations, then beat the results against the Scrabble dictionary. Each additional letter adds a huge amount to the number of permutations. "Abandonment" has 39,916,800 possible combinations of these 11 letters. Most of the time I can get the word. Every now and then, I resort to my program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 Our paper carries the L.A. Times puzzle as well as the NEA one. It's one of my guilty pleasures to do them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Jones, SASS 2263 Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 On 7/13/2019 at 11:22 PM, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: Two weeks ago I did a NY Times crossword puzzle in 8 minutes Used to be that the NY Times puzzles got progressively more difficult Monday through Friday with the Sunday magazine puzzle the most difficult, although not as difficult as the London Times puzzles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Hangtree Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 On 7/13/2019 at 11:59 PM, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: I wouldn't know. I'd as soon cut my legs off with wooden spoon as read the Washington anydangthing. Bingo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 16 hours ago, Tex Jones, SASS 2263 said: Used to be that the NY Times puzzles got progressively more difficult Monday through Friday with the Sunday magazine puzzle the most difficult, although not as difficult as the London Times puzzles. This one was in an American Airlines magazine. So I am sure it was a Monday puzzle but it was even too easy for a Monday puzzle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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