Jumble Answers for 01/21/2018

TAUISH – HIATUS

VAIYAR – AVIARY

DOARHI – HAIRDO

GUITON – OUTING

PREEXT – EXPERT

TANGEE – NEGATE

CARTOON ANSWER:  SHE PURCHASED THE BILLBOARD FROM SOMEONE

WHO WAS HAPPY TO – – – 

HSVIRIROONGETTE = SIGN IT OVER TO HER

Good Morning, Everyone!        🆕🖊 SIGN…LANGUAGE? 🖊🆕

🎶Oh yeah baby, like a fool I went and stayed too long…Now I’m wondering if your love’s still strong…Oo baby, here I am, SIGNED, sealed, delivered, I’m yours. Then that time I went and said goodbye…Now I’m back and not ashamed to cry…Oo baby, here I am, SIGNED, sealed, delivered, I’m yours…Here I am baby…SIGNED, sealed delivered, I’m yours…🎶

🆕 🖊So selling off a Billboard? I just never gave a thought
Of all the things one thinks of that can be sold or bought,
Right now it’s reading Jumble, on our OUTING near at hand
I’m not an EXPERT but I’ll start by looking at the land.
A country road, I see some birds, an AVIARY near?
It’s just a thought at my first glance, don’t NEGATE the idea…
We have a man and woman, her HAIRDO’s kind of odd
And we can see the deal is done upon the auto’s bod…
The man will now have permanent HIATUS so it were…
And that’s why he’s so happy to SIGN IT OVER TO HER! 

I think my meter may be off a little this morning, but our words sure aren’t. I’m pretty sure we’ve seen them all before, but I think the anagramming of HIATUS and AVIARY may cause you to TAKE A BREAK and say..”THIS IS FOR THE BIRDS”! Hmm. Ok, on to our cartoon. We’re on a country road, seeing a transaction taking place between a man and a woman. She’s buying his BILLBOARD, which right now is heralding the Jumble. What are the odds? There’re both thrilled. What are the odds? She’s SIGNING the contract right here on the road. What-are-the-odds? Odds are, Jeff’s giving us our solve…He was happy to SIGN IT OVER TO HER! Dot the I’s and cross the T’s! We got ourselves a deal! Good work, Guys! The WRITINGs on the wall…I mean the Billboard…A winner! Ok, eye candy. Let’s see…I’ve already mentioned the BIRDS, and the man has a PAUNCH. Oh, SWELL, that may RUFFLE a FEATHER or two! The woman’s blonde, and dressed in purple…Wow, What are the odds? No really...WHAT ARE THE ODDS? I should just reSIGN myself to it, huh? …Whatever. But I’m going with the license plate. Under the contract, if you look real closely? The bottom portion of a capital J! JAY…What are the odds? So, there you have it Folks, Done!
Have a great day, Everyone! SIGNyonara! 🖊🆕🙋🏻

Jumble Answers for 01/20/2018

COREF = FORCE

KNALY = LANKY

UDETOX = TUXEDO

SHMIWY = WHIMSY

CARTOON ANSWER:

BEING AT THE BOTTOM OF MOST MAPS, YOU NEED TO LOOK DOWN TO SEE ANTARTICA’S – – –

OCLANTOWI = “LOW – CATION”


Have a super Saturday, everyone! I’ll see you tomorrow!!!

Jumble Answers for 01/19/2018

ZOYWO – WOOZY

LOBMO – BLOOM

TURBET – BUTTER

ALTWUN – WALNUT

CARTOON ANSWER: SHAKESPEARE COULDN’T REMEMBER THE APARTMENT 

NUMBER. WAS IT – – – 

WOOBOOBTTRWNT – “TWO-B”, OR NOT “TWO-B”

Good Morning, Everyone!          📚 “B….CAUSE, JUST B…CAUSE” 📚 i

Ever since that night we’ve been together…Lovers at first sight, in love forever…It turned so right for Strangers in the Night. DooBE-DooBe-Doo…..🎶

📚 📚We all went through our Shakespeare, and I remember well
Cause I have many wall units, with books they all do swell.
The WALNUT one holds mysteries, their darkness fills that room
The one in Cherry, light fiction, bright colors there in BLOOM.

But Shakespeare, well I’ll tell you he’s only got a shelf
It’s filled with Black and Yellow. Yes, I’ve kept them all myself.
And inside all those Cliffs Notes, Romeo and Lear reside
Next to my papers written, of which I take great pride.
Over the years many a child has “borrowed” them to “read”
I get WOOZY just thinking of the numbers to succeed…
From High School all through College, the stories stayed the same
Shakespeare: The timeless messages…Juliet’s “What’s in a name”?
That rooms wall’s BUTTER colored, and Mahogany you’ll see
Encases classic Hamlet and ….“To Be or Not To Be”📚📚

Today’s words: So, did WOOZY cause your head to spin, or BUTTER churn your stomach? Just asking. Easy words, and great anagrams. Our cartoon. You look. You see a door reading 3B….It says Shakespeare….YORICKa! Need I even go on? C’mon, even if it didn’t hit you over the head like a ton of PizzaBoxes....we’ve got 2Bs, 3Ts, and 4Os in our letters. So…I don’t know, is it just me? Or is this another gift from the Jumble Guys? We see Shakespeare looking for an apartment number. Was it…”TWO-B” OR NOT TWO -B”?. IS that the question? Yes, it is…And there we go…Close the door, get out of Denmark, there’s no TRAGEDY here. Easy, breezy, was Ophelia queasy? Ok, eye candy. I like the dialogue’s Shakespearean references, wellwritten. I like Bill’s soul patch, it’s sexy…..”HAIRfore are thou, Romeo“? I like the Skull-shaped door knocker, but it’s really not resonating with me…I’m going with the Pizza Box. CAESAR’S PIZZA…I like it...ET TU?

So, There you have it Folks, Done!
Have a great day, Everyone! And remember. 2B or not 2B?…I just use a pen….📚🙋🏻

Jumble Answers for 01/18/2018

XTOCI – TOXIC

RUYRH – HURRY

SLUBEH – BUSHEL

DUNOFE – FONDUE

CARTOON ANSWER: TRYING TO PUTT WITH SO MANY GEESE 

ON THE GREEN WAS – – –

TOIRRBSHFDE = FOR THE BIRDS

Good Morning, Everyone!          🏌 TEE For FLEW? 🏌

🎶The problem is all in your backswing, it’s plain to see, you’ll hit the ball much further if you’ll swing more easily. If you will let me show you, I can help you break ninety…You’ll find that GOLF is Such an Easy Game. You gotta putt like Jack, charge like Arnie, swing it smooth just like Ernie. Be like Ben and dig your game out of range…Be Dalyesque and crush that driver, concentrate just like Tiger…You’ll find that GOLF is Such an Easy Game…🎶

⛳️🏌I’d say maybe the last five years in the New York confines
Walking in certain areas, you look out for “land mines”…
An influx of these geese has hit and and it’s TOXIC to me
Since you could fill a BUSHEL with the “things” that you may see…
They travel in formation, in a V, not in a U
(I’ve used that line so that I could get rid of the FONDUE)
From parks to cemeteries, the golf course and the beach
You walk precariously because the geese are right in reach…
They’re never in a HURRY, making you the one to tarry
I’m wondering if this can be a problem too for Harry?
It’s he and Paul who speak of golf, I’m pretty sure you’ve heard…
One truly loves the game…but to the other? FOR THE BIRDS! 🏌⛳️

If you were in a HURRY to FLY through today’s words, BUSHEL may have made you see Blue, instead of GREEN. Did you MISREAD that one? Did you CHOKE? Sure, we’ve seen today’s words beFORE, PUTT the letter SETUPs seem all new. And the SCRAMBLEing? DEAD on. They could have STEERed us in the wrong direction, but with a little fancy FOOTWORK, we got AWAY. Ok, let’s get a GRIP, get into the GROOVE, and BOGEY on down over to our puzzle…We find ourselves on a GOLF COURSE, perhaps in NASSAU, NY. Have you ever been? Nice area, although a little OUT-OF-BOUNDS of the city LINE. We see two GOLFERS, HOOK MULLIGAN (who OPEN FACEd, resembles Dave..Hmm a MATCH)? PLAYing with a SENIOR, IRON BYRON. They’re having trouble PLAYING THROUGH, because a gaggle of Geese has WEDGED its way onto the GREEN. Yes, Geese. Not EAGLES or TURKEYS, Folks, these BIRDIES are Geese! And here they are, walking UP AND DOWN, WAGGLEing their feathers, and just making things practically UNPLAYABLE. Take a look at HOOK’s  TOE. The Goose is almost giving him a SCRATCH…GOLFERs surely don’t need this…It’s really ROUGH. It could definitely DRIVE you crazy! Where’d they all come from? Were they RELEASEd from a wildlife preserve, or did they just POP-UP out of nowhere? Anyway, HOOK is saying…”GIMME a BREAK”, while IRON BOUNCEs BACK with..”I can’t see the HOLE, how’m I ‘gonna SWING“? (OK, so I inFRINGEd a little…)! The question asks…PUTT was it? It was…”FOR THE BIRDS“! DRIVE this one home! We got a ZINGER! Good job, Guys. MAJOR kudos, I DIVOT a 10! Ok, enough CUTting up…I was getting CARRYed aSWAY there…I’m ready for the eye CADDIE….I can see a HOLE on the BACK NINE, but it’s FLAGging in my opinion. There’s some sort of structure off to the right, but I’m STYMIEd…Is it the CLUB HOUSE, a DORMIE HOUSE, or just a SWEET SPOT Jeff decided to DRAW? TBT, it’d be a BARE (faced) LIE if I said I knew. I’m going to go with the eyes of the Goose in the FOREfront. Set up there in his SKULL? He’s loving the HOLE thing…FAT CHANCE he didn’t plan this SIT in! So, There you have it Folks, Done! GOOD? GOOD!
Have a great day, Everyone! I think I’m ready for a cup of TEE and HALF a donut. Or maybe just the HOLE IN ONE. And today?…May the FORES be with you! 🏌🙋🏻

 

 

 

Jumble Answers for 01/17/2018

NORGP – PRONG

LIHEW – WHILE

PPUTEP – PUPPET

DISARH – RADISH

CARTOON ANSWER: THE INTERVIEW WITH UNDER-SEA EXPLORER

JACQUES COUSTEAU WAS – – –

PNIETDH – IN DEPTH

Good Morning, Everyone!        ⚓️ JACQUES VALUE? ⚓️

🎶UNDER the SEA, UNDER the SEA..Darlin’ it’s better, DOWN where it’s wetter
Take it from me…Up on the shore they work all day, out in the sun they slave away…While we devotin’…Full time to floatin’…UNDER the SEA🎶

⚓️⚓️ Undersea exploring while adventurous to some
Was never on my bucket list, and never will be done.
I love to sail the ocean, but WHILE I’m out to sea
Above the water I remain, a boat is under me.
I’m not a PUPPET to a trend, and once when all my friends
Decided “we” would do this, I said, “Uh, the “we” just ends…
I’m in the Keys to have some fun, I’m good up by the rail,
I’m happy lying here with a Red King RADISH Cocktail.
And as I’m eating hors d’oeuvres with my tiny two-PRONG pick
You guys go on and do your thing , but here I’m ‘gonna stick…”
So as they all went under, I relaxed with a deep breathe
And enjoyed being above board and nowhere near “IN DEPTH“! ⚓️⚓️

So, day three, and we still haven’t gone DEEP, have we? Good words, good anagramming, but we’re not really in OVER OUR HEADS, so to speak. WATERever, I guess Dave’s just giving us a little BREATHING room. Ok, time for us COUSTEAU over to our cartoon. Today, Jeff puts us in a under water vessel. CRAY-SEA in my opinion. But hey, different toys for different BUOYS. WE SEA the late, noted Frenchman, Jacques Cousteau, being interviewed by a PIER of interNET rePORTers, SEA-SEA and BRILL. Known for his many accomFISHments, Cousteau was also noted for his quotes. The one mentioned here may just be his best, for SHORE. As the interVIEW FLOWS, we can SEA our rePORTers taking an inFINite amount of notes. They’re WHALEy getting INTO it. So, when our question asks us what the interVIEW was, we SEA it was “IN DEPTH”!  Well DROP the ANCHOR and raise the HYDROSTATIC pressure, CHUMS, we have us a pun! BRILLiant! That went just SWIMMINGly, didn’t it? Ok, on to our eye candy. We have a few SEA Creatures, but I’m not SOLEd on them. I think I’ll go with the DEPTH gauge. If you look closely, you can SEA that it reads: 20,000. “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”?, Jeff? Is that what you MANTA convey? Very KOI! So, There you have it Folks, Done!
Have a great day, Everyone! And remember..Don’t go out there FISHING for compliments…instead CARPe diem, SEAS the day…You’ll have a WHALE of a time! ⚓️🙋🏻

Jumble Answers for 01/16/2018

TINAG = GIANT

KREOB = BROKE

KNIYNS = SKINNY

POTTIE = TIPTOE

CARTOON ANSWER:

HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO WIN THE POKER TOURNAMENT, BUT HIS WIFE WASN’T – – –

GITBOEINNTT = BETTING ON IT


Good morning everyone and happy Tuesday! Today’s puzzle was a routine solve that gave me no challenge whatsoever. TIPTOE is my pick for the most difficult anagram with SKINNY coming in at a distant second. I only included SKINNY because of the way the anagram was masterfully jumbled. By simply placing the S at the end of the anagram, you probably tried making several other letter combinations first. With all of the clue words complete, I made my way to the cartoon.

If you’re a regular Jumble player, the characters in today’s panel were instantly recognizable. Jumble artist Jeff Knurek and his wife Kathy can be seen having a conversation while their two dogs catch a few ZZZ’s. After reading the sentence and dialogue, the answer instantly came to mind and is what I refer to as a “blind solve”. I always double check my answer by writing out the clue letters, and once I saw the B from BROKE, I knew that my hunch was correct.

Since the puzzle was such a quick solve, I have a challenge for you. Are you up for a friendly little bet? Ok, here it goes. What are the names of Jeff and Kathy’s dogs? I’ve mentioned them a few times in the past so let’s see if you can remember. After you think about it for a minute, you can check your answer (here).

Today is the final day to ask David L. Hoyt a question for his upcoming interview. If you’d like to ask him something, this will be your last chance. We have a bunch of great questions already but there’s always room for a few more. To submit a question, here’s a link to the post (INTERVIEW).

Have a terrific Tuesday and I’ll see you tomorrow!

Jumble Answers for 01/15/2018

WINTE – TWINE

GOYFG – FOGGY

LOVIAJ – JOVIAL

FLAREF – RAFFLE

CARTOON ANSWER: THE FARMER TOOK A PHOTO OF HIS WHEAT FIELD

WITH AN OLD CAMERA, BUT THE PHOTO WAS – – – 

NGYIAR = GRAINY

 

Good Morning, Everyone!       🌾Here WHEAT Go Again..🌾

🎶Just WHEAT it, WHEAT it, WHEAT it, WHEAT it…No one wants to be defeated. Showin’ how funky and strong is your fight…It doesn’t matter who’s wrong or right…Just WHEAT it, WHEAT it..WHEAT it, WHEAT it…Just WHEAT it…🎶

📸🌾 I can’t believe it’s happening, but look at where we are
We’re back on that old farm land, with Wheat Fields near and far,
The couple’s not too JOVIAL, cause pics they took won’t take
A Polaroid camera’s in use..and FOGGY pics it makes…
That camera you know it won’t do, it’s been too many years
Is film even available? Where Target? Maybe Sears?
I saw one being RAFFLEd once, at some kind of event
But it’s now been so long ago, the thoughts not but a dent.
Oh, maybe I should get my head back to the farm at hand…
As Farmer Brown tries really hard to snap his plot of land.
If I had TWINE, I’d tie this up…how’s that for a segue?
It also helps me use the word..the last one for today.
So all this Wheat, there’s so much here, as far as we can see
But capturing the Whole of it?…It’s nothing but GRAINY! 🌾📸

So, Monday words. WHEAT do we think? Seen them before, but the anagrams are really good, to say the YEAST…Nice BLEND. OK, our cartoon. You can BARLEY see a thing here today, except a lot of Green. PICTURE this: It’s a Wheat Field. On a farm…Seriously, Guys? RYE are we back on the farm? You really should come GREEN and let us know. This WHOLE thing is just OAT of control…Can we expect this to continue? I SHUTTER at the thought…Anyway, there’s not much going on here. He tells her that he can’t make the pictures out, because of his old Camera. She offers to use her phone Camera. Can you see what’s DEVELOPING here…? Tout Wheat? His pictures are too GRAINY! Oh SNAP! No, they didn’t! Good pun, Dave. You ZOOMED right in on that one! Just what we KNEADED. Ok, eye candy. I’m just going to go with the old Polaroid…since it INSTANTly caught my eye…

So, There you have it Folks, Done. Have a great day, Everyone!

And remember..If you stand in the pouring GRAIN, you’re definitely going to get all WHEAT…🌾📸 🙋🏻

Jumble Answers for 01/14/2018

INCCIO – ICONIC

ENCCIS – SCENIC

NETDOE – DENOTE

DSWERH – SHREWD

TOMACS – MASCOT

DAXPEN – EXPAND

CARTOON ANSWER:    AFTER RUNNING OUT OF HOT DOGS, THE FOOD VENDOR

HAD TO MAKE A – –

ICSCNOESHESCOEPN = CONCESSION SPEECH

Good Morning, Everyone!             🌭 Where’s the BEEF? 🌭

🎶You know life is too SHORT Lord to have sorrow, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
You may be here today and I’m GONE, and I’m GONE ..And you may be GONE tomorrow…TELL it like it is…I’m nothing to PLAY with, go and find yourself a toy
But I… TELL it like it is…My TIME is too EXPENSIVE and I’m not your little boy…🎶

🏀🌭 I have to be quite honest, the first thing caught my eye?
The sign to DENOTE pricing…sure seems a little high…
The cartoon’s nice, it’s SCENIC, some players and some fans,
The food vendor, a SHREWD man he, and there’s his hired hand.
Somewhere must be a MASCOT, to represent this team
We see its not professional, young kids or so it seems…
The jerseys have ICONIC names, as Jeff is want to do
The Jumblers and The Scramblers are what come into view.
EXPANDing the pic further, is something out of reach?
No, not to fret, I got it now…it’s a CONCESSION SPEECH! 🌭🏀

Today I’m thinking SHREWD may be the Shrew word, with ICONIC a close second. All old favorites, but anagrammed anew. Ok, DRIBBLING over to our cartoon. We’re at what looks like a middle school Basketball game, after the final BUZZER. Looking for something to eat, a few people are gathered at the Concession Stand. First thought? Talk about HOGGING the Ball? We have a vendor here HOGGING them all! Check out those prices! HIGH, RIGHT? I mean, this is a neighborhood game…something seems a little FOUL. Anyway, we’ll let it PASS for now. So, having RUN out of Hot Dogs, the vendor figures he may have to DEFEND himself. Sure, the people are disapPOINTed, but there’s no BASKET cases here. No one’s RUNNING AWAY, or making a BRACKET…but he’s still looking to explain. Hmm. Ok, so leaving out the Hot Dogs, we have a 3-POINTER left…Burgers, Popcorn, and Nachos. One kid is TOTALly ok with it. The others, though, look like they’re COURT off GUARD…Our question asks..What did the vendor have to make, in light of there being no more BEEF? Well, he GOT BACK to CENTER stage, PIVOTed into POSITION, leaned FORWARD, BLOCKing his employees view, took THREE SECONDs to RULE out any INTERFERENCE, and said….”Ok, I’ve RUN out of Hot Dogs, even the little PICKs and ROLLs. You can see what else there is to eat, it’s POSTed UP on the wall. There’s no WING and a PRAYER, or SHOT in hell for me getting any more. I can’t TRAVEL to PICK any up, even if I made a FAST BREAK, and worked OVERTIME. They made a big SPLASH, they were the KEY selection, and I’ve PAINTed myself into a CORNER. MAN, if I could STRETCH FOUR more out for you, I would, but I’ve TURNED OVER every BOX OUT back, went UP and DOWN every aisle, and there’s none in my POSSESSION. So, all I can do is hope there’s no OFFENSE…and that’s it”. PHEW! That was some speech, huh? He really conceded that he blew it, didn’t he? The vendor…made a CONCESSION SPEECH! SLAM DUNK, Guys! DROP a DIME and FLOATER right out of here…Great, great pun! A DOUBLE BONUS! Ok, finally…eye candy. I’ve already mentioned the names on the jerseys, and the price BOARD. What’s LEFT? There’s the sign with the name..FULL COURT CAFE. No, REJECTED. I guess I’ll do a BYE candy again today...BYE BYEHot Dogs…I look FORWARD to seeing you next time…So, There you have it Folks, Done!
Have a great day, Everyone! It’s been a LONG post! Definitely TIME to FADEAWAY…! 🏀🙋🏻

Jumble Answers for 01/13/2018

CGOEK –GECKO

LIDUF – FLUID

STARHH – THRASH

HANKES -. SHAKEN

CARTOON ANSWER:

AFTER BECOMING A TEACHER IN SLEEPY HOLLOW, THE HORSEMAN WAS – – -.

ECOFLDTHASSHAE = HEAD OF THE CLASS

Good Morning, Everyone!         🎃 “HEAD” MASTER? 🎃

 

🎶You go to my HEAD, and you linger like a haunting refrain…And I find you spinning round in my brain…like the bubbles in a glass of champagne…You go to my HEAD…🎶

🎃🎃 If I recall correctly, we’ve had at least two others
I like the Horseman very much, and if I had my druthers…
I’d ask the Guys for more of these…just to keep things aSHAKEN
(I’m gonna tell you all right now, that GECKO’s being forsaken)!
He rode through Sleepy Hollow, he THRASHed all those in sight..
But usually we only saw him riding through the night…
Yet here he has a day job, a teaching one at that…
The FLUIDity needed to teach, does our boy here begat?
I think he’s more well suited for the outdoors…fields and grass
‘Cause can he even hold a book while he’s HEAD OF THE CLASS?🎃🎃

So, today’s words. Even though we’ve seen them before, they’re not exactly jumping off the page, are they? Good anagrams today. Our cartoon. The David L. Hoyt Educational Foundation sponsors many interactive word and math games. David visited Sleepy Hollow, NY and played his games with Mr Dietz’s 6th grade class at the Sleepy Hollow Middle School. While this was going on, it looks like the Headless Horseman took over his teaching responsibilities. We see the Horseman standing in front of a board that looks like the basis for Dave’s Giant Jumble, AKA The Human Jumble game. Why these three students aren’t aware of what’s going on is a mystery to me. Maybe they were late that day…Anyway, our question asks what the Horseman was after becoming a teacher...HEAD OF THE CLASS! Pencils down, times up! Cute pun, Dave! Ok, eye candy. Besides the frightened looks on the children’s faces, the only thing catching my eye, is the series of letters on the lower right side of the board. It spells out KOBE. Is that Beef or Bryant? Both definitely worth enough to make your HEAD spin…Just Sayin’…

So, There you have it Folks, Done!
Have a great day, Everyone! And keep a good HEAD on your shoulders…Literally! 🎃🙋🏻

 

Jumble Answers for 01/12/2018

WETSE – SWEET

VEOMI – MOVIE

SPLUCT – SCULPT

PRAROL – PARLOR

CARTOON ANSWER:

THE JIGSAW PUZZLES OF THE MONA LISA, DAVID, AND VENUS DE MILO WERE:


 

 

SEEMIESCTPAR = MASTERPIECES

 

Good Morning, Everyone!            🎶 I FALL TO PIECES....🎶

🎶Hey, VENUS! Oh, VENUS! VENUS if you will, please send a little girl for me to thrill. A girl who wants my kisses and my ARMS, a girl with all the charms of you…🎶.

🎶Do you SMILE to tempt a lover MONA LISA,  or is this your way to hide a broken heart? …Many dreams have been brought to your door step, they just lie there and they die there…Are you warm? Are you real MONA LISA? Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art…MONA LISA…MONA LISA….🎶

🎨🖌 I have a friend who told me that during his college days
Instead of going to MOVIEs, he and his friends would play,,
With jigsaw puzzles hours on end, a PARLOR table set
I think that I should mention…At the time? No internet!
My friend’s a little older, but his heart’s that of a child
He’s SWEET and so intelligent, his wit just drives me wild…
So looking at this Jumble, with an oil and two SCULPTs
I automatically thought of him and how he cheers me up.
I smile when I picture him, my love for him increases
I think of him as one of these, one of the MASTERPIECES! 🖌🎨

Ah, ART. The color, the beauty, there are no words…Not! This is the Jumble, Folks, of course there’s words! …1-2-easy, breezy.  # 3 and 4? Caused a pause? Couldn’t CHIP AWAY at Sculpt? Not granted Parole? Couldn’t end that sentence? No, because it’s PARLOR. Does anyone even say Parlor anymore? A period PIECE word, no? Well, just the same, Dave threw it in today, and it may have overSHADOWed our PERFECT record. Ok, let’s bRUSH over to our cartoon. Today we have a Puzzle in our Puzzle. Some Art in our Chart. A SMILE in our trial…Oh wait..I should have used trial back there with Parole, huh? Maybe someone was FRAMED? Hmm. Ok, enough CRACKS! Jeff shows us three people, WORKing on a Jigsaw Puzzle. The boxes DISPLAYed show, (from left to right), the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa,(500 pcs) and David (1000 pcs). Venus, without her arms, David, with all his charms, and Mona Lisa a combination of the two. The dialogue tells us that the puzzle they’re working on is something that was SCENE in Paris. The Louvre…Ah, LOUVRE at first sight! I was always DRAWN to good ART. I even considered becoming an ART dealer once, you know to make some extra MONET. Anyway, since David’s in Italy, we have to PASTA him by, and concentrate on the women. But which one? There’s no clue! I could be up in ARMS over this, but considering the detail in Jeff’s drawing today, I’ll let it go. The drawings are exceptional! Guaranteed Jeff was never kicked out of Cartoon Art School…There’s no SUSPENDED ANIMATION here! But we could CHIP AWAY at this all day, CANVASSing around trying to guess, and to our chaGRIN still not be right. So let’s just solve. Classic Art, by the MASTERS, a lot of Pieces..The puzzles were..MASTERPIECES! Good pun, Dave. A STROKE of genius! Ok, eye candy…Today, once again we’ll do Bye candy…Why aren’t we shown the number of pieces for Venus? Something’s definitely MISSING, right?

So, There you have it, Folks, Done!
Have a great day, Everyone And let’s not withDRAW like retired artists do, let’s get out there instead and DRAW a crowd…Get the PICTURE?  🖌🎨🙋🏻

 

 

 

Jumble Answers for 01/10/2018

OFROL = FLOOR

CARSF = SCARF

DOYBON = NOBODY

SPOGIS = GOSSIP

CARTOON ANSWER:

WHEN ASKED HOW HER LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP WAS GOING, SHE SAID – – –

FORSAOODGOS = SO FAR, SO GOOD

 


 

Happy Wednesday morning everyone! We’re at that point in the week where the Jumble usually increases in difficulty, but that definitely wasn’t the case today. All of the clue words came instantly into view and were no trouble whatsoever. GOSSIP was jumbled very well with the S’s so far apart that it may have tripped you up a bit. It’s my pick for the most difficult anagram to decipher as well as a great word choice that meshes well with the cartoon. My final observation on the clue words is that FLOOR is in alphabetical order once solved.

The fine detail in today’s cartoon turned a lackluster puzzle that you solve and forget into one that keeps your attention just a few moments longer. Looking at Jeff’s panel, we see two women having a conversation while enjoying some wine and snacks. It’s unclear as to what’s in the bowl on the table but it appears to be some chips or possibly nuts. On the plate that the woman is holding, you can clearly identify some sausage and crackers. The pictures in the background were beautifully drawn with the one on the left showing the couple hugging each other and the one on the right showing them gazing longingly into each other’s eyes while standing on a beach. The phone on the table appears to be ringing, but the image on the display was difficult to see in the newspaper. I zoomed in on the photo and added a screenshot below for your viewing pleasure.

The letter layout was ok, but there was no way for David to keep it cryptic with all of those O’s. GOOD seemed to leap off the page at me, leaving the rest of the solution to flow naturally into place.

Looking at the site visits is a general indicator as to the difficulty of the puzzle. Let’s just say that nobody is having any trouble solving this one today! Have a wonderful Wednesday and I’ll see you tomorrow!


Jumble Answers for 01/09/2018

LANAV = NAVAL

USEGS = GUESS

REVUDO = DEVOUR

TEELTK = KETTLE

CARTOON ANSWER:

THE LEMONADE SELLER WANTED HER BUSINESS TO – – –

NAUSDOTT = STAND OUT


Good morning Jumble friends and happy Tuesday! All of the clue words were rather easy with DEVOUR giving me a slight pause just to make sure that I spelled it correctly. KETTLE deserves an honorable mention because it was jumbled so well. The K stood out like a sore thumb making the answer immediately visible.

Moving along to the cartoon, I was obsessed with trying to blind solve it without the aid of the clue letters, dialogue or sentence. The imagery suggested that it would have something to do with a lemonade stand or the young girl’s over the top props. Seeing the word lemonade in three different locations throughout the panel led me to believe that STAND would be the 5-letter word. With 3-letters remaining, OUT instantly came to mind making the solve no problem at all!

Looking at the elaborate decorations, this young girl sure has a bright future in advertising and marketing! The lemon hat that she is wearing was an unexpected touch showing that Jeff is indeed a genius at his craft. As creative as it was, the vintage down arrow has to be my pick for the best decoration. If you close your eyes, you can imagine the yellow tinge of the bulbs illuminating her stand in the early evening similar to a vendor at a carnival. The small orb up in the sky was so small in my newspaper that I originally thought it was the sun. It’s in fact a lemon blimp with her logo on the side. We all know that the consumer pays the price for marketing campaigns so that’s probably the reason Jeff left the price off of her stand. If you have to ask how much a glass costs than you probably can’t afford it!

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If you only receive the answers via email, you probably haven’t heard the news that I posted on the front page of the website. David L. Hoyt has agreed to do an interview with JumbleAnswer.com and I need your help with coming up with a set of questions to ask. If there’s something you’ve always wanted to know about the Jumble but thought you’d never have the chance to ask, well now’s your opportunity to do so! Be sure to visit the website and leave a question in the comments section and I’ll make sure it gets forwarded to him. I’ll post the video as soon as it’s available and will notify you when it’s up.

Have a terrific Tuesday and I’ll see you tomorrow!

Exclusive Interview With David L. Hoyt!

Today’s the day I’m finally able to reveal the surprise announcement that I’ve been keeping top secret for the last couple of weeks. I’ve been in contact with Jumble wordsmith David L. Hoyt and he’s agreed to do an exclusive interview for everyone here at JumbleAnswer.com!

Have you ever wondered if Monday’s puzzle is easier on purpose? Has he ever made a mistake in one of his puzzles? What is his favorite thing to eat for lunch? Pretty much anything will go, and I need YOUR HELP in coming up with some brain twisting questions that you’d like personally answered by the man himself!

Please leave your questions below in the comments section and I’ll send them off to him in about a week. He’ll videotape his responses and I’ll post the clip just as soon as it’s available. This is such a unique opportunity and I hope you’re just as excited about this as I am!!! So what do you want know???

Jumble Answers for 01/08/2018

GHIST = SIGHT

ZAMEA = AMAZE

SENLOS = LESSON

CUTEKB = BUCKET

CARTOON ANSWER:

AS THE CRUISE SHIP ROCKED, THE STRUGGLING CREW AND PASSENGERS WERE – – –

IHTAMAESONBET = IN THE SAME BOAT


Good Monday morning my friends! I hope you’re well rested after the first weekend of the new year. Monday puzzles are usually a piece of cake, and I woke up refreshed and ready to dive right into this one.

LESSON was the only clue word to give me some trouble today. I found ON and LESS immediately and tried my darndest to make a word starting with ON. Of course nothing worked, so rather than abandon ship and back into the answer, I stayed the course and gave LESS a shot. A simple coupling of the two words I originally found so quickly brought the answer into view and I was ready for the first cartoon of the new week.

Looking at Jeff’s illustration, we see a dining room filled with well dressed passengers, but the dinner doesn’t seem to be going exactly as planned. By reading the dialogue, we learn that this is a Captain’s Dinner aboard the cruise ship Poseidon, and rough seas are making for a rather difficult dinner service. The captain is the only person who isn’t troubled by the mayhem going on around him and he can be seen calmly holding his glass of wine with his pinky finger extended while reassuring his guests that his crew will handle the situation.

The letter layout for the surprise answer was cryptic and very well jumbled for a Monday. I had a feeling that BOAT would be part of the solution. By crossing out those letters, I was able to see SAME, THE and IN for a quick finish.

I wish everyone a wonderful Monday, and I’ll see you tomorrow!