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Now that the New Year has begun I’ve started to go through the Scrabble Calendar.  Each day’s puzzle is more ludicrous than the last with the people who complete them being capable of bending spoons with their minds.

Fake Examples:

What three standard endings can be added to WEEPING for a 14 letter word: SWEEPINGNESSES.

_E_U_ _ A _ R

With a rack of NNPHXTI, what tiles can you lay to spell a type of Egyptian Lily?  NENUPHAR.  Right on the tip of my tongue.

The worst are the “What’s your play?” pages where it’s an existing Scrabble board and you have to make the best play and guides are given like: 50 points – learning, 80  points – good, 190 points – expert and I get around 12.  On the plus side, none of the tiles fall out when I throw the entire calendar at the wall.

Happy spelling!

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My mother wanted to know what I wanted for Christmas.  I asked for a 1/2 sheet pan-sized sealable carrier to which she responded “I love those”.  My mother doesn’t bake and I don’t think she has used a 1/2 sheet pan since a failed 5th grade attempt to bring in sugar cookies for a Christmas party.

My father went to her house to drop something off and I had him do some recon.  So instead of this:

1/2 Sheet Pan Carrier

1/2 Sheet Pan Carrier, yeah!

I’m getting this:

Frown

Cake Mold Seized from Carthage, boo!

Well at least I can make bundt cakes appropriate for Vikings.

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Two years running I’ve broken the tape measure I received for Christmas.  Most recently I broke the one given to me by my brother’s girlfriend Amanda.  I got her a day-to-day calendar which she’s obviously exhausted.  If I can keep up breaking her gifts we may have figured out a solute to the problem of buying for a family member’s significant other.