Cliff Johnson Word Puzzle

Tim,

Here are all the words that can be made, at least based on the dictionary that I have. Maybe that will help you wind your way through....

Bernie

lode lodes loose loosed looser looses lose loser losers loses lore lord lords del des degree degreed dolor door doors doe does doer doers dos dose dosed doses else led les lese leg legs old ode odes odor odors ors ore ores sled sol sold solo soloed sod sore sores see seed seeds ser serge sere gel gels greed eider eiders erode erodes erg ergs ere rod rode rods roe roes rood roods rose roses resold reed reeds red reds ides ids deer drool die dies diesel sense sensed sensor

I always thought of 3 in Three (which was great) as the sequel to Fool's Errand (which was the original, but a lot less colorful, musical, etc.)

Perusing the site, it looks like there's some way to download the original 3 in Three, plus a couple other games and then play them on some sort of an emulator... 'Executor?'
http://www.thefoolsgold.com/downloads/games- windows.htm

Has he made any games that play natively under Windows?

<< Tim,

Here are all the words that can be made, at least based on the dictionary that I have. Maybe that will help you wind your way through.... >>

Nice work! This list may be a setback to my 'Boggle' approach. There aren't a lot of common words to draw from in constructing a clear sentence. 'or else' can be boggled out if wrapping around the edges is permitted, but that has the shaded 'R' on the inside.

I suppose it's possible we're just looking at a screenshot from the game, and one can only solve the enigma interactively, by purchasing the actual game.

But the Cliff Johnson I know is too clever and playful to just slap something unsolvable up there! Grrr...

Tim Harrod schrieb:

I used to get The Fool's Gold by email, but only until issue #9 - #10 and #11 don't seem to be in my email archives, although they are posted on the site.

Issue #8 has a link to the following picture: http://www.fools-errand.com/00-cliff-johnson/ newsletters/008/kingdom-... This is almost (but not quite) like the background to the picture you mention. Could teh differences be significant, or are they there because teh picture's bene adjusted to make a space for the grid? (But why change the fool?)

Cheers

'Bernie Deitrick' wrote

My suspicion is that it's merely representative of one of the game puzzles. If you did Cliff's April Fool Treasure Hunt this year, then you'd have seen these sort of squares used in that - but there was a grid to go with them in that. Mind you, having stumbled across this one, I then immediately started hunting across the site for others (as you tend to do, after doing the Treasure Hunt puzzle...

(note: I see that the shipping date has slipped *again* - and the wordsquare has now gone, to be replaced by what looks like it's going to be some sort of tangram puzzle.)