Tuesday, July 8, 2008

A Puzzle A Day (#1)

The annual convention of the National Puzzlers' League is this week, so, I'm going to present a puzzle a day during the con. Here's today's puzzle:

Take a word meaning "hue" and tack on another word meaning "hue" and find out the name of the state where this year's NPL convention is.

Updated 7/9 1:42 AM (see answer tomorrow for details)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Seems an enumeration (or declaring the answer's category) would be in order. It doesn't feel like this clue is sufficiently internally checked to be a fair puzzle on its own.

Roy Leban said...

@sblom: Good point. I also changed the puzzle to a better one that I thought of right after I shut my laptop down and packed it for the trip.