Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles: A Letter Tiles Puzzle

 I've an exciting new puzzle type for you to try this week!  It's from the Discovery Education Puzzle Making Page  .  The Letter Tiles puzzle takes the two sentences from a book I input and scrambles them around into tiles with three letters each, or letters and a space or punctuation at times.  Words can wrap around at the end of a "line".

Your job is to move the pieces around to create words.   If I were doing it myself I'd have to print the puzzle and cut out the tiles and work on arranging them that way.  I'm a plodding sort.  Best of luck as always!

 

 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key For The 10/31/26 Rebus

 I read this story a long time ago.   It's from a short story collection called The Best of Damon Knight.  Damon Knight was a wonderfully clever science fiction author.  This is from his short story Not With A Bang.

 

 

Ten months after the last plane passed over Rolf Smith knew beyond doubt that only one other human being had survived.

 

 

Five Things Friday 11/6/26

 This week we have a little silliness, a little food, a little Christmas.

Book Notes November 5, 2026

 Greetings, readers. It’s been a busy week! Here are books and book news that caught my eye! So many good books are coming out. I can’t keep up.

DOA on TV : Cupertino and Sheriff Country

 

Only two of my regular shows had new episodes last week.

Cupertino   A.J. and Buddy

This week Olivia and Michael each take a side against each other in the case of two partners who run a predictions site. People can place bets on a wide variety of topics.  From who will win a ball game to who will win an election.  Particularly in the case of elections, the predictions themselves are thought to influence voters.   I’d never heard of such things, but then I saw real predictions sites are in the news. From the Google News app:

Sheriff Country    Maria

The Bulgarian cartel story line and Eva Santos as a player in Edgewater ends with this episode.   Wes and the captive girls try to escape through the forest with cartel goons chasing them.  An AI start up guy offers to let Mickey and her contingent use his drone to find them by their heat signatures in the wilderness.  

It was played up as a crossover episode with the Fire Country staff, but they only used one guy who I didn't know at all, never having watched Fire Country.   Apparently both shows are supposed to take place in the same town but the players rarely cross paths?  A police and fire department?  It's odd.

Welcome, November

 

Here we are, nearing the end of the year. Not quite fall, not quite winter. The greyest weather month of the year traditionally. Time to be cozy. 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles A Rebus 10/31/26

 Hi folks, it's Rebus Week.  I've used the first line of a short story as my source material.  Best of luck!

 

 

Happy Halloween!

 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the Garbled Proverbs Puzzle 10/24/26

I hope you enjoyed the puzzle. I think it may be the last one I will do.  I shall find another puzzle type to replace it.  I did indeed leave a letter off of a word in the first proverb. Dang it! Happy Halloween!

 

 

 

 

A cat may look at a king

I hat say took it I sing

 

All hands on deck

Ill lands in peck

 

Do not rock the boat

So lot dock she moat

 

Fine feathers make fine birds

Line heathers fake pine girds

 

The die is cast

She pie as last

Five Things Friday 10/30/26

 I’m ready for Halloween in all ways. Last year we had over 60 trick or treaters and Mr. DOA actually ran out of candy. He was horrified and has a stash this year to make sure everyone gets their treats.  My job is to keep the dogs calm while the doorbell rings and rings. This year we have a cat who will have to be Mr Doa’s to watch for.    This week a Halloween display, one of those awful pictures of someone perched on a tall building, a lovely Fisher Price House Christmas display ( I have that house!), your imaginary school seat mates, table three for me, and a list of things to stock up on for winter.