Just curious how many folks around here play the NPR Sunday puzzle? How often do you submit an answer? Have you ever been picked to play the on-air puzzle?
I’ve been listening to the weekly puzzle segment since the days that you had to send in a postcard with your answer. I never submitted a postcard, but I’ve submitted online a few times. I can usually figure out the puzzle answer about half the time, but would always forget to send in an answer – I might submit an answer a couple of times a year. This year I’ve been making more of an effort to remember to send in my answer, so we’ll see how it goes.
I listen and play along, but I never try to figure out the answer to the puzzle.
BTW, nice username/avatar combo.
I listen diligently every Sunday, get cranky if I miss it on air and have to listen to it online. The ones that come to me pretty easily & quickly I’ll normally send in, maybe 6 or 8 times a year, but have never gotten the phone call. My big issue is I work in a tin can where my cell reception is iffy, and if I’m out in the yard or the shops, I generally can’t hear/feel my phone go off. Who knows, I may have been called, and just saw an unfamiliar number in my call log, and was never the wiser.
I catch it once or twice a month, probably submit an answer once a month. I don’t really want to be picked, I’m not sure why I do it. 