Today’s extra Word Sudoku puzzle is prompted by the extraordinary event we’ve all seen online by now: the singing of Susan Boyle, the British woman who appeared on “Britain’s Got Talent” not quite looking the expected part…but blowing away the audience with her performance.If you haven’t seen it, check out this YouTube video of her singing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY. Even though I’ve given it away—you know she wins big—if you’re at all like me, you’re cringing for her as the audience and the judges view her rather cynically: She’s going to sing like a famous British singer? Yeah, right! And then…she does.
What is it that makes many of us jump to conclusions based on first impressions, so that we’re deeply cynical of others whom we judge harshly? And what is it that makes us turn around so quickly, like the audience here, which was cheering from the second note?
And why do many of us start crying, as we watch this video? And not just the first time we see it?
I never email links or jokes to friends. I am not a serial email forwarder. You send it to me, it dies here. But I sent this Susan Boyle video link to dozens of my friends. My note said, “if you ever need a reminder that there is grace in the world…”
But Entertainment Weekly’s Lisa Schwarzbaum said it much better than I. The Word Sudoku puzzles below provide you the letters; place them in the numbered cells in the quote grid to spell out Lisa’s reaction to watching Susan Boyle sing. I think Ms. Schwarzbaum speaks for a great many of us!
BACKED
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once
FROWNS
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once
GLITZY
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once
HUMP
4x4 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x2 square and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once
Copy circled letters to the corresponding numbered cells in the quote grid to spell out the quote
Solutions in the morning. By the way, breaking my no forwarding rule yet again, you may remember that this isn’t the first time that someone has knocked the socks off the judges and audience in “Britain’s Got Talent.” Remember Paul Potts, the mobile phone salesman who wanted to be an opera singer? Here’s a YouTube link of his performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y703tPc4PRk. It’s also phenomenal. And for pure spirit uplift, check out this YouTube link showing what amounts to a ‘street dance’ to “Do Re Mi” from the soundtrack of “The Sound of Music” in the middle of a Norwegian train station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UE3CNu_rtY. If you aren’t feeling better after watching this, you’ve forgotten how!
Thanks,
--Dave
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