Puzzle #606

[Karen]

Here's the puzzle!
Rules

New players! Read the rules before you join, please, and be prepared to host the next if you win!

These are the rules:

* 1. You may only guess one letter at a time.

* 2. After you have guessed a letter, you must wait for another player to guess a letter before you can go again. (see also rule #9)

* 3. The host of the game responding to a guess does not count as a turn. Should you choose a letter, then receive a response from the member host, you must wait for the next member to guess a letter.

* 4. One point will be awarded for each correct letter, 2 points for vowels.

* 5. Only six misses are allowed in the game.

* 6. If you wish to guess the phrase, send it to me via Pet Talk Private message. (This is accessible via the 'PM' or 'Profile' buttons on any of my posts). DO NOT post it on the forum. If you wish to guess a letter, post it on the forum.

* 7. You must have submitted a correct letter to submit your solution. Unlike letters, if you submit a wrong solution, you are disqualified from continuing in that puzzle.

* 8. The player who correctly guesses the phrase wins the game. If no one has guessed it correctly after six misses, then the player with the most points wins the game.

* 9. Only 5 guesses allowed in total until the host updates the puzzle. Any guess after 5, before the next update, won't be counted as a guess. And as always, someone else has to guess a letter before you can guess another letter.

And here is what you win ... you get to create the next puzzle.

(Should you win the game and are unable to host the next puzzle, you may pass it to the member with the next highest points)


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Note: Any asterisks you see are actually hyphens or dashes in the final quote, but didn't want to confuse anyone!



----- --- ------ ------- --- ---- -- --- --- -- --- ------- * --
--- ------ ---- ---, --- --------- ---- ----- --- ----- * -- ----
----- ----- ----- -- --- ----'- ---------- --- ------. --- ---
-- ---- ----- ---- ---- - ------ -------- --------, ---
-----*--------, ----*----, ---- --- ------ --- ------ ---- --- -----
----- -- --------- ----, --- --- ------- --- ---------- ---*--*---*------
----- --- ----- ------ ------, ------ ------- --- ---*------ -- ---
----- ----.


Letters left to guess:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

[cassiesmom]

May I have a D, please, Mayor Karen.

[Pinot's Mom]

T please!

[Karen]

Here you go!

----- --d ------ ----d-d t-- ---- -t t-- t-- -- t-- ---t--- * -t
--- --tt-- ---d ---, --d --------- --t- ---d- --d ----- * t- ----
t---- d---- ----- -- t-- ----'- ----d----- --d ------. T-- t--
-- t--- ----d ---- --d- - ------ ---t---- ----t---, t--
-t---*---d----, ----*---d, t--- --d ------ --d ------ --t- --- ---t-
----- -- ---d----t ----, --d t-- --t---- --d ---------- ---*t-*t--*-----d
----- --d ---t- ---d-- ------, ------ ----d-- --t ---*---t-- -- ---
t---- ----.


cassiesmom: D(23) = 23
Pinot's Mom: T(32) = 32

Letters left to guess:
ABCEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSUVWXYZ

[sana]

R for rabbits, please ;P

[Karen]

----- --d -----r r---d-d t-- ---- -t t-- t-- -- t-- ---t-r- * -t
--- --tt-- ---d ---, --d ---r-r--- --t- ---d- --d --r-- * t- ----
t---r d---- ----- -- t-- --r-'- ----d-r--- --d ------. T-- t--
-- t--- ----d ---- --d- - ------ ---t-r-- ----t---, t--
-t---*---d----, ----*---d, t--- --d -r---- --d --r--r --t- --- ---t-
----- -- ---d----t ---r, --d t-- --t---- --d --r------- ---*t-*t--*-r---d
----- --d ---t- --rd-r ------, ------ r---d-- --t ---*---t-r -- ---
t-r-- ----.

cassiesmom: D(23) = 23
Pinot's Mom: T(32) = 32
sana: R(21) = 21 for the bunnies!

Letters left to guess:
ABCEFGHIJKLMNOPQSUVWXYZ

[mrspunkysmom]

A please.

[mrspunkysmom]

I please.

[Karen]

--m-s -nd -i---r ro-nd-d th- hill -t th- to- o- th- --st-r- * it
w-s littl- -s-d now, --d o--rgrown with w--ds --d s-r-- * to m---
th-ir d-il- -h--- on th- --rm's -o-nd-ri-s -nd --n--s. Th- two
o- th-m wo-ld h--- m-d- - lo--l- --stor-l --inting, th-
still*h-ndsom-, -l--*---d, t-ll -nd -r-gg- old --rm-r with his whit-
sho-- o- windsw--t h-ir, -nd th- int-ns- -nd --r-os---l low*to*th-*gro-nd
-l--- -nd whit- -ord-r -olli-, mo-ing r--idl- --t o--*-ilt-r on his
thr-- l-gs.



cassiesmom: D(23) M(8) = 31
Pinot's Mom: T(32) S(19) H(23) = 74
sana: R(21) = 21
Felicia's Mom: N(23) W(13) G(7) = 43
Asiel: L(23) O(27)= 77
mrspunkysmom: I(23) = 46

Letters left to guess:
ABCEFJKPQUVXYZ

[Pinot's Mom]

E please!

Sorry, not on computer yesterday afternoon and evening....

[mrspunkysmom]

Like Miss Pinot, I've got more than a few things to do this weekend. Y'all enjoy and I'll be glad to drop in and guess a letter or two.

[Karen]

Well, as the puzzle is basically all solved, let's move on to the next one. The only missing letter at this point is the first one, which is, of course, a J, so the final quote reads (putting hyphens and dashes back in instead of asterisks:

James and Kipper rounded the hill at the top of the pasture - it
was little used now, and overgrown with weeds and scrub - to make
their daily check on the farm's boundaries and fences. The two
of them would have made a lovely pastoral painting, the
still-handsome, blue-eyed, tall and craggy old farmer with his white
shock of windswept hair, and the intense and purposeful low-to-the-ground
black and white Border Collie, moving rapidly but off*kilter on his
three legs.

It is from one of the short stories in Dancing Dogs, by Jon Katz, a collection of short stories. I interviewed him for the radio show last week!

Asiel, would you like to do the next puzzle, as you have the next-highest point total, after the two ladies who have passed because of other obligations?