August 27 2011
Storm Supreme
Thanks for the ideas bank, my pen keeping busy jotting most down to try (or kite-fly) sometime down the track. If your brainwave is not a perfect Storm, then guaranteed the inkling could well appear as an open-slather game on some random Thursday.
Just like Mauve’s Ouijam (if we haven’t peaked too early), or Boniface’s Dovetails. Just as keen to plunge into JD’s Cryptomates too, or Emmius Spellius. But with a prize up for grabs, I had to weed the crop down to the cream. And this is how I saw things:
COMMENDED
Triple Gold by SK, where all players need to create triptych of kick-ass clues for your word or name of choice. If one is so-so, then the whole is a no-no. Watch out for it.
Outside the Box by Sam – long words earning snappy clues.
Simple Teaser Of Relative Mediocrity. Usually, Em, I’d take that acronym as an insult. But that’s the gist of this STORM on the horizon.
Sam’s Transformers is another smart idea, where CLINTON suggests CL turns into N, or GOVERNOR sees G eclipse NOR. Think about it.
Blurbal Remedy by Nib is converting synopses into crypto-speak. Sorta like an anti-pitch that only pencilheads will fathom. Sly idea.
But OUTRIGHT WINNER of our special Cook-book prize, It’s All In A Word by Vivian Cook, is LR for Splice, which makes my mind tingle at the prospect of Cowboys with Benefits, Friends with Aliens – or Dangerous Bosses and Horrible Liaisons (thanks Mauve). A surefire cackfest we can try around Oscars time maybe. Get hoarding.
Kudos to LR for the AFI afflatus. (If you can send me your most reliable snail mail, I’ll pop Mr Cook in the post next week.) Hearty thanks to all for the Storm we have when we don’t have a Storm, and look for an orthodox tempest next Tuesday.
Comments
Sam — 27 August at 10:05AM
Congratulations LR – looks like there are going to be some fun challenges ahead!
dg — 27 August at 12:03PM
Wouldn't GOVERNOR sees G eclipse NOR?
Nib — 27 August at 01:53PM
Transformer:
DOME
TH
DA — 27 August at 02:12PM
Corrected. Thanks dg
JPR — 27 August at 03:30PM
what about Mixing it?
as in someone's :-) fantastic use of Tom Mix recently... a person's name is used both for signpost and (partial) fodder:
feeble example:
"'Mindered' by Terry I am 'urt!" Hear Lady Ga-Ga (6,5)
LR — 27 August at 10:17PM
Thank you so much DA. Sounds like a fantastic read. Looking forward to getting on the cutting room floor during movie awards season!