Don’t hold the mayo, fold it in; Every picture contradicts a story; "Circular? Hmm… Is pi involved?" The butcher, the baker, the beverage maker; “17 P in this IIIS” Record-maker, record-breaker; Drinking from Italy’s boot; Disagree to agree

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER e^{5 +} pi³ SERVED

Welcome to our February 19^th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!

We thank ron this week for submitting a handful of puzzles dealing with integers, initials and induction (we might call them “Three-i’s puzzles”) in which you are asked to determine what the letters stand for. 

For example, if you are given “7 D in a W,” you might induce that “7 Days in a Week” is the answer.

Such integer-initial puzzles can be surprisingly tricky and addictive. I “piggybacked” a handful of my own beneath ron’s offerings, as a kind of an “internal rip-off and riff-off.” ron and I both encourage other Puzzlerians! to create a handful and share them with us in the comments section. 

ron’s puzzle, titled “Integer Initial Induction Slice: 17 P in this IIIS,” appears under our main MENU. Thanks again, ron.

Also on the menu this week are a “name’s the same” morsel; a somewhat timely campaign ad appetizer; four Ripping Off Shortz Slices; and a very timely Blue And Red Dessert which involves a couple of couplets.

So, sit back and enjoy a cup of joe or hot chocolate as you nibble on this week’s slices, morsel, appetizer and dessert.

Morsel Menu

 

One Nametag Fits All Morsel:

Record-maker, record-breaker

A Grammy Award winning musician and a deceased major league baseball player have the same first and last names. The ballplayer’s nickname, however, includes an adjective that does not at all reflect the depiction of the musician on his debut album cover.

The ballplayer was not a bust in the majors. Indeed, some think he might have been one of the best to play the game. If the ballplayer had played and excelled in the National Football League in the same manner in which he excelled in Major League Baseball, he likely would have been “busted” in Canton, Ohio. As it turned out he was “busted” instead in a different state that also begins with a vowel.

What name do this ballplayer and musician share?

Appetizer Menu

Campaign Ad Appetizer:

Every picture contradicts a story

A deaf person watching the beginning of a campaign video released this past week might have thought it was produced on behalf of Ted Cruz. A blind person listening to the beginning of the same campaign video released this past week might have thought it was produced on behalf of Ronald Reagan. It was produced on behalf of neither, however, but of a different candidate.

Here is a synopsis of the beginning of the campaign video:

Nice intro narration, sham imaging.

Rearrange the 29 letters in that synopsis to form an alternative introductory sentence to the video. This alternative is identical to the actual five-word intro to the video except that it contains an extra word. The advantage of adding that added word is that it would reconcile the wording of the intro with its simultaneous opening imaging, thereby rendering the imaging no longer “sham.”

 

The numbers of words in the revised intro are, in order, 3, 7, 5, 2, 5 and 7 letters.

What is this new intro that you have come up with? Why was the imaging “sham”? On whose behalf was the video made?

Why would a deaf person think the campaign video was a Ted Cruz spot? Why would a blind person think the campaign video was a Ronald Reagan spot? 

MENU

Integer Initial Induction Slice:

“17 P in this IIIS”

The answer to the first of the “integer and initial” puzzles shown below is “24 Hours in a Day.” Complete the rest.

24 H in a D

5 V in the E A

8 L on a S

1,000 W that a P is W

13 S on the A F

14 L in a S

90 D in a R A

9 L of a C

Lego’s ripping-off-ron Piggybacks:

1 B A that S the W B

>1 W to S a C

2 P in a P

3 O in an I

4 H of the A

5 T on a F

7 D, D S, or D in a W

13 D in a B D

15 M on a D M C (Y H H and a B of R)

Note: ron and Lego invite you to submit your “integer and initial” piggyback puzzle(s) in the comments section.

Ripping Off Shortz Slices:

This week’s NPR Sunday puzzle from Will Shortz reads:

Name something to eat. Change one letter in it and rearrange the result. You’ll name the person who makes this food. Who is it?

Here are a few “rip-off/riff-off/“piggyback” puzzles:

The butcher, the baker, the beverage maker

Name a person who makes a beverage. Change no letters and do no rearranging, but remove two letters from the word. You’ll name the beverage the person makes.

What is the beverage? Who is the person who makes it?

Drinking from Italy’s boot

Rearrange the letters in the name of something to drink. You’ll name the profession of the person who makes this beverage and his first name.

What is this beverage and who makes it? What is his first name?

Hint: There are actually at least two beverage-makers with this first name. One is a real person from the Pacific Northwest; the other is a character in a limerick.

Hint: The beverage is associated with Italy.

“Circular? Hmm… Is pi involved?”

Name something with a circular shape. Replace two adjacent letters with two other adjacent letters, but do no rearranging. You’ll name where the thing is made.

What is it? Where is it made?

Hint: The adjacent letters you replaced each have a numerical value, as do the two adjacent letters with which you replaced them. The difference between the sum of the replacement letters and the sum of replaced letters is 898.28171817154…

Don’t hold the mayo, fold it in

Name the plural form of something to eat in three words of 7, 4 and 6 letters. Change one letter in this edible thing and rearrange the result. You’ll name a reasonably well-known person – first and last names – who makes this food.

Who is it? What is the food?

Hint: I am not 100 percent sure that this person actually makes this food, but it is possible. The person is a health-conscious food maker who is a world traveler who may well have visited Lagos or Abuja, sampled the restaurant fare there, and studied the menus for ideas and inspiration. Ingredients in the food include carrots, lettuce, cabbage, peas, tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, eggs and, most important, baked beans and mayonnaise.

Dessert Menu

Blue And Red Dessert:

Disagree to agree

This past week a presidential candidate and a world leader disagreed publicly about a controversial policy proposal. About 13 years earlier the same future presidential candidate did not disagree (according to him, but not to BuzzFeed) with one of this world leader’s predecessors about a controversial policy proposal.

Rearrange the 20 blue letters in the first couplet below to form the surname of the candidate, the name of the world leader’s predecessor, and a two-word term for the past policy proposal.

Rearrange the 22 red letters in the second couplet below to form the surname of the candidate, the name of the world leader and a two-word term for the recent policy proposal. 

While the path of a pawn sometimes leads to promotion,

Drinking rum from a liquor jar thwarts locomotion.

“Let’s Roll Tide!” shouts a Crimson fan, LOUD, so he’s heard,

Clemson “Cats” mew and purr, like they’re stalking a bird.

Who are the candidate and two word leaders, and what are the two policy proposals?

Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)

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