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Rogue Riddle 1044 - Status and Clue Set 3 -- #RogueRiddle

Lars Hanson

#62120

All,

Last night our Learless Feeder eased himself between Adam and Gregg. The current standings are as follows:

The current standings are as follows:

Gregg (52.5%) – 9 kills (6, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 18-20), plus three partials (1, 3, and 8)

Gary H. (50%) -- 10 kills (1-4, 6, 7, 12, 16, 18, 20)

Adam (47.5%) – 9 kills (1, 3-5, 8, 12, 16, 18, and 20) plus one partial on 6

Jim (5%) -- 1 kill (12)

The current riddle status is as follows:

4 correct – 1:  12
3 correct – 3:  16, 18, 20
2 correct – 5:  1, 3, 4, 6, 7
1 correct – 6:  2, 5, 8, 9, 14, 19
0 correct – 5: 10, 11, 13, 15, 17

No guesses –1: 15

Hints:

The answers are all regular puns (homonyms, like daffynitions) with two Spoonerisms.

There are no oblique set-ups – each set-up provides the information for the answer (as one would expect for daffynitions).

The wording of the set-ups is selected quite specifically and carefully (as usual for my riddles) – paying attention to the information in the set-up pays off here.

Clue Set #1:

Letter counts for the first four unanswered riddles are provided.

Clue Set #2:

Letter counts for the remaining five unanswered riddles are provided.

Clue Set #3:

Letter counts for the six riddles which have only been answered once or twice are provided below.

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Rogue Riddle #1044
The Game’s A-Foot . . .

One solution to ease being cooped up is to engage in some bored games, or perhaps some scarred, or maybe to chop up the time with some diced games. And that is this week’s theme. The challenge: Name these games.

As usual, this week’s Rogue Riddle consists of twenty riddles. Each riddle has two answers which sound similar. Both answers are required for full credit. Most of these are very easy one-word answers, but there are one or two “4.0 busters” in the mix.

Example:

Q: Though I may sound like something for an axle, actually I am a country. What am I?

A: GREECE / GREASE

As always, effort has gone into the setup wording to provide necessary clues.

Since this is a long weekend, the riddle will run one day longer, until 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday. As usual, the first person to solve all the riddles will be declared the winner and will host Rogue Riddle 1045 next week. If no one has solved all the riddles by 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, the one with the most correct answers will be declared the winner.

Now, on to the riddles.

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1. A game of hurriedly written words.

(8 / 8)

2. A game in which sailors try to discover who tied a line to the corner of a sail.

(4 / 4)

3. A war game played with breath mints.

(7, 2 / 7, 2)

4. A towering game for toppling vociferous super-patriots.

(5 / 5)

5. A game of musical instruments sliding among the dimly illuminated areas.

(5, 3, 7 / 6, 3, 7)

6. A children’s’ game of clumsiness.

(6 / 2, 4)

7. A card game about male red deer.

(5 / 6)

8. A card game named for a strange donkey?

(3, 5 / 3, 5)

9. A game in which the players try to cover holes in fabric simply.

(5, 4 / 7 or 9)

10. The challenge here is to carry dinner on a tray without spilling any.

(4, 4 / 5, 6)

11. Collecting an artificial sweetener.

(7, 7 / 7, 7)

12. A game wrapped in a piece of Indian clothing.

13. A game to begin thinking about oneself.

(5, 3 / 8)

14. A game of indelicacy.

(6 / 4)

15. A game to arrest a stoned criminal.

(3, 6 / 7)

16. A game of becoming a pop singer’s helpers through pantomimes.

17. A game about a lousy massage.

(6, 3 / 8)

18. A card game about neutered animals.

19. A card game in a metal tin.

(8 / 7)

20. A Danish island gambling card game.

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As always, it would be great to see some new faces this week!

Please remember to ensure your answers are directed to me. You should be able just to hit “Reply” (thanks, Norm!), but to be certain you may address all guesses, surmises, suppositions, estimates, conjectures, SWAG’s, stabs, pokes, and other such directly to me at:

parkersan2001@...

To avoid public guesses (guesses posted to the PUNY list instead of guesses sent to the host), please ensure your guesses are addressed to me at the address above.

Aloha,

Lars

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Re: R.I.P. Yahoo Groups

Marilyn L. Van Driesen

#62119

End of an era? Sad, isn't it?

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On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 8:06 PM Lee Jackson <leejackson@...> wrote:

Well, Yahoo is finally going to drive the last nail into the Yahoo Groups coffin. Read for yourself.

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html

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Re: CynMac Day (repaired)

Joseph Harris

#62118

It is a Cyn-gular occasion, and Lars hotfooted with the news on Oc-toe-ber 11th.

It hides

The Ides.

Joseph

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On 11/10/2020 18:32, James Ertner wrote:

I will always cherish the memories of both competing and judging with Cyn at past Pun-Offs.

Jim

===================

We celebrate Cyn, cuz we knew ’er

To chronically pun, that’s for sure!

Consult your physician

About this condition

Seems death is the only real cure

Gary Hallock

==========

Perfect. Thanks for remembering, Lars.

Marilyn

=====================

Today is the birthday of the one member who always remembered everyone's birthdays, on both these lists. She also remembered to celebrate the birthdays of these lists. It seems only right to reciprocate:

Cyn,

Here's to you on this, your day!

  We miss your lovely "voice" every day!

   Aloha,

   Lars

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R.I.P. Yahoo Groups

Lee Jackson

#62117

Well, Yahoo is finally going to drive the last nail into the Yahoo Groups coffin. Read for yourself.

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html

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Lee Jackson, PUNY group Administrangler
Visit the PUNY and O. Henry Museum Web Sites!
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Rogue Riddle 1044 - Status and Clue Set 2 -- #RogueRiddle

Lars Hanson

#62116

All,

Overnight the battleground has changed a bit. Greg has joined the fray, edging Adam out of the lead by two partials. The current standings are as follows:

The current standings are as follows:

Gregg (52.5%) – 9 kills (6, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 18-20), plus three partials (1, 3, and 8)

Adam (47.5%) – 9 kills (1, 3-5, 8, 12, 16, 18, and 20) plus one partial on 6

Gary H. (40%) -- 8 kills (1-4, 12, 16, 18, 20)

Jim (5%) -- 1 kill (12)

The current riddle status is as follows:

4 correct – 1:  12
3 correct – 3:  16, 18, 20
2 correct – 3:  1, 3, 4
1 correct – 8:  2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 19
0 correct – 5: 10, 11, 13, 15, 17

No guesses –1: 15

Hints:

The answers are all regular puns (homonyms, like daffynitions) with two Spoonerisms.

There are no oblique set-ups – each set-up provides the information for the answer (as one would expect for daffynitions.

The wording of the set-ups is selected quite specifically and carefully (as usual for my riddles) – paying attention to the information in the set-up pays off here.

Clue Set #1:

Letter counts for the first four unanswered riddles are provided.

Clue Set #2:

Letter counts for the remaining five unanswered riddles are provided.

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Rogue Riddle #1044
The Game’s A-Foot . . .

One solution to ease being cooped up is to engage in some bored games, or perhaps some scarred, or maybe to chop up the time with some diced games. And that is this week’s theme. The challenge: Name these games.

As usual, this week’s Rogue Riddle consists of twenty riddles. Each riddle has two answers which sound similar. Both answers are required for full credit. Most of these are very easy one-word answers, but there are one or two “4.0 busters” in the mix.

Example:

Q: Though I may sound like something for an axle, actually I am a country. What am I?

A: GREECE / GREASE

As always, effort has gone into the setup wording to provide necessary clues.

Since this is a long weekend, the riddle will run one day longer, until 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday. As usual, the first person to solve all the riddles will be declared the winner and will host Rogue Riddle 1045 next week. If no one has solved all the riddles by 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, the one with the most correct answers will be declared the winner.

Now, on to the riddles.

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1. A game of hurriedly written words.

2. A game in which sailors try to discover who tied a line to the corner of a sail.

3. A war game played with breath mints.

4. A towering game for toppling vociferous super-patriots.

5. A game of musical instruments sliding among the dimly illuminated areas.

(5, 3, 7 / 6, 3, 7)

6. A children’s’ game of clumsiness.

(6 / 2, 4)

7. A card game about male red deer.

(5 / 6)

8. A card game named for a strange donkey?

(3, 5 / 3, 5)

9. A game in which the players try to cover holes in fabric simply.

10. The challenge here is to carry dinner on a tray without spilling any.

(4, 4 / 5, 6)

11. Collecting an artificial sweetener.

(7, 7 / 7, 7)

12. A game wrapped in a piece of Indian clothing.

13. A game to begin thinking about oneself.

(5, 3 / 8)

14. A game of indelicacy.

15. A game to arrest a stoned criminal.

(3, 6 / 7)

16. A game of becoming a pop singer’s helpers through pantomimes.

17. A game about a lousy massage.

(6, 3 / 8)

18. A card game about neutered animals.

19. A card game in a metal tin.

20. A Danish island gambling card game.

<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

As always, it would be great to see some new faces this week!

Please remember to ensure your answers are directed to me. You should be able just to hit “Reply” (thanks, Norm!), but to be certain you may address all guesses, surmises, suppositions, estimates, conjectures, SWAG’s, stabs, pokes, and other such directly to me at:

parkersan2001@...

To avoid public guesses (guesses posted to the PUNY list instead of guesses sent to the host), please ensure your guesses are addressed to me at the address above.

Aloha,

Lars

=================================

Rogue Riddle 1044 -- Status and Clue Set 1 -- #RogueRiddle

Lars Hanson

#62115

All,

Currently Adam and Gary are battling for the lead, with Adam leading by a partial.

The current riddle status is as follows:

3 correct – 1:  12
2 correct – 3:  1, 4, 20
1 correct – 4:  2, 3, 15, 18
0 correct – 12: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19

No guesses –10: 5, 6, 7, 9. 10. 11, 13, 15, 17, 19

Hints:

The answers are all regular puns (homonyms, like daffynitions) with two Spoonerisms.

There are no oblique set-ups – each set-up provides the information for the answer (as one would expect for daffynitions. In other words, don't make the riddle more complicated than necessary.

The wording of the set-ups is selected quite specifically and carefully (as usual for my riddles) – paying attention to the information in the set-up pays off here.

Clue Set #1:

Letter counts for the first four unanswered riddles are provided.

<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

Rogue Riddle #1044
The Game’s A-Foot . . .

One solution to ease being cooped up is to engage in some bored games, or perhaps some scarred, or maybe to chop up the time with some diced games. And that is this week’s theme. The challenge: Name these games.

As usual, this week’s Rogue Riddle consists of twenty riddles. Each riddle has two answers which sound similar. Both answers are required for full credit. Most of these are very easy one-word answers, but there are one or two “4.0 busters” in the mix.

Example:

Q: Though I may sound like something for an axle, actually I am a country. What am I?

A: GREECE / GREASE

As always, effort has gone into the setup wording to provide necessary clues.

Since this is a long weekend, the riddle will run one day longer, until 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday. As usual, the first person to solve all the riddles will be declared the winner and will host Rogue Riddle 1045 next week. If no one has solved all the riddles by 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, the one with the most correct answers will be declared the winner.

Now, on to the riddles.

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1. A game of hurriedly written words.

2. A game in which sailors try to discover who tied a line to the corner of a sail.

3. A war game played with breath mints.

4. A towering game for toppling vociferous super-patriots.

5. A game of musical instruments sliding among the dimly illuminated areas.

(5, 3, 7 / 6, 3, 7)

6. A children’s’ game of clumsiness.

(6 / 2, 4)

7. A card game about male red deer.

(5 / 6)

8. A card game named for a strange donkey?

(3, 5 / 3, 5)

9. A game in which the players try to cover holes in fabric simply.

10. The challenge here is to carry dinner on a tray without spilling any.

11. Collecting an artificial sweetener.

12. A game wrapped in a piece of Indian clothing.

13. A game to begin thinking about oneself.

14. A game of indelicacy.

15. A game to arrest a stoned criminal.

16. A game of becoming a pop singer’s helpers through pantomimes.

17. A game about a lousy massage.

18. A card game about neutered animals.

19. A card game in a metal tin.

20. A Danish island gambling card game.

<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

As always, it would be great to see some new faces this week!

Please remember to ensure your answers are directed to me. You should be able just to hit “Reply” (thanks, Norm!), but to be certain you may address all guesses, surmises, suppositions, estimates, conjectures, SWAG’s, stabs, pokes, and other such directly to me at:

parkersan2001@...

To avoid public guesses (guesses posted to the PUNY list instead of guesses sent to the host), please ensure your guesses are addressed to me at the address above.

Aloha,

Lars

=================================

CynMac Day (repaired)

James Ertner

#62114

I will always cherish the memories of both competing and judging with Cyn at past Pun-Offs.

Jim

===================

We celebrate Cyn, cuz we knew ’er

To chronically pun, that’s for sure!

Consult your physician

About this condition

Seems death is the only real cure

Gary Hallock

==========

Perfect. Thanks for remembering, Lars.

Marilyn

=====================

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Today is the birthday of the one member who always remembered everyone's birthdays, on both these lists. She also remembered to celebrate the birthdays of these lists. It seems only right to reciprocate:

Cyn,

Here's to you on this, your day!

  We miss your lovely "voice" every day!

   Aloha,

   Lars

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Re: CynMac Day

gary hallock

#62113

We celebrate Cyn, cuz we knew ’er

To chronically pun, that’s for sure!

Consult your physician

About this condition

Seems death is the only real cure

Gary Hallock

==========

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On Oct 11, 2020, at 9:56 AM, Marilyn L. Van Driesen <mvandriesen@...> wrote:

Perfect. Thanks for remembering, Lars.

On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 9:54 AM Lars Hanson <parkersan2001@...> wrote:
All,

Today is the birthday of the one member who always remembered everyone's birthdays, on both these lists. She also remembered to celebrate the birthdays of these lists. It seems only right to reciprocate:

Cyn,

Here's to you on this, your day!

  We miss your lovely "voice" every day!

   Aloha,

   Lars

=================================

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CynMac Day

James Ertner

#62112

I will always cherish the memories of both competing and judging with Cyn at past Pun-Offs.

Jim

==================

Perfect. Thanks for remembering, Lars.

Marilyn

=====================

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All,

Today is the birthday of the one member who always remembered everyone's birthdays, on both these lists. She also remembered to celebrate the birthdays of these lists. It seems only right to reciprocate:

Cyn,

Here's to you on this, your day!

  We miss your lovely "voice" every day!

   Aloha,

   Lars

=================================

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Re: CynMac Day

Marilyn L. Van Driesen

#62111

Perfect. Thanks for remembering, Lars.

Show quoted text

On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 9:54 AM Lars Hanson <parkersan2001@...> wrote:

All,

Today is the birthday of the one member who always remembered everyone's birthdays, on both these lists. She also remembered to celebrate the birthdays of these lists. It seems only right to reciprocate:

Cyn,

Here's to you on this, your day!

  We miss your lovely "voice" every day!

   Aloha,

   Lars

=================================

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CynMac Day

Lars Hanson

#62110

All,

Today is the birthday of the one member who always remembered everyone's birthdays, on both these lists. She also remembered to celebrate the birthdays of these lists. It seems only right to reciprocate:

Cyn,

Here's to you on this, your day!

We miss your lovely "voice" every day!

Aloha,

Lars

=================================

Rogue Riddle 1044 - Status 1 -- #RogueRiddle

Lars Hanson

#62109

All,

The action began early yesterday, with 20% of the riddles falling to Adam in less than forty minutes. Jim also has weighed in.

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Rogue Riddle #1044
The Game’s A-Foot . . .

One solution to ease being cooped up is to engage in some bored games, or perhaps some scarred, or maybe to chop up the time with some diced games. And that is this week’s theme. The challenge: Name these games.

As usual, this week’s Rogue Riddle consists of twenty riddles. Each riddle has two answers which sound similar. Both answers are required for full credit. Most of these are very easy one-word answers, but there are one or two “4.0 busters” in the mix.

Example:

Q: Though I may sound like something for an axle, actually I am a country. What am I?

A: GREECE / GREASE

As always, effort has gone into the setup wording to provide necessary clues.

Since this is a long weekend, the riddle will run one day longer, until 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday. As usual, the first person to solve all the riddles will be declared the winner and will host Rogue Riddle 1045 next week. If no one has solved all the riddles by 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, the one with the most correct answers will be declared the winner.

Now, on to the riddles.

<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

1. A game of hurriedly written words.

2. A game in which sailors try to discover who tied a line to the corner of a sail.

3. A war game played with breath mints.

4. A towering game for toppling vociferous super-patriots.

5. A game of musical instruments sliding among the dimly illuminated areas.

6. A children’s’ game of clumsiness.

7. A card game about male red deer.

8. A card game named for a strange donkey?

9. A game in which the players try to cover holes in fabric simply.

10. The challenge here is to carry dinner on a tray without spilling any.

11. Collecting an artificial sweetener.

12. A game wrapped in a piece of Indian clothing.

13. A game to begin thinking about oneself.

14. A game of indelicacy.

15. A game to arrest a stoned criminal.

16. A game of becoming a pop singer’s helpers through pantomimes.

17. A game about a lousy massage.

18. A card game about neutered animals.

19. A card game in a metal tin.

20. A Danish island gambling card game.

<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

As always, it would be great to see some new faces this week!

Please remember to ensure your answers are directed to me. You should be able just to hit “Reply” (thanks, Norm!), but to be ceertain you may address all guesses, surmises, suppositions, estimates, conjectures, SWAG’s, stabs, pokes, and other such directly to me at:

parkersan2001@...

To avoid public guesses (guesses posted to the PUNY list instead of guesses sent to the host), please ensure your guesses are addressed to me at the address above.

Aloha,

Lars

=================================

Re: Rogue Riddle #1043 (Bingo & Reveal)

portagecreek

#62108

Gregg, and others,

You can opun the old puns in the puny.groups.io site. and search the archives . For rogues riddles just put that in the search and it will take you back to the beginning.

https://puny.groups.io/

As you can see the arcives go back to 1999 and can be searched as per:

https://puny.groups.io/g/main/search?p=Created,,ROGUE+RIDDLE,20,2,20,0#

Frankly, there is punning gold there and we have Lee to thanik for saving it.

the other Gary

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To: main@puny.groups.io
Subject: Re: [puny] Rogue Riddle #1043 (Bingo & Reveal)

thanks i will.

On Oct 10, 2020, at 11:35 AM, portagecreek <gypsywagon@...> wrote:

Gregg,

You may want to go to the PUNY site and check the archives to see how the Rogue Riddles have evolved.

Gary Reeves

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Sent: Oct 10, 2020 9:10 AM
To: main@puny.groups.io
Subject: Re: [puny] Rogue Riddle #1043 (Bingo & Reveal)

Hi Gary, I was wondering what had happened to this. Through hard work and Fiedlering I had solved the middle 11 way back when, put it aside in favor of, well, life, and then hadn’t heard anything. Thanks for doing it. Kudos to you—the acoustics of most of these I thought were just absolutely gorgeous—your #10, the last one I finally decomposed with Beethoven was a master, uh, piece of sound manipulation. Number 12 was a straight on aural rimsky. I must say though, 1 and 13 didn’t have the same beautiful music in my opinion. Even given the answers, I sadly am still not hearing them. (“Because of” rather than “I have” on 13 might have let me hear it a little better.) Could be the fox and the sour grapes of course. (Or is that Peter and the wolf?) Congratulations to Lars!
I was going to leave it there but have to say thank you for turning me on to this Rogue Riddle stuff. To me, it’s like cross training for pun crafting, coming at it from a different angle than a Punniest soliloquy type construction—like the same bit of trivia can be expressed as a question or, like Jeopardy, an “answer.” Do people here ever talk and discuss about how they approach these, the delight with finally hearing one fall and how their mind works to bend it, like, perhaps, the snake fighting and finally finding the curve in the pipe? Great stuff.

-Gregg

On Oct 10, 2020, at 1:39 AM, gary hallock <gary@...> wrote:

We were off to a slow start but eventually entertained worksheets from 6 different players this week. Participants were (in no particular ardor) Gregg S.,Alex R.,Erika E.,Jim E.,Adam E. & Lars H. Both Adam and Gregg came on strong at first but were unable to orchestrate enough straight lines to connect all 13. Surprisingly the first and last of this set proved to be the toughest for most players but it was Lars who eventually broke through the elusive #13 and claimed the sweep.

Watch for Lars to launch RR #1044 one day this weekend.

Thank you all for playing,

Gary (Leerless Feeder) Hallock

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ROGUE RIDDLE #1043 - Launched Sunday, Oct 4 @1pm central time.

This is a very straightforward set this week. Taking the cue from Gregg, I’m offering up a bakers dozen but some of them will contain two blanks. In some cases these blanks will relate to each other, but not always. First player with all (or most) kills wins the chance to host next week’s game.

@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@

0. (Example)
Someone baroque the BLANK on the BLANK door. (HANDEL) (BACH)

1.
The composer has nearly finished paying off his mortgage. BLANK is only one more payment to make! He BLANK anything now. - #### HECTOR - BERLIOZ

2.
Writing a dozen pun riddles about composers is something that’s long been on my bucket BLANK. - #### LISTZ

3.
We’re going to hang out at Banana Republic and then have lunch at Chick fil-a. Do you want to come with us to the BLANK BLANK not? - #### CHOPIN - MAHLER

4.
Oh, there you are, Doctor Jeckyl. Where have you been BLANK all this time? - #### HAYDN

5.
When drinking with classical composers, it’s best not to engage in too much BLANK. - #### BARTOK

6.
As a fan of violent slapstick comedy, of course I enjoy the antics of Larry & Curly, but I strongly favor BLANK-istry. - #### MOZART

7.
As they were dressing to go out for a walk down Sesame Street, Ernie asked his pal, “Have you seen my other BLANK?" - #### SCHUBERT

8.
The classical composer went in for a haircut, he told Samuel Barber to take it from the top, and also a little BLANK. - #### OFFENBACH

9.
We have lots of convicted composers in this prison. It’s kind of crowded but the warden tries to keep it down to two convicts BLANK. - #### PURCELL

10.
Some pervs are exhibitionists, but most sex addicts prefer to have a private room to BLANK. - #### BEETHOVEN

11.
The waltz of this house are starting to buckle and warp. That’s because the roof puts too much BLANK on them. - #### STRAUSS

12.
Strapped into my cross-country snow gear I decided to circumnavigate the snowy top of an extinct volcano. As usual my asthma starting acting up and I began hacking and wheezing. That’s right, whenever I BLANK-BLANK. - #### RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

13.
Because I have BLANK memory, a baker’s dozen of these riddles is the most I can compose. - #### VIVALDI

@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@

--
Gary (Immodest Moderator) Hallock, Leerless Feeder

Rogue Riddle 1044 - The Game's Afoot - #RogueRiddle

Lars Hanson

#62107

All,

Herewith is this week's Rogue Riddle collection. Most here should find these easy, so there is no excuse for not joining the game this week.

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Rogue Riddle #1044
The Game’s A-Foot . . .

One solution to ease being cooped up is to engage in some bored games, or perhaps some scarred, or maybe to chop up the time with some diced games. And that is this week’s theme. The challenge: Name these games.

As usual, this week’s Rogue Riddle consists of twenty riddles. Each riddle has two answers which sound similar. Both answers are required for full credit. Most of these are very easy one-word answers, but there are one or two “4.0 busters” in the mix.

Example:

Q: Though I may sound like something for an axle, actually I am a country. What am I?

A: GREECE / GREASE

As always, effort has gone into the setup wording to provide necessary clues.

Since this is a long weekend, the riddle will run one day longer, until 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday. As usual, the first person to solve all the riddles will be declared the winner and will host Rogue Riddle 1045 next week. If no one has solved all the riddles by 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, the one with the most correct answers will be declared the winner.

Now, on to the riddles.

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1. A game of hurriedly written words.

2. A game in which sailors try to discover who tied a line to the corner of a sail.

3. A war game played with breath mints.

4. A towering game for toppling vociferous super-patriots.

5. A game of musical instruments sliding among the dimly illuminated areas.

6. A children’s’ game of clumsiness.

7. A card game about male red deer.

8. A card game named for a strange donkey?

9. A game in which the players try to cover holes in fabric simply.

10. The challenge here is to carry dinner on a tray without spilling any.

11. Collecting an artificial sweetener.

12. A game wrapped in a piece of Indian clothing.

13. A game to begin thinking about oneself.

14. A game of indelicacy.

15. A game to arrest a stoned criminal.

16. A game of becoming a pop singer’s helpers through pantomimes.

17. A game about a lousy massage.

18. A card game about neutered animals.

19. A card game in a metal tin.

20. A Danish island gambling card game.

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As always, it would be great to see some new faces this week!

Please remember to ensure your answers are directed to me. You should be able just to hit “Reply” (thanks, Norm!), but to be ceertain you may address all guesses, surmises, suppositions, estimates, conjectures, SWAG’s, stabs, pokes, and other such directly to me at:

parkersan2001@...

To avoid public guesses (guesses to the PUNY list instead of guesses to me, please ensure your guesses are addressed to me at the address above.

Aloha,

Lars

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Rogue Riddle 1044 -- Warning

Lars Hanson

#62106

All,

Rogue Riddle 1044 will be launched within the hour.

Aloha,

Lars

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Re: Rogue Riddle #1043 (Bingo & Reveal)

gregg siegel

#62105

thanks i will.

Show quoted text

On Oct 10, 2020, at 11:35 AM, portagecreek <gypsywagon@...> wrote:

Gregg,

You may want to go to the PUNY site and check the archives to see how the Rogue Riddles have evolved.

Gary Reeves

-----Original Message-----
From: gregg s
Sent: Oct 10, 2020 9:10 AM
To: main@puny.groups.io
Subject: Re: [puny] Rogue Riddle #1043 (Bingo & Reveal)

Hi Gary, I was wondering what had happened to this. Through hard work and Fiedlering I had solved the middle 11 way back when, put it aside in favor of, well, life, and then hadn’t heard anything. Thanks for doing it. Kudos to you—the acoustics of most of these I thought were just absolutely gorgeous—your #10, the last one I finally decomposed with Beethoven was a master, uh, piece of sound manipulation. Number 12 was a straight on aural rimsky. I must say though, 1 and 13 didn’t have the same beautiful music in my opinion. Even given the answers, I sadly am still not hearing them. (“Because of” rather than “I have” on 13 might have let me hear it a little better.) Could be the fox and the sour grapes of course. (Or is that Peter and the wolf?) Congratulations to Lars!
I was going to leave it there but have to say thank you for turning me on to this Rogue Riddle stuff. To me, it’s like cross training for pun crafting, coming at it from a different angle than a Punniest soliloquy type construction—like the same bit of trivia can be expressed as a question or, like Jeopardy, an “answer.” Do people here ever talk and discuss about how they approach these, the delight with finally hearing one fall and how their mind works to bend it, like, perhaps, the snake fighting and finally finding the curve in the pipe? Great stuff.

-Gregg

On Oct 10, 2020, at 1:39 AM, gary hallock <gary@...> wrote:

We were off to a slow start but eventually entertained worksheets from 6 different players this week. Participants were (in no particular ardor) Gregg S.,Alex R.,Erika E.,Jim E.,Adam E. & Lars H. Both Adam and Gregg came on strong at first but were unable to orchestrate enough straight lines to connect all 13. Surprisingly the first and last of this set proved to be the toughest for most players but it was Lars who eventually broke through the elusive #13 and claimed the sweep.

Watch for Lars to launch RR #1044 one day this weekend.

Thank you all for playing,

Gary (Leerless Feeder) Hallock

==========================

ROGUE RIDDLE #1043 - Launched Sunday, Oct 4 @1pm central time.

This is a very straightforward set this week. Taking the cue from Gregg, I’m offering up a bakers dozen but some of them will contain two blanks. In some cases these blanks will relate to each other, but not always. First player with all (or most) kills wins the chance to host next week’s game.

@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@

0. (Example)
Someone baroque the BLANK on the BLANK door. (HANDEL) (BACH)

1.
The composer has nearly finished paying off his mortgage. BLANK is only one more payment to make! He BLANK anything now. - #### HECTOR - BERLIOZ

2.
Writing a dozen pun riddles about composers is something that’s long been on my bucket BLANK. - #### LISTZ

3.
We’re going to hang out at Banana Republic and then have lunch at Chick fil-a. Do you want to come with us to the BLANK BLANK not? - #### CHOPIN - MAHLER

4.
Oh, there you are, Doctor Jeckyl. Where have you been BLANK all this time? - #### HAYDN

5.
When drinking with classical composers, it’s best not to engage in too much BLANK. - #### BARTOK

6.
As a fan of violent slapstick comedy, of course I enjoy the antics of Larry & Curly, but I strongly favor BLANK-istry. - #### MOZART

7.
As they were dressing to go out for a walk down Sesame Street, Ernie asked his pal, “Have you seen my other BLANK?" - #### SCHUBERT

8.
The classical composer went in for a haircut, he told Samuel Barber to take it from the top, and also a little BLANK. - #### OFFENBACH

9.
We have lots of convicted composers in this prison. It’s kind of crowded but the warden tries to keep it down to two convicts BLANK. - #### PURCELL

10.
Some pervs are exhibitionists, but most sex addicts prefer to have a private room to BLANK. - #### BEETHOVEN

11.
The waltz of this house are starting to buckle and warp. That’s because the roof puts too much BLANK on them. - #### STRAUSS

12.
Strapped into my cross-country snow gear I decided to circumnavigate the snowy top of an extinct volcano. As usual my asthma starting acting up and I began hacking and wheezing. That’s right, whenever I BLANK-BLANK. - #### RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

13.
Because I have BLANK memory, a baker’s dozen of these riddles is the most I can compose. - #### VIVALDI

@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@

--
Gary (Immodest Moderator) Hallock, Leerless Feeder

Re: Rogue Riddle #1043 (Bingo & Reveal)

portagecreek

#62104

Gregg,

You may want to go to the PUNY site and check the archives to see how the Rogue Riddles have evolved.

Gary Reeves

Show quoted text

-----Original Message-----
From: gregg s
Sent: Oct 10, 2020 9:10 AM
To: main@puny.groups.io
Subject: Re: [puny] Rogue Riddle #1043 (Bingo & Reveal)

Hi Gary, I was wondering what had happened to this. Through hard work and Fiedlering I had solved the middle 11 way back when, put it aside in favor of, well, life, and then hadn’t heard anything. Thanks for doing it. Kudos to you—the acoustics of most of these I thought were just absolutely gorgeous—your #10, the last one I finally decomposed with Beethoven was a master, uh, piece of sound manipulation. Number 12 was a straight on aural rimsky. I must say though, 1 and 13 didn’t have the same beautiful music in my opinion. Even given the answers, I sadly am still not hearing them. (“Because of” rather than “I have” on 13 might have let me hear it a little better.) Could be the fox and the sour grapes of course. (Or is that Peter and the wolf?) Congratulations to Lars!
I was going to leave it there but have to say thank you for turning me on to this Rogue Riddle stuff. To me, it’s like cross training for pun crafting, coming at it from a different angle than a Punniest soliloquy type construction—like the same bit of trivia can be expressed as a question or, like Jeopardy, an “answer.” Do people here ever talk and discuss about how they approach these, the delight with finally hearing one fall and how their mind works to bend it, like, perhaps, the snake fighting and finally finding the curve in the pipe? Great stuff.

-Gregg

On Oct 10, 2020, at 1:39 AM, gary hallock <gary@...> wrote:

We were off to a slow start but eventually entertained worksheets from 6 different players this week. Participants were (in no particular ardor) Gregg S.,Alex R.,Erika E.,Jim E.,Adam E. & Lars H. Both Adam and Gregg came on strong at first but were unable to orchestrate enough straight lines to connect all 13. Surprisingly the first and last of this set proved to be the toughest for most players but it was Lars who eventually broke through the elusive #13 and claimed the sweep.

Watch for Lars to launch RR #1044 one day this weekend.

Thank you all for playing,

Gary (Leerless Feeder) Hallock

==========================

ROGUE RIDDLE #1043 - Launched Sunday, Oct 4 @1pm central time.

This is a very straightforward set this week. Taking the cue from Gregg, I’m offering up a bakers dozen but some of them will contain two blanks. In some cases these blanks will relate to each other, but not always. First player with all (or most) kills wins the chance to host next week’s game.

@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@

0. (Example)
Someone baroque the BLANK on the BLANK door. (HANDEL) (BACH)

1.
The composer has nearly finished paying off his mortgage. BLANK is only one more payment to make! He BLANK anything now. - #### HECTOR - BERLIOZ

2.
Writing a dozen pun riddles about composers is something that’s long been on my bucket BLANK. - #### LISTZ

3.
We’re going to hang out at Banana Republic and then have lunch at Chick fil-a. Do you want to come with us to the BLANK BLANK not? - #### CHOPIN - MAHLER

4.
Oh, there you are, Doctor Jeckyl. Where have you been BLANK all this time? - #### HAYDN

5.
When drinking with classical composers, it’s best not to engage in too much BLANK. - #### BARTOK

6.
As a fan of violent slapstick comedy, of course I enjoy the antics of Larry & Curly, but I strongly favor BLANK-istry. - #### MOZART

7.
As they were dressing to go out for a walk down Sesame Street, Ernie asked his pal, “Have you seen my other BLANK?" - #### SCHUBERT

8.
The classical composer went in for a haircut, he told Samuel Barber to take it from the top, and also a little BLANK. - #### OFFENBACH

9.
We have lots of convicted composers in this prison. It’s kind of crowded but the warden tries to keep it down to two convicts BLANK. - #### PURCELL

10.
Some pervs are exhibitionists, but most sex addicts prefer to have a private room to BLANK. - #### BEETHOVEN

11.
The waltz of this house are starting to buckle and warp. That’s because the roof puts too much BLANK on them. - #### STRAUSS

12.
Strapped into my cross-country snow gear I decided to circumnavigate the snowy top of an extinct volcano. As usual my asthma starting acting up and I began hacking and wheezing. That’s right, whenever I BLANK-BLANK. - #### RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

13.
Because I have BLANK memory, a baker’s dozen of these riddles is the most I can compose. - #### VIVALDI

@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@

--
Gary (Immodest Moderator) Hallock, Leerless Feeder

Re: Rogue Riddle #1043 (Bingo & Reveal)

gregg siegel

#62103

Hi Gary, I was wondering what had happened to this. Through hard work and Fiedlering I had solved the middle 11 way back when, put it aside in favor of, well, life, and then hadn’t heard anything. Thanks for doing it. Kudos to you—the acoustics of most of these I thought were just absolutely gorgeous—your #10, the last one I finally decomposed with Beethoven was a master, uh, piece of sound manipulation. Number 12 was a straight on aural rimsky. I must say though, 1 and 13 didn’t have the same beautiful music in my opinion. Even given the answers, I sadly am still not hearing them. (“Because of” rather than “I have” on 13 might have let me hear it a little better.) Could be the fox and the sour grapes of course. (Or is that Peter and the wolf?) Congratulations to Lars!

I was going to leave it there but have to say thank you for turning me on to this Rogue Riddle stuff. To me, it’s like cross training for pun crafting, coming at it from a different angle than a Punniest soliloquy type construction—like the same bit of trivia can be expressed as a question or, like Jeopardy, an “answer.” Do people here ever talk and discuss about how they approach these, the delight with finally hearing one fall and how their mind works to bend it, like, perhaps, the snake fighting and finally finding the curve in the pipe? Great stuff.

-Gregg

Show quoted text

On Oct 10, 2020, at 1:39 AM, gary hallock <gary@...> wrote:

We were off to a slow start but eventually entertained worksheets from 6 different players this week. Participants were (in no particular ardor) Gregg S.,Alex R.,Erika E.,Jim E.,Adam E. & Lars H. Both Adam and Gregg came on strong at first but were unable to orchestrate enough straight lines to connect all 13. Surprisingly the first and last of this set proved to be the toughest for most players but it was Lars who eventually broke through the elusive #13 and claimed the sweep.

Watch for Lars to launch RR #1044 one day this weekend.

Thank you all for playing,

Gary (Leerless Feeder) Hallock

==========================

ROGUE RIDDLE #1043 - Launched Sunday, Oct 4 @1pm central time.

This is a very straightforward set this week. Taking the cue from Gregg, I’m offering up a bakers dozen but some of them will contain two blanks. In some cases these blanks will relate to each other, but not always. First player with all (or most) kills wins the chance to host next week’s game.

@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@

0. (Example)
Someone baroque the BLANK on the BLANK door. (HANDEL) (BACH)

1.
The composer has nearly finished paying off his mortgage. BLANK is only one more payment to make! He BLANK anything now. - #### HECTOR - BERLIOZ

2.
Writing a dozen pun riddles about composers is something that’s long been on my bucket BLANK. - #### LISTZ

3.
We’re going to hang out at Banana Republic and then have lunch at Chick fil-a. Do you want to come with us to the BLANK BLANK not? - #### CHOPIN - MAHLER

4.
Oh, there you are, Doctor Jeckyl. Where have you been BLANK all this time? - #### HAYDN

5.
When drinking with classical composers, it’s best not to engage in too much BLANK. - #### BARTOK

6.
As a fan of violent slapstick comedy, of course I enjoy the antics of Larry & Curly, but I strongly favor BLANK-istry. - #### MOZART

7.
As they were dressing to go out for a walk down Sesame Street, Ernie asked his pal, “Have you seen my other BLANK?" - #### SCHUBERT

8.
The classical composer went in for a haircut, he told Samuel Barber to take it from the top, and also a little BLANK. - #### OFFENBACH

9.
We have lots of convicted composers in this prison. It’s kind of crowded but the warden tries to keep it down to two convicts BLANK. - #### PURCELL

10.
Some pervs are exhibitionists, but most sex addicts prefer to have a private room to BLANK. - #### BEETHOVEN

11.
The waltz of this house are starting to buckle and warp. That’s because the roof puts too much BLANK on them. - #### STRAUSS

12.
Strapped into my cross-country snow gear I decided to circumnavigate the snowy top of an extinct volcano. As usual my asthma starting acting up and I began hacking and wheezing. That’s right, whenever I BLANK-BLANK. - #### RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

13.
Because I have BLANK memory, a baker’s dozen of these riddles is the most I can compose. - #### VIVALDI

@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@

--
Gary (Immodest Moderator) Hallock, Leerless Feeder

Rogue Riddle #1043 (Bingo & Reveal)

gary hallock

#62102

We were off to a slow start but eventually entertained worksheets from 6 different players this week. Participants were (in no particular ardor) Gregg S.,Alex R.,Erika E.,Jim E.,Adam E. & Lars H. Both Adam and Gregg came on strong at first but were unable to orchestrate enough straight lines to connect all 13. Surprisingly the first and last of this set proved to be the toughest for most players but it was Lars who eventually broke through the elusive #13 and claimed the sweep. 

Watch for Lars to launch RR #1044 one day this weekend. 

Thank you all for playing,

Gary (Leerless Feeder) Hallock

==========================
﻿
ROGUE RIDDLE #1043 - Launched Sunday, Oct 4 @1pm central time.

This is a very straightforward set this week. Taking the cue from Gregg, I’m offering up a bakers dozen but some of them will contain two blanks. In some cases these blanks will relate to each other, but not always. First player with all (or most) kills wins the chance to host next week’s game. 

@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@

0. (Example) 
Someone baroque the BLANK on the BLANK door.  (HANDEL) (BACH)

1.
The composer has nearly finished paying off his mortgage. BLANK is only one more payment to make! He BLANK anything now.  - #### HECTOR - BERLIOZ

2.
Writing a dozen pun riddles about composers is something that’s long been on my bucket BLANK. - #### LISTZ

3.
We’re going to hang out at Banana Republic and then have lunch at Chick fil-a. Do you want to come with us to the BLANK BLANK not? - #### CHOPIN - MAHLER

4.
Oh, there you are, Doctor Jeckyl. Where have you been BLANK all this time? - #### HAYDN

5.
When drinking with classical composers, it’s best not to engage in too much BLANK. - #### BARTOK

6.
As a fan of violent slapstick comedy, of course I enjoy the antics of Larry & Curly, but I strongly favor BLANK-istry. - #### MOZART

7.
As they were dressing to go out for a walk down Sesame Street, Ernie asked his pal, “Have you seen my other BLANK?" - #### SCHUBERT

8.
The classical composer went in for a haircut, he told Samuel Barber to take it from the top, and also a little BLANK. - #### OFFENBACH 

9.
We have lots of convicted composers in this prison. It’s kind of crowded but the warden tries to keep it down to two convicts BLANK. - #### PURCELL

10.
Some pervs are exhibitionists, but most sex addicts prefer to have a private room to BLANK. - #### BEETHOVEN

11.
The waltz of this house are starting to buckle and warp. That’s because the roof puts too much BLANK on them. - #### STRAUSS 

12.
Strapped into my cross-country snow gear I decided to circumnavigate the snowy top of an extinct volcano. As usual my asthma starting acting up and I began hacking and wheezing. That’s right, whenever I BLANK-BLANK. - #### RIMSKY-KORSAKOV 

13.
Because I have BLANK memory, a baker’s dozen of these riddles is the most I can compose. - #### VIVALDI 

@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@


-- 
Gary (Immodest Moderator) Hallock, Leerless Feeder

O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships - Sat, 10/17/2020 #cal-reminder

main@puny.groups.io Calendar <main@...>

#62101

Reminder: O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships

When: Saturday, 17 October 2020

Where:Austin, TX

View Event

Description: The 43rd Annual O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships, information to be found at http://www.punpunpun.com