Marshall! The solution to the clue word: astrovolcano: was Katmai; certainly a volcanic region in Alaska, but hardly an astrovolcano, if such a word does exist, which seems unlikely, , given my inexpert search and those of others who are far more skilled than I am!
Jewel -------------------------------------------------- From: "'Marshall Scott' via VIPhone" <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2018 7:37 AM To: "'Dan' via IPhone" <viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Astrovolcano Is there any chance the puzzle might be referring to Mons Olympus? Its the biggest volcano found in the solar system. Marshall On Aug 11, 2018, at 8:15 PM, Jewel <jewelbla...@kinect.co.nz> wrote: > > A little time ago, I asked a question on this list re a word I had read as > one of the clues in an > April 2013 puzzle in Seven Little Words. The word was astrovolcano. > I received only one reply and that was from Bill Garrick who suggested that, > perhapsan > astrovolcano > was a burst of light from outer space: akin to the Arora Borealis/Australis: > a very good > suggestion but, I think, one, for all its merrits, was wrong. > Upon further research, it seems to me that BlueOx who are, I believe, the > developers of the game, > made it up as I cannot find that actual word in Google. The closest I can > get is stratavolcano, > the > type of volcano that was, and, I think may still be, playing merry hell in > Hawaii! > BTW: the solution to the astrovolcano clue is Alaska's Katmai, a nature > reserve and bear/bison > preservation area. > > Jewel > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than > posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list > owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.