P! SLICES: OVER (5 + 4) x 3 x 21 SERVED
(Thanks, PC)
After “shooting
down” our “lame duck” October 28th edition of Puzzleria!, we have
elected to elevate this November 4th candidate to take its place. Our
presumptive “puzzledent-elect” is not lame… nor is it crooked, crazy, goofy… or
tiny-handed.
No, this “duck-de
luxe puzzlefest” is no loser. Indeed, we are confident this week’s edition will
“Make Puzzleria! Great Again!”
Our Enigmocratic Party platform consists of seven planks:
ONE: In an Hors
d’Oeuvre baked up by PlannedChaos, the Donald goes down to Georgia and agrees
to vie with Hillary in a game of darts for all the marbles. (Or is it a game of
marbles for all the darts?)
TWO: A Morsel
co-concocted by LegoLambda and PlannedChaos features names-in-the-news served
up on rebus-platters.
THREE: An Appetizing potpourri of politics poured from a pot simmering on the back-in-time burner.
FOUR: A puzzle Slice
hosted and roasted by Carnac the Magnificent (also known as PlannedChaos), in
which PC invites you in the “studio audience” to hop up on stage, don Carnac’s
turban and divine triple-rhymes.
FIVE: A Rip/riff-Off – composed by PlannedChaos – of this past week’s NPR Sunday puzzle. In PC’s puzzle, a name in the
news morphs into an Oktoberfest order.
SIX: A bonus pair
of NPR puzzle Rip/riff-offs that share a “common denominator” – a passenger in
a vehicle who panders to and seems to appeal to the “lowest common denominator.”
SEVEN: And, for
Dessert, a “video rebus” about a POTUS.
So, no need to
hold your nose and vote. Inhale instead the aroma of mystification... and solve!
We pray you
will decide on the best solution. In any event, enjoy.
Hors d’Oeuvre
Menu
Electing
America’s Chief Hors d’Oeuvre:
Decision
2016 via dartboard
In an
ill-conceived delirium brought on by the nocebo effect of right-wing conspiracy
theories regarding her health, Hillary takes Donald up on his suggestion of
cancelling the election. In its place, she challenges him to a game of “electoral
darts,” in which the candidate that can score exactly 270 points without going
over is the winner.
In a bind and
way behind, Donald’s willing to make a deal. He agrees to her terms, deciding
that he can always blame the equipment if bravado somehow once again proves a
poor substitute for skill. Unbeknownst to him, Hillary has been practicing
darts on and off for two decades on the off chance she might decide one day to be
spontaneous. For extra blasphemy, they use Captain America’s shield as the
target. She hangs the board, and before taking his first shot he declares it
crooked.
The target is
divided as depicted into six concentric regions worth 43, 46, 62, 65, 105 and 108
electoral votes. What areas must be hit so that their sum is exactly 270?
No third-party
candidate was invited to participate in the dissolution of representative
democracy. Reached for comment, a jealous Gary Johnson cited inflated poll
numbers and began to argue that he should have at least been told ahead of
time, but then broke eye contact and gazed at the peeling linoleum of his
moderately priced rental while letting out a dejected sigh. When pressed for
details of his strategy had he been invited, Johnson requested clarification on
what darts are.
Morsel
Menu
Making News
Morsel:
Hop aboard these Access Hollywood Rebuses
Hop aboard these Access Hollywood Rebuses
This puzzle is a celebration of rebuses (or as I sometimes like to call them, “rebi”).
Image #6 is not really a rebus, but what might be called a “spoonerebus.” To solve it, find a two-word phrase that might serve as a caption for the image. The first word is an apostrophized possessive proper noun, and the second word is a common noun. Split the phrase in two parts with the apostrophe as the dividing mark.
The solutions
to the more conventional rebuses (numbered #0 through #5) are all persons who have recently
been in the news. To solve the rebuses you must name or identify the images in each,
from left to right, and say these words aloud to reveal the name of the person.
For
image #4, you must remove the first letter from the second image and the last
letter from the third image before pronouncing the result. These two letters
can be rearranged to form a famous ratio.
Appetizer Menu
Cabinet-Filling Appetizer:
Political potpourri
#1:
“Blond
Bombshell” blows up “Elvis”!
A
Twentieth-century time traveler wrote that headline. To which year did he
travel and to which candidates did he allude?
#2:
A Rock And Roll
Hall of Famer.
A “newsman” who made news this past August and October.
A “newsman” who made news this past August and October.
Interchange the
surnames of these two men to form the names of the major party candidates in a
Twentieth-century presidential election.
(Note: The
first name of one of the major party candidates is one that not many people
have called him, but some have.)
Who are these
four men?
#3:
A man
accused of being a Communist
A man “accused” of being a Buddhist
The accused
Communist was a major party candidate in two Twentieth-century presidential
elections. Interchange the first two letters of his first name to get the
initial word in what people call the accused Buddhist.
#4:
A major
party candidate in a Nineteenth-century presidential election was defeated
politically by a man who roughly a decade earlier had defeated militarily a man
whose full name end-rhymes with the defeated major party candidate name.
Removing an aquatic creature from the middle of the defeated candidate’s
surname forms a word closely associated with the man who was defeated
militarily.
The defeated
candidate died as he was being defeated.
The defeated
military man died two years earlier than the defeated candidate died.
Who are these
three men?
#5:
Rearrange
the letters in the surname of a U.S. president to form a pair of cylindrically
shaped things.
What are they,
and who is the president?
#6:
In the
midst of the Twentieth century, a presidential hopeful garnered about 40
electoral votes. Replace a three-letter noun at the end of his political party
with a two-letter preposition to form a brand-name disposable container of beverages.
The presidential hopeful’s surname consists of two word fragments that might
appear on a calendar.
Who is this
presidential hopeful? What was his party?
MENU
Sim Salabim Slice:
Don turban,
divine rhymes
Carnac the Magnificent
presents an Election 2016 Spectacular!
He divines the
answer, and you determine the question in the form of rhyming triplets, which
have been hermetically sealed and kept inside a #2 mayonnaise jar since noon
today on Trump and Wagnell’s porch. The great and generous Carnac has donated his
time to provide examples. Sim Salabim:
[Carnac places
envelope to temple]
“Harvard
Institute of Politics, Michael Cohen, Chris Christie.”
[Carnac rips open end
of envelope, blows, removes card]
“Name a school,
a fool, and a tool.”
“Martha
Stewart, Bob Dole, Donald Trump.”
“Name a
hodgepodger, an old codger, and a tax dodger.”
“Lester Holt,
Clinton, Trump.”
“Name a
moderator, a debater and an agitator.”
“Space bar,
Oscar Mayer, Paris Hilton.”
Name a blank, a
frank, and a skank.”
Thank you, Oh
Wise One. And now let’s see if you, the humble reader, are blessed with Carnac’s
powers of divination. May we have absolute silence please:
1. Concealed
Carry, the Unabomber, Roosevelt son.
2. Jack Daniels,
Big Bertha, Bubba’s babe.
3. The
Rutherford boy (not “B. Hayes), The Grinch, The Donald.
4. Former PM
Tony, Prince Charles, Charles & Camilla (pre-1996).
5. Julia Louis-Dreyfus
role, Reagan’s 1984 election, Nixon slush fund organization.
6. Wal-Mart,
Iraq, Vice President Al.
7. Pitt, pet
rocks, a hanging, pregnant or dimpled bit.
8. Windex, politician
Anthony, underage sexting.
9. Grenadine,
Bryan Colangelo, Kellyanne Conway.
10. Wrestler
Hulk, 60 Minutes journalist Lara, “Make America Great Again”.
11. “Dewey
Defeats Truman”, Tic Tac, Melania Trump.
12. Slingback,
targeted IRS tax audits, James Lambert Otis.
13. “Trading
Places” actor Ralph, “Working Girl” actress Griffith, destroying Trump’s Walk
of Fame star.
14. Supermoon,
Julian Assange (at the Ecuadorian embassy), papier-mâché Trump.
15. Air Jordans,
Paul Ryan, Julian Assange.
16. Skewer,
Julian Assange (according to the Clinton campaign), Trump (based on 2005
comments).
17. Lance
Armstrong, Palin (in 1988), Trump (based on 2005 comments).
May the itch of
a thousand jock straps curse your favorite cousin’s locker room!
18. Francis,
Days of Our Lives, Billy Bush (carrying on the family legacy).
19. Former
Australian PM Abbott, viral 2012 criminal Joseph, President Obama (according to
Trump).
20. Goodyear,
Tuck, Trump (according to PolitiFact).
21. Scabbard,
Emma Morano, Frank Luntz.
22. Wisdom
tooth, Truman (on April 25, 1947), Nate Silver.
23. Al Smith
charity dinner, Susan B. Anthony, sexual assault accusers “will be sued after
the election is over.”
24.
Mathematician Leonard, farm worker, Johnson or McMullin.
25. Two-stroke,
an American in a booth on November 8th, Trump (if he wins).
I hold in my
hands the last envelope:
26. Tom’s
Restaurant, Giorgio Armani, Trump (if he loses).
Ripping/riffing
Off Shortz and Gordon Slice:
Achtungberfest,
“Hey you…”
This past week’s NPR
Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle, created by Peter Gordon and presented by
puzzlemaster Will Shortz reads:
Think of a name
in the news that has a doubled letter. It’s a person’s last name. Change that
doubled letter to a different doubled letter, and you’ll get the commercial
name for a popular food. What is it?
PlannedChaos’s
Ripping/riffing Off Shortz And Gordon Slice reads:
Think of a
person in the news, first and last names. Change the first letter of the first
name, and you’ll get a command one might give at Oktoberfest.
Who is this
person and what is the Oktoberfest command?
A Pair Of
Bonus Ripping/riffing Off Shortz And Gordon Slices:
“I’m in
your vehicle, Baby”
PUZZLE #1:
Think of a name in the news this past year that has one letter that appears
consecutively. It’s a person’s first name and last name. Change that
consecutive letter to a different consecutive letter and you’ll get a word for
a vehicle that was the setting of an alleged groping involving a presidential
hopeful, and a word for the target of the groping.
The name in the
news belongs to another presidential hopeful.
Who is this
person whose name was in the news? What are the vehicle and the groping target?
PUZZLE #2:
Think of a name in the news this past year that has one letter that appears
consecutively. It’s a person’s first name. Change that consecutive letter to a
different consecutive letter and you’ll get the second part of a hyphenated
adjective that a presidential hopeful might have used to describe the
extremities of a fellow presidential hopeful.
About a decade
ago, that fellow presidential hopeful was in a vehicle with the person in the
news where the presidential hopeful boasted about his groping strategies.
Note: This
person in the news is a blood relative of the person in the news in PUZZLE #1.
Who is the person in PUZZLE #2 whose name is in the news? What is the hyphenated
adjective?
Dessert
Menu:
Seeking The
Oval Office Dessert:
Getting your
flickers all in a bunch
Think of this puzzle as a “video rebus.”
Donald, Evan, Gary, Hillary and Jill. All seek to be POTUS on the Potomac.
But what POTUS is
suggested by the videos presented here?
In the top video, take note of what is happening at the 15, 27 and 40-second marks.
In the bottom video, and in this SALE, this GOAL, and the very beginning of this SWAG video, isolate and concentrate on what is happening to just one of the letters in each video.
Who is this POTUS?
In the top video, take note of what is happening at the 15, 27 and 40-second marks.
In the bottom video, and in this SALE, this GOAL, and the very beginning of this SWAG video, isolate and concentrate on what is happening to just one of the letters in each video.
Who is this POTUS?
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This election has left you speechless! Were your words not in a legal dictionary and thus didn't have proper documentation to pass Trump's extreme vetting? Did he kick them out and make the consonants pay for it?
ReplyDeleteAhem!
ReplyDeleteI have discovered an error of TITANIC proportion in the Carnac puzzle.
Email me.
DeleteOh, you can figure it out on your own.
DeleteSee, now i don't know if you're engaging in wordplay or if there really is a problem with it.
DeleteBoth.
DeleteWell if you're not going to email me, I'm not going to spent time trying to figure out what you're getting at.
Deletei'm still spenting my time trying to figure out the dart puzzle. If i had my old ATARI 130XE up and running, I'd have it knocked out in a jiffy.
DeleteYes, the entire post was redacted, PC, in this crazy election season.
ReplyDeleteAnd, PoliticalConsultant, why the name change from Planned Chaos?#
A one-week-only special! I'll crunch the numbers so you don't have to! You know I'm patriotic because of the lapel pin, and you know I'm sensible because of the pocket protector.
ReplyDeleteThe Donald went down to Georgia, he was looking for a state to steal. He was in a bind 'cause he was way behind and he was willing to sell "The Art of the Deal," when he came across this old gal workin' on the issues and wearin' pantsuits. And the Donald jumped up on the campaign stump and said, "Lady, I'll file lawsuits! By now you've heard about me that I'm runnin' for office, too, and if you'd care to take a dare I'll make a bet with you. Now your campaign's pretty crooked, doll, so give the Donald his due. I bet all my profits for the highest office 'cause I know I'm better than you."
ReplyDeleteThe gal said, "My name's Hillary and it might be a taunt, but I'll take that bet, you're gonna regret, 'cause I eventually get what I want."
♬ Old Hil, sharpen up your skills and debate The Donald hard. 'Cause you gotta win some red states or your opponent's takin' charge. And if you win you get an enormous responsibility, but if you lose the nation's screwed from sea to shining sea! ♬
[dance break]
The Donald starts to make his case; he says, "I'll own this land." And fire spewed from his lips as he listed his demands. And he inhaled sharply from his nose and it made an eerie sniff. Then a band of xenophobes joined in and it sounded somethin' like this:
♬ "Don't cross our border, hispanics! Don't wantcha 'cause you're all rapists. Dealin' drugs to earn your dough; you're all no good 'cause Trump says so." ♬
When the Donald finished, old Hil gave a scripted shoulder shimmy, and her shoulders spoke for most us folk in a way that was more pithy. The Donald puffed his chest although he knew that he'd been beat; a bit confused, he still refused to show any defeat. Old Hil said, "We got another two of these to go; I done told you that I get my way, you unlucky so-and-so." And she said:
♬ "Have a plan and play both sides; keep on tryin', bide my time. Empty platitudes are fun; stay on message while I run." ♬
The eleventh word after the first ♬ is another hint.
DeleteBravo, PoliticalConsultant! If Charlie Daniels ever trades in his fiddle for an angel's harp (or devil's dobro), he will be rolling enviously in his grave.
DeleteLegoDobroCurtisLoew
Being a Carnac fan, I started with that puzzle. So far I have #3, #4, #6-8, #10-13, #18-21, and #25 and #26. I also have the Oktoberfest puzzle. These are going to be tough. Will need all the hints I can get, especially with the video puzzle.
ReplyDeleteThe Oktoberfest puzzle was fun, wasn't it pjb? My brother Dwayne and I thought so.
DeleteTell you what. You give me a halfway decent hint for the second part of Carnac#19, and I'll give you a terrific hint for the video puzzle. Honest!
Hints:
Delete1. Start with the name of the Roosevelt son. (Shared with an iconic felt entertainer.)
2. The clue "Bubba's babe" works much as the last clue for #3.
5. The Dreyfus role is the name of her latest show, and is related to politics. Reagan won the 1984 election with such a large margin, it was often called this.
9. When added to an alcoholic drink, grenadine is known as this. Colangelo is the general manager of a sports team that goes by this shorthand. In her job, Conway cleans up messes; this term describes someone who serves this function.
14. This is the technical term for a supermoon, and a hyphenated double rhyme. When a papier-mâché figure is set ablaze in protest, it is known as this.
15. Air Jordans are a brand name for this type of apparel. Paul Ryan's title in the House of Representatives. Because Assange allows classified data to be published on Wikileaks, he (or his associates) is often called this.
16. A skewer is a sharp thing. Trump is rather handsy, despite their diminutive size.
17. Armstrong was disgraced for this. Sarah Palin did this in her personal life in 1988.
22. A wisdom tooth is this type of tooth. The Truman clue probably requires doing a web search to find out what happened on that exact day, but it may be known that Truman was the first President to have something put in the White House. As a result, on that day Truman became one of these. If you have what Frank Luntz is from #21, then Nate Silver is just a slightly different name for doing the same thing.
23. There is a name for this type of charity dinner. Susan B. Anthony was known for being this. The quote is an example of this type of statement, not unusual for Trump to dish out to his enemies.
24. Non-mathematicians often mispronounce this person's surname, but it's important to get it right for the rhyme to work. Johnson and/or McMullin might be considered this in the election, no thanks to America's current "first past the post" voting system.
I forgot to mention I also got all the "rebi" except #0 and #4. If you have hints for them, too I'd sure appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteThe image for the second part of number zero is depicting an action, but the word you're after is the product of that action. The person it is hinting at may not be very well known, given that a related person is better known and yet still toiling in near-anonymity to most of the American public.
DeleteFor number 4, a little math has to be done to the second and third of the three images: the brand name of the second item, less the first letter, plus the category of the third item, less its last letter, together sound like the person's surname. And the word you're looking for from the first image is a common slang term for that item. This person is not a politician per se, but works for a particular politician this year.
Hint for Carnac#19: #2 in the series sounds like a famous "island". #3 is sometimes the first half of a rhyming hyphenated word. The other half is a sort of meat.
ReplyDeleteHa, ha, you are correct, sir!
DeleteI think I have both of them!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe it, but I've actually solved the video puzzle!
ReplyDeleteQuite rightly John Cagey, Word Woman...
ReplyDeleteOr, "Quite right slick" John Cagey. (Lady Mondegreen strikes again!)
LegoChannelsTheDonaldToSay"RockedWordWomanBleachedHerElectronicComment,BelieveMeWhenITellYou..."
In reading through all your hints above, PC, it was frustrating because the ones I am stuck on (or on part of) had no hints given (I supposed because PJB didn't need them).
ReplyDeleteThus, my 'unsolveds' are the third word in #8, all of #12 (although the first answer word must be one of the two chioces I have down for it, but then I can't come up with anything else to rhyme); #16 (Well, you had a hint for this one, but it led me nowhere); #16 (again, you had hints, but I'm still puzzled); and #17. I suspect my third word for that might go in #16, but it's all too confusing at this point.
Am completely flumoxxed on the RIP off puzzles, as well as Dessert. And the first Appetizer (blonde bombshell, etc).
Oh, and #s 0, 2 and 3 of the Morsel (although I have the easy words for both 2 and 3.)
Prior to all the above efforts, I did manage to work out the Hors D'Oeuvre. This is grueling, this many puzzles!
Hints:
Delete8. The third word has four syllables and is a punishment for the crime.
12. A slingback can be considered this type of footwear. Instead of "targeted IRS tax audits" I might have gone with "Benghazi", though that one was less real. James Lambert Otis played a role in the last item of #13, and doing that makes him this.
16. Instead of "skewer", I might have gone with Günter Parche.
17. Other folks in Armstrong's category include Marion Jones and (allegedly) Sammy Sosa.
I greatly appreciate those hints, PC, because I never would have come up with the proper synonym for 'skewer' otherwise. And that led to the other words involved. #12 also came around (I had the wrong synonyms for slingback), but the right one led to the last two words, as well.
DeleteI am STILL befuddled by the #8 "punishment", plus I realize that I am pretty sure I have a wrong guess for the middle word of #2 and I'm not confident about the Palin clue in #17. But otherwise, grin.
Will now go read your Morsel hints...or was it Appetizer? I can't keep straight how many of these puzzles YOU did this week, PC...many thanks.
Oops, I just realized that your Morsel hints were already there last night, and hadn't propelled me to any success with #0 or with the portion of #4 that I simply can't work out (though I did come up with a PERSON...the third picture just doesn't look like what we need to make that person.)
DeleteScratch my confusion over Morsel #4...the correct third picture word finally penetrated, and I DID have the correct person already.
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DeleteI found a handy little gadget online called PC-BASIC, typed in a little code, and I'm now confident I have the unique solution to the dart puzzle.
ReplyDeleteThanks to pjb for the #19 hint. I guess my head must have been in the sand when the 'gentleman' in the middle position was making news; never heard of him. I promised a hint for the video puzzle, which pjb may not need anymore, but VT may. If my answer is correct, a little bit of punctuation is helpful. Do you agree, pjb? Do you think that's too much of a giveaway?
Indeed, some people probably do mispronounce the mathematician's last name, although I can't recall hearing anyone do it. If I ever do, I'll probably just let it slide; it's no big deal.
Paul, are you blue?
DeleteAh, yes, it's as good a reason as any for playing hooky.
DeleteWhat's all this I hear about Blues playing hockey?...
DeleteLegomilyLitella
I don't think any punctuation is necessary. I didn't use any(outside of commas for the Carnac puzzles).
DeleteWell, then maybe I'm wrong about the dessert.
DeleteOKay, thanks to the in-puzzle hint for the Bonus pair of Rip-Offs, which hint I had NOT noticed yesterday if it was there, that puzzle finally worked itself out! Hurrah, I'd had all wrong vehicles (or even the wrong name for the right vehicle.) Now it seems so obvious!
ReplyDeleteBut I'm still stuck on the Dessert, and the #1 Appetizer, as well as previously mentioned Morsel portions.
Another visit from Lady Mondegreen:
ReplyDelete"Wastin away again in Margaritaville,
Searching for my LARGE shaker of salt..."
Searching for a lost shaker would be redundant! If you are searching for something it is obviously lost.
On the other hand, if you're guzzling margaritas you want a very LARGE shake of salt.
LegoWishesHeCouldBlabmeViolinTeddyOrWordWomanButAsUsualItIsHisOwnDamnFault
I hate to be staring at the screen, once again, with my mouth hanging open, but to WHICH puzzle are the directly above comments directed? (And I forgot that I didn't have the Oktoberfest one yet either.) Since you are talking about liquor, perhaps that's the puzzle? Duh....talk about 'lost!!'
DeleteI may still need hints for a few other puzzles. Don't have Carnacs #1, #2, #5, #9, #14-#17, #22-#24, or the puzzles about the blond bombshell, Elvis, the Communist, the Buddhist, the groping, the darts, or the cylindrical anagrams. Still quite a bit to have to work on here.
ReplyDeleteHINTS:
ReplyDeleteEACHO:
I will trust PlannedChaos' judgment regarding how to dole out hints for his puzzles this week, like this one for example.
But I cannot resist noting that I hope HC is lousier at throwing darts than is DT.
MNM:
#6
Again, this is PC's puzzle (as are #0 and #1), but the guy on the scale is a rock star, like Madonna, say, or Cher. Your answer should reflect what is in the large inset circle on the left... not the specific datum but a general description of the datum for this particular scale-stepper.
#0: a runner
#1: a former runner
#2: a runner
#3: a public servent who is a pawn in the political game... or perhaps is rather the chessmaster(?)
#4: a hackee
#5: a runner
CFA:
#1:
Seek the surname of the prototypical Blond Bombshell” and a nickname of “Elvis.” No one who voted for these candidates is still living, nor are any of their great-grandchildren.
#2:
All four men are still alive.
#3:
Many men were accused of being Commies in the mid-20th century, I hear. One of the may have been the brightest guy ever to run for prez.
#4:
One in on the "L-note."
One moves Luke and Bo.
One gave adviceto the same folks to whom the Village People gave advice.
#5:
I was experiencing blurry vision, so my optometrist prescribe that I go rest my..."
#6:
The guy is now no longer living ("mort," as they say), but almost no one lived longer. I guess all our days are numbered (and sometimes abbreviated).
SSS:
Since I composed only 2 of these 26 "Carnacdrums" I shall again defer to PlannedChaos.
ROSAGS:
Again, PC is in charge, just as was Charles (who was at the RNC in Cleveland!).
APOBROSAGS:
PUZZLE #1: The name in the news belongs to one of the "Seventeen Dwarfs." The vehicle is a McCartney title. The target of the groping is a ZZ Top title.
PUZZLE #2:
The name in the news is the same as a president's sibling who lent his name to a beverage. A variant of the hyphenated adjective appears in a Hyland title.
STOOD:
Bakery, sale, goal and swag have a letter in common. That letter is doing something in four of these videos. This is reinforced by the fifth video.
LegoHopesTheseHintsWillProveHelpful...Honest
Got the dessert! Very clever. Whew, now I feel liberated.
DeleteThanks, PC.
DeleteThis is the first time I've embedded videos in the blog, rather than just linking to them. Getting them to appear on Blogger required a combination of magic and brute Luddite force: I uttered a few cadabras and an abra, hammered a few keys on my keyboard and Viola! (oops, sorry ViolinTeddy)... and Voila!, the videos appeared!
LegoPullingRabbitsOuttaHatsAndPushingVideosDownYourThroats
Another tough Sunday Puzzle this week: Think of a sign you might see at this time of year. It has eight letters, two words of four letters each, and contains all five vowels and of course three consonants. I'm stumped. Any help with this one, Lego?
ReplyDeleteI was hoping you might provide me with a hint, patrickjberry.
DeleteLegoWhoIsJustNotThatFamiliarWithFourLetterWords
Lego Lego Lego.
DeleteThank you!
DeleteIsn't anybody providing anybody on THIS blog for the NPR puzzle, rather cheating?
ReplyDeleteVT, it doesn't seem right to me, either.
DeleteGonna have to agree with that general sentiment.
DeleteGood points, all. In the future let's not use Puzzleria!'s Comments Section as a platform for giving hints to the NPR Sunday puzzle. There is already a perfectly fine blog for that purpose: Blainesville.
DeleteLegoAddsButStillFeelFreeOfCourseToGiveHintsToPuzzleria!PuzzlesHere
Sorry folks. I probably never should have mentioned it, what with the overload of puzzles this week.
ReplyDeleteI just got done voting. It made me reminisce. I recalled the first presidential vote I cast. It was for a guy name George...
ReplyDeleteNo, not Washington.
No, not that other "Dubya." My guy served in the military.
No, not H.W., although "my George" was also a bomber pilot in his younger years. My George named his aircraft "the Dakota Queen," after his wife.
Anyone else care to share reminiscences of their virgin vote?
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Please tell me you did NOT vote for George WALLACE! [As I believe my mother did...gag.]
ReplyDeleteOh, McGovern...that makes more sense.
ReplyDeleteI voted, but not for that loudmouthed orange fellow with the combover. That makes me one of the few voters in Alabama with a lick of sense(not including several family members, sadly).
ReplyDeleteGood for you, pjb....although even if Alabama had gone Democratic, it still wouldn't have helped, would it? Sigh....
DeleteThe market may be crashing, but there are booming futures in "Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Hillary" bumper stickers.
ReplyDeleteDo we have a black banner to drape on our blog here?
ReplyDelete10 FOR A=0 TO 6
ReplyDelete20 FOR B=0 TO 6
30 FOR C=0 TO 4
40 FOR D=0 TO 4
50 FOR E=0 TO 2
60 FOR F=0 TO 2
70 X=43*A+46*B+62*C+65*D+105*E+108*F
80 IF X=270 THEN PRINT A;B;C;D;E;F
90 NEXT F
100 NEXT E
110 NEXT D
120 NEXT C
130 NEXT B
140 NEXT A
Ok
run
2 4 0 0 0 0
"A" blinking [I think replacing the "g" with an apostrophe makes it clearer. Honest, I do.]
I've seen Euler's first name spelled with and without an "h", sometimes on the same page, so I guess it's not such a titanic error on PC's part. "Ah yes" is an anagram of the surname of a fellow who "wrote" a song for the Houston Oilers [but we all know it was a ripoff of something a teenage Liverpudlian wrote one day while playing hooky].
HORS D'OEUVRE: 270 = 43 + 43 + 46+ 46 + 46 + 46.
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#0: BILL + WELD = BILL WELD (Massachusetts former Governor) on the Libertarian ticket. That picture still doesn't make much sense.
#1: BURN + KNEE + SANDERS = BERNIE SANDERS
#2: TIN + CANE = TIM KAINE
#3: GYM + COMEY = JIM COMEY (FBI)
#4: JOHN + (I)POD + DESKTO(P) = JOHN PODESTA
#5: MIKE + PENS = MIKE PENCE
#6: STING'S WEIGHT -> STING SWEIGHT -> SWING STATE
APPETIZER:
#1: JAMES MONROE vs. RUFUS KING in 1816
#2: BILLY BUSH & GEORGE CLINTON; GEORGE H.W. BUSH & BILL(Y) CLINTON
#3: ADLAI STEVENSON - > DALAI [LAMA]
#4: ULYSSES S. GRANT; HORACE GREELEY (EEL; GREY); ROBERT E. LEE
#5: President HARRISON; AIR HORNS ??? This doesn't match Lego's hint, though.
#6: J; STROM THURMOND (Thur. and Mond.); DIXIECRAT -> DIXIE CUP
CARNAC MENU SLICE:
1. A PERMIT, a HERMIT, and a KERMIT
2. A WHISKEY, a WITZEY? and a LEWINSKY
3. A LUMP, a GRUMP and a TRUMP
4. A BLAIR, an HEIR, and an AFFAIR
5. A VEEP, a SWEEP, and a CREEP
6. A STORE. a WAR, and a GORE
7. A BRAD, a FAD, and a CHAD
8. A CLEANER, a WEINER, and a ????????
9. A MIXER, a SIXER, and a FIXER
10. A HOGAN, a LOGAN, and a SLOGAN
11. A LOW, a TOE, and a SHOW
12. A SANDAL, a SCANDAL, and a VANDAL
13. A BELLAMY, a MELANIE, and a FELONY
14. A PERIGEE, a REFUGEE, and an EFFIGY
15. A SNEAKER, a SPEAKER, and a LEAKER
16. A STABBER, a BLABBER, and a GRABBER
17. A DOPER, a HOPER, and a GROPER
18. A POPE, a SOAP and a DOPE [At first I had "a mule" and "a tool", but then 'Days Of' didn't have a word.)
19. A TONY, a KONY, and a PHONY
20. A TIRE, a FRIAR and a LIAR
21. A HOLSTER, an OLDSTER, and a POLLSTER
22. A MOLAR, A BOWLER, and a POLL-ER
23. A FETE, a SUFFRAGETTE, and a THREAT
24. An EULER, a TOILER, and a SPOILER
25. A MOTOR, a VOTER, and a GLOATER
26. A DINER, a DESIGNER and a WHINER
RIPPING OFF SHORTZ and GORDON SLICE: ????
BONUS PAIR OF RIP OFFS: #1. JEB BUSH -> JET & TUSH; #2. BILLY BUSH -> ITTY-BITTY [Trump's hands]
DESSERT: The A is FLASHING. "PART OF THE UNDULATING SIGN"????
2. Name a distillery, an artillery, and a Hillary.
Delete8. Name a cleaner, a Weiner, and a misdemeanor.
11. Name a misprint, a mint, and an immigrant.
17. Name a doper, an eloper, and a groper. (Sarah Palin eloped in 1988.)
23. Name a banquet, a suffragette, and a threat. ("Fete" works, too.)
Dessert: "A" blinkin' > Abe Lincoln.
Rebi
ReplyDelete0. BILL WELD
1. BERNIE SANDERS(BURN+KNEE+SANDERS)
2. TIM KAINE(TIM?+CANE)
3. JIM COMEY(GYM+COMB ME)
4. JOHN PODESTA(JOHN+iPOD+ESTAP-iP)
5. MIKE PENCE(MIKE+PENS)
6. SWING STATE(STING'S WEIGHT, STING SWEIGHT)
Appetizers
1. JAMES MONROE and RUFUS KING, 1816
2. GEORGE CLINTON, BILLY BUSH, GEORGE BUSH, and BILL CLINTON
6. STROM THURMOND(Thursday, Monday), DIXIECRATS(Dixie Cup)
Carnacs 3. A LUMPY, A GRUMPY, AND A TRUMP-Y
4. A BLAIR, AN HEIR, AND AN AFFAIR
6. A STORE, A WAR, AND A GORE
7. A BRAD, A FAD, AND A CHAD
8. A CLEANER, A WEINER, AND A MISDEMEANOR
10. A HOGAN, A LOGAN, AND A SLOGAN
11. A MISPRINT, A MINT, AND AN IMMIGRANT
12. A SANDAL, A SCANDAL, AND A VANDAL
13. A BELLAMY, A MELANIE, AND A FELONY
18. A POPE, A SOAP, AND A DOPE
19. A TONY, A KONY, AND A PHONY
20. A TIRE, A FIRE, AND A LIAR
21. A HOLSTER, AN OLDSTER, AND A POLLSTER
25. A MOTOR, A VOTER, AND A GLOATER
26. A DINER, A DESIGNER, AND A WHINER
Ripoffs
JILL STEIN(FILL STEIN)
1. JEB BUSH(JET, TUSH)
2. BILLY BUSH(ITTY-BITTY)
Video Puzzle
ABE LINCOLN(A BLINKIN')
And may God have mercy on our souls these next four(or eight?)years.
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ReplyDeleteThis week's official answers, for the record, Part 1:
Hors d’Oeuvre Menu
Electing America’s Chief Hors d’Oeuvre:
Decision 2016 via dartboard
In an ill-conceived delirium brought on by the nocebo effect of right-wing conspiracy theories regarding her health, Hillary takes Donald up on his suggestion of cancelling the election. In its place, she challenges him to a game of “electoral darts,” in which the candidate that can score exactly 270 points without going over is the winner.
In a bind and way behind, Donald’s willing to make a deal. He agrees to her terms, deciding that he can always blame the equipment if bravado somehow once again proves a poor substitute for skill. Unbeknownst to him, Hillary has been practicing darts on and off for two decades on the off chance she might decide one day to be spontaneous. For extra blasphemy, they use Captain America’s shield as the target. She hangs the board, and before taking his first shot he declares it crooked.
The target is divided as depicted into six concentric regions worth 43, 46, 62, 65, 105 and 108 electoral votes. What areas must be hit so that their sum is exactly 270?
Answer:
The 43-point concentric region must be hit by darts twice. The 46-point concentric region must be hit by darts four times.
43 + 43 + 46 + 46 + 46 + 46 = 270
Morsel Menu
Making News Morsel:
Hop aboard these Access Hollywood Rebuses
This puzzle is a celebration of rebuses (or as I sometimes like to call them, “rebi”).
Image #6 is not really a rebus, but what might be called a “spoonerebus.” To solve it, find a two-word phrase that might serve as a caption for the image. The first word is an apostrophized possessive proper noun, and the second word is a common noun. Split the phrase in two parts with the apostrophe as the dividing mark.
Spoonerize the result to form the two-word name for a place where a presidential hopeful might spend a lot of time campaigning.
The solutions to the rebuses numbered #0 through #5 below are all persons who have recently been in the news. To solve the rebuses you must name or identify the images in each, from left to right, and say these words aloud to reveal the name of the person.
For image #4, you must remove the first letter from the second image and the last letter from the third image before pronouncing the result. These two letters can be rearranged to form a famous ratio.
Answer:
#0: (dollar) bill + weld = Bill Weld
#1: burn + knee + (power) sanders = Bernie Sanders
#2: Tim + Cane = Tim Kaine
#3: gym + "Comb me!" = Jim Comey
#4: john (commode/toilet) + (ipod - i) + (desktop - p) = John Podesta
#5: mike (microphone) + pens = Mike Pence
#6: Sting's weight >> sting sweight >> swing state
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This week's official answers for the record, Part 2:
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Cabinet-Filling Appetizer:
Political potpourri
#1:
“Blond Bombshell” blows up “Elvis”!
A Twentieth-century time traveler wrote that headline. To which year did he travel and to which candidates did he allude?
#2:
A Rock And Roll Hall of Famer.
A “newsman” who made news this past August and October.
Interchange the surnames of these two men to form the names of the major party candidates in a Twentieth-century presidential election.
(Note: The first name of one of the major party candidates is one that not many people have called him, but some have.)
Who are these four men?
#3:
A man accused of being a Communist
A man "accused" of being a Buddhist
The accused Communist was a major party candidate in a Twentieth-century presidential election. Interchange the first two letters of his first name to get the initial word in what people call the accused Buddhist.
#4:
A major party candidate in a Nineteenth-century presidential election was defeated politically by a man who roughly a decade earlier defeated militarily a man whose full name end-rhymes with the defeated major party candidate name. Removing an aquatic creature from the middle of the defeated candidate’s surname forms a word closely associated with the man who was defeated militarily.
The defeated candidate died as he was being defeated.
The defeated military man died two years earlier.
Who are these three men?
#5:
Rearrange the letters in the surname of a U.S. president to form a pair of cylindrically shaped things.
What are they, and who is the president?
#6:
In the midst of the Twentieth century, a presidential hopeful garnered about 40 electoral votes. Replace a three-letter noun at the end of his political party with a two-letter preposition to form a brand-name disposable container of beverages. The presidential hopeful’s surname consists of two word fragments that might appear on a calendar.
Who is this presidential hopeful? What was his party?
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Answer:
#1:
1816; James Monroe, Rufus King
“Blond Bombshell” blows up “Elvis”!
#2:
The Rock And Roll Hall of Famer = George Clinton
The “newsman” = Billy Bush
George (Herbert Walker) Bush
Bill(y) (William Jefferson) Clinton
#3:
The man accused of being a Communist = Adlai Stevenson, who was defeated by Dwight Eisenhowere in 1952 and 1956.
The man "accused" of being a Buddhist = Dalai Lama
#4:
The defeated major party candidate is Horace Greeley
The man who defeated him politically was Ulysses S. Grant
The man who Grant defeated militarily was Robert E. Lee
GREELEY - EEL = GREY, the color worn by the Confederate army, led by General Lee.
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This week's official answers, for the record, Part 3:
ReplyDelete#5:
HOSE and WIENER;
Dwight David EISENHOWER
#6:
Strom Thurmond;
Dixiecrat;
Dixiecrat - rat + up = Dixie Cup
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This week's official answers, for the record, Part 4:
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Sim Salabim Slice:
Don turban, divine rhymes
Carnac the Magnificent presents an Election 2016 Spectacular!
He divines the answer, and you determine the question in the form of rhyming triplets, which have been hermetically sealed and kept inside a #2 mayonnaise jar since noon today on Trump and Wagnell’s porch.
1. Concealed Carry, the Unabomber, Roosevelt son.
Name a permit, a hermit, and a Kermit.
2. Jack Daniels, Big Bertha, Bubba’s babe.
Name a distillery, an artillery, and a Hillary.
3. The Rutherford boy (not “B. Hayes), The Grinch, The Donald.
Name a Lump, a Grump and a Trump.
4. Former PM Tony, Prince Charles, Charles & Camilla (pre-1996).
Name a Blair, an heir, and an affair.
5. Julia Louis-Dreyfus role, Reagan’s 1984 election, Nixon slush fund organization.
Name a veep, a sweep, and a CREEP.
6. Wal-Mart, Iraq, Vice President Al.
Name a store, a war, and a Gore (or snore, or bore).
7. Pitt, pet rocks, a hanging, pregnant or dimpled bit.
Name a Brad, a fad, and a chad.
8. Windex, politician Anthony, underage sexting.
Name a cleaner, a Weiner, and a misdemeanor.
9. Grenadine, Bryan Colangelo, Kellyanne Conway.
Name a mixer, a Sixer (Philadephia 76ers), and a fixer.
10. Wrestler Hulk, 60 Minutes journalist Lara, “Make America Great Again”.
Name a Hogan, a Logan, and a slogan.
11. “Dewey Defeats Truman”, Tic Tac, Melania Trump.
Name a misprint, a mint, and an immigrant.
12. Slingback, targeted IRS tax audits, James Lambert Otis.
Name a sandal, a scandal, and a vandal.
13. “Trading Places” actor Ralph, “Working Girl” actress Griffith, destroying Trump’s Walk of Fame star.
Name a Bellamy, a Melanie, and a felony.
14. Supermoon, Julian Assange (at the Ecuadorian embassy), papier-mâché Trump.
Name a perigee-syzygy, a refugee, and an effigy.
15. Air Jordans, Paul Ryan, Julian Assange.
Name a sneaker, a speaker, and a leaker.
16. Skewer, Julian Assange (according to the Clinton campaign), Trump (based on 2005 comments).
Name a stabber, a blabber, and a grabber.
17. Lance Armstrong, Palin (in 1988), Trump (based on 2005 comments).
Name a doper, an eloper, and a groper.
18. Francis, Days of Our Lives, Billy Bush (carrying on the family legacy).
Name a Pope, a soap, and a dope.
19. Former Australian PM Abbott, viral 2012 criminal Joseph, President Obama (according to Trump).
Name a Tony, a Kony, and a phony.
20. Goodyear, Tuck, Trump (according to PolitiFact).
Name a tire, a Friar, and a "pants on fire" (or a liar).
21. Scabbard, Emma Morano, Frank Luntz.
Name a holster, an oldster, and a pollster.
22. Wisdom tooth, Truman (on April 25, 1947), Nate Silver.
Name a molar, a bowler, and a poller.
23. Al Smith charity dinner, Susan B. Anthony, sexual assault accusers “will be sued after the election is over.”
Name a banquet, a suffragette, and a threat.
24. Mathematician Leonard, farm worker, Johnson or McMullin.
Name an Euler, a toiler, and a spoiler.
25. Two-stroke, an American in a booth on November 8th, Trump (if he wins).
Name a motor, a voter, and a gloater.
26. Tom’s Restaurant, Giorgio Armani, Trump (if he loses).
Name a diner, a designer, and a whiner.
Answer: (See bold print, above)
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This week's official answers, for the record, Part 5:
ReplyDeleteRipping/riffing Off Shortz and Gordon Slice:
Achtungberfest, “Hey you…”
Think of a person in the news, first and last names. Change the first letter of the first name, and you’ll get a command one might give at Oktoberfest.
Who is this person and what is the Oktoberfest command?
Answer:
Jill Stein; fill stein
A Pair Of Bonus Ripping/riffing Off Shortz And Gordon Slices:
“I’m in your vehicle, Baby”
PUZZLE #1: Think of a name in the news this past year that has one letter that appears consecutively. It’s a person’s first name and last name. Change that consecutive letter to a different consecutive letter and you’ll get a word for a vehicle that was the setting of an alleged groping involving a presidential hopeful, and a word for the target of the groping.
The name in the news belongs to another presidential hopeful.
Who is this person whose name was in the news? What are the vehicle and the groping target?
PUZZLE #2: Think of a name in the news this past year that has one letter that appears consecutively. It’s a person’s first name. Change that consecutive letter to a different consecutive letter and you’ll get the second part of a hyphenated adjective that a presidential hopeful might have used to describe the extremities of a fellow presidential hopeful.
About a decade ago, that fellow presidential hopeful was in a vehicle with the person in the news where the presidential hopeful boasted about his groping strategies.
Note: This person in the news is a blood relative of the person in the news in the previous puzzle.
Who is this puzzle’s person whose name is in the news? What is the hyphenated adjective?
Answer:
PUZZLE #1:
Jeb Bush; jet, tush
PUZZLE #2:
Billy Bush; (Billy >> bitty)
"itty-bitty" = "small"
Dessert Menu:
Seeking The Oval Office Dessert:
Getting your flickers all in a bunch
Think of this puzzle as a “video rebus.”
Donald, Evan, Gary, Hillary and Jill. All seek to be POTUS on the Potomac.
But what POTUS is suggested by the videos presented here?
In the top video, take note of what is happening at the 15, 27 and 40-second marks.
In the bottom puzzle, and in this SALE, this GOAL, and the very beginning of this SWAG video, isolate and concentrate on what is happening to just one of the letters in each video.
Who is this POTUS?
Answer:
Abe Lincoln ("A blinkin' ")
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