Picking up from yesterday –
Oh man, coming off of that high of that sweet, sweet prize puzzle!
How cool to live the ultimate dream of the express wedge and everything!
So, we do the toss-ups.
Okay, so, I clearly jump the gun a little on the first one.
I had it rolodexed in my mind that “tree” was a living thing, because sometimes that can throw people off. And at that point in the puzzle, we were very clearly at a majestic something tree.
I thought we were split seconds away from someone else ringing in. So, I rang in with the hope that while he called my name, I’d know it.
I clearly didn’t haha.
And if I’d just waited for ONE more letter, it became so obvious. So, I really jumped the gun just by like one second. But what can you do?
I know I kind of mumbled out “palm tree” after majestic, just to say something. But yes, I’m aware palm has four letters. I was just thinking show theme (which is silly because by the toss-up rounds, we aren’t really into show themes anyway) and wanting to say something, anything.
But then I redeemed myself a little when “_ _ _ _ _ _ RY TRE _ was on the board.” Clearly it was very likely to be another tree. And I’d seen mulberry used multiple times on the show. So, I just had to go for it and hope, fingers crossed.
And THEN, I’ve seen often on those 3-toss-up things taking the last word and moving it to the first.
So, if it were ____ tree, _____ tree and then the next one STARTED with a four-letter word, it would become “tree ______” (like tree house, maybe, although that might be one word, or you know, something where tree moves from the back to the front).
So, I was looking at that TIN_ SA_LING puzzle so quizzically, because I was expecting “Tree” to be that first word. So, when it wasn’t, it threw me off.
Steve ringing in and getting it wrong gave me the extra second for it to fully form in my brain.
So, realistically, my brain wasn’t really fast enough for that one – that one shouldn’t have been mine. And I got to have it anyway, because of luck. So, that made me feel better about missing the one that might’ve been mine, had I rang in one second later – like we restored the universe of toss-ups a little bit or something 🙂
And we’ll pick up here tomorrow!