Visual Description: One bar buddy telling the other how he almost got married. (twice)
ZAUER = AZURE, VUEMA = MAUVE, EXFLAN = FLAXEN, CORLLS = SCROLL — Giving us: RMAENSR
Clue/Question: The bachelor described his broken engagements as . . .
Answer: NEAR MRS.
(I was ALMOST going to put this one up for you guys to give me the answer. I was ready to guess “MANS ERR”, but without an apostrophe I knew that wasn’t right. When you assume that each of the words need to have one of the available vowels it definitely makes it a head scratcher. I guess part of the clue to the answer lies in the guy saying: “I said I wasn’t ready to both”. Both what? To love and to honor? To have and to hold? In sickness and in health? Something from the wedding vows, I suppose, but I can’t see it being some things specific. Only when I gave up on idea that both words had to have a vowel is when I was finally able to figure it out. In this case, the word “MRS.” definitely should have quotation marks in the puzzle! – - – There are some visual clues to near misses, as with the dart board and the TV screen showing a filed goal attempt – which looks good, to me – but they are pretty subtle.) — YUR
(The extra “s” helps it to make more sense. Thanks, for pointing it out to me, guys! But, there still shoulda been quotation marks for “MRS.”! Right?) — YUR
Thanks for the solution..it was driving me nuts.
To your question “Both what?”, the answer is both engagements! (you left out the “s” when you quoted the clue). So “near misses” makes even more sense.
to “both” the women to whom he was engaged.
You guys are good! I totally spaced on the “s” in engagements. The dude broke off a couple of engagements! I was never formally engaged, even once, so I guess looking for the multiple never occurred to me.
YUR
I got stalled–way back there –trying to get one vowel — in each word. How silly –of me. What was I thinking.
I have been getting jumble answered stalled too many times–lately.
Oh well– it is still fun watching from the sidelines.
You–all–are great.
Thanks
The period after the last box is also a clue, normally I don’t see punctuation.
That did it for me, too.
YUR
Wow, thank you Jumble master! Now I can move on with my day after hours of mass confusion. I’ll read clues and examine the illustration much more carefully from now on!
Just be careful in trying to ascertain visual clues, Aurora. After all: “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
YUR
mans err was mine too. hard but easy as it turns out.not one of your better ones. but a puzzler !
thanks for being there for us old codgers driven batty by some of these near misses.
De nada, papi!