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‘Tis Friday the Thirteenth day of November. Lotsa luck with the following four puzzles. (Lotsa question marks in this week
This week we
serve up a soupy morsel, a smoky appetizer, a hazy slice and, to top it all
off, a slice of science for dessert.
Morsel
Menu
Soupy
Morsel:
“The Iceman
Gulpeth, Mopeth”
The five words
in the following sentence in red share something in common.
“Astute iceman gulps soup, mopes.”
Once you discover what they
share in common, you will realize one word does not belong with the other four.
Which word does
not belong, and why?
Appetizer
Menu
Creatures In
The News Appetizer:
Infer no
fire where there is no smoke?
The Big Island
of Hawaii is chock-full of attractions. A beach-goer, for example, may witness awesome
creatures (a plural word with five letters that can be rearranged to form a prefix
meaning “flesh”). The eleven letters of a two-word term for one of these
creatures can be rearranged to form 7-letter synonym of “militaristic” and a
four-letter synonym of “inferno.”
An inland Big
Island attraction (a seven-letter proper noun), which might be described as an “internal
inferno,” is a very loose homophone of the two-word term for the awesome
creature. (In other words, it only kind of sounds the same.) You can sea (sic) such creatures in other states besides Hawaii, most notably in Florida, Texas and
California (although, soon not so much in California, according to a
business/entertainment news story from earlier this week.)
What are the
five-letter and two-word terms for the creature? What is the name of the inland “internal
inferno”?
MENU
Specialty Of
The Theater Slice:
Hays-ey DisContent?
Name a possible
job title of an employee of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA),
in two words. Rearrange the letters in this title to form certain motion
picture content, in one plural word, with which one performing the job may be mildly
concerned.
What are this
job title and the motion picture content?
Hint: The job
title would probably have been more plausible in the early days of the MPAA, when
the (William) Hays Code was in effect. Today, the content alluded to in this
puzzle would more likely impact whether to classify a motion picture as a G, PG
or PG-13.
Dessert
Menu
Piece Of
Cake Dessert:
It isn’t
rocket science…or is it?
Name a language
spoken by millions. The first letter, middle two letters and last letter, taken
in order, spell out the first name of a reasonably well-known scientist. The
remaining letters, taken in order, spell out a plural word that is the
scientist’s area of expertise and study.
Hint: The
letters in the scientist’s surname can be rearranged to form a two-word caption
for the image shown here.
Hint: Some experiments performed by the scientist involved a language also spoken by millions. The language is related to and associated with three letters, each of which appears at least twice in the image shown here.
Hint: Some experiments performed by the scientist involved a language also spoken by millions. The language is related to and associated with three letters, each of which appears at least twice in the image shown here.
Who is the
scientist and what is his/her area of expertise?
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I have the dessert slice: POCD. Hope you enjoyed my "down time"puzzle of last week.
ReplyDeleteron, congrats on the Dessert puzzle get. Although I called it a "Piece of Cake," I actually thought it was kind of tough.
DeleteI loved your STRYCH + NINE puzzle. I did suspect it might end in -NINE, but I could not pull the STRYCH- out of my thinking cap!
Vowel-wise, of course, the most amazing word in English is the two-syllable word that has only one vowel!
And a suspect vowel, at that...
One that is only sometimes a vowel...
A word with six letters, total...
One a gal named Ethel had...
That goes with a pro team from St. Louis...
That goes with an acting school, if you're a Catholic named Strasberg or Stanislavski...
LegoAwedByTwoSyllables!ButOneMeasley&QuestionableVowel!
Are you talking about TSKING or RHYTHM ?
DeleteTSK TSK! is two syllables with no vowels...
DeleteTouche, tskmaster ron. "Tsking" did not cross my misty mind. And the "TSK TSK," which I so richly deserve, I might have pulled from the musty recesses of my gray matter, but only if I would have recalled some NYT crossword entries I filled in long ago.
DeleteLego,ATaskmasterWhoAspiresToBeATskmstr
Chasm, prism and spasm are 2-syllable words, each with one REAL vowel.
DeleteThe cake in question can't be a rice cake - that doesn't sound much like dessert. Must be an upside-down angel food cake.
Good words, Paul. And don't forget "schism," a word, alas with which "religious" folks tend to be too familiar.
DeleteLegoLikesUpsideDownAngelFoodCakeWithRightSideUpDevilledEggsBecauseUpsideDownDevilledEggsAreHellToEatSansMakingAMess
The above banter is most interesting (I love the word 'rhythm!')
ReplyDeleteThus far I have seen only the first puzzle, and solved it. On to other portions of 'the meal.'
Thanks, Lego, for trying to wrangle the orange OUT of the 'comments' icon...once again, I managed to gloss right over the one for this week (even though I had already seen its showing 7 comments) and when ready to post myself, clicked on the WRONG ICON, i.e. last week's. Sigh.
And figured out the Dessert (cute!), although still not sure what the second hint's "second language" is and how it thus relates to three letters in the picture.
ReplyDeleteThis must be my lucky day. The appetizer "Creatures" puzzle just fell out, too. Love it!
ReplyDeleteFinally, I suspect I know what one of the words is for the job title in the Specialty of the House slice, but have two possible choices for the other word, neither of which I can make work out when rearranging into the 'certain motion picture content." However, one tantalizing word keep leaping out at me there, I just can't do anything with it.
ReplyDeleteI have them all, but my answer to the SOTTS is "way out there" and is surely not the intended answer...
ReplyDeleteOnce again I must ask for a few hints, though I do intend to do some legwork to get the answers.
ReplyDeleteStill having trouble with the movie puzzle and the second hint in the dessert puzzle. Also not sure about the Soupy Morsel puzzle.
ReplyDeletepatjberry,
DeleteThe “iceman” in the Soupy Morsel might well get hired by the MPAA bigwigs in the movie puzzle. He is the iceman. They are the icemen. He is the walrus. Goo goo g' joob goo goo goo g' job.
In the second dessert hint, it is true that eight letters appear at least twice in the image shown. The trio of letters you need are associated – in various permutations -- with Patty Hearst, a Mr. Maglie, and Vegas. Arrange then into a fourth permutation to form an acronym for a language the scientist used in experiments.
LegoRemember,TheWalrusWasPaul
Ah, I finally understand re the second language and the three letters. Thanks!
DeleteDidn't exactly get much help with the movie puzzle, which is the toughest of them all in my opinion. Anything else?
ReplyDeleteThe movie puzzle is tough! Can't seem to get it either.
DeleteI've got them all except the movie puzzle.
Deletepatjberry and clotheslover,
DeleteI just added a pair of four-image rebuses (rebi?) at the end of the blog, just below the Dessert puzzle. Each rebus hints at the "content" in the movie puzzle. It is actually only one hint, repeated twice.
Just read the images as you would read words in a book, from left to right, top to bottom. Each image represents one syllable.
LegoEveryPictureTellsAMonosyllabicStoryDon'tIt?
The first two images in each of my rebuses may be misleading. My images indicate they are pronounced with long vowel sounds. In truth, they are pronounced with short vowel sounds. The first two syllables of the “content,” therefore, are pronounced as a part of a violin/lute/guitarbleacher + a bleacher cheer, not as the surname of Joe and Phil, the pitching brothers.
DeleteI many go and change/correct this on the blog. I do not want to mislead.
LegoAndThat’sTheLongAndShortOfIt
Boy, I think that I, too, finally wrestled the identity of your movie 'content' word from what otherwise would have been utter obscurity, but only because of your added picture hints (although even THEY required some hard thinking). However, I still am unsure about the actual two-word job, though I believe that my original second word must be correct. The first word, that you hinted at above in one of your posts to pjb, Lego, doesn't seem to GO with the second word, though. I am clearly missing some connection or perhaps pun?
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DeleteI can't vouch for clotheslover, but I just got it!
ReplyDeleteI am still stumped on the movie puzzle, even with the additional hints and pictures....just not making sense of them.
ReplyDeleteclotheslover,
DeleteI admit that the "content word" is not very common. But think Halloweeny conjuring of spirits, seances, and things that go bump in the night.
LegoWhodunit?Houdini!
Some time after my last post above [at 12:59 a.m. P.T.], I concluded that the two movie-job words I'd had in mind must go together after all, based on the 'connection' I did finally Google to ascertain. Tuesday awaits....
DeleteConsider this sentence:
ReplyDeleteWord Woman strains liquid out of beaker.
Would it be difficult to paraphrase and condense that sentence into a five-word sentence with properties quite similar to the one in the Soupy Morsel?
Paul,
DeleteYes, it would be too difficult, at least for me. I am roadblocked at the "paraphrase stage." I substituted "GEOLOGIST" for "Word Woman" and got tripe like "It's Google!" and "Go sit, Lego!"
Lego(NowSitting)And"Condensation"SeemsToo"Scientific,"GivenMyLimitedScientificSkillSet!
Where did you 'submit' GEOLOGIST, and why, in Heaven's name, would you do such a thing?
DeleteAnd that's not the correct substitution for 'Word Woman', anyway.
Okay, Paul, now I submitted a substitute for "Word Woman, geologist" and got "psi ethane"!
DeleteAnd I did not submit GEOLOGIST in Heaven's name but in Seven's name!
LegoWellAtLeast"PsiEthane"SoundsMore"Scientific"
The substitution is fine (you only have four more to go); the submission is unnecessary; the link is non-functional.
DeleteSorry, I should have written "the second link."
DeleteThe first one is fine.
DeletePaul,
DeleteSorry...
Take 2:
"And I did not submit GEOLOGIST in Heaven's name but in Seven's name!"
LegoNotADenizenOfSeventhHeaven...ButYouKnewThat...AndProbablyGuessedThe"Seven"Link
First there was WaterGate, then DeflateGate, and now, ObfusGate. . .Clueless in Colorado, ladies and gents.
DeleteIt seems all Greek to me this beautiful sunny, warm, November afternoon. . .
Word Woman.
DeleteI feel your pain.
LegoItSeemsAllGeekToMe
I maintain a position of neutrality regarding the naming of children.
DeleteMy second comment in this thread contains the word 'Heaven'. The third contains the words 'to go'. The sixth contains 'children'. So far, so 'good'. 'All' that remains is to explain that 'Word Woman strains liquid out of beaker' reduces to 'Stephanie filters fluid from flask', which has 5 words with f-sounds, but only 4 with an actual 'f' -- in much the same way that 'Astute iceman gulps soup, mopes' has 5 words with s-sounds, but only 4 with an actual 's'.
DeleteAgog.
DeleteWowza! I'm quite certain of the "content" for the movie puzzle, and I have one word that fits for the job, but I will have to wait for Tuesday to see what the answer is. I don't like my answers. Good puzzles!
ReplyDeleteI'm still puzzled!
DeleteDon't rage against the machine, CL. Make friends with it.
DeleteDo.
DeleteLegoThereIsAGhostInTheMachine
"It's a big enough umbrella but it's always me that ends up getting wet..."
DeleteLegoNotABadLyric
CL, "Never believe it's not so..."
ReplyDeleteOh oh oh it's magic?
ReplyDeleteYou catch on fast, kid.
ReplyDeleteNow all you have to do is find a longer synonym for magic that could possibly make two words when rearranged.(I just hope I'm not giving anything away by telling you this, but we are coming up on Tuesday when the answers will be revealed anyway, so...)
ReplyDeleteBased on the clues, I think I have that word, but my answer still seems wrong. So, I probably don't have it quite right. My job title could possibly work at a drive in movie, perhaps, but it's far fetched. Like I said, I just don't like my answers.
DeleteI think I have them all, but only because of all the extra clues (the appetizer is the only one I got before reading the comments below)! Not sure exactly how the movie job relates to the content, but that's probably because I made a mistake somewhere. Fun to try, anyway! --Margaret G.
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ReplyDeleteSM:
ReplyDeleteEach word has an anagram:
ASTUTE>>>STATUE
ICEMAN>>>CINEMA/ANEMIC
GULPS>>>PLUGS
SOUP>>>OPUS
MOPES>>>POEMS
ICEMAN seems out of place:
ANEMIC (CINEMA) STATUE PLUGS OPUS, POEMS.
CITNA:
Prefix for “flesh:” SARCO->>>ORCAS>>>KILLER WHALE>>>WARLIKE + HELL>>>KILAUEA
SOTTS:
Job title of a possible MPAA employee: SIN CENSOR which anagrams to NONCRISES which this employee may be mildly concerned with, or he may be mildly concerned with the CORNINESS of the content! I said it was pretty “far out!”
Dessert Slice POCD:
Language: JAPANESE>>>JANE GOODALL. Her area of expertise: JAPANESE>>>APES. Surname caption for photo: the LAD LOGO. Language associated with her experiments: ASL (AMERICAN [or is it AFRICAN or APE?] SIGN LANGUAGE).
Whether right or wrong, here's what I've come up with:
ReplyDeleteSoupy Morsel:
Astute anagrams to STATUE
Iceman anagrams to CINEMA
Gulps anagrams to PLUGS (doesn't belong)
Soup anagrams to OPUS
Mopes anagrams to POEMS
All of these words except Gulps anagram to Creative Arts related words.
Creatures In The News Appetizer:
ORCAS/KILLER WHALES/KILAUEA
Specialty Of The Theater Slice: I messed around with the words screen, scene, censor, sensor, neck, romance, screener, necromancer, necromancy and everything in between. The best I could come up with is:
CINEMA CENSOR/NECROMANSIES (which, I don't think is even a word)
SNACK INTERCOM/"NECK ROMATICS". Which just isn't right.
Piece of Cake Dessert:
JANE GOODALL/APES
At first I thought ICEMAN had no one-word anagram, and that it was, for that reason, 'not like the others', but I consulted the machine which informed me about CINEMA and ANEMIC, so I decided to seek another explanation for the Soupy Morsel.
DeleteI think the job title is CINEMA CENSOR.
NECROMANCIES (2 C's) is a valid word, I believe.
'Rice cake' was an allusion to Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the 'upside-down angel food cake' is around here somewhere.
DeleteI had all of clotheslovers answers (including CINEMA CENSOR/ NECROMANCIES with 2 C's). And the other part of the Piece of Cake Dessert of the LAD Logo (anagram of Goodall), and ALS (Goodall worked with sign language with apes). --Margaret G.
ReplyDeleteTwo C's. Duh!
ReplyDeleteThis week’s official answers for the record, Part 1:
ReplyDeleteMorsel Menu
Soupy Morsel:
“The Iceman Gulpeth, Mopeth”
The five words in the following sentence in red share something in common.
“Astute iceman gulps soup, mopes.”
Once you discover what they share in common, you will realize one word does not belong with the other four.
Which word does not belong, and why?
Answer: The word that does not belong is “gulps.”
What all five words share in common is that their letters can be rearranged to form common nouns appearing in most reputable dictionaries:
ASTUTE >> STATUE
ICEMAN >> CINEMA (also can be anagrammed to form the adjective, “ANEMIC”)
GULPS >> PLUGS
SOUP >> OPUS
MOPES >> POEMS
A STATUE, CINEMA, OPUS and POEMS are all artistic creations. PLUGS are not aristic creations, so “gulps” is the “odd word out.” (Okay, okay, I guess you could argue that these are “artistic plug,” but I believe that is a stretch.)
Appetizer Menu
Creatures In The News Appetizer:
Infer no fire where there is no smoke?
The Big Island of Hawaii is chock-full of attractions. A beach-goer, for example, may witness awesome creatures (a plural word with five letters that can be rearranged to form a prefix meaning “flesh”). The eleven letters of a two-word term for one of these creatures can be rearranged to form 7-letter synonym of “militaristic” and a four-letter synonym of “inferno.”
An inland Big Island attraction (a seven-letter proper noun), which might be described as an “internal inferno,” is a very loose homophone of the two-word term for the awesome creature. (In other words, it only kind of sounds the same.) You can sea (sic) such creatures in other states besides Hawaii, most notably in Florida, Texas and California (although, soon not so much in California, according to a business/entertainment news story from earlier this week.)
What are the five-letter and two-word terms for the creature? What is the name of the inland “internal inferno”?
Answer: ORCAS, KILLER WHALE, KILAUEA, which is pronounced like this.
Here is a news story from earlier this week that explains why you soon will not be able to see so many killer whales in California.
Lego...
This week's official answers, for the record, Part 2:
ReplyDeleteMENU
Specialty Of The Theater Slice:
Hays-ey DisContent?
Name a possible job title of an employee of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), in two words. Rearrange the letters in this title to form certain motion picture content, in one plural word, with which one performing the job may be mildly concerned.
What are this job title and the motion picture content?
Hint: The job title would probably have been more plausible in the early days of the MPAA, when the (William) Hays Code was in effect. Today, the content alluded to in this puzzle would more likely impact whether to classify a motion picture as a G, PG or PG-13.
Answer: CINEMA CENSOR; NECROMANCIES, the plural form of NECROMANCY
Dessert Menu
Piece Of Cake Dessert:
It isn’t rocket science…or is it?
Name a language spoken by millions. The first letter, middle two letters and last letter, taken in order, spell out the first name of a reasonably well-known scientist. The remaining letters, taken in order, spell out a plural word that is the scientist’s area of expertise and study.
Hint: The letters in the scientist’s surname can be rearranged to form a two-word caption for the image shown here.
GOODALL >> LAD LOGO
Hint: Some experiments performed by the scientist involved a language also spoken by millions. The language is related to and associated with three letters, each of which appears at least twice in the image shown here:
ASL = American Sign Language
(Actually, I cannot now seem to document that Goodall did experimentation with ESL. Her colleagues/contemporaries did, but I cannot confirm, via the Internet anyway, that she did. Sorry for the ambiguity.)
Who is the scientist and what is his/her area of expertise?
Answer:
Jane Goodall, Apes
JAPANESE >> J + AP +AN + ES + E = JANE + APES
Hints: (see above)
Rebi: NECK + RAHM (Emanuel) + ANTS + EASE
NECK + RUM + MANSE + SEAS
Lego…
I'm not sure if there is even any point by now in posting this, but I had turned ICEMAN into only 'anemic' and failed to see that it could also be twisted into 'cinema.'
ReplyDeleteTHAT meant that when it was time to turn 'necromancies' (thanks to the picture hints) into " 'fill-in-the-blank' CENSOR," I was stumped as to how "ICEMAN CENSOR" could be correct (i.e. what was the joke?) But after looking up the Iceman Cometh, I saw that there WAS some kind of censorship issue with that movie, so I thought Lego was being clever and funny, referring to that movie specifically. Oh well.
I got 'em all, but I have to say SIN CENSOR, NONCRISES, and CORNINESS are quite inventive. They do sort of beat NECROMANCIES and CINEMA CENSOR in a way. Way to go, Ron!
ReplyDeleteI agree! Very clever Ron.
DeleteI also knew PLUGS/GULPS was the odd man out, but I wanted to explain the whole art connection before anyone else. I kind of feel like I might have figured that part of it out before anyone else. I don't know why.
ReplyDelete:)
DeleteNext week I will be checking this next weekend's puzzles in Gatlinburg, TN. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
ReplyDeleteThanx, pjb, now I know where to send the drones.
Deletejk
Send in the drones, Paul? Wouldn't do it. pjb would just pick them off with his Gatlin Gun!
DeleteLegoHowManyDronesCanYouFitIntoAVolkswagenBeetle?