I hate jinxing myself
Aug. 9th, 2002 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiSo, as I've mentioned in the past, my morning brain exercise is a quick visit to the Puzzbility Daily Post. My goal is to get no more than three wrong over the course of a year.
This week, the theme has been word squares with cartoon characters. Basically, they've taken famous characters, and hidden them in 3x3 grids, Boggle-style, allowing letters to be re-used, but not repeated. For example:
E I W
L E C
T O Y
Gives us Wile E Coyote.
And this week, the first four answers were George Jetson, Foghorn Leghorn, Homer Simpson, and Yosemite Sam. So when I commented to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadesong that this week was pretty easy, because there was a limited subset of famous tv cartoon characters, I must've tripped a switch somewhere.
Today's clue was this:
R U S
A C O
T G E
I spent over an hour staring at this (and occasionally getting other work done). I tried every Merry Melody and Hanna Barbera character I could think of. I went through Disney characters (even though most of them are from movies, not TV). And then I finally had an epiphany.
But this character was obscure. Really obscure. So obscure I had to do a Google search to make sure I wasn't on crack and misremembering a cartoon I saw twice as a lad.
There may be another more obvious choice, but this one fits the bill. And it was motherfucking hard (and no, I'm not spoiling the answer, as I want to give folks the chance to get it before they post the answer tomorrow). But wow! I'll never gripe about Puzz being too easy again.
This week, the theme has been word squares with cartoon characters. Basically, they've taken famous characters, and hidden them in 3x3 grids, Boggle-style, allowing letters to be re-used, but not repeated. For example:
E I W
L E C
T O Y
Gives us Wile E Coyote.
And this week, the first four answers were George Jetson, Foghorn Leghorn, Homer Simpson, and Yosemite Sam. So when I commented to
shadesong that this week was pretty easy, because there was a limited subset of famous tv cartoon characters, I must've tripped a switch somewhere.Today's clue was this:
R U S
A C O
T G E
I spent over an hour staring at this (and occasionally getting other work done). I tried every Merry Melody and Hanna Barbera character I could think of. I went through Disney characters (even though most of them are from movies, not TV). And then I finally had an epiphany.
But this character was obscure. Really obscure. So obscure I had to do a Google search to make sure I wasn't on crack and misremembering a cartoon I saw twice as a lad.
There may be another more obvious choice, but this one fits the bill. And it was motherfucking hard (and no, I'm not spoiling the answer, as I want to give folks the chance to get it before they post the answer tomorrow). But wow! I'll never gripe about Puzz being too easy again.
