Enigmarch, Day 25: RAISE
Apr. 14th, 2024 12:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tahnanI think I took so long on this one because the inspiration felt loose. But I kind of like the way it came out, and the inspiration is real: the story in the flavortext isn't something I made up to tie the theme to the puzzle, but a true story and definitely the source of the puzzle.
Sayin' Things
When I was younger, my father and I would play "Three Thirds of a Ghost", in which players alternate letters until one of them says a letter that spells a word, thereby losing (or by challenging--you can look up the rules on Wikipedia if you don't already know the game).
Once, in the back of the station wagon, I was typing the letters into my Speak 'n' Spell. ("Tell me how old you are without telling me how...") I had started with "R", my father answered with "A", I said "I" (probably thinking of "RAIN"), and then my father said "S"...which pretty much forced me into RAISE or RAISING. I said "I", figuring I'd delay my loss by a couple of letters, and my father of course said "N", which left me with nowhere to go...until I looked again at the six letters on my Speak 'n' Spell and realized I'd won.
The fact that this is a formative memory probably explains a lot about me. It also explains why this is the puzzle I wrote for RAISE.
The answer is twelve letters.
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Sayin' Things
When I was younger, my father and I would play "Three Thirds of a Ghost", in which players alternate letters until one of them says a letter that spells a word, thereby losing (or by challenging--you can look up the rules on Wikipedia if you don't already know the game).
Once, in the back of the station wagon, I was typing the letters into my Speak 'n' Spell. ("Tell me how old you are without telling me how...") I had started with "R", my father answered with "A", I said "I" (probably thinking of "RAIN"), and then my father said "S"...which pretty much forced me into RAISE or RAISING. I said "I", figuring I'd delay my loss by a couple of letters, and my father of course said "N", which left me with nowhere to go...until I looked again at the six letters on my Speak 'n' Spell and realized I'd won.
The fact that this is a formative memory probably explains a lot about me. It also explains why this is the puzzle I wrote for RAISE.
| Red-breasted birds enjoyin' the sun | __ __ __ __ __ __ ' __ __ __ __ (11) __ |
| Woodworker who's feelin' concerned | __ __ __ __ __ ' __ __ __ __ __ (4) __ __ __ |
| Reddish-brown horse who's makin' throat-clearin' sounds | __ __ (3) __ __ __ __ ' __ __ __ |
| Clonin' supermodel Kathy | __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ' __ __ __ __ __ (7) __ |
| Dippin' a bottle of ketchup into liquid | __ __ __ __ __ __ ' __ __ (6) __ __ |
| Eatin' up a place to buy things | __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ' (1) __ __ __ __ __ |
| Standin' watch over a social gathering | __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ' __ __ __ __ (9) |
| Causin' deep distress to an Arab leader | __ __ __ __ (2) __ __ __ ' __ __ __ __ __ __ |
| Pushin' against leaders with age and experience | __ __ __ __ (8) __ __ ' __ __ __ __ __ __ |
| Actin' as parents for the fourth Stark child | __ __ (10) __ __ __ ' __ __ __ __ |
| Final letter that's lightly drummin' on something | (5) __ __ __ __ __ ' __ __ __ |
The answer is twelve letters.
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