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Monthly Winner
most daily wins for June

Chuck H

Playground Pundit
first correct response of the day

Gordon S
Feral Fifi
Quinn W
Hula Pixie
Rich & DeAnne H
Chris
Hula Pixie
Chris
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
Feral Fifi
Christine
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
Feral Fifi
Hula Pixie
Quinn W
Nancy L
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
Pogomom
Feral Fifi
Chuck H
Chuck H
Chuck H
Dominic J
Chuck H
Chuck H
Chuck H
Chris
Rich & DeAnne H
Chris
Hula Pixie
Ava H
Kit VB
Hilary S
Dominic J
Pogomom
Anonymous
Kenny L
Feral Fifi
Kenny L
Dominic J
Rich & DeAnne H
Chuck H
Chuck H
Chuck H
Liz D
Hula Pixie
Chuck H
Chuck H
Chuck H
N
Hilary S
Liz D
Dominic J
Pogomom
Chuck H
Susan H
Kenny L
Kenny L
Feral Fifi
Hula Pixie
Hilary S
Kenny L
Hula Pixie
Liz D
Hula Pixie
Kenny L
Caleb W
Caleb W
Kenny L
Hilary S
Hilary S
Chuck H
Kenny L
Chuck H
Hilary S
Bevie
Linus J
Kenny L
Hula Pixie
Sasha H
Liz D
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
Chuck H
Chuck H
Chuck H
Chuck H
Chuck H
Chuck H
Chuck H
Feral Fifi
Hilary S
Kenny L
Chuck H
Hula Pixie
Kenny L
Liz D
N
Zoudj
Hula Pixie
Hilary S
Hilary S
Chuck H
Kenny L
Hula Pixie
Liz D
Liz D
Feral Fifi
Caleb W
Rich & DeAnne H
Pogomom
Kenny L
Caleb W
Bevie
Feral Fifi
Feral Fifi
Emily D
Dane H
Feral Fifi
Kenny L
Feral Fifi
Pogomom
Kenny L
Kenny L
Lindsey W
Liz D
Hula Pixie
Pogomom
Susan H
Feral Fifi
Liz D
Hula Pixie
Rich & DeAnne H
Feral Fifi
Feral Fifi
Jo B
Liz D
Liz D
Rich & DeAnne H
Kenny L
Caleb
Lindsey W
Chuck H
Quinn W
Feral Fifi
N
Gordon S
Hula Pixie
Feral Fifi
Rebecca W
Rich & DeAnne H
N
Hilary S
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
Rich & DeAnne H
Emily D
Feral Fifi
Feral Fifi
Feral Fifi
Anonymous
Rich & DeAnne H
Feral Fifi
Hula Pixie
Liz D
N
Kenny L
Hannah G
Pogomom
Hula Pixie
Kenny L
Bevie
Kit VB
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
Quinn W
Kenny L
Brian W
Hula Pixie
Hannah G
N
N
Wrenna F
Chloe GM
liquidshredder
Rich & DeAnne H
Hula Pixie
liquidshredder
Liz D
Craig S
Susan N
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
Dane H
N
Chuck H
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
Hannah G
Emily D
Bevie
N
Hula Pixie
Feral Fifi
N
liquidshredder
Wrenna F
Feral Fifi
Hula Pixie
Josh H
Dominic J
N
Feral Fifi
Hula Pixie
Vincent A
N
Rich & DeAnne H
Hula Pixie
Pogomom
Kenny L
Bevie
Wrenna F
Craig S
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
N
N
liquidshredder
Kathryn B
Hula Pixie
N
Wrenna F
Wrenna F
Rich & DeAnne H
Hula Pixie
Lindsey
N
N
Kenny L
Gary C
Wrenna F
Wrenna F
N
Wrenna F
Liz D
Rich and DeAnne H
Hilary S
N
Emily D
Hula Pixie
N
Wrenna F
Hilary S
N
Quinn W
Hula Pixie
N
Mocha's Mom
Pogomom
Hula Pixie
Wrenna F
N
Wrenna F
Rich & DeAnne H
Pogomom
Wrenna F
Gordon S
Wrenna F
Hula Pixie
Rich & DeAnne H
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
N
Hula Pixie
Wrenna F
Rich & DeAnne H
Hilary S
N
Quinn W
N
Hula Pixie
Dane H
N
N
Hula Pixie
Emily D
Hula Pixie
Rich & DeAnne H
Phil J
Hula Pixie
Lindsey W
Hula Pixie
Quakewave
Kit VB
Pogomom
Kit VB
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
N
Quakewave
Brian M
Hula Pixie
Wrenna R
Hula Pixie
Brian M
Hula Pixie
Dane H
Hula Pixie
Kit VB
Dane H
Kit VB
Pogomom
Wrenna F
Wrenna F
Hula Pixie
Wrenna F
Dane H
Wrenna F
Quinn W
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
Pogomom
Dane H
Dane H
Quinn W
Hula Pixie
Gordon S
Dane H
Dane H
Gordon S
Wrenna F
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
Dane H
Dane H
Hula Pixie
Rich & DeAnne H
Dane H
Hula Pixie
Vincent A
Hula Pixie
Dane H
Caleb W
Pogomom
Hula Pixie
Liz D
Quakewave
Liz D
Dena T
Carden School 5th grade
Dane H
Gordon S
Emily D
Quakewave
Pogomom
N
Hilary S
Emily D
N
N
Rich and Deanne H
Pogomom
Hula Pixie
N
Dane H
N
Kit VB
Pogomom
Dane H
Quinn W
Hilary S
Liz D
Liz D
N
N
Vincent A
N
Hula Pixie
Rich and DeAnne H
Liz D
Quinn W
Hula Pixie
Liz D
Dane H
Dane H
Brian W
Rebecca W
Hilary S
Vincent A
Hula Pixie
Pogomom
Dane H
Carden School 5th grade
Jacob B
N
Don B
Pogomom
N
Gordon S
Hula Pixie
Emily D
Hula Pixie
Pogomom
N
Kathy H
Hula Pixie
Linda F
Rebecca W
Linda F
Liz D
N
Liz D
Liz D
Rebecca W
Pogomom
Hula Pixie
N
Liz D
Linda F
Dane H
Linda F
N
Dane H
N
Hula Pixie
Dane H
Laurel B
Dane H
N
N
N
Hula Pixie
N
Gordon S
Laurel B
Liz D
Hula Pixie
Matt P
Hula Pixie
N
N
Emily D
Laurel B
Robin M
Don B
Dane H
Liz D
N
Lars J
Hilary S
Gordon S
Liz D
Quinn W
N
Lars J
Rebecca B
Dane H
Quinn & Lindsey W
Quinn & Lindsey W
N
Kit VB
Dane H
Hilary S
N
Quinn & Lindsey
Laurel B
Dane H
Dane H
Rebecca B
Laurel B
Wrenna F
Don B
Dane H
N
Laurel B
Gary C
Mei-Mei C
N
Hilary S
Pogomom
Emily D
Grace C
N
Hilary S
N
Rebecca B
Liz D
Quinn & Lindsey W
Laurel B
Hilary S
Wrenna F
Laurel B
Bob S
Carden School 5th grade
Laurel B
Rebecca W
Kit VB
N
Grace C
Laurel B
Gilles & Conor B
Kit VB
Maureen C
Gilles & Conor B
Gilles & Conor B
Wrenna F
Gilles & Conor B
N
Jill B
N
Laurel & Rebecca B
N
Zack
Rebecca B
Liz D
Hilary S
Phuong M
N
Carden School 5th grade
N
N
Emily D
Grace C
Laurel B
Carden School 5th grade
Laurel B
Quinn W
Emily D
Emily D & Liz D
Emily D
Rebecca B
Laurel B
Laurel B
Hula Pixie
Vincent A
Emily D
Quinn W
Laurel B
Laurel B
Liz D
Laurel B
Laurel B
Emily D
Hula Pixie
Laurel B
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
Pogomom
Laurel B
Hula Pixie
Laurel B
Wrenna F
Emily D
Wrenna F
Hula Pixie
Hula Pixie
Rebecca B
Laurel B
Brian W
Vincent A
Vincent A
Brian M
Hula Pixie
Quinn W
Hula Pixie
Don B
Hula Pixie
Grace C
Gordon S
Rebecca & Laurel B
Rebecca B
Laurel B
Hula Pixie
Laurel B
Laurel B
Laurel B
Laurel B
Don B
Don B
Don B
Hilary S
Rebecca B
Laurel B
Rebecca B
Quinn W
Rebecca B
Maureen & Steve
Laurel B
Brian M
Rebecca B
Linda F
Rebecca B
Linda F
Colin S
Laurel B

Artful Alternatives
best alternative answers

What needs the ear
If it would hear?
our answer: the letter H
Pogomom: a heart


With two of course
You have a pair
But now take one away
You still will have a pair
It is a paradox, they say.
our answer: a pear
Chuck H: a dox (paradox)


This one wears a bristly headdress
Rousting rot
Forbidding progress.
our answer: a tooth brush
Quinn W: a bride


His thumb does all the talking
His feet prefer not walking.
our answer: a hitchhiker
Hula Pixie: a student texting
Nancy: someone using the yellow pages


A servant
At the door reclines
A sullied soul
Is his malign.
our answer: a door mat
Feral Fifi: a priest hearing confessions


What horse
Begins with "c"?
our answer: sea horse
Bevie: charlie horse


A school that has not desk or chair
A school that does not shut
The only ones to graduate
Are those gone belly up.
our answer: a school of fish
Kenny L: school of hard knocks


Upon a ladder I will climb
Until the ladder none can find.
our answer: a rose on a trellis
Feral Fifi: a social climber


The coachman stands
And cracks the whip
The neighing horses
Cloppety-clip.
our answer: a conductor and orchestra
Hula Pixie: gears shifting to release horsepower


You'll never untie it
So don't even try it.
our answer: a knot in a tree
Kenny L: tongue tied
Hannah: a pretzel


He needs no full spectrum
To show his true stripes.
our answer: a zebra
Rich & DeAnne H: the rainbow flag
Hilary S: a bar code


One has substance
One has none
Join them nimbly
One by one.
our answer: a button & button hole
Chuck H: a bride & groom


In this bottle
Find no brew
Instead a riddle
With no clue.
our answer: a ship in a bottle
Nancy: a two-headed something in formaldehyde


Fleeting dents
both left and right
Colleagues of the
Broad and white.
our answer: dimples
Dane H: hailstones


The ocean's depths are known to her
Yet meadow isa a stranger
In myth and legend she does dwell
What is she, can you name her?
our answer: a mermaid
Chuck H: Julie Packard, Director, Monterey Bay Aquarium


More gentle is he
Than his two close companions
Barbaric, they stab, pierce, and cut
Not he. He scoops up
His charge in his bosom
Though still, they go forth to the glut.
our answer: a spoon
Pogomom:  a tongue


This speaking has no cogent thought
The jaw does not look as it ought
All through the night the chorus swells
Until at last by day it quells.
our answer: snoring
Ted H: croaking frogs


I'm known as a hot head
My hair striking red.
our answer: a match
Quinn W: a rooster


I have a voice but not a face
I go along from place to place
From many options many choose
And I will grant a little snooze.
our answer: a radio
Kenny L: a city bus


When this one is the last in line
It's own sweet voice we do not find
And yet though silent its affect
Is heard in those before it.
our answer: silent "e"
Hula Pixie: a rest or hold on a musical note


Their heads are square
Or round or cones
Their feet are boxed
And cannot roam.
our answer: topiaries
Chuck H: chess pieces
Hula Pixie: street lights


A leaf, a jawbone
A beetle or shin
The secrets of ages
These tell what has been.
our answer: fossils
Hula Pixie: forensic science


What world is held beneath the arm
Yet obsolete next morning.
our answer: a newspaper
Wrenna F: the arm of an old record player
playing nostalgic music


He calls you ever onward
Though he knows not where you go
He offers many choices
Which you'll take he does not know.
our answer: a road
Hula Pixie: a dessert menu


Living canvas
For the artist
Ink infused within.
our answer: a tattoo
Chuck H: a chameleon


We are given one at birth
We exchange them everyday
Without giving ours away.
our answer: our name
Wrenna F: a smack on the bottom


Down the stairs recoiling
At the bottom no further could go.
our answer: a slinky
anonymous: a drama queen


It travels a string
Amusement to bring.
our answer: a yo-yo
N: the spark on a firework


Cool indulgence
One? Two? Three?
Will the sidewalk take from me?
our answer: an ice cream cone
Wrenna F: a Slip 'n' Slide (will the sidewalk take my hide?)


Through the nose
A treasure trove.
our answer: scent-triggered memories
Pogomom: a truffle hunting pig


Welcome black spots
On the red
Reap a bounty
Where she treads.
our answer: a lady bug
Alana L: a game of checkers


This gold comes not
From stream or mine
Escapes instead
A fragile shrine.
our answer: a baby chick
Carden School 5th Grade: ear wax


He stands there empty handed
His hands hold naught but place
our answer: zero
Carden School 5th Grade: a bookmark


Riding
Till it bucks her off
She's swallowed by her steed.
our answer: a boat capsizing
Hula Pixie: a biscuit placed on a dog's nose:
he tosses it into the air and eats it


Two eyes do the work of four
Six legs up and out the door.
our answer: a working guide dog
Rich & DeAnne H: a spectacled woman sweeping
a beetle out the door.


Here where letters
And numbers merge
Phonetically
They're most absurd.
our answer: Roman numerals
N: algebra
Brian Y: a password
Pogomom: touchphone key pad


Through phases it passes
From new it amasses
Our answer: the moon
Vincent A: dust bunnies


This knot
It cannot be untied
This knot
The woodland elves contrived
our answer: a knot in a tree
Dane H: forget-me-nots
Hilary S: tightly braided elven locks


Three feet and yet
Walks not along
While staying put
It inches on.
our answer: a yard stick
Carden School 5th Grade:  a clock


Gallons and gallons
Are poised over head
Yet never a drop of it spills.
our answer:  a ten gallon hat
Hula Pixie: an industrial zip-lock baggie


Bursting forth like the sun
Aging pale like the moon
Till its essence o're fences
Is strewn.
our answer: a dandelion
Kit VB: fireworks


In the south, the deep, deep south
Tobacco you'll not find
Instead tuxedoed gentlemen
In crystal mansions wide.
our answer: penguins
Emily D: goin' to Vegas


The other eight
Demurely wait
While these two gaily tumble.
our answer: twiddling thumbs
Rylie O: ten lords a-leaping


Each year their fingers loose their grip
As Mistral starts her ruthless pick.
Our answer: leaves falling on a windy day
Quinn W: loosing a grip on reality


Masters gathered in collective
Each one with his own perspective
Stroke of genius hue on hue
Ropes protect from me and you.
our answer: an art museum
Quinn W: Masters golf championships
N: mathematical theorems w/ ropes as mental capacity


Broken, you're invited
Pass when view unblighted.
our answer: center stripe on road
N: the symmetry between a door and a door frame


Our address is number three
Nine houses on this street.
Freezing cold is number nine
House one has blasting heat.
our answer: the solar system
Wrenna F: Dante's nine levels of hell


It's a moveable door
To an unfolding world.
our answer: a bookmark
Kit VB: an eyelid


Poke the eyes
and cross the tongue
Loop the ears
And then you're done.
our answer: lacing shoes
Quinn W: piercings


The bright red arm, it signals
Those departing wait inside
Each day come those arriving
Through a door that opens wide
They do-see-do
As they come and go
In the little tin hut
By the roadside.
our answer: a mailbox
Pogomom: ATM
anonymous: a roadside privy


They trample in the garden
And they do not wipe their feet
Yet by their very carelessness
The tulips don't deplete.
our answer: bees pollinating
Emily D: rain storms


Dissected and examined
Lined up most sensibly
Their stresses shown
Their backgrounds known
No ambiguity.
our answer: a dictionary
Chuck H: structural engineering blueprints
Scott: a credit report
Evan: an audio tour at a museum


A shining coin is buried here
In hopes that luck will come
And since the practice so persists
It must be true for some.
our answer: a wishing well
Vincent A: a coin placed under the butt of a sailing
vessel's mast is said to bring good luck


Nuggets of gold
Among silkiest threads
Concealed in a coat
Of the coarsest of shreds.
our answer: corn
Grace C: a butterfly in a cocoon


There's a certain hobbling
Makes leaping less than likely
It argues most incessantly
'gainst dreams that once shone brightly.
our answer: doubt
Wrenna F: bills. . .


It is now in your grasp
Indulgence your task
For if you delay
It will dwindle away.
our answer: an ice cream cone
Grace C: youth


A mutual captivity
Intended or by chance
With closest friend
Or stranger yet
With one we’ve never met.
our answer: locking eyes w/ someone
Phuong M: a pregnant woman and her baby


Can you name the cushion
That calls you to a land
Where curtains part
Illusions dart
And thoughts are shifting sand.
our answer: a pillow
Paul R: a theater seat
Don B: magic carpet


A wispy thin wraith
Is invited inside
Drawn in through the chimney
Of wood she will slide.
our answer: smoking a pipe
Sebastian D: a surfer
Allison B: a coffin


They're not on the endangered list
So shoot them just for fun
And if you shoot 10 thousand shots
You will not hurt a one.
our answer: basketball hoops
Joyce A: the breeze


Bitter these reminders
The deep grooves upon its length
And soon no holes are left
Though we might tug with all our strength.
our answer: an outgrown belt
Phuong M: an unharvested row of raddichio


Between the covers side by side
Beneath one roof they all reside
One speaks in lofty poetry
The next tells how to prune a tree
Strange bedfellows together roost
To give our minds a noble boost.
our answer: a library
Maureen C: termites interbreeding w/ bedbugs


On other days, they're white or brown
But this day, rainbow hue
Instead of resting in a box
They're scattered in the dew
3 days ago, who would have thought
That we'd be in this lovely spot
A sphere of life, hid high and low
Send us a-hunting to and fro.
our answer: Easter eggs
Gary C: chasing soap bubbles


He's a dragon-slaying knight
Though he does not need a sword
He screams as he approaches
Spews forth water from his horde.
our answer: a fire engine
Laurel B: a child with a squirt gun


A name, a nose, a bunkbed
In common these were held
Same melding pot
You both have got
Same weeds and roses smelled.
our answer: siblings
Blinken: migrant farm workers


His mouth enflames
He huffs and puffs
Forgotten embers
Grow robust.
our answer: a bellows
Hilary S: tabloid/muckraker


Expanding out
To gather in
It circles round about them.
our answer: a rubber band
Brian M: a fishing net
Hula Pixie: circle dance at a wedding


Beautiful his handiwork
This craftsman from down under
Diligently he works away
While up above it thunders.
our answer: a clam making a pearl
Laurel B: Cyclops at his forge in a volcano


It makes its own carpet
No weaving, no loom
It makes a roof covering
Especially in June
It’s made up of many
And yet it is one
With arms lifted, reaching
They gather the sun.
our answer: a forest
Genine S: a clonal colony of sea anemone


The lure was so calming
The lure was so cool
Our members were choking
"Don't do it, you fool."
And yet we persisted
Got over the hump
On our backs now, a monkey
A challenge to dump.
our answer: cigarette smoking
Kit VB: 0% down financing


Historians, each of these
Waiting to tell
The names, dates, and details
That they know so well.
Our answer: files/archives
Hilary S: a bathroom cleaning log
Laurel B: a college yearbook
Helen Z: tombstones


He reads it like the newspaper
Though uses not his eyes
For thus his ancient ancestors
Might save their very lives
Our answer: a dog sniffing the air
Laurel B: tribal wisdom & lore
Linda F: drum signals
Gary C: Plato's
Allegory of the Cave

Money in the bank
is the cushion of the wise
But a less-sought cushion sneaks up
as a holiday surprise.
Our answer: weight gain
Hilary S: a whoopie cushion