[stylist] December's Special guest, Puzzle Master Alan Stillman

[James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6YR]

great idea Robert,
I will be in the teleconference.  looking forward to this!

have a couple word games myself to bring.
jc

At 06:15 PM 12/23/2010, you wrote:
>Dear STYLIST and Division Members:
>
>RE: December Telephone Gathering Sunday, December 26th OK.
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>Seasons Greetings! Here is hoping you are having 
>a great Holiday! December can be a cold and 
>snowy month, though a warm one in respects to 
>the fellowship and warmth of family and friends. 
>And so December can be a busy, involved time and 
>a month that some of us will not have  the extra 
>time to join in on a Telephone Gathering. And 
>yes, I have heard from several of our usual 
>callers that they regret that they will not be 
>able to attend the call with the “Puzzle 
>Master.” And so what I wish to report, is that 
>to ensure that we can come up with a respectful 
>number of callers, to honor our special guest 
>who is voluntarily joining us, I have contacted 
>Dennis Sumlin, the president of the NFB 
>Performing Arts Division and invited him and his 
>membership to join us on the call. Below will be 
>Dennis’s response and following is the text 
>of  Alan’s brief bio, a sample of 2 word 
>games, and finally the times and phone number to call in.
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>I will send it out to the lists.  I am not sure 
>if I will be there, but the list has a lot of people on it.
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>********
>Dennis H.R. Sumlin.
>President: Performing Arts Division of the National Federation of the Blind.
>(347) 948-4445
>http://www.padnfb.org
>President: Westchester chapter of New York State.
>Member Recruitment Specialist: The Visionary Media Company
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>Reminder- Word Puzzles for December, joining us 
>we have a Puzzle Master from the National Puzzlers League
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>Our special guest is Alan Stillson, he is a 
>puzzle master and comes to us  through the 
>National Puzzlers League.  Interesting enough, 
>Alan is also a published author! Below is a 
>short biographical sketch provided to us from 
>Alan and immediately following are samples of 
>some of the puzzle types that  he will challenged us with.
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>My name is Alan Stillson and I’m responding to 
>your request for a member of National Puzzlers 
>League to help you with a conference call on 
>Sunday Dec. 26th.  I’m the author or co-author 
>of nine puzzle books (please see 
>http://stillsonworks.com for details) and have 
>done several radio and television interviews 
>over the years.  Many of my puzzles are short 
>brainteasers and would be perfect for NFB 
>members.  I’d be happy to send you some 
>samples of puzzles that are designed to be solved without seeing or writing.
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>Thank you for thinking of NPL.
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>--- Here are the  samples :
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>Find the original title of these well-known movies.
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>1.   Greetings, Handtruck
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>2.   Taurus Throwing a Tantrum
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>3.   Occidentally Located Narrative
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>4.   The Gargantuan Facile
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>5.   Distance Divided by Time
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>SOLUTIONS:
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>1.   Hello, Dolly
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>2.   Raging Bull
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>3.   Westside Story
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>4.   The Big Easy
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>5.   Speed
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>WHAT’S NEXT
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>Find the next item in sequence
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>1.   Michelle, Laura, Hillary, Barbra
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>2.   A, K, Q, J
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>3.   Skies, grain, majesties
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>4.   Deer, drop, name, long
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>5.   Infant, toddler, child, adolescent
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>SOLUTIONS:
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>1.   Nancy
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>2.   10
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>3.   Plain
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>4.   Needle
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>5.   Adult
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>ZOO ANIMALS ­ FIND THE ANSWERS USING THE ENDING LETTERS
>1.   HANT
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>2.   DILE
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>3.   ZEE
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>4.   PARD
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>5.   UTAN
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>SOLUTIONS:
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>1.   ELEPHANT
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>2.   CROCODILE
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>3.   CHIMPANZEE
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>4.   LEOPARD
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>---INFORMATION FOR THE CALL:
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>The time is- 8:30 PM Eastern; 7:30 PM Central; 
>6:30 PM Mountain; 5:30 PM Pacific.
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>The phone number to call is- 218-339-4300
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>The code is: 568839# (last character is a number sign)
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>Robert Leslie Newman
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>President- NFB Writers' Division
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>Division Website
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>http://www.nfb-writers-division.org
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>Personal Website-
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>http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
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>_______________________________________________
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