The rise and fall of syzygy dust... Fractured fairy tale refugis; Is Bunyan Beer a lager? Fabric + Fiber = Funny; I-24, G-46, O-61… “I go!”

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Welcome to our February 10^th edition Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!

We offer seven puzzles on our menus this week, including three that Rip Off Shortz.

Please enjoy.

 Hors d’Oeuvre Menu

Subgrouped Hors d’Oeuvre:

I-24, G-46, O-61… “I go!”

An exclusive group of U.S. citizens, numbering fewer than 25, can be divided into three subgroups:

One-sixth of them are associated with the number 61;

One-third of them are associated with the number 24;

One-half of them are associated with the number 46.

Name the members of this group, and explain how each is associated with either 61, 24 or 46?

Morsel Menu

 

Aladdin Memorial Morsel:

The rise and fall of syzygy dust…

Take one word that can follow either “rising” or “falling” to form a two-word phrase. 

Find a synonym for each phrase. These two synonyms are spelled identically except for the final letter of each.

What are these two phrases and their synonyms?

Note: The synonym of the “falling ____” is not an “exact synonym” but is often confused with an exact synonym whose first three letters are the final three letters of the “inexact synonym” that is our answer. Our answer does, however,often play a role in the generation of a “falling ____.”

Appetizer Menu

“Sit, Com!” Appetizer:

Fabric + Fiber = Funny

Name a one-syllable fabric, a one-syllable synonym for fiber or thread, and another one-syllable fabric. 

When you say the result aloud the three syllables will rhyme with the title of a popular and critically acclaimed situation comedy.

What are these two fabrics and the synonym? What is the sitcom title?

Hint: The acronym of the sitcom’s title spells out something dogs sometimes do. One of the words in the title, however, must be converted from a punctuation mark to the word for which the punctuation mark stands.

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Ripping Off Shortz And Collins Slices:

Fractured fairy tale refugis

 

Will Shortz’s February 5^th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Peter Collins, reads:

Name a prominent figure in a fairy tale. Write this in all capital letters. Add a stroke to one letter and rearrange the result. You’ll name another prominent figure in a fairy tale. What two fairy tale figures are these?

Puzzleria’s Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices read:

ONE:

Name a prominent figure in a fairy tale. Write this in all CAPITAL LETTERS.

Add two straight-line strokes to one letter. You’ll name a mythological creature.

Add one curved stroke to one letter of this creature. You’ll name a different creature, from children’s literature.

What fairy tale figure, mythological creature and children’s literature creature are these?

TWO:

Name a prominent figure in a fairy tale. Move the last letter to the fourth-last position and change it to the following letter in the alphabet. 

(See Puzzleria’s Closed-Loop Circular Seamless Alphabet if the last letter you move to the fourth-last position happens to be a Z.)

Change the first letter, which sounds like a large quantity of liquid, to a a letter that sounds like a liquid usually poured in much smaller quantities. 

Change the fourth letter, which sounds like the last name of a Sandra, to a letter that sounds like the last name of a Danny.

You’ll name another prominent figure in a fairy tale.

What two fairy tale figures are these?

THREE:

Name a prominent figure from a whimsical tale, in two words. Write this in all CAPITAL LETTERS.

Add two straight-line strokes to one letter. Change two letters of a monogram (belonging to a daughter of a president who has served almost one month) to two letters of a different monogram (belonging to a son of a president who served exactly one month).

Rearrange the result. You’ll name another prominent figure, also in two words, in the same whimsical tale. What two whimsical tale figures are these?

Dessert Menu

Brandy Name With A Beer Chaser Dessert:

Is Bunyan Beer a lager?

Name a two-syllable brand of beer, a lager with a healthy (or perhaps, rather, “unhealthy”) alcohol content. Place a clone of its fourth letter at the beginning of the name.

Divide the result into two parts:

One: the clone of the letter followed by the brand name’s original first letter, and…

Two: the remainder of the brand name, after removing the letter that you made a clone of.

Pronounce each part aloud as a single syllable.

The first part sounds like an adjective for what a person might become who occasionally overindulges in the lager.

The second part sounds like a noun for what a person might become who habitually overindulges in the lager.

What is this brand name lager? What are the adjective and noun?

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.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.