Every morning I cut the Word Jumble out of the paper. This is not to say I do it on that day; mostly I do. But sometimes they collect, two or three or four or five. And then I do them all at once.
When this happens and I have the stack of them and the answers are a sheet of paper - not a day - away, I find I am more impatient and may not persevere but check the answer if it is not speedily solved.
There is also the issue of cutting the newest puzzle from the paper without catching a glimpse of the answers.
And often, when I have figured out the five words from the jumble of letters I think I see a theme or a train of thought and wonder if Jeff and David were having such and such a day to have put in such words that seem to be forming a statement or conveying a mood.
Today I thought to chronicle how I do the Jumble and wondered if others have their own unique way.
I decide whether to use right or left hand; sometimes the less predominant left hand seems to nudge the solution faster. Sometimes not.
The numbers show the order of today's puzzle.
I start on the left on the jumbled letters and tend not to look at the cartoon because often the final answer pops to mind from the cartoon and then I am working backward, so to speak. I didn't get the first word quickly so went on and got number two and then three, did not get number four so jumped over to the cartoon. Immediately got "in a pickle". Wrote it into the Answer line. Then the first word was solved, then the fourth, and lastly all the circled letters accounted for with the stroke-throughs.
The figure of the knight was brawny so he clumped out the door.
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