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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: This Theme Was Not a "W" for Most Readers

Readers of Electoral-Vote.com—a fair chunk of them, at least—like the headline themes. We get plenty of feedback on that point. They were not too keen on the one from last week, however, despite the fact that we used the same exact concept for a previous headline puzzle. We were trying to gauge whether this general "type" of theme was a good idea, before we tried a trickier version of it. The answer would seem to be, "No, not a good idea."

Anyhow, here is the solution, courtesy of reader M.S. in Canton, NY:

"The last shall be first."

More specifically, the LAST word of the headline is the FIRST word of the text of the post.

Exactly correct. Just like the last word of this item's headline is "Readers" and the first word of this item is also "Readers."

Here are the 15 readers to get it right:

  1. R.S. in Landing, NJ
  2. S.K. in Ardmore, PA
  3. P.A. in Redwood City, CA
  4. J.N. in Zionsville, IN
  5. P.Q. in Metuchen, NJ
  6. M.K. in Long Branch, NJ
  7. B.B. in Avon, CT
  8. D.L. in Springfield, IL
  9. M.S. in Canton
  10. A.E. in Cleveland, OH
  11. J.E. in San Jose, CA
  12. D.B. in Farmville, VA
  13. A.S.D. in Dorchester, MA
  14. B.M. in Chico, CA
  15. N.H. in London, England, UK

We told you it was (apparently) very difficult.

For this week's theme, it relies on one word or letter per headline, and it's in the category Language. For a hint, we'll say that you might want to think about which bone is connected to the—brief pause—thigh bone, and is connected to the—brief pause—back bone.

If you have a guess, send it to comments@electoral-vote.com with subject line May 29 Headlines. (Z)


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