Comments on: Brain Game: Riddle Me This

By: Sandy Wood

Sandy Wood — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:14:00 +0000

Mark, while I’m sure I’ve read Roth’s book, he does visual puzzles. I certainly didn’t steal the poem from him, and I’m sure that neither I nor he were the first to discover that “abombinable” sounds like “a bomb in a bull.”

We do sometimes offer old puzzle chestnuts here, sure. And my puzzles are sometimes based on others that I’ve seen. But I’m not trying to “get away” with anything.

Just wanted to set the record straight!

By: Aha Moment

Aha Moment — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:09:00 +0000

I didn’t get it either until I read the comment from GBurns. (Nice rimshot, too.) Now it all makes sense.

By: Brock Sueme

Brock Sueme — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:29:00 +0000

I dont get this..?

By: GBurns

GBurns — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:17:00 +0000

A Bomb in a Bull badum-tish.

By: Mark Patterson

Mark Patterson — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:08:00 +0000

Sir, like you I read Arnold Roth’s Pick a Peck of Puzzles. I’m surprised that you’d crib from it. On the other hand, it’s old enough and obscure enough that your chances of getting away with it were pretty good.

Not that your riddle was a bad one, far from it.