The WordCruncher Weekly - August 2, 2004

Welcome to "The WordCruncher Weekly", where you will find a fun word puzzle
to start off your week, and learn about a great software tool for solving
and creating word puzzles!

[Consider last week's missing email an unexpected reprieve from your weekly
puzzle...]

Contents
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1. This week's puzzle
2. Answers to last week's puzzle
3. About this email
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1. THIS WEEK'S PUZZLE

JABBERWOCKY CLUELESS PUZZLE

In Lewis Carroll's second tale of Alice's adventures, "Through the Looking
Glass", Humpty Dumpty related the tale of the Jabberwock. This poem
contains a large number of invented words, some of which actually became a
part of the English language, like "chortle". Many of these words were
formed by portmaneau, or the combining of two words to make a new word that
combined the characteristics of both ("slithy" - lithe and slimy), others
seem to fill gaps in the language ("gimble" - to make holes like a gimlet),
and others are unique creations ("borogove" - a thin shabby-looking bird
with its feathers sticking out all round, something like a live mop).

Your task in this week's puzzle is first to enjoy the creative coinages in
Carroll's work, then to take those new words and fit them into the puzzle
below. I hope you will find this puzzle challightingful (challenging and
delightful)!


-=- Jabberwocky -=-

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.


(Here are the words from Jabberwocky that are to be placed in the puzzle
below: beamish, borogroves, brillig, burbled, chortled, frabjous, frumious,
galumphing, gimble, gyre, manxome, mimsy, mome, outgrabe, raths, slithy,
toves, tulgey, uffish, vorpal, wabe, whiffling)

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2. ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE

Answers to "Pattern Matching #1"

1. REBELS
2. HIGHWAY
3. TOMATO
4. DETERMINE
5. TICKET
6. BASEBALL
7. AUTUMN
8. PUPPY
9. RADAR
10. GIRAFFES


3. ABOUT THIS EMAIL

"The WordCruncher Weekly" is a weekly email with a word puzzle to get your
mental gears in motion as you start the week.

WordCruncher is a powerful software tool for solving and creating word
puzzles. It will be available soon at http://www.WordCruncher.net

Don't forget that you can look at previous WordCruncher puzzles at our
Yahoo Group page, http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WordCruncher/


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