HLIEW = WHILE
LRUBB = BLURB
RATEHH = HEARTH
FRIDTA = ADRIFT
CARTOON ANSWER:
WLELBEARDIF = BID FAREWELL
Good morning everyone and happy Wednesday! HEARTH was the only clue word that had me stumped! With all the words solved it was on to the cartoon answer. After reading the cartoon I was hoping that the answer didn’t have anything to do with Bridge as I’ve never played. At first I thought the solution had ALL as the three letter word. I couldn’t come up with an eight letter word to fit with the remaining letters. I saw WELL and then BID and then it all clicked. Is BID FAREWELL a bridge term? Either way I had fun with only moderate difficulty. Take care and I’ll see you tomorrow! 😀
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I encounter the same difficulties as you did with the words and answer. There were not many three letter combinations that made words and once I came up with bid, farewell came pretty easily. I also do not play bridge, but I think “bid” is the only part of the answer that relates to bridge. Any bridge players that can verify that?
I’d like to know as well! 🤔
Not a bridge player either, but bidding is one of the components of playing a hand of bridge.
I don’t play bridge either but when I read…. “we could have made them all…” I concluded that they had to BID the number of books like in spades or the card game “Bid” Whiz. The rest was easy as were the words….
Still waiting on a Bridge player to confirm if “BID FAREWELL” is a term! 😉
“Bid Farewell” is not a bridge term. I do suspect some players have wished other players to Bid Farwell. Hearth also had me stumped for a few minutes.
Thank you for the clarification, Lee!
Clever but somewhat confusing solution. Nevertheless, fun as usual.
Bid is a term in bridge. I was just as stumped as the rest of you. However, I must admit I did look up common bridge terms on my cell phone when completing the anwer
Now I want to learn to play Bridge! I’ve been thinking about it ever since I saw that cartoon. Thanks nlion! 😀
http://www.rpbridge.net/1ub7.htm