“Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all…” ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Okay, so nearly all of you solved the last mystery here with aplomb. At least I get to use a fancy sounding word. Some words just seem to roll off one’s tongue. Aplomb is one of them. Do you know some others? One I like is whippoorwill, and I guess the whippoorwill bird does too since it sings its name.
Words can be fun, and Lois proved that with her mystery guess. Thank you, Lois, for being wrong. LOL. You and maybe five others were wrong. A few who had spent some time working where there were conveyor belts thought it might be that. Marji saw the wheels on a toy train. Karen was sort of with Lois with the farm equipment.
But back to Lois’s guess that has me thinking about the great sound of some words. She thought it might be old quack digger tines. Since I had never, ever heard of a quack digger, I went right out on the internet and found some pictures of those old quack diggers with weeds growing up around them. Maybe quackgrass because that’s where the quack diggers got their names – for their ability to get rid of quackgrass. I just looked up quackgrass and discovered it’s considered worse than crabgrass. So no wonder farmers came up with a special piece of equipment to try to get rid of it. Lois introduced a new mystery to me, but one I could solve.
Nearly all of you did solve my mystery photo with no problem at all. I guess I thought you might not remember manual typewriters. It was so easy for some of you that you were sure you couldn’t be right. You thought I wouldn’t post a mystery that easy to solve, but in this case, I did. Not intentionally, of course. I really did like the mystery picture. I didn’t think all of you would get it. Sigh. Now, I’m thinking no more Mr. Nice guy.
I did a lot of playing around with this old typewriter when I was a kid. It belonged to the aunt who was like a grandmother to my sisters and me. She went to a business school and learned to type and take shorthand. She never got married or had a job to use what she’d learned. Instead she took care of her parents as they aged, and she spoiled her nieces. Her business course knowledge was extra fun for us. I played around with her shorthand book a little, but what I really liked was rolling a piece of paper into that old typewriter and pretending I was writer Ann. To practice learning where the keys were, my aunt told me to type this sentence. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs. Do you know why? Right. Because it has all the letters of the alphabet. I typed that a lot and imagined that fox jumping over dogs. Did you ever type on an old manual typewriter?
The above picture is a little fuzzy. That might be part of my no more Mr. Nice Guy thinking. Or it’s just that when you enlarge a picture a bunch, it simply loses its clear lines. I think you can see it well enough to make a guess, but if the first five of you get it right, I may take it down and get a new picture. No, I wouldn’t really do that. While all’s fair in love and mystery photo games, I will leave the picture up and try to be a good sport if you get this one too. Try, I said. No promises. 🙂
As always, thanks for reading. If you make a guess on the above mystery photo, right or wrong (I’m hoping for wrong. LOL), you get an entry in my giveaway of winner’s choice of one of my books and a grab bag book. by a different author. You do have to be at least 18 years old to play. If you don’t live in the United States and win the drawing, you will get an e-book copy of one of my books. Deadline for entries is May 5, 2019 at noon EST.
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A clown head? 😂
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Your guess is almost as interesting as Carol’s, Lucy. But love it that you looked until you saw something and then guessed. I need to look at that picture again and see what I see.
Okay, you have stumped me on this one for sure, but I am going to guess a mannequin with a red dress? 😉
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Yay, that’s what I’m trying to do. Stump some of you. I’ll tell you a little secret since it’s almost time for the big reveal of the mystery photo. Nobody has been completely right although some got close.
This is a bald head.
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Now, that’s an interesting guess. I think that beats Spiderman. 🙂
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I’m loving all the guesses. First off because you aren’t all guessing the same thing so some of you aren’t going to be right even if some of you are right. That’s not saying anyone is right, but that’s not saying they aren’t. Got to keep the mystery going until the reveal of the rest of the picture Wednesday night. And a new mystery picture if I can come up with something. I tested a few on my daughter and sisters and the one I thought best my sister guessed. So we’ll see.
Colleen & Betty – you aren’t alone guessing Spiderman. I did have a granddaughter who was a major Spiderman fan once upon a time. I could have some Spiderman toys left hanging around. I could. But do I?
Connie, April, Faith & Ann – Frankie as my dog is being a popular guess. He does like to lick much to my husband despair who thinks a dog’s lick is the worse thing ever. So naturally Frankie is always wanting to tell him how much he cares by giving him a lick now and again. LOL. But is that his mouth? Hmm, time will tell.
Diana & Lois & Amy – you all have brought fruit into the picture with your plum, apple with a bite out of it and pomegranate guess. As Amy says, it’s at least the right color and I have been known to try to make mystery photos from food pictures before. Another hmm…
Una, you didn’t want to get too specific. Just something with black fur. That could be Frankie, I suppose. We’ll see if Frankie has starred in the mystery photo show. On Wednesday.
Judy & Janice, you two have been using your imagination which is what these pictures are supposed to make you do. Janice, I like the idea that I got a super close up of the Jack-in-the-pulpit to make a mystery photo. And Judy, your guess appears to be one of a kind. But it only takes one guess to perhaps have the right guess.
Again thank you all for playing my mystery photo game. Hope you think it’s fun.
Im guessing a red plum. But its a shot in the dark for sure.
A dog’s mouth? I think I see bottom teeth, and a bit of nose at the top.
I also though plum. But I think I’ll stick with the dog.
I think it looks like a dog’s tongue!
It could also be someone’s tongue sticking out.
It appears to be a Spider-Man mask.
This may sound crazy, but the first thing I thought of when I saw this is that you were looking down from above Spiderman.
I think it is a red apple with a bite out of the middle 🤗
The tongue of your Jack in the Pulpit or the pad in the center of a dogs foot.
I think that it looks like the inside of Frankie’s mouth. I can possibly see his teeth at the bottom. I’m probably completely wrong.
My guess is a pomegranate. At least the color’s pretty close, whatever it is.
It looks like something that has black fur on it. Not sure what.
It looks like scales for weighing.
I think it looks like a tongue, Frankie’s maybe.