Saturday, June 19, 2021

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JUNE 19, 2021

😎FUN FACT
The famous Hollywood sign started life as the marque for a real estate development!

THE 50/50 CHANCE
Just like a regular TRIVIA TIME question, except there are just two possible answers, hence the even odds of getting it right. Ready?
TRUE or FALSE: Actor John Wayne participated in Star Wars IV: A New Hope?

WHO AM I?
Can you identify the person (real or fictitious) based upon the clue below?
♫Get his planet on the phone. Ain’t no time to waste.♫

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the June 12, 2021 Puzzle Corner.

THE LETTER SHUFFLE
How many new words can you form out of the letters in SOLSTICE?
Cel(s) {in animation}, cite(s), close(s), closet(s), coil(s), cost(s), cot(s)
I, ice(s), is, it, its
Lei(s), less, lest {poetic word}, let(s), lice, lie(s), lite {which has become an acceptable version of light}, list(s), lit, lose(s), loss, lost, lot(s)
Oil(s)
Set(s), silo(s), sis {short for sister}, sit(s), site(s), slice(s), slot(s), soil(s), sole
Test(s), tic(s) {nervous habits}, tie(s), tile(s), to, toe(s), toil(s), toss

Whether or not the acronym SOS (International distress signal) and Sol, the formal name for our sun, counts is debatable, but more than the 61 words listed above might be possible.

TRIVIA TIME⌚
Upon who is Popeye’s Fried Chicken based?
Many think it’s the famous fictitious sailor, but founder Alvin Copeland named the chain after Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle from The French Connection.

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