MANY THANKS !!
Despite over 150 views and 15 posts on
http://www.justadventure.com/cgi-bin...num=1163791126 and an SOS on the Quandaryland Hint Forum nobody came up with the solution... although I am grateful for the several attempts... which I may have misinterpreted ... see new addendum-spoiler at the end of this post :-
Just now, I wrote a few lines here replying that your instructions above didn’t work. Then in the middle I had a ‘brainwave’ and saw what had stumped me… and quite likely some others??
So I stopped and rewrote the following :-
Spoiler: I obtained the clue “busybody” more than once. Each time I inserted the word “busybody” and when that didn’t work I inserted “yenta” ~~~~ this doesn’t ‘work’.
It ONLY ‘works’ if you insert the word “yenta” alone IMMEDIATELY on obtaining the 'clue-prompt'!
P.S.
As far as my (fairly limited) knowledge of Yiddish goes, the term “Yenta’ (or “Yente”)
ONLY applies to a (Jewish)
FEMALE !
Extract from the description/definition in Wikipedia…
Quote:
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“Yenta is a term sometimes used to describe a Jewish Female. Despite its higher origins, today yenta is a descriptive term for a funny talkative Jewish female to a gossipy woman; a blabbermouth, who can't keep a secret, who spreads rumors and scandal and gladly gives advice whether or not one even wants it.”
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However when (for the first time) I just now looked the word up in my 1992 “Chambers” dictionary, I see that it is an accepted noun defined as “a gossip; a shrewish woman” !!
So I assume that “Yenta” has been ‘officially’ absorbed into the (USA) English language like so many other Yiddish words… the most common being probably the pure Biblical Hebrew words, “kosher”, and “chutzpah” which are of course also an integral part of the now nearly defunct hybrid Yiddish language !
ADDENDUM ... Spoiler :-
Spoiler: In order not to COMPLETELY spoil the game for others, I have deliberately NOT mentioned how to obtain the "Clue-prompt" !!
What I did NOT appreciate was the fact that you have to insert both a specific 'login' and ONLY AFTER THAT a (single) correct 'password' ....... with no 'interruption' berween the two !!
My bad... maybe ?!?
