First clue: The Old Ball Game (in the year of COVID - 19, sung with vigor please) Stay away from the ball game! Don’t go out ______ ______ _____! You’ll _____ _____ _____ on your Cracker Jack. It’s __

"In the year of COVID-19" was meant to be a clue. Could someone let me know if they have begun work on it so I know whether to give another clue? Yes, it is baseball season, but what has befallen our

Yes, it is baseball season, but what has befallen our teams? Spectators make the game, but alas, where are they ... what has happened? So here goes, easy as you please, fill-in-the-blanks. Though appr

Rogue Riddle #1039 coming soon to a stadium near you. It's still summer and on this holiday weekend, what better thing than to go to a good ol' baseball game ... except we may not. But that doesn't me

Determining what book has enjoyed the most commercial success of all time turns out to be quite a challenge. Theoretically we can just look at the sales numbers and rank them. However, comparing the s

Cynthia will be missed. I only just now learned about her passing. I remember when George passed away and the Austin punsters got together to remember and honor him. But, under the circumstances I gue

A herring anda whale were fine fanatic (and finatic) friends, and they even traveled in thesame school. On a rare occasion, another fish noticed the herring swimmingalone and asked where his compatrio

If you had invested in dehydrated beef broth cubes back when they first went commercial, today you'd be a bouillonaire! I bought some beef stock along with a little bouillon to start my Broth IRA Doug

We entertained seven players total this week, all making much early progress but much to my surprise, nobody was actually able to bring this one fully “home.” - Several players seemed to understand th

Since Sunday we have had 6 players valiantly at work on this game but for some reason nobody has yet actually taken it all the way home. I suppose this could be due to the fact that my first verse con

ROGUE RIDDLE #1038 - Launched Sunday, August 30, 2020@ 11am central .^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^

All, Herewith the results of this year’s neologism contest at the Washington Post. One or two seem familiar somehow .... ;-) Aloha, Lars ======================

Expect to see Rogue Riddle #1038 in your mailbox at about 11am central. Again this week I have constructed a limerick-based game, which I suspect will fall fast, so if you are one of those players who

I can’t recall whether or not I mentioned this a month ago as Cynthia was passing, but it certainly bears repeating. About a year ago I interviewed Cynthia MacGregor on our podcast, “Pun Intensive.” I

All, Gary Hallock came in with a winning worksheet just as I sent out the previous status report. That brought us to six players this week. Gary had 17 clean kills, and so gets to host Rogue Riddle #1

All, There are now five players this week. Herewith the third clue set. Hint: As the introduction indicates, all of this week’s riddles deal with animal names. Sometimes it may be easiest to begin the

All, PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THE PREVIOUS TRANSMISSION. I had omitted the magic subject line coding which returns guesses just to me instead of to the list. Thanks. There are now four players this week

All, There are now four players this week. Herewith the second clue set. Clue Set #1: The letter counts for the first ten riddles are provided below. Clue Set #1: The letter counts for the remaining t

All, There are now three players this week. It appears this set is giving people a bit more difficulty than anticipated, so herewith the first clue set. Clue Set #1: The letter counts for the first te

All, So far, just one player, Chris, who slew 13 of this week’s Rogue in one fell swoop just three hours after the riddles were posted. Well done, Chris! One person asked for examples, which I had not