Baldur

belladonnis, Baldur is quite impressed and after a quick cursory read-through thought you had it. Your list is not identical to mine, true but it looked good
Until I looked again and saw:
MAN ROOM
&
PAGE BOARD

All in all a great effort though

marius

Regarding cursive writing (versus Baldur's accursed puzzle - giggle) .... I emailed friend who teaches 4th grade and told her what belladonnis said, asked if she'd heard of trend to NOT teach cursive. Her reply is below.

"Oh, yes. This has been an ongoing issue for with us for 3 or 4 years. We have 'officially' been told not to worry about cursive as long as they can legibly write something. I, however write cursive on the board, so my students have to learn to read it. We (4th grade in my building) also send cursive handwriting practice pages once a week as homework. We require that they write the “daily language” sentences (two a day) in cursive, but we do this on our own. It is a crime, don’t you think?"

Yes, I do.

10 points for accursed, even if the adjective is a slight exaggeration. : )

belladonnis

Ok so I messed up after MAN. So some words after ROOM are correct but then I bugger it up again at PAGE(Im taking 10 for bugger!). Is that right? The words not the 10:). This is driving me crazy!!!!!! I ve tried 3 other chains and I get to a point where I have at most 4 words that are UH OH WHERE DO I GO!!!!! Its that one hook up I cant get. You are a mean, devious man Baulder......I like that very much!!!! I'm going to go play scrabble on pogo but I WILL figure it out.......maybe!;)

sheftali52

Belladonis, I share your frustration with the latest puzzle. At times I think I've got it, only to see one or two pairings that really don't pass muster. Not sure I'll ever solve it, but trying is fun!

sheftali52

+n for Belladonnis

Baldur

Some individual words will pair up with more than one other word, but if you choose the wrong set you tie up a word you may need later.
It is rather devious but it's likely there could be several correct lists

sheftali52

And Sheftali is still scratching her head.....

Baldur

Well here it is, the answer to the Ringword challenge.
Notice this is almost an hour late. Baldur completely forgot that today was answer day.

AGE
OLD
TIME
WARP
DRIVE
BY
LINE
DANCE
FLOOR
MODEL
HOME
RUN
OFF
BEAT
BOX
CAR
POOL
SIDE
SHOW
TUNE
UP
FRONT
PAGE
BOY
TOY
BOAT
SLIP
CASE
BOOK
MARK
DOWN
W ARD
ROOM
SERVICE
CALL
GIRL
SCOUT
OUT
HOUSE
CAT
NAP
KIN
SHIP
BOARD
GAME
POINT
BLA NK
SPACE
MAN

sheftali52

Sheftali is glad to see she was within a couple words of achieving success. My favorite pairing is BOY TOY.

marius

My favorite pairing is beat box. I KNEW it had to be in there, I KNEW it ... just couldn't get the rest of the string. Oh well ... good puzzle Baldur!!!

belladonnis

I thought about FLOOR,MODEL and then MODEL, HOME. Model was a hard one for me to pair with anything but car! I thought that was to easy! I was right!!! POOL SIDE!!! DUH!!! I never thought of that one! That was fun......MORE PLEASE!

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There were a few pairings in there that I've never heard before ... but that's down to being from a different culture. I enjoy your word competitions, Baldur ... keep them coming.

Baldur

marius, that was both devious and dyslexic.
Different letters standing for a single letter, it drove me bonkers. LOL

here it goes:

There once was the cyberspace kingdom of thinkdraw where lived an illustrious and industrious man named Baldru.
Most days when not helping neighbors build memorias (sic) said man would be found cooking two dinnets (sic) stringing beads refinishing tables talking with satyrs, drawing obseiing (sic) about thongs which by the way are worn on the feet and frequently entertaining his radio audience with alarmingly difficult puzzles.
There came to be called Baldrui so and so great was their impact that psychologists began to predict there would be mention of them on deathbeds in the tradition of this word magician.
May we suggest that solvers of this crypto draw nowo (sic) magic potion or its effects, keeping Baldru in mind.
And apologiesfor dysleic missle ing (sic) of Baldru.

marius

Wow - you are fast! Congratulations! Glad I was devious - had to do something that might "throw" the master, if only for a moment. : )

Corrected some misspellings in your Radio station, the intentional and not intentional. Might check sentence that begins with "These came to be called .... (not Baldrui) ... but close. Love your picture too! : )

Baldur

oh I see, when I printed it out a space appeared separating ZOAN6UY from BH
When reassembled I get the Baldruims, which must be dyslexic for a Baldruism LOL
Great puzzle, Baldur should have been outside working in the neighbor's yard but instead played in the office for a couple hours.

marius

Since marius's brain is still too befuddled by unrelated letters flowing through the gray matter (i.e. the crypto), she is unable to check it again and add punctuation in the proper places. Therefore, here is how the crypto is supposed to read:

There was once the cyberspace kingdom of thinkdraw where lived an illustrious and industrious man named baldru. Most days when not helping neighbors create memorials, said man would be found cooking two dinners, stringing beads, refinishing tables, talking to satyrs, drawing, obsessing about thongs, which by the way are worn on the feet, and frequently entertaining his radio audience with alarmingly difficult puzzles. These came to be called baldruisms and so great was their impact that psychologists began to predict there would be mention of them murmured on deathbeds. In the tradition of this word magician, may we suggest that solvers of this crypto draw now a magic potion, or its effects, keeping baldru in mind. And apologies for dyslexic misslepping of bladru.

marius

True some could say Baldur's cryptogram challenge is like letter confetti do a picture based on 'goblyn market' by miss christina rossetti.

.... haven't drawn forever ... we'll see. right now too much letter confetti in the brain.

Solution solving began at start of making honey wheat bread four hours ago! : ) Great puzzle.

Baldur

Here is the official answer, Thank you for playing:

True some could say Baldur's
cryptogram challenge
is like letter confetti
do a picture based on
'goblin market' by
Miss christina rossetti

marius

Nope, not posting the answer.
Just moving the answer thread near the top.

marius

Hints for solo ... if you don't want them, don't look.
.....

Two vowels are used to represent the letter "n."

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Baldur's name might be in there. : )