Hello, puzzlers!
It's the first Sunday of the month (well, Sunday comes on Friday for us puzzlers), and that means POTLUCK!
We have a crypto-gremlin from Nova and a Juliecrostic from Julie's archives.
Here is a video that I found that I thought you guys might find interesting. is a puzzle magician doing his stuff. When you can impress Will Shortz with a puzzle, you are really good.
Got a puzzle to share? Post it in the comments and I'll copy it up here to the body of the diary.
In the meantime, here's a Juliecrostic.
Here is my Juliecrostic:
1 OFFER
2 NICKNAME OF A SOUTHERN CITY
3 TAUNTED
4 PARAKEET
5 DOOM SHIRT
6 DROVE
7 LOW SOUND
8 BEAVER
9 MATH GAME
10 MAGAZINE
11 AN ANGEL (Hi, Nova!)
12 HAIGHT/ASHBURY DURING THE SUMMER OF LOVE
13 DAY MORE
14 KNOT
15 JOTTED
16 ACHILLES
17 LOBSTER
18 THOROUGH
19 DRILLED
20 PILLAGED
21 RENOWN BROWN
22 SODIUM HYDROXIDE POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE
23 HARPS
24 FIRMLY
25 EXECUTED
26 FIZZLED
27 DID NOTHING
28 HE WHO COULD BE NAMED
29 GROUP
30 TRUEHEART
31 RESOURCE
32 MOST WISE
And from Nova:
Here's a brand-new Crypto-Gremlin to solve.
NOTE: if you don't know what Crypto-Gremlins are and how they differ from regular cryptograms, you'll find a full explanation here.
Roasty GOD idea Joycoso, Easgh., bypx tnoylh edna my bjazo, rxlx sdb Tdud jypa Japo coho vdsx wdljono gjyzzostopo -- pwogaeagyzzh, fdwosastx my magmo-mypph Mypaysd-expadsy noplyxnysla.
This will be a little hard to solve, especially with so many capitalized words. But if you look closely and reason carefully it can be cracked ...
If you can't solve it, here's some help: an easier Crypto-Gremlin which comes from the same item. Solve this one and you'll have a big clue to some of the words in the first one. (Or Google the text of one and you'll find the text of the other.)
Oh My spoonyou zu tyth: kply empaer furor, Byuaemh bpddh sy fyoeahryfh, gulfr juddn kulwydp zytgdhryyoy bmh fyudp bpemy tulzplfr -- oplxdnfplwy Xaupwh gulfr Iydpcu, muafbhazplwr tplphloy kply emy Fyguaetyleh chip Tpauxdyoy -- bpddh sy ihnen chip zu vhsp.
And from our greatly missed founder, a true Julie-crostic:
JulieClassic # 2
Last month the Sunday Puzzle Potluck featured a re-posting of the very JulieCrostic that Julie Waters posted here (from way back in 2007).
Here's her second one. But it's also a first: the first JulieCrostic solved by group rather than individual effort.
In the early days of Sunday Puzzle people copied down the puzzles, worked them individually, and posted the answers when they'd completed a puzzle. But this JulieCrostic was hard enough that people weren't making much progress, so wayoutinthestix asked if it would be okay with Julie if folks collaborated on solving it. She said sure, go ahead... and the rest is history!
1. Foreign.
2. Dull and unoriginal
3. The opposite of #2
4. Attacks, as with rotten fruit
5. Powdered pigment crayon
6. Drive and beat
7. Out of the way
8. Aloft
9. Fish food.
10. First sign of the zodiac
11. Ridicule
12. Across
13. Wreck
14. Of poor quality
15. Where you place your butt.
16. With savage or destructive qualities
17. Accent
18. Flourish
19. Freedom, honor or science, e.g.
20. Covered with metal rings
21. To the tenth.
22. Fasten
23. Exert
24. Unruly
25. Eastern Red Cedar
26. Fade
27. Disreputable
28. Pride
29. Introduction
30. One whose works are #5
31. Emerge
32. #23, in another word
33. When hopes #26.