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Old 11-13-2002, 09:04 AM   #1
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"Wrong forum!" I hear you cry.

"I defy you, stars!" quoth Rimbaud, and explained the game.

"'Tis a game of anagrams,
Of jumbled letter;
A trip through wonderful words,
To make them better."

"But..." stammered the hapless mortals, "But..isn't that a bit, well, easy for you, Rimski?"

"True enough," retorted the Perilous Poet, "Which is why solving the anagram is not sufficient to continue. The respondent must proceed, once they have solved the puzzle, with one of their own, the answer of which has the same first letter as the last letter of the solution to the previous riddle. You grok? "

"No, to be honest, Rim," muttered the crowd.

The poet sighed, his frustrations were increasing. He would need to iron them out. "Listen, imbeciles," he snarled, but was stopped as a cauliflower impacted upon his skull, cast from the hand of some unknown vagabond or rapscallion. "Ahem, listen, gentle readers..."

"Hang on, hang on!" shouted the crowd. "Listen, gentle readers? That makes no sense! Call yourself a wordsmith?"

Rimbaud drew himself up to his full height, a respectable one for a common garden frog, but not all that impressive in truth, puffed out his chest and stated thus: "Once you have solved the anagram, in examplem - 'Yer, Mr' becoming 'Merry' - you must proceed with a riddle whose solution begins with the last letter of the previous soultion, in this case - 'Y'. Yavanna, for instance. The anagram for that could be..."Nay, a van!""

"Oh."

"Here goes then," said the Perilous Poet.

Kal mi a cab, Magda barn!

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Denethor's question...

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Old 11-13-2002, 12:39 PM   #5
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Good one, Pio.

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Internal Memo found, addressed to Sauron's Secretary, by the Soldiers of Gondor in Mordor, just after the War of the Ring:

Kellie - vend, con for Ring.

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Reckoning of Rivendell

Footsore, they find rest . . .

Wo! Sadlli flown.

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Land of Willows

Sam, u ran?

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(the wandering L has returned)

This has me stumped!

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Wicked man! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] I was down to letters from my Scrabble game and all my reference books!

Legalos - please throw one out!
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Noirinan.

As I was about to post...

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Yes . . . and yes! Please continue.
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Eldarion, (the Heir of Aragorn).

Then, Rodin ran nude!

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This one starts with n?

My only guess would be Narog River, but that has one more 'r' than you alotted us.

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[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Those damnable elusive R's! They keep getting away from me!

GROAN! it is, indeed, the Narog!

Please continue.
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Try this:

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My lady you have me quite stumped. May I inquire, respectfully, as to the solution?

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I think it was a too Americanized referrent. A famous newspaperman of yore, Horace Greeley, once wrote - 'Go West, young man, go west.'

The answer is: Great West Road

Please continue, my winsome Wordsmith!
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*Bows low and is grateful for the gracious reply*

A vegetarian Elf, sitting down with Gimli for a 'light snack', mentions that the

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Ah, cats!

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Aw, you beat me to it! I was going to change it to "Ah, th' cat's mreow" for "Scatha the Worm" to make it harder. Shucks. Anyway, carry on (I have no time to figure yours out, sorry!)
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And yet, hours later, time has come to me.

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I'm not sure why I keep getting skipped - it hasn't been a week since I got the answer right.

Anyway, Diamond, does this start with the last letter of the previous answer, like it is supposed to?
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Yes - Day of Doom, it is!

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Praise for a hospital entertainment volunteer:

She's (a) great ward mime.

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