Fun and Games

bluefury361 said:
It's cute how the girls on each end are obviously thrusting their chests out to try and "stack" up.
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like anybody else, we "throw out there" whatever we got. :)

But, I know the drill personally. When i was in college, I "fluffed up" my clothing in "strategic" locations on Ladies Night at the disco.

Hmm .. at the disco. Those were the days .. alas within a 3-4 years of being old enough to drink and get in to them, the heyday was over for me

i can scarcely imagine myself in such a place today .. that's what gettin' an AARP card will do for ya. :)

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amazinblue82 said:
first time through 7, second time through 9...the last two have eluded me so far. i think my eyes are goin', or I need longer arms or somethin' :eusa_wall:

(the answer is out there online...please nobody post it here for a few days until any interested folks have wrestled/had a little fun with it?)


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I found 13 faces
 
You started this thread by saying that you do crosswords to keep your mind active. My wife home schools our three oldest kids. Sometimes on Fridays they will do a theme study and then she gives them a phrase to see how many other words they can make from the words in the phrase. When I get home from work I'll sit down and do it too. Last weeks phrase was Golden Gate Bridge.

I don't have the paper handy right now, but my daughter (9) found 109 I think. I came up with 131 before I stopped. What always surprises me is the words she gets and I miss. 85 of the words I found she missed and 71 of the words she found I missed. While I was comparing our list I thought of even more.

A popular one to do this with is Merry Christmas the solve for it can be found online.
 
live4theking said:
You started this thread by saying that you do crosswords to keep your mind active. My wife home schools our three oldest kids. Sometimes on Fridays they will do a theme study and then she gives them a phrase to see how many other words they can make from the words in the phrase. When I get home from work I'll sit down and do it too. Last weeks phrase was Golden Gate Bridge.

I don't have the paper handy right now, but my daughter (9) found 109 I think. I came up with 131 before I stopped. What always surprises me is the words she gets and I miss. 85 of the words I found she missed and 71 of the words she found I missed. While I was comparing our list I thought of even more.

A popular one to do this with is Merry Christmas the solve for it can be found online.
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neat exercise ..and genius work by your nine yr old :)

im gonna try the merry christmas one ..should be at least 200 with all those vowels.
 
You guy's are making me feel stupid, I had to use the cheat to find the I-phone on the rug, I did find 11 faces in the pic though. I like the people mag crossword usually fairly easy, I also enjoy Sudoku, but some of those make me feel stupid also.
 
live4theking said:
A popular one to do this with is Merry Christmas the solve for it can be found online.
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I got 131 words .. BUT i didn't include the plurals. that added about 20 more. I didnt include the 10 or so words from other languages that I know (e.g, 'Si" ,spanish for "yes")

I googled for the list and there are at least 200 ENGLISH words.

The ones i missed were obvious and i'm kickin' myself for that. (e.g., 'tea") -- it was early today, Michigan lost last night .. I wasnt myself :)

Some that end in "Y" .. just weren't in my normal vocabulary and I didn't get those either.

my youngest (she's "old" - 29) is an engineer and she got 149 (WITHOUT the plurals so she beat me by a lot). My oldest kid (31) hasn't reported in yet.

that was fun .. thanks.
 
amazinblue82 said:
I got 131 words .. BUT i didn't include the plurals. that added about 20 more. I didnt include the 10 or so words from other languages that I know (e.g, 'Si" ,spanish for "yes")

I googled for the list and there are at least 200 ENGLISH words.

The ones i missed were obvious and i'm kickin' myself for that. (e.g., 'tea") -- it was early today, Michigan lost last night .. I wasnt myself :)

Some that end in "Y" .. just weren't in my normal vocabulary and I didn't get those either.

my youngest (she's "old" - 29) is an engineer and she got 149 (WITHOUT the plurals so she beat me by a lot). My oldest kid (31) hasn't reported in yet.

that was fun .. thanks.
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She always gets a bunch of simple words that just blow by me. I make it harder than it needs to be it seems.
 
amazinblue82 said:
Dunno if there are any crossword puzzlers or other "brain-gamers" here. :yes:

quick story. started the crossword "hobby" in my late 30's. lotta time in airplanes lent itself to crosswords (then sudoku). plus i heard when you got older..like I am now...the exercising of the gray matter helps you somehow.

anyway, one I never mastered was the NY Times Crossword. In short, today is a red letter day.

Finished this one in 90 minutes..my alloted time. First time ever. Most of them I couldn't finish in 90 years, let alone 90 minutes..very frustrating. didn't get the theme, didn't get the clues..whatever.

and yep, I do them ALL in pen. way to force myself to think then write.

Any of you with 'small victories" of this sort? Crosswords, video games, puzzles, brainteasers..something you finally mastered/beat? Examples you can post or describe to give other "sufferers" like I was with NY Times Crossword?

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Goin deep in the archives. One of my first threads .. didn't go very far but that's cool.

I am STILL old -- and even older now seven years later -- and NORE more than ever, gotta try to stay mentally sharp.

So when I can, I test out the machinery, figuring if i ever fail to complete a Monday-Sat (Sundays are TOO long) LA Times or New York Times crossword puzzle, something ain't workin' upstairs as well as it used to.

Might happen to me anyway, but "its" in for a fight with me if I can.

Anyway, one of this week's LA Times' online offerings landed "close to home". :)


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Best time for the Newspaper WonderWord for me was under 60 seconds, it was funny, all the words began with the letter D (easy). Now I'm jist'bout ready to break level 1,000 on the phone app with only using the clues a couple of times and accidentally bumping the time bomb twice with my fat thumb.


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SGT FURY said:
I've always wanted make puzzles out of these pics

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long as you dont infringe anybody'd intellectual property, TONS of outfits ready to make you a 100, 200, 500, 1,000, etc., piece (cardboard type jigsaw) puzzle for < $30-$40/per puzzle (maybe less in volume?).

those pics you put there ould make neat, fairly challenging puzzles for "gearheads" who dig cars AND puzzles.

must mean somebody is trying/has tried it ... still may be neat personal gift to yourself or a relative?
 
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