Shuffle Boards [BB305]

Re BB304 SOLUTIONS, I think rolling slang/slanging roll also works.

spoilers?

First letter of the unshuffled word:
1: B
2: P
3: C/S?
4: C
5: D
6: ?
7: ?
8: S
9: F/W?
10: D
11: C
12: ?

oops, make that:
2: S
3: S
9: B

13: w(4)ord

I have a new category inspired by DA's last sentence. These are all mixed bags.

14. cre(3)
15. (5)re
16. me(3)y
17. (3)iotic
18. ur(4)
19. rick(4)
20. (5)ade
21. (4)aq

22: p(4)atic

7: S
12: N

23: b(5)ble

1. P
2. S
3. C, D or S
4. C
5. D or M
6. R or S
7. S
8. S
9. B, F, L or W
10. C, D, M or P
11. C
12. N

Back to board:

24. def(4)
25. (6)d
26. (5)mot
27. s(5)d

People's answers for 2 were confusing me before I realised they were starting their anagram, not the word.

1 B (took me a while)
2 S
3 C/D/R(adverts)/S
4 C
5 S (What were people's D and M answers?)
6 S (What was the R?)
7 S
8 S ('ties' already a word)
9 G (emordnilap), W (B,F,L???)
10 C returns from #2! (D,M,P???)
11 ??? Blackhead failed me.
12 C,N (Checked my Macquarie Dictionary... rejoicer is an accepted noun. :P)

14. Tea, May, Nit, Yep
15. Paper
16. Led, Old, Rom
17. Man (nice one, I struggled for ages)
18. Lain
19. Wash (What's an anagram for 'roll'...?)
20. Melon
21. ... I HAVE NO IDEA

21. ...SAND!

A couple of Sam's:

13. C
22. M

24: D (nice, I tried to find one for visy)
26: B

Sam, Nib, Bon et al - I don't mind stating answers at this stage, since we are dealing in some tricky terms. And there's also Nib's point, about the initial confusion when it comes to puzzles of this kind.

Take Boniface's excellent #26: (5)OT.

BERGAMOT [the oil of Earl Grey tea] and BARGE-board [a gable's capping] are just two terms we should say aloud, clarify and celebrate, instead of Sam's modest response of 'B'.

Whaddya reckon? What should be the Birdbrain etiquette? I'm all for discretion in the solution posts, but not to a point that we lose language gold. Should all surfers realise they risk seeing solutions once they click the Comment button?

DA, perhaps we could state answers to the new additions in the comments, but leave the full answers to the original post for the solutions the following week?

Like your thinking, Sam. Let's try to set that in play as we go. So feel free to blab your answers to this related set - and tell me which two shuffled cards are missing?

28 h(3)ire
29 rep(3)
30 se(3)t
31 d(3)nt
32 p(4)se
33 g(4)o
34 t(4)s
35 el(5)es
36 br(5)n
37 br(5)r
38 s(5)ce

Agree with Sam and therefore:

13. Whipcord/chip
22. Pneumatic/menu

Actually Sam, although your solution was fine, you won't believe it, I actually had another solution for 24. def(4)...

Curious, Boniface. What are the two solutions?

MENU is a smart board too, and well smuggled inside PNEUMATIC, given the numerable other choices.

that's great, so not
24: defraud/dura, but defrock/cork?

@DA 5 and J

28: hotwire/two - to get things started

Sam, yes, defrock is what I had. What a red herring that one could have been!

By the way, my other clues ending in D both have an R directly before that D.

Still on boards:

39. (7)y This new word has the board in 40.
40. inter(6)

It might be possible for your blog providers to set up a means for hiding spoilers.

A simple way is to make the text white on white, so that the reader has to highlight it to read it. I tried that by using a <font color="white"> tag, but that was sensibly ignored.

Other people use javascript to hide particular text until a button is hit. This is a bit more complicated, but there should be a standard solution somewhere (like here).

The main problem is to make a simple interface for whatever solution, so people can use it without problem.

29: repent/ten
30: sexist/six
31: decant/ace
32: profuse/four
33: gingko/king
34: tennis/nine
35: elevenses/seven (my favourite)
36: brighten/eight
37: ?
38: sequence/queen

leaving out, as Boniface noted, the Jack and the five - also the joker and three?

27: steward/water
40: interfering/finger

and a dubious plural (also in the board category)

41: kit(5)

Stay within the lines:

42: o(3)r
43: (4)lient
44: av(5)
45: lo(5)
46: (4)ot
47: her(5)
48: s(6)

43. resilient/sire
47. herewith/white

36. brethren/three
37. brighter/eight

39. psaltery/plaster

Thanks RK, I should have realised I mixed 36/37 up! Yes to 47, but 43 doesn't follow the theme I had in mind.

Ohhh, I get it now. I thought they were types of lines. Let me have another go.

43. ebullient/blue

RK - spot on

Sam, the suppler (48) avenger (44).

Very nice. I (5)ce your theme. [No 49]

42. Order/red

My 25 (6)d was leopard/parole.