Somewhat related to Wordle

[Road Runner]

The Daily Word Jumble.  A game that I have played for many years, first in the newspaper, then online and now in books. 

Here is one that I was just doing.  The online version had a time limit.  I forget how long, but I would never have gotten this puzzle done in time.

Just rearrange the letters to make a word.  Then use the circled letters to answer the question.  Quickly.  The clock is running.

Easy-Peasy.

 

 

 

[Kirby]

My Mother loved the jumble.  Every time I tried to read the comic section of her newspaper, they'd be all sorts of little words spelled out and crossed out with a special focus on the letters for the super jumble answer. She'd sometimes ask me various words and I never had the patience to try to figure it out.  But there is something comfortably nostalgic about the drawing of the riddle clue.

[Randomguy]

7 minutes ago, Road Runner said:

A game that I have played for many years, first in the newspaper, then online and now in books.  

Here is one that I was just doing.  The online version had a time limit.  I forget how long, but I would never have gotten this puzzle done in time.

Just rearrange the letters to make a word.  Then use the circled letters to answer the question.  Quickly.  The clock is running.

Easy-Peasy.

 

 

 

That looks hard, is it fun?

[Road Runner]

1 minute ago, Randomguy said:

That looks hard, is it fun?

Of course it's fun.  You get better at recognizing the words the more you play.  For some puzzles, I just blow through them, but this one made me have to think.  

And everyone is mentally different, so a word that pops into my head immediately may not do so for someone else, and vice-versa of course.  

[Kzoo]

I remember my dad doing this after the crossword in the daily paper.

 

[Dirtyhip]

Thank you for the reminder.  I plan to start playing this game too.  This is all good for the brain.  Like playing chess.

[Road Runner]

Answers below.

Spoiler

UNIFY

CASTE

SICKEN

DAMAGE

How the IRS man turned carpet installer describes his work.    "TACKS"-ING

 

[TrentonMakes]

I've been doing Jumbles since I was a kid - often I can solve them fairly quickly and without a pen or pencil, and this was one of those times.

[Dirtyhip]

4 minutes ago, Road Runner said:

Answers below.

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I would have never gotten the second word.  Definitely not a word I use very often. 

[Road Runner]

2 minutes ago, TrentonMakes said:

I've been doing Jumbles since I was a kid - often I can solve them fairly quickly and without a pen or pencil, and this was one of those times.

Lots of times I fly through the words, but still get a bit puzzled by the final answer.  Especially when the answer isn't real words.    

[Randomguy]

13 minutes ago, Road Runner said:

Of course it's fun.  You get better at recognizing the words the more you play.  For some puzzles, I just blow through them, but this one made me have to think.  

And everyone is mentally different, so a word that pops into my head immediately may not do so for someone else, and vice-versa of course.  

Is there an official site so we are all on the same one?

[Road Runner]

1 minute ago, Dirtyhip said:

I would have never gotten the second word.  Definitely not a word I use very often. 

Yes.  I also got stuck on the third word.  Not that difficult, but my brian just didn't want to see it for some reason.  

[Road Runner]

1 minute ago, Randomguy said:

Is there an official site so we are all on the same one?

Not sure.  I use to do them online every day, but the site (might have been a newspaper) wanted to start charging me a fee or something.  Anyway, I quit and started buying the magazines.  I'll look around and see if there is a free site we can all use.

[Road Runner]

This looks like a decent site.  Newspaper sites want to load you up with cookies.  This one just makes you watch a 30 second ad that you can skip, if you want.

https://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/dailyjumble.jsp

This is what it looks like online.

[Dirtyhip]

3 minutes ago, Road Runner said:

This looks like a decent site.  Newspaper sites want to load you up with cookies.  This one just makes you watch a 30 second ad that you can skip, if you want.

https://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/dailyjumble.jsp

This is what it looks like online.

Love it

[Dirtyhip]

I didn't understand how it worked at first.  Now I get it.  

Chose the correct three, and got stumped on one.  I wasn't sure how the bottom played in at first.  

This is fantastic.  

I have become someone that will play now.  Always wondered who did these.  It's now me I guess.  LOL

[Randomguy]

55 minutes ago, Road Runner said:

This looks like a decent site.  Newspaper sites want to load you up with cookies.  This one just makes you watch a 30 second ad that you can skip, if you want.

https://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/dailyjumble.jsp

This is what it looks like online.

Ok, I saved it into the favorites.

I never played this or even thought about playing it when I was young.  Now I am in the demographic, I guess.

[Dirtyhip]

29 minutes ago, Randomguy said:

Ok, I saved it into the favorites.

I never played this or even thought about playing it when I was young.  Now I am in the demographic, I guess.

We are aging. When most of you first met me, I had pink streaks in my hair. 😂 

[Kzoo]

34 minutes ago, Randomguy said:

Now I am in the demographic, I guess.

Old man with a paunch, sitting in a rocking chair?

 

[Road Runner]

23 minutes ago, Dirtyhip said:

We are aging. When most of you first met me, I had pink streaks in my hair. 😂 

I used to have a pic of you in a bikini.   

[Dirtyhip]

12 minutes ago, Road Runner said:

I used to have a pic of you in a bikini.   

Beach happens

[Square Wheels]

2 hours ago, Road Runner said:

I used to have a pic of you in a bikini.   

Yup, it's still on this site, I'd post a link, but...