Take the word "blew". Add three letters before and three letters after to name something controlled by the wind. The answer is a familiar single word.
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The image is a bit of a red herring in that bubble in not part of the intended answer. Sir Elton John used the answer with the word connection as the name of his third record, "Tumbleweed Connection".
TUMBLEWEED
I wonder which wind you have in mind.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I get your drift.
ReplyDeleteAt any rate, it appears you're still in Michigan(anymore), and exercising your usual puzzle dexterity,
ReplyDeleteand I consider that good news.
Yes, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
DeleteIn fact, two of my sons went to Pioneer HS.
Can something that's rushin' this-a-way, then that-a-way, be said to be CONTROLLED by the wind?
ReplyDeleteThe answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, the answer is blowin' in the wind.
ReplyDeleteRushin' this and that-a-way sounds like an apt description of basketball to me. Maybe that's why they call it madness. I think I prefer baseball, and I think Al Kaline might agree.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I was pleased that the Engi...I mean, Mountain Hawks, survived the first cut, even though the second proved terminal. My research indicates that it was also the second cut(not necessarily the most ungrammaticalest) that was most effective in that nasty incident a couple of millenia ago.
I thought of two possible answers, neither of which with I'm quite satisfied. They both satisfy the letters requirement, but that they name something that's controlled by the wind is debatable. Here are my possible answers, ROT13'd as usual:
ReplyDeleteohooyrjenc & ohooyrjnaq.
Gur yvggre bs ohooyrjenc vf pbagebyyrq or gur jvaq, ohg ohooyrjenc gung vf rvgure hfrq sbe vgf vagraqrq checbfr, jenccrq nebhaq fbzr vgrz nf phfuvbavat orsber vafregvat vagb n obk gb or fuvccrq fbzrjurer; be ohooyrjenc gung vf fgvyy obhaq va ebyy abg lrg va hfr vf abg pbagebyyrq ol jvaq ng nyy.
Yvxrjvfr n ohooyrjnaq, nsgre vgf vafregvba va n fbnc-tylprevar fbyhgvba naq gura fvzcyl uryq hc gb gur jvaq, engure guna gb bar'f zbhgu, unf vgf bhgchg haqre gur pbageby bs gur jvaq, ohg vf abg pbagebyyrq ol vg ng nyy vs gur ohooyrf ner oybja ol gur jnaq-ubyqref bja oerngu. Creuncf Yberamb unq gur evtug vqrn jvgu uvf fhttrfgvba gung ohooyrjenc vf pbagebyyrq ol ubj gur hfre jvaqf vg nebhaq jungrire vg'f phfuvbavat.
Enya...
ReplyDeleteJuvyr gur gvgyr naq vzntr ner hfhnyyl qverpg pyhrf, gung vf abg nyjnlf gur pnfr. Gur vzntr hfrq guvf jrrx vf n ovg bs n erq ureevat. Gur yvggyr obl vaqrrq "oyrj" gur ohooyrf gubhtu ohooyrj--- vf abg cneg bs gur vagraqrq nafjre.
Gur gvgyr vf n qverpg ersrerapr n gjb jbeq nyohz (qngvat zlfrys) gvgyr ol n irel jryy xabja cbc negvfg. Gur pbzzragf fubhyq uryc gbb.
Vagrerfgvat -- V gubhtug gur gvgyr naq gur cvpgher ersreerq gb gur fnzr erq ureevat (juvpu vf ABG n fvatyr jbeq, ng yrnfg va zl qvpgvbanel). V.r., "pbaarpgvba" -> "naq", naq "fve" -> "oho". "Naq" naq "oho" ner gur gjb gevcyrgf lbh chg nsgre naq orsber "oyrj" gb trg "ohooyrjnaq".
ReplyDeleteNaljnl, V gubhtug gur pbeerpg nafjre jnf GHZOYRJRRQ. V jnf uvagvat ng "Ehffvna Guvfgyr", juvpu vf bar xvaq bs ghzoyrjrrq, naq "gurl jrag gung-n-jnl", juvpu (sbe zr) pbawherf vzntrf bs byq Jrfgreaf jvgu ghzoyrjrrq.
ReplyDeleteaka "wind witch"
ReplyDeleteWhat I'd still like to know is, how was an image of a boy blowing bubbles supposed to be a CLUE with which one might arrive at TUMBLEWEED?
ReplyDeleteThe images are usually clues, but not always. Sometimes the image just adds to the theme of the puzzle (1/25, 12/28, 12/7, 12/1, 11/9, 10/6, etc.).
DeleteIn this case, the boy is blowing the bubble in the wand, but he already "blew" the bubbles the at are floating in the air.