Comments on Puzzle #31840: Illumination 4
By Joe (infrapinklizzard)
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Puzzle Description:
What common phrase is represented here?
#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Dec 2, 2018
illumination: noun#2: CB Paul (cbpaul) on Dec 3, 2018 [SPOILER]
1. An illustration of text
2. That aha! feeling of understanding
thumbcastle? thumbs up your crown?#3: JoDeen Mozena (ozymoe) on Dec 3, 2018 [SPOILER]
[And yes, this would be a spoiler, even if it's the wrong answer. Which it certainly is. sigh.]
[Clearly, I am asleep. I just don't know it yet. sigh.]
I've also been chewing on this in my sleep and all I can come up with this morning is, "crowning achievement."#4: Bill Eisenmann (Bullet) on Dec 3, 2018 [SPOILER]
...road to the crown?
...King me?
...Queen of the night?
...one finger of Crowne Royale?
...crown molding?
...Prince Of Tides?
...could this be a back view of King Kong's head?
......wait, wait, wait...hoooold the presses...could it be,"King cobra?" That could be a snake, right?
Ok, so if that's a thumb, and that HAS to be a crown ... aha! It's a ruby-crowned thummingbird! That'th really thumbthing, Djthoe!#5: John Macdonald (perlwolf) on Dec 3, 2018 [SPOILER]
I give up ...
Follow the black brick road.#6: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Dec 3, 2018 [SPOILER]
I like "king cobra", though that isn't really a phrase, but this also reminds me of thumbthing.#7: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Dec 3, 2018 [SPOILER]
Perhaps a Royal Thumb is one step up from a regular Green Thumb?
lol @ bullet.#8: Jota (jota) on Dec 3, 2018 [SPOILER]
With all the festive fingernail painting going on, I even thought of thumbnail.
Royal Thumb it is!#9: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Dec 3, 2018 [SPOILER]
It is a thumb. It is wearing a crown.#10: Mat (keiimaster) on Dec 3, 2018 [SPOILER]
The phrase is three words long. I swear it is a common phrase.
Rule of Thumb#11: CB Paul (cbpaul) on Dec 3, 2018 [SPOILER]
Well, if we cannot make the (tiny) leap from "crown" to "rule", we is in saaaaad shape.#12: Velma Warren (Shiro) on Dec 3, 2018
Speaking of shapes, tho, I like this one.
Thanks Mat. I could not come up with an answer. A fun puzzle because of the blots.#13: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Dec 3, 2018 [SPOILER]
Yay, Mat! This is indeed the Rule of Thumb. All hail the mighty Thumb! Thanks for playing, everyone.
On a (very vaguely) related note, here is a short animated film about the DOUBLE KING. "A film about love and regicide," is how the author phrases it.
This video is not for everyone. It has quite a bit of animated violence and (cartoon) gore and is drawn in a trippy 1960s "underground comix" art style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_MSFkZHNi4
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