Comments on: An Enigma – Children Solved It; Can We?

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:54:00 +0000

Well, sure, now that I can google an exact phrase!

“Ifni” is now on my list of places to vacation before I’m willing to have the Millennium start.

By: iguacufalls

iguacufalls — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:44:38 +0000

*blushing now* Thanks, Ardis

The former province may not be on any maps any more. Here’s a quote from the wikipedia article on the subject:

______ was a Spanish province on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, south of Agadir and across from the Canary Islands.

Spain returned ______to Morocco on January 4, 1969.

Hopefully this will help

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:37:03 +0000

iguacufalls, I admit to having scanned a few maps of Morroco trying to figure it out, but I haven’t found it.

I was impressed that you took the challenge to create a puzzle, that you chose the double acrostic rather than a simpler one, and that you related the two words so closely together — I think they’re even better-related than the names in the original puzzle. As I keep boasting, Keepa’s readers are the best in the Bloggernacle!

By: iguacufalls

iguacufalls — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:25:28 +0000

any guesses on #2? I wracked my brain trying to think of what would fit between two “i”s. A sound came into my head, so I googled it and Lo! and Behold! there was a small island off the coast of Morocco with my sound! I think I first heard this word in some sci-fi novel, where they used it as the name of the accepted generic deity, which was a contraction of the word “infinity,” but not exactly.

By the way, clever hans, everything else is correct. Good job!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:57:59 +0000

clever hans doesn’t give me any clues to his identity (are you a regular reader?) by his email addy, so all I can say is that he is indeed clever, and that iguacufalls is too!

By: clever hans

clever hans — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:50:11 +0000

1 tow
2 i____i
3 trenton
4 herod
5 indigo
6 now
7 gorgeous

By: Eric Boysen

Eric Boysen — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:01:01 +0000

43#3 must be Trenton, unless the big decision is to put it all on the double zero for one last spin.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:47:58 +0000

First I don’t make any money because I’m playing with the ‘ninnies all day, and now you want me to pay you on top of that?? I declare!

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:51:55 +0000

Look what happens when I don’t check in all day. Ardis, will you pay me to stay away more often?

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:24:14 +0000

You didn’t need to do that Ardis.

Now, get to work!