One late player entered the fray and a few others sent out enhanced worksheets, but the ultimate winner in this game is Adam Engel, who was hopefully not April fooling me when he actually admitted he was ready to claim the kill. 

Final scores were as follows

Bill C. - 12 of 13 kills

Chris G. - 11 of 13 kills 

Adam E. - 10 of 13 kills

Marilyn V. - 10 of 13 kills

Jim E. - 8 of 13 kills

As mentioned above, Adam will be hosting #1117 this weekend.

Answer reveals have been incorporated below.

Thank you for playing,

Gary Hallock

On Apr 1, 2022, at 12:50 AM, Gary <gary@...> wrote:

Excellent worksheets are in from Jim, Marilyn, Chris and Adam. Even though I launched this riddle set late in the week, I’ll let it run another day before announcing the bingo/reveal.

In case you wondered, I had included country clues in most of the set-ups but I’ve now added some specific clues below for three of the tricky ones,  #8, #9 and #12

GH

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On Mar 30, 2022, at 10:33 AM, Gary <gary@...> wrote:

ROGUE RIDDLE #1116 - YOU ROPE part 2 - Launched Wednesday, March 30, 2022 @10:30am central

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Hot on the heels of Bill’s whirlwind tour of Europe and my own recent adventures in Poland, I’m still wallowing in geographical names.

Below you will find a dozen brief riddles. With the exception of #8, each contain a single BLANK for you to fill with the name of a well-known European city.

Be the first (or possibly only) player to provide me with the 13 punned city names and you could become the lucky host of RR #1117 next week.

For the record, I’m fully willing (and somewhat prepared) to continue hosting and posting these Rogues myself, so there absolutely no pressure on any player to claim the game. Just give me your feedback and guesses on my modest presentations. Let’s have some fun!

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1.
The Jamaican returned early from his visit to Spain. “I felt uncomfortable. I don’t think they like BLANK locks.”

#### MADRID

2.
The Swiss animal park made the owners quite wealthy. Now they’re BLANK.

#### ZURICH

3.
If we use un-treated lumber to construct our dyke, over the years all that moisture is sure to BLANK.

#### ROTTERDAM

4.
In Norway we rented an underpowered Fjiord Fjiesta. It sure was BLANK car!

#### OSLO

5.
I invested bullions in Swedish soup broth but was not allowed to bring any of that BLANK.

#### STOCKHOLM

6.
Putin’s army has been pounding the Ukrainian capital in hopes that their government will eventually BLANK in.  

#### KYIV

7.
BLANK that gondolier going to start singing?

#### VENICE

8. - (Neither of these city names will be found in Ukraine but both are nearby.)
After their BLANK over, many tired Russian soldiers BLANK back home in shame.

#### WARSAW / MOSCOW

9. - (Even after you have already solved all the other riddles, this one may still Romania awaiting your answer) 
Some novels you just can’t put down, but I couldn’t finish War & Peace in one sitting. I had to give that BLANK

#### BUCHAREST 

10.
On a fun night out, young women in Spain are warned not to go into BLANK.

#### BARCELONA

11.
We wanted to visit the Eiffel Tower but it was closed for re-BLANK.

#### PARIS

12. - (Clue - Or was it Steinbeck? Either way this one is tricky because it’s a bit of a phonetic twist) 
William Shakespeare was obviously discontented with his visit to Austria. Probably he should have waited until spring and not gone in the BLANK.

#### VIENNA

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