By Chris McGinty
This will be an ongoing series, but I’m not sure what I plan to do with it. I found a book out at the Goodwill bins. This is where we cue Nathan gasping and saying, “Don’t buy books at the bins! They charge by weight!”
This was one of the old the Penny Press word puzzle books you would buy at the grocery store checkout line. I have a certain amount of time when I guard to sit around and do things. One truth about long periods of time is that even for the most focused people it’s hard to focus on one thing the whole time. I’m not a focused person. It stands to reason that I need multiple different things to do while I’m out here for 12 hours. It would be great if I could focus all of my time and energy out here on writing and doing other productive things, but that’s not going to happen. It might even be great on some level if I could watch 12 hours of TV and movies and get caught up on viewing, but even that’s not going to happen. So I bought that book at the bins. Oh my god, Nathan, quit gasping like that.
On top of that, I do a lot of the daily puzzles like Wordle and Connections and stuff like that. There are people who have made whole YouTube channels or at least video series where you just watch them solve the daily puzzles. I’ve already solved the puzzles, but I want to see them solve them. Iwant to see what they get immediately that I had trouble with and what I got with no problem and they get hung up on.
I think it’s the reason why we watch any sort of reaction videos cos we just want to see how other people felt about something that we experienced already. I hate watching a reaction video of a song that I’ve never heard the song before, even though that’s what the person listening to the song is literally doing.
Anyway so I think that this series of blog posts a talking about various word puzzles that I do and thoughts that I might have on them. It’s like many of the other series that I’ve done where the entire purpose is creating something from a prompt. And maybe it’ll make a good writing/word puzzles combination blog post one of these days where I can talk about using word puzzles as jumping off points. These kinds of posts are all about getting an idea when you have no idea to begin with, and I need as many of those kinds of posts as possible.
So let’s start looking into the first puzzle of this word puzzle book and see what we can find. Oh, it’s a “Picture This” puzzle. So no word action today sorry folks goodbye.
Chris McGinty is a blogger who has had this book for over a month now and didn’t realize that it’s just the 70th collection of these. Thought they were only 70 puzzles in this book. It actually says 400 puzzles. This might be going on a while.