WORDY WEDNESDAY #1
CROSSWORD OF INTEGERS (answer)
It has been two weeks since Wordy Wednesday debuted on this blog, so now it is time to reveal the winner of the contest. First, here's the answer to the puzzle. If you want to try to solve it yourself, click this link instead to view the original version of the puzzle, or this link for the version with two letters placed at the start. And now, a list of all the people who solved this puzzle:Andrew Brecher *
Blaine & Felicia **
Brian Michalowski **
Bryce Herdt **
Fred Coughlin **
Jack Bross **
Jack Lance **
Jeffrey Harris **
Mark Tilford **
Michael Sylvia **
Randy Rogers *
Tawan Sunathvanichkul *
Term Ital *
And the winner, selected via random.org, is: Term Ital! Congratulations! You will receive a signed copy of Will Shortz's Wordplay from me.
Since I still have other copies of this issue on my person, I hope to have another contest in the near future. For now, though, I've decided not to have a contest, so as to increase people's incentive to actually share the puzzle. Please share this week's puzzle and help me develop a reputation as someone who can do things with words!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #2
SUMMING AND SCRAMBLING (hint)
Use your anagramming abilities to determine which of the words clued below corresponds to which words in the grid above. As a hint, the clue numbers corresponding to those words sum to 65 in each row and each column. Ultimately, identify the title of the game which is being hinted at by the hidden 25-letter message.
4 people have solved last week's puzzle. I was hoping for more. Haven't solved it yet? Here's a slightly easier version that changes some clues. Send your solutions to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #3
1. Verse
2. Extreme
3. Run after
4. Rodent with valuable fur
5. Strata
6. What you might be after a hard workout
7. Loathing
8. Expensive
9. Adam and Jamie's dummy
10. Respond to
11. Whose Line is it Anyway? cast member
12. Common category on Wheel of Fortune
13. Did something asinine
14. Apparatus with beads
15. Hunger ____
16. Some horses
17. Legendary fire-breather
18. Makes coffee, perhaps
19. A Muppet
20. Car radio feature
21. Down alternative
22. Spotless
23. A character on the TV show The Addams Family
24. Like a catcher's hand
25. Start again, as a computer
