Hello, puzzlers!
On the first Sunday of the month, we all bring puzzles to the party. Yes, this is the second week of April, but last week was a special day to honor our beloved founder, Julie Waters.
Anyway, our puzzle potlucks are where everybody gets to get in on the fun and create and share puzzles. If you want to create your own Julie crostic, here is an invaluable site that helps: http://design215.com/....
If you have a puzzle to share, post it in the comments, or send it to my Kosmail and I'll edit it right in.
In the meantime, over the orange puzzle piece, we have a Julie from me and a cryptogremlin from Nova.
First, a Julie crostic. For newbies, this is our own special puzzle style, invented by Julie Waters. If you want to know how a Juliecrostic works, Nova does a great introduction in the Saturday night puzzles. Here is a link to yesterday's puzzle with Nova's introduction: http://www.dailykos.com/....
Anyway, here we go!
1 well known girlfriend
2 gallimaufries
3 palimpsests
4 GOP voters
5 The life of John Reed
6 dweebs
7 cafes
8 Where Mitt goes to pick up women
9 sear
10 grasp
11 a National Park
12 Prince
13 type
14 Jack
15 bubbles
16 quarters
17 Turner Stevens
18 Founding Fathers faith, mostly
19 most thirsty
20 South Beach people
21 arena
22 smirks
23 McAllister's next step
24 digits
25 digits
26 character
27 emceed
28 raised
29 Rush Limbaugh
30 scorer
31 boater
32 fighter pilot
33 file
34 bends
35
36
37 worry
38 strength
39 gentler
40 sounds like Tweety's voice
And here is what Nova sent me:
Here's my potluck contribution for April: a new crypto-gremlin.
Crypto-gremlins are a special kind of cryptogram -- ones which can't be solved by online programs which run through and test out every possible letter substitution, but which can be solved by reasoning and creative thinking.
If you're not familiar with this kind of puzzle you can find a detailed explanation of how they work here. (And you can find a handy tool to help you with letter substitutions here.)
The bolded text is a quotation; the unbolded text identifies the author.
Sic presctecsy frog en btcnsh vknac sy by myth oremytdnsryer sinsg frog srdckh, wrdvytsnesc anely aydvkcsckh ftyebn.
* Utgac Andctyeg
From sny in the comments:
Place mathematical operators anywhere in the following list to make the resulting equation true:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 100
You may use any of the standard 4 operators (+, -, *, /) as many times as possible, but use as few as possible. I have a solution with 3 operators though I dont know if that is minimal.