I  HEARD  SOMEONE  TRIED  THE  MONKEY-ON-TYPEWRITER  BIT  TRYING  FOR  THE  PLAYS  OF  SHAKESPEARE,  BUT  ALL  HE  GOT  WAS  THE  COLLECTED  WORKS  OF  FRANCIS  BACON.     —  BILL  HIRST

The second cryptogram was

GOD  PLEASE  SAVE  ME  FROM  YOUR  FOLLOWERS. 

Correct answers to both cryptograms came from  Delmar Burkitt,  Andrzej Derdzinski,  Tom Goulet,  John Jackson,  Jeff Lamb,  Alma Litten,  Julia Minturn,  Carla Nuenke,  Kevin Skehan,  Jeff Wolfe,  and  Sally Yocom.

Tom Goulet is from Columbus and joined our group a year ago.  This is his first reply to the puzzle column.

The third puzzle was a letter/digit substitution.  The decoding is ENIGMA = 362514; WRONG = 98765 and the answer to what is NOW is 979. 

For the fourth puzzle the lock combinations were 2178 (X 4 = 8712) and 1089 (X 9 = 9810).  Correct answers to both were submitted by  Andrzej Derdzinski,  Jeff Lamb,  and  Jeff Wolfe.

For her birthday the dwarfs made Snow White an umbrella with seven panels.  Each took a pot of his favorite color and painted a panel.  When the paint was dry, each then painted a picture of himself on another panel.  The panels formed a rainbow running clockwise.  The pictures showed the dwarfs holding hands and dancing.  No pictures painted in neighboring colors of the rainbow were holding hands.  (Violet and red do not count as neighboring colors.)

Sleepy looked very fine against a red background.  Dopey held hands with the blue dwarf and the violet dwarf.  The red dwarf held Sneezy's hand.  Sneezy and Doc held hands with the green dwarf.

Each dwarf has a different unfavorite color, too, and refused to stand on it or next to it or hand in hand with a dwarf of that color.  Grumpy's is blue.  Happy's is yellow and Dopey's is indigo.

It is Bashful's birthday next and Snow White wants to knit him a scarf in his favorite color.  Which color is that?