Saturday, September 19, 2009

THE PUZZLE CORNER: SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Another weekend is upon us, and time for more fun.

COMMON BONDS
The following have something in common. What is it?
{Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch}

REBUS
What is suggested by the following image:

WRIGETITTING

The solutions will appear next weekend. But for now, let's open THE ANSWER BOX (and I'm totally surprised it took me this long to come up with a decent name for this segment) to discover the correct responses to last week's brain teasers.

TRIVIA TIME
Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin worked for the United Network Command for Law Enforcement.
What the acronym for T.H.R.U.S.H. stood for was never officially explained in the series, but some of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. novels claimed it stood for Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity.

WORD SEARCHING
Our color coded answer key reveals that there were seven states hiding in the grid.

IDAHOM
OUTAHA
HAWAII
OREGON
LAWOIE

Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine (the last letter of each line vertically), Ohio (parallel to Maine vertically), Oregon, and Utah.

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