From time to time a puzzle catches my eye and those posts always seem to be popular posts. So here’s another one for you, From the NY Times: Circular Reasoning.
It’s sort of like a crossword puzzle in the sense that each answer feeds into the next, so looking at the clues before and after can help. The hard part is that the clues have so many parts, that even if you get one piece of the clue, it doesn’t mean you’ll get an answer. Here’s an example:
A song with that candy in the title is closely identified with a 1930s actress who later became an American ambassador in Africa. The northern neighbor of the country where she was posted has a two-word name. What’s the second word?
It’s probably not so much what you know, but what you can look up (so Barb, I think you’ll like this one)
So far, I have three answers.
Shane Halbach 
I have the answer. She was also posted to a European country, but it did not have a northern neighbor with a 2 word name.
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After looking at the site, I should say I have one answer. I love this kind of puzzle, but time to get to bed. One more thing to keep me from getting any work done tomorrow.
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I knew you would like it!
The 3 answers I have so far I knew off the top of my head, without looking anything up.
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Looking back, I could have filled in 4 things without looking anything up, although of course I still looked things up to verify. I was left with the phrase from Battlestar Galactica, which made me bring Ben in. Now we’re just trying to figure out the summer clothing. I have so many things I should be doing on this beautiful Saturday, and what do I do? Curse you, you know me well!
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Thank you Ben!
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