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Monday, May 07, 2007

Puzzle #16: Word Tile Storytelling




Solution to be posted next week or submit your own.

Solutions for the remaining answers of Puzzle 14 have been posted in its comment section.

7 comments:

Shaun said...

Hawkins, are the words able to be moved up and down in terms of the horizontal rows? (Ie. "EYES" is not necessarily the top row/word, correct?)

Shaun

hawkins said...

Oh, yeah, absolutely. I'll actually be really impressed if you do it without moving them up and down!

Shaun said...

Ha ha ha. I was thinking it would be impressive too especially since I noticed that you have the words initially sorted alphabetically.

Anyway, any hints for getting started...? These wordy ones aren't my strength, I guess. Am I to assume that there is an eleven letter word that runs the vertical length? Or you don't wnat to give that away?

hawkins said...

That would be a poor assumption. The longest vertical word(s) is/are 5 letters in length.

That's my only hint. I actually have no idea how hard this puzzle is--medium's just a guess.

Shaun said...

Crap... No 11 letter word, eh? I was working around the words "sensational" and "storyteller" trying to find a combination that worked.

I don't know for sure either, but I personally would have to rate this one as hard because I can't even figure out where to get started. =0

hawkins said...

Alright seriously, this is the last hint:

This passage, which contains at least one of the answers, could be used in the extra credit portion:

He put the put the turkey leg back on the tray, pondering his situation. Could he best ten monkeys, highly trained as they were, with his nose in the state that it was? He had a weapon, yes, but only one, and few options, better yet, none.

hawkins said...

The clanging of the pots in the kitchen were making Roberto more and more irate. Could so much racket be necessary to put together a roast beef sandwich?

He rubbed his ankle to take his mind off of the noise. The sprain was not nearly as bad as it had seemed when he had jumped from the silo.

Roberto recalled being asked questions in the back of the ambulance, but not hearing the words, merely seeing the lips move.

"Perhaps I should've jumped for the silt side, not the grassy side Roberto thought. It seemed like a year ago, not just yesterday.

I need 4ccs of hemoglobin, stat.

I heard that part," Roberto thought. His eyes fluttered. "No, that can't be right. Hemoglobin can't be right.