Comments on: Conundrum: Pic Tac Toe VI

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:20:49 +0000

Welcome back, Neel!

Answers

Top Row: PLANTS (Wheat stalks, Tree, Pitcher Plant) Center Row: LEADING INITIALS (W.C. Fields, J.D. Salinger, M. Butterfly) Bottom Row: AN ALBUM COVER (Always a fun theme) Left Column: FIELDS (Wheat field, W.C. Fields, Centerfield) Center Column: PENGUINS (Pictured) Right Column: INSECTS (Fly, Butterfly, "Beatles") Slash: BASEBALL POSITIONS (Pitcher, Catcher, Centerfield) Backslash: TYPES OF BREAD (Wheat, Rye, White)

Picture Credits

Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4 Picture 5 Picture 6 Picture 7 Picture 8 Picture 9

By: Neel Mehta

Neel Mehta — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:03:20 +0000

Sorry. Haven’t been around for a while.

Middle Row: INITIALS (W.C. Fields, J.D. Salinger, W.S. Gilbert?)
159 Diagonal: TYPES OF BREAD (wheat, rye, white)
357 Diagonal: BASEBALL POSITIONS (pitcher, catcher, centerfield)

Never heard of the pitcher plant until your hint above. I thought Catching was a good guess, but I’m always a sucker for the Rat Pack-style theme.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:33:56 +0000

Three-part names: Not quite

Catching: That’s not what I was going for, but it holds up. The album cover has a glove on it, and the pitcher plant is catching its prey.

When someone gives a valid answer that wasn’t what I was looking for, I offer an alternate answer credit, so the original theme stays active.

So, an alternate answer theme credit goes to Asher!

By: Asher

Asher — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:53:59 +0000

Lower left>upper right: catching

By: Asher

Asher — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:47:02 +0000

Middle row: three-part names

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:03:27 +0000

It’s not Classic Characters. It has to do with names.

The diagonals are items that fit into categories, rather than a single commonality. So while the center row clearly has penguins visible in each picture, the diagonals have each picture represent a different item from the same category, e.g. Dopey, Doc, and Bashful.

By: Asher

Asher — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:56:46 +0000

Another shot at the middle row: Classic Characters?

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:55:10 +0000

Correct on the columns, and the top and bottom rows. That’s five themes solved by Asher.

The middle row and two diagonals remain.

By: Asher

Asher — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:27:53 +0000

Columns – left to right – Fields, Penguin, Insects
Rows – top to bottom – Botany, Classics(?), Rock/Pop Music Album Cover Art

Diagonals have me stumped – Catch(?)/Fly(?) and Rye/Wry(?)