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It’s Follow-Up Friday: Thanksgiving Answers edition!

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Welcome to Follow-Up Friday!

By this time, you know the drill. Follow-Up Friday is a chance for us to revisit the subjects of previous posts and bring the PuzzleNation audience up to speed on all things puzzly.

And today, I’m posting the answers to last week’s Thanksgiving Slide-O-Gram puzzle!

Here’s the grid and puzzle to jog your memory:

Using the given letters, place the eleven Thanksgiving words and phrases below into the diagram above, one per row. When all the words and phrases are entered properly, one of the columns reading down will spell out an 11-letter word that is related to Thanksgiving.

Casserole
Corn
Cornucopia
Cranberry sauce
Giblets
Pumpkin pie
Rolls
Stuffing
Sweet potato
Turkey
Turnip

So let’s take a look at the completed grid!

Our bonus answer tying the word list together was, appropriately enough, CENTERPIECE.

(If you had trouble with the puzzle, the anchor words that would’ve gotten you going were Corn, Cornucopia, Giblets, Pumpkin pie, and Cranberry sauce.)

How did you do? Let me know in the comments below!

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It’s Follow-Up Friday: Celebrity View a Clue edition!

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Welcome to Follow-Up Friday!

By this time, you know the drill. Follow-Up Friday is a chance for us to revisit the subjects of previous posts and bring the PuzzleNation audience up to speed on all things puzzly.

And today, I’m posting the answers to last week’s View a Clue Celebrity game!

I selected ten names that commonly show up in crossword grids to see if the PuzzleNation audience could identify them from pictures. So let’s see how you did!

#1 (7 letters)

Answer: Rip Torn!

#2 (3 letters)

Answer: Ono! (as in Yoko Ono)

#3 (4 letters) [I’ve provided two clues for this one.]

Answer: Rene! (As in Rene Russo or Rene Auberjonois)

#4 (3 letters)

Answer: Ari! (As in Aristotle Onassis)

#5 (3 letters)

Answer: Orr! (As in Bobby Orr)

#6 (4 letters)

Answer: Oona! (As in Oona Chaplin)

#7 (3 letters)

Answer: Ott! (As in Giants great Mel Ott)

#8 (3 letters)

Answer: Eno! (As in musician Brian Eno)

#9 (4 letters)

Answer: Esai! (As in actor Esai Morales)

#10 (3 letters)  [Again, I’ve provided two clues for this one.]

Answer: Eli! (As in inventor Eli Whitney or actor Eli Wallach)

How many did you get? Let me know in the comments below! And if you have ideas for another View a Clue game, tell us below!

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It’s Follow-Up Friday: Wordplay-action pass edition!

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Welcome to Follow-Up Friday!

By this time, you know the drill. Follow-Up Friday is a chance for us to revisit the subjects of previous posts and bring the PuzzleNation audience up to speed on all things puzzly.

And today, I’m posting the results of our #PennyDellFootballPuzzles hashtag game!

You may be familiar with the board game Schmovie, hashtag games on Twitter, or @midnight’s Hashtag Wars segment on Comedy Central.

For the last few months, we’ve been collaborating on puzzle-themed hashtag games with our pals at Penny Dell Puzzles, and this month’s hook was Penny Dell Football Puzzles, mashing up Penny Dell puzzles and the world of American football. Players, teams, plays, terminology, anything and everything!

Examples include: The San Francisco Three-From-Niners, Coin Tossing & Turning, or Joe Namathboxes!

So, without further ado, check out what the puzzlers at PuzzleNation and Penny Dell Puzzles came up with!

Tim Tebowl Game

Bricks and Marshawn Lynch

Up the Middle of the Road

Triple Play-action pass

Crozzle Dazzle

Pine Cone defense

Offensive Line ‘Em Up

Around the Bend Roethlisberger

Move the Chain Words

Punt reTurnabout

Running Throwbacks

End of the Line judge

Four Square pass

First and Last down

Places, Please kicker

St. Louis CryptogRams

Detroit Draw-the-Lions

Carolina’s Cam Scrambles Across Success

Tom Bull’s Eye Brady’s Perfect Spiral

Dallas’s Unlucky Star Quarterback

Beat the Clock: 2 Minute Warning Edition!

New York J-E-T-S Alphabet Style Soup

Tom Double Trouble Brady

Jim Brownders

Cris-crossword Carter

Mike Ditkakuro

Los Right Angles Rams

Fill-In-adelphia Eagles

Green Bay Crackers

Howie Many Triangles Long?

John Madd-One

San Francisco 49 of Diamonds

Emmitt’s Your Move Smith

Bart Starrspell

Michael Strahanagrams

Fearsome Foursomes

Complete-a-Word Pass

John El-Right-of-Way

Around the Blocker

Face to Faceguard

Halftime Show

Offensive Line ’em Up

QuarterPiggybacks

Endzone of the Line

St. Louis Anag-Rams

Walturnabout Payton

Gale Say-That-Again-ers

Joe Montanacrostic

Arizona Place Card-inals

Miami Dolphinish the Fours

Top to Bottom Brady

Our fellow puzzlers on Twitter also offered up some terrific entries themselves! @_screenhog contributed two great ones: Joe Montanagrams and Cryptograndstands

And @Francespuzzles blitzed us with many choice entries, including Extra Point the Way, Fourth & Aft, A Perfect Ten Yards, Gale You-Don’t-Sayers, Face to Facemask, Incomplete-A-Word, Across & First Down, Placekick Your Number, Solve & Sack, and my personal favorite, Fran Tar-KenKen-ton.

Have you come up with any Penny Dell Football Puzzles of your own? Let us know! We’d love to see them!

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It’s Follow-Up Friday: Rube Slowberg Edition!

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By this time, you know the drill. Follow-Up Friday is a chance for us to revisit the subjects of previous posts and bring the PuzzleNation audience up to speed on all things puzzly.

And in today’s post, I’m returning to the subject of Rube Goldberg machines.

A Rube Goldberg machine, you may recall, is a device designed to accomplish a simple task in as many unnecessary, ludicrous steps as possible. The name comes, appropriately enough, from Rube Goldberg, a cartoonist and inventor most famous for his cartoons featuring singularly silly and elaborate machines like the one pictured above.

We’ve posted videos of Rube Goldberg machines in the past, because they’re a perfect example of a mechanical puzzle in action. Only when things happen in a precise order does the machine complete its task.

There are numerous competitions pitting clever puzzlers and inventors against each other to build the most spectacular and labyrinthine Rube Goldberg device, but Bob Partington has taken the concept to an unexpected extreme.

You see, he’s designed the world’s slowest Rube Goldberg device. The goal is simple: put the golf ball into the hole. But it takes WEEKS to perform!

Check it out:

When Goldberg started doing his drawings, even he couldn’t have envisioned someone taking his hilariously elaborate ideas this far.

Kudos to Bob Partington for taking the waiting game to the next level. Watching this in real time would be like Zen and the Art of Rube Goldberg Machine Maintenance.

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It’s Follow-Up Friday: Halloween Answers edition!

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Welcome to Follow-Up Friday! Last week, we had two terrific Halloween-themed games for you, and it’s time to reveal the answers!

First up, it’s our Johnny Depp Cosplay Challenge! I posted this picture and challenged you to identify elements from as many Johnny Depp roles or films as possible:

  • The Lone Ranger / Tonto: bird on head, sheriff’s star
  • Edward Scissorhands: scissorhand
  • Dark Shadows / Barnabas Collins: long vampire nails/claws on other hand
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas / Raoul Duke: sunglasses, cigarette holder, camera
  • Pirates of the Caribbean / Captain Jack Sparrow: bandanna, coat, beads in beard
  • Alice in Wonderland / Mad Hatter: socks, scarf hanging from his pocket, pocket watch on chain
  • The Tourist / Frank Tupelo: bow tie, tuxedo vest

Did I miss anything?

Secondly, it’s time to reveal the puns behind our annual PuzzleNation Punderful Costume Game!

We challenged you to figure out these clever costumes, so let’s see how you did!

#1

She’s the Life of the Party!

#2

They’re the Spice Girls!

#3

He’s the guy that walks into the bar!

#4 (the gentleman next to Woody from Toy Story)

He’s Maroon 5!

#5 (under the red arrow)

She’s a copycat!

#6

He’s a formal apology!

#7

The one on the left is Oh Deer! and the one on the right is Holy Cow!

#8

She’s the Lorde of the Rings!

#9

She’s Ariana Grande! (R E on a grande)

#10

She’s someone you can count on!

Special thanks to the folks at The Chive and The Thinking Closet for their assistance in compiling this year’s punny costumes!

How many did you get? Have you seen any great punny costumes we missed? Let us know!

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It’s Follow-Up Friday: Halloween Pun edition!

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Happy (almost) Halloween, puzzlers and PuzzleNationers!

For the last two years, we’ve marked the spookiest of holidays by posting some punny costumes for you to figure out, and it’s only appropriate that we celebrate Halloween AND Follow-Up Friday by bringing you our third edition of the PuzzleNation Punderful Costume Game!

It’s simple. I post a picture, and you guess what the costume is.

For example:

He’s Batman! (With Catwoman beside him!)

I’ve compiled ten costumes for you to figure out. Let’s see how many you can get!

PuzzleNation’s Punderful Halloween Costume Game, Volume 3!

#1

#2

#3

#4 (the gentleman next to Woody from Toy Story)

#5 (under the red arrow)

#6

#7

#8

#9

#10

Special thanks to the folks at The Chive and The Thinking Closet for their assistance in compiling this year’s punny costumes!

How many did you get? Have you seen any great punny costumes we missed? Let us know! And Happy Halloween! (If any of them stumped you, don’t worry! I’ll be posting the answers next week!)

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