Comments on Puzzle #2961: Nursery Rhyme #4
By Jane Doe (telly)
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solvability: moderate lookahead?
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quality: difficulty: solvability: moderate lookahead?
Puzzle Description:
Ring Around the Rosies Pocket Full of Posies Ashes, Ashes, We all fall down.
#1: harris harris (torough4u) on Jun 18, 2008
WOW.. i cant believe you did that so fast and so well. GREAT JOB thank you#2: Deana L (FFsWife) on Jun 19, 2008
I started thid one thid morning and was on quite the roll. Than I had to g to work. I don't know if it just got more complicated, or if the break in the middle of working on it messed up my thought process, but it got more difficult! Very nicely done! :)#3: Adam Nielson (monkey) on Jun 19, 2008
What an amazing image! Please create more puzzles, and do it faster! You are definitely creative and artistic.#4: Jane Doe (telly) on Jun 19, 2008
Thanks for asking me to do this one harris harris. I just finished solving it myself and while solvable, it was a bit difficult. :)#5: Jenny Hart (jhart111) on Jun 30, 2008
Wow!#6: Arduinna (arduinna) on Jul 29, 2008 [SPOILER]
Definitely solvable, just very intricate work. Fantastic details!#7: Nancy Snyder (naneki) on Jul 29, 2008
I suppose all children's stories and nursery rhymes have morbid origens... I can't help but continue my Debbie Downer commentary by pointing out that this one is about war.
that's true#8: Jane Doe (telly) on Aug 1, 2008
I always thought it was about the Bubonic plague. There was a ring around the sores...they burnt the dead (ashes, ashes) and the smell was so bad that the people carried flowers in their pockets. But the plague got so bad that they "all fell down"...dead.#9: Nancy Snyder (naneki) on Aug 1, 2008 [SPOILER]
http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.asp#10: Jane Doe (telly) on Aug 1, 2008
interesting read. thanks Naneki.#11: Nancy Snyder (naneki) on Aug 1, 2008
got to love the internet and all it's useless information :)#12: Jane Doe (telly) on Aug 1, 2008
lol#13: Arduinna (arduinna) on Aug 1, 2008
I love Snopes.#14: Velma Warren (Shiro) on Aug 12, 2018
Fantastic image. Great info. Tough solve. Wonderful use of color.#15: Iain Dunlop (HAM GURU) on Oct 3, 2018 [HINT] [SPOILER]
Great image, definitely just 'moderate lookahead' as the only time you need to use anything other than line/colour logic is on the middle child's hair (smile logic with the red 4 and 2 red 1's in rows 7 & 8)#16: Julio Parra (Julio Parra) on Dec 30, 2018
Muy bonito puzzle, felicitaciones. Lógicamente solucionable.#17: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on May 24, 2021 [SPOILER]
As I was about halfway through solving, the raised leg of the woman in red looked like a cat's tail. I had the beginnings of three faces, plus what looked like tails coming out of sacks. I was sure it was the poem#18: Byrdie (byrdie) on Jul 17, 2021 [HINT] [SPOILER]
As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with 40 wives.
And every wife had 40 sacks;
And every sack held 40 cats;
And every cat had 40 kits.
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
Smile logic on the red hair solved it for me. A confusing image until it's fully solved. A little tricky, a good challenge I guess.
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