Enigmarch 2023: Day 7
Mar. 7th, 2023 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tahnanWith fifteen minutes to spare! (Of which nearly two hours was utter failure to draw circles.)
PDF; text below, without the fun bullseye shape. You can check your answer here.
I like bullseye puzzles. I find them pleasant and approachable, usually not requiring a lot of puzzle experience: you read the descriptions, you find the words. So this was a natural choice for the Day 7 prompt, ARROW: how could I not gather together 20 archers to see what I could learn from them? Help each arrow below find its target to find out what I learned. (Ignore lowercase letters. Four names will not be used.)
Bullseye contents:
PDF; text below, without the fun bullseye shape. You can check your answer here.
Enigmarch, Day 7: Bullseye!
I like bullseye puzzles. I find them pleasant and approachable, usually not requiring a lot of puzzle experience: you read the descriptions, you find the words. So this was a natural choice for the Day 7 prompt, ARROW: how could I not gather together 20 archers to see what I could learn from them? Help each arrow below find its target to find out what I learned. (Ignore lowercase letters. Four names will not be used.)
Bullseye contents:
- ALOY
- ARTEMIS
- BARD the bowman
- kate BISHOP
- lara CROFT
- CUPID
- daryl DIXON
- HAWKEYE
- JACK churchill
- KATNISS
- LEGOLAS
- LINK
- MERIDA
- MULAN
- susan PEVENSIE
- oliver QUEEN
- john RAMBO
- SKATHI
- may WELLAND
- YGRITTE
- uses only letters from the first half of the alphabet?
- would be a phrase meaning "a unit of measurement's nametag" if you added a space?
- becomes a word meaning "attorney's language" if you remove its vowels and add new ones?
- becomes a terrible spelling of a word meaning "grammar" if you move the last letter to the start and reverse the result?
- begins with a Greek letter?
- forms a common English word if you replace its middle letter with either of two other letters?
- can be split into two words that together form a phrase with "truly"?
- is made from 24 straight lines and no curves?
- consists entirely of one-letter chemical symbols?
- becomes an English word when its second letter is doubled?
- is a homophone for a cat when pluralized?
- can move in twice as many directions as another archer?
- becomes a horrifying hairy orange creature, if you remove the first letter and paste it over the last?
- can be rearranged to spell a word meaning "look up to"?
- is a common English word when read backwards?
- is a kind of dessert when you eliminate half the numbers?