Used Clues

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Status of Previous Contest Series (June 1999 Series)

Status of Contest Series (March 2000 Series)

All Current (Less Than Two-Months' Old) Clues are Located on These Sites:  

 

...And, as Promised, Here are the Vintage Clues for the 2001 Series

Clue Date

Clue

Puzzle

  "Look By These"  (LBT) 1
  LED ZEP 1
  Don't it make you want to jump? 1
  http://members.tripod.com/--Dedanann/HOLYMAC.WAV 1
  Your Old Man? 1
  34 23 55   12 13 21 31   15 51 23  "KEY IS A CLUE." 1
  Frank Lee my dear, I don't give a damn!  1
  Movie based on Friedrich Durrenmatt theme. 1
  Joni Mitchell understatement. 1
  (Blank Blank) is to Poker as Football is to Soccer. 1
  When leaves are dry.  1
  From here you can see a lot of people work, and play.   1
  Dcwg myht vyyt rft1. 1
  Pronoun—Plural verb—Common morpheme 1
  Tic Tac Toe – One of four aggressive opening moves. 1
  One of the things for which April is known 1
  A Phoenix  1
  Exercise caution, you may be confronted here. 1
  Caught between a rocks and a hard place. 1
  Bounty on this author. 1
  Where do we go from here? 1
  Let's not make a federal case out of this. 1
  Be sure to cross your I’s, and …  Wait a minute, is that the way that goes? 1
  What American player is at the forefront of his game? 1
  http://www.purplehunt.com/clue_8_21.htm 1
  Remember the good old days, when people used to play games like “Spin the Bottle?”  1
  Hannah. 1
  July 4th 1
  In the 1950s  a man with the last name of  “LEE,”  had a significant first name. 1
  Some events initiate using a certain implement, and terminate in Las Vegas. 1
  How about that World Series.   1
  Almost nothing Irish about this clue. 1
  Not much like Jack’s nemesis.   1
  34=”K”  1
  This contest required a different sort of tool.  1
  George Washington could have used me – not! 1
  More Michigan than Texas 1
  Cafe 1
  GR improv.   1
  O what a thrill to have a big yellow drill.  1
  Treasure map 11-22-03—www.purplehunt.com/newtreasuremap.htm 1
 

Treasure map 12-14-03—www.purplehunt.com/newtreasuremap1.htm

 
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  Treasure map 1-10-04—www.purplehunt.com/new_treasuremap1.htm 1
  Treasure map 3-14-04—www.purplehunt.com/new_treasuremap1a.htm 1
  Treasure map 3-14-04—www.purplehunt.com/new_treasuremap1a.htm 1
 

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  "Billy Who?" 4
  Torpedoed 4
  "Superman" type puzzle.  4
  You only die twice 4
  Feeling a little “out-of-it?  Perhaps a little “Shellfish”? 4
  From the Land of Toomorrow.   4
  --Hee-hee-hee.  4
  Very long wave length 4
  Different type of light socket.  4
  Was Jerry’s friend a cat? 4
  52 = X 4
  Page 6 – sort of.   4
  A real survivor…  4
  A man with a significant name died about year 250.  4
  = Z, and more.  51=Z and Y 4
  There are no one letter words. 4
  Tina never knew this guy.  4
  See if you can figure out which letters are 13. 4
  An old “Laugh-In” line. 4
  —“He” is part of the key. 4
  Do you like lobster?  4
  This guy did not jump horses. 4
  Required for coming of age in the ‘60s.  4
  R” could be considered unlucky. 4
  What is a standard finger? 4
  I think he would be between fourteen to twenty-two. 4
  Head wear ri cow food. 4
  What if this deceased comic were a cop.    4
  Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the keyest of them all… 4
  Could this author be searching for treasure?  4
  Same number of letters in author’s name as recent president, change three and you’ve got them all. 4
  Author has the same first name as a 25 year old beer.  4
  The ayes have it.    4
  One for all and all for one, if one is all there is. 4
  At first I wondered if he wondered, then I realized that I no longer need wonder. 4
  sky was not vanilla, but another “V” word.  4
  Did you notice an irregularity?   4
 

A=21

 
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  Clue is a reflection of a man named Plummer. 4
  Violet Sky. 4
  Christopher the cat got short-changed.  4
  Arrest her bird!  4
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

 

This should be very helpful.  Now, go see what you can do with it!

 

...And, as Promised, Here are All Clues For Older Contests

Clue Date

Clue

Puzzle

     
     
     
     
3/1/00 What has this to do with Persia? Something! 2
3/1/00 Velma 3
3/1/00 I'm not a "little red" about this. 3
     
3/1/00 "Make love not war -- the year after" 5
3/1/00 "Boom" 5
     
     
3/11/00 "Line-like" 2
3/11/00 What's an Eastern European doing in a Japanese automobile? 3
     
     
3/11/00 This ain't cow food 5
     
     
3/18/00 Sort of a "Farm Tool" 2
3/18/00 Something like "two people." 3
     
     
3/18/00 This ain't make-up either. 5
     
     
3/25/00 Sounds like fish bait 2
3/25/00 What does a dead guy burier do? 3
     
3/25/00 "Mensuration" 5
     
     
4/2/00 c66 2
4/2/00 A new meaning for PTA 3
     
4/2/00 42 44 22 23 45 12 23 22 34 35 25 45 _ _ _ 5
     
     
4/9/00 What a cowboy would do to mark as his a pool of frozen water. 2
4/9/00 Could be commas, but are not. 3
     
4/9/00 _ _ _ _ _ _ 52 15.-- 5
     
     
4/17/00 Ever feel like venting your frustration? 2
4/17/00 A Pope's Home Country 3
     
4/17/00 _ _ 41 52 15.--_ _ _ _ 5
     
4/23/00 Picnic tables up, … 1
4/23/00 ki-ro . ku-pa-nu 2
4/23/00 Ultimate cheap roof for a Japanese automobile, but reverse the order. 3
     
4/23/00 _ _ _ _ 15 41 52 15.-- _ _ _ _ 5
4/23/00 Honest who? 6
     
4/28/00 http://www.purplehunt.com/1638712.htm 2
4/28/00 http://www.purplehunt.com/1214144.htm 3
     
4/28/00 http://www.purplehunt.com/6399994.htm 5
     
     
5/6/00 http://www.purplehunt.com/5783740.htm 2
5/6/00 http://www.purplehunt.com/5782810.htm 3
     
5/6/00 http://www.purplehunt.com/5730140.htm 5
     
     
5/13/00 http://www.purplehunt.com/54202101.htm 2
5/13/00 http://www.purplehunt.com/54780102.htm 3
     
5/13/00 http://www.purplehunt.com/54791111.htm 5
     
     
5/21/00 Maurice Jacobs 2
5/21/00 P327 3
     
5/21/00 Between Page 450 and 470: A Popular Representation of Daniel Bernoully's Theory of Musical Sound. 5
     
     
5/28/00 "All" 2
5/28/00 This is a very straight cryptogram, with the one exception. 3
     
5/28/00 Advice for Rosie's bodyguard: "No gun to carry far should be charged with powder whose weight exceeds one-sixth, or at most one-fifth part of the weight of the shot…" 5
     
     
6/4/00 Sounds like a particular type of very cold water. 2
6/4/00 Page totals 12. 3
     
6/4/00 Page totals 6 5
     
     
6/11/00 Contextual evidence. 2
6/11/00 "Peaceski" 3
     
6/11/00 41 31, 22 44 25 33 15 41 52 15. -- 5
     
     
6/18/00 Dropsie in the 70s. 2
6/18/00 The mails must go through. 3
     
6/18/00 This could be considered a real "geezer teaser." 5