Here is this week’s puzzle, as presented:
Having an almost 20-hour road trip back gave me a lot of time to work out several phrases that incorporated words with multiple adjacent non-vowels or “contiguous consonants.” For purposes of this puzzle, please consider the letter “y” strictly as a consonant. In parentheses, after each phrase is the number of words, and each word’s count of contiguous consonants.
- Ice-free, super tall buildings in Scranton (3w/6c)
- Encoding long words in a fixed orbit (3w/6c)
- Crazy fish-studier’s two wheeled transport (3w/5c)
- Melodic equivalents to the “Queen of Diamonds” (Condon)(3w/6c)
- Sufficiently valuable magic during the America’s Cup (3w/5c)
- Where playing Beethoven on your iPhone was invented (3w/5c)
- Artificial disk-flip game (2w/5c)
- Rotational energy “battery,” 10-10 meters across (2w/5c)
Congratulations to Andy Arzipe, who presented one of the very few complete correct solutions. He is this week’s winner of the $50 ThinkGeek gift certificate, and his solution appears below.
- Ice-free, super tall buildings in Scranton (3w/6c) – uNCRYSTallized peNNSYLVania SKYSCRapers
- Encoding long words in a fixed orbit (3w/6c) – geoSYNCHRonous poLYSYLLabic eNCRYPTion
- Crazy fish-studier’s two wheeled transport (3w/5c) – PSYCHotic iCHTHYologist’s motoRCYCLe
- Melodic equivalents to the “Queen of Diamonds” (Condon)(3w/6c) – RHYTHMic poSTHYPNotic GLYPHS (or caTCHPHRase)
- Sufficiently valuable magic during the America’s Cup (3w/5c) – woRTHWHile yaCHTSMan’s (or yaCHTSWoman’s) wiTCHCRaft
- Where playing Beethoven on your iPhone was invented (3w/5c) – touCHSCReen SYMPHony biRTHPLace
- Artificial disk-flip game (2w/5c) – SYNTHetic tiDDLYWinks
- Rotational energy “battery,” 10-10 meters across (2w/5c) – aNGSTRom FLYWHeel
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