NPR Sunday Puzzle (Mar 16): If you said *top* row, I'd say *typewriter*:
Q: Using the middle row of letters on a keyboard, name something that has eight stars. Hint: The answer is spelled in 10 letters.Let's see there were 7 castaways on Gilligan's Island, so that was 7 stars perhaps. Or on the Brady Bunch there were Mike and Carol and 6 kids but Alice made 9 stars. Perhaps I'm thinking of the wrong type of stars. What a folly!
Edit: My clue was "folly" as in Seward's Folly. If you want to see more clues, check out the comments. I liked the references to "Juneau" and "Alaska" as well as the hints for "flag".
A: ALASKA FLAG
14 comments:
Figured it out, but I don't like it. Doesn't feel right grammatically, like puzzle adultery.
I agree, but to fix it you'd need to borrow a key from the bottom row.
Or spell it in 11 letters and a punctuation mark.
...or rearrange you keyboard. that'd be easy.
Blaine, is your interest in these word puzzles still waning?
Hey, no call backs to prior puzzle comments... there will be a penalty imposed for that.
Akkkk! What do ju know?
Couldn't get it. But my wife, Fiona, loves alphabet games. I'll ask her.
It is a banner week for comments!! I agree with Rick.
I liked Ben's clues of "AK", "ju know", "Fiona loves alphabet games" and "I'll ask her".
Seems like everyone had the puzzle this week.
It was actually two different Bens. Don't you No-me yet?
This one was easy, Inuit right away.
;)
p.s. I agree with Rick too. Correct NPR puzzle answers are usually more artful, or at least less awkward.
This kind of subpar answer makes me want to start a tavern brawl. You know... a Bar-row.
Yu-kon all stop the bad Alaskan puns now. :-)
Please understand that the other "akkkk" Ben is an imposter. I am the actual Ben, married to Fiona. But not really.
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