"I'm going to read some sentences. Each sentence conceals the name of a popular TV series past or present. (Ex. Down South, parking meters still line many streets. --> "South Park") 1. James loved his mother-in-law and ordered a dozen roses for her birthday. 2. The camp counselor counted twenty-six feet underneath the dining table. 3. For pioneers in the West, wing-footed deer were a highly prized source of meat."
"4. The mountain whippoorwill and graceful egret are two of the aviary's most popular birds. 5. The brigadier general was tonight courtmartialed on the Army base. 6. If you'll get on the bandwagon, training will start next week. 7. At the bookstore, I bought a witch-doctor whodunit. 8. The desert nomad mentioned something about a herd of camels. 9. In 1930, rockets were first being designed to fly to the moon."
A puzzle presents ten numbered sentences, each concealing the name of a popular TV series. An example pair demonstrates the hiding technique using word boundaries and punctuation. The text lists sentences that conceal series names through embedded words and hyphenation. A previous weekly challenge asked for a famous singer whose last name is replaced by a colloquial demonym to produce a homophone of a singing style; the answer was Carrie Underwood → karaoke, and the winner was Scott Anderson. A new challenge asks for a popular import car make and model, add V, anagram to an ethnic food, with a submission deadline and on-air prize.
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