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

[Barbara Hammel]

At this point I'm actually planning to attend this meeting also.
Barbara

Through the sunny fields of yesterday
Echo voices of children now grown,
Their golden peals of laughter
Ring upon the ivied stone.

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From: "James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6YR" <n6yr at sunflower.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 8:20 PM
To: <newmanrl at cox.net>; "Writer's Division Mailing List" 
<stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [stylist] December's Special guest, Puzzle Master Alan 
Stillman

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>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
>>
>>----
>>
>>Reminder- Word Puzzles for December, joining us we have a Puzzle Master 
>>from the National Puzzlers League
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>Thank you for thinking of NPL.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--- 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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>> 
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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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>> 
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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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>>
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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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>>
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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
>>
>>President- NFB Writers' Division
>>
>>Division Website
>>
>>http://www.nfb-writers-division.org
>>
>>Personal Website-
>>
>>http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
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