Anybody want to play PUZZLE 210? :-)
I'm in the mood for a puzzle :)
Newcomers please read the rules before you join, please!
Here 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 personal email. 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 do not care to host the next puzzle, you may pass your puzzle play to the member with the next highest points)
Note: There are two hyphens '-' in this puzzle. To avoid confusion, I've replaced them with the tilde symbol '~'.
Welcome new puzzle addicts :-)
The human fascination with ti-ers, lar-e an- small, woul- seem
sometimes, to -e reciprocal. Are we as interestin- to them as they
are to us? -o -i- cats ha-e a philosophical, as well as culinary,
interest in human -ein-s? -omestic cats seem to fin- our
in-esti-ations, our pastimes, our wor- an- our rest, more
interestin- than we -o. They, too, follow us, watchin- circumspectly,
from afar. They measure our responses to thin-s un-nown to them
an- they -rant us our pri-ate moments that other animals ~ -o-s,
for instance ~ -o not -rant as rea-ily.
If only we were not so apt to confoun- one another. If only we -new
one another -etter. If only we ha- the time an- the wis-om to e-plore
each of our fearful symmetries with unju--in- lo-e. An- if only we
mi-ht wal- in an- out of our respecti-e -omiciles, as the -urmese ti-er
-i-, curiously, silently, an- without so much as a hint of harm.
Unfortunately our access to lar-e cats has always -een too a-rupt an-
too -an-erous for our own -oo-. Sa-ly, we’-e inspire- their mistrust,
their malicious playfulness, an- we’-e mercilessly tease- them un-er
the -i- tent, the circus. We'-e ca-e- them so we mi-ht consi-er them
safely, -ut in so -oin-, we'-e -epri-e- them of their ma-nanimity. These
thin-s are certainly our un-oin-.
~ The Mytholo-y of Cats
Letters available:
B D G K Q V X Z
Scores:
Koxka 119 E x 2, 26 W = 264
NoahsMommy 73 N = 73
Uabassoon 75 A x 2, 87 O x 2, 42 U x 2, 14 P, 1 J = 423!
Babolaypo65 30 C, 38 M = 68
Karen 71 I x 2 = 142
Felicia's Mom 73 S = 73
AmberLee 96 T = 96
Kohala 64 R = 64
Randi 39 L = 39
Delidog 46 H, 24 Y = 70
Micki76 22 F = 22
