One of the characters, a scroungy cat named Bucky (whom I don't think even Hahtoolah could love) has a British cousin, a Manx cat named Mac Manc McManx (funny that he has a tail). I learned this from Darby Conley's cartoon Get Fuzzy (definitely an acquired taste). You are certainly the Hahtoolah of the double entendre.Īs we are headed out the door for OHIO for my oldest granddaughter's college graduation, I'll try to be brief. Thank you, thank you Taylor for an effortless, fun Friday FIR FIR (unlike the last time, a FIR FIW!).Īnd just one thank you MM for the merriment. I must have grabbed the wrong one again, as this one just seemed to fill itself, which is odd for a Friday. The Sunpapers screwed up access to my account and I had to go dipping into my Blogger stash of puzzles. I think this is DEJA DEJA VU all over again. Similarly, ROCKY START becomes ROCKY'S TART. ![]() At the risk of being redundant, GEEK SQUAD morphs into GEEK'S QUAD (as in quadriceps).ģ1 Across: Fruity pastry made by a movie boxer?: ROCKY'S TART. Geek Squad (techies) is modified by moving the S from the beginning of the word SQUAD to the end of the word GEEK thereby making GEEK possessive. He applies this methodology at four places in the grid:ġ7 Across: Leg muscle of a mathlete?: GEEK'S QUAD. ![]() He provides the key at:ĥ9 Across: Makes room, and when parsed differently, an instruction for four answers in this puzzle: MOVES OVER. A single letter merely has to be moved over from the start of one word to the end of the preceding word. Today, in an example of, arguably, increased efficiency, nothing has to be removed. Previously, he has employed themes where letters have to be removed from common words and phrases in order to form appropriate (and humorous) answers to the clues. Taylor has also had puzzles published in other venues. Malodorous Manatee here with today's recap of a puzzle by Taylor Johnson who first appeared in this venue just a few days shy of one year ago (on, per Bill). There is no lie in Anderson's words.Good Morning, Cruciverbalists. But there’s guys in the world who can do it in four seconds, so I’m not up there. And then blindfolded, probably in the 20s. Q: Do you remember your fastest times behind the back or in front?ĬA: My fastest time regular, without the behind the back, is 13 seconds. And then you know, there’s a whole bunch of explanation left, it involves some probability, but that’s the general basis of how you do it. One of them is a three-by-two, and one of them is a two-by-two for the middle-stripe pieces. So, then you remember the numbers in two sets of matrices. So, it’s three, nine, one, no matter where it’s mixed up when you mix up the cube. So, for example, a corner piece would be three on one side, a nine on one side and then a one on one side. And then you can remember the numbers because they’re always correlated to another side with numbers. So, instead of the colors, you can think of them as numbers, then you wrap the Sudoku boxes around in that cube form. So, if you think about the cube, each individual box you can think about as a Sudoku box. You’re trying to get one through nine in the box while getting one through nine across three boxes, and preferably, down three boxes. And then if you think about Sudoku, Sudoku has nine boxes, each box has nine smaller boxes. So, do you guys remember matrices from back in the day? So, you try to store the numbers … you number the cube off as if you were numbering a phone. It’s more about memorization and a little bit of probability and some math involved. Q: Can you feel anything? If you can’t see colors, how do you?ĬA: Not feeling. There's a cool explanation video on YouTube if you guys want to see it. And there’s a couple different ways to do it. This is gonna sound so nerdy, but, there’s a subset of guys who solve the Rubik’s Cube, people who solve the Rubik’s cube, that do it without looking. And it’s because I came up with a different way to solve it blindfolded. … My rookie year, I actually signed a brand ambassadorship with Rubik’s. One of these times I’ll bring it in.ĬA: It’s a long, complicated explanation. ![]() I don’t know if any of you guys know that. I don’t know if you guys know this, I still have to show the guys … but I can solve a Rubik’s Cube behind my back. Anderson: Also, this might be cool for you.
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