The NeverEnding Horror Story!!! Thaw seraph’s ear sheet? History rebounds itself; Big! Titanic! Jumbo! Towering Inferno! King-sized Kong!

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Welcome to our March 24^th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!

We are serving up six puzzles this week, half of which are Rip/Riff-offs of Will Shortz’s “I read you/I dare you” NPR puzzle.

Also on our menus are:

* An Horrorable Hors d’Oeuvre,

* A Mad Marchiness Appetizer, and

* A Cinnemammoth Dessert.

So... grab a bag o’ popcorn, pop these puzzle slices into your head, get the big picture, and solve our mysteries…

And, as always, please enjoy the show. 

Hors d’Oeuvre Menu

Horrorable Hors d’Oeuvre:

The NeverEnding Horror Story!!!

For some viewers and critics, a horrible B-grade horror movie released a decade or so ago seemed to go on and on forever... even though it lasted only 80 minutes.

Replace the first two letters (both of them consonants) of the two-word movie title with a different consonant to form a somewhat slangy two-word term for symbols that signify the concept of “going on and on forever.”

What is this movie title? What is the slangy term for these symbols?

Appetizer Menu

Mad March Hare-tter Appetizer:

History rebounds itself

A former NCAA “March Madness” basketball tournament participant who was a very high NBA draft pick was known by his first, middle and last names. Place the last letter of his last name at the end of his first name.

Saying the resulting first two words aloud will sound like the name of a current March Madness participant who plays on a team that many experts are predicting will become one of the Final Four teams in the tourney. The third word sounds like the first two syllables of the four-syllable word that many call his university, for short.

Who are these two hoopsters?

Hint #1: The college teams both cagers played/play for have rich basketball traditions, as well as somewhat unusual nicknames.

Hint #2: As of Friday morning, March 24, the current (two-named) player’s team is still alive in the ongoing NCAA tournament; the former (three-named) player’s team, alas, has been eliminated from the 2017 NCAA tourney.

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Ripping Off Shortz Slices:

Thaw seraph’s ear sheet?

Will Shortz’s February 19^th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:

Think of a familiar phrase in the form “I ___ you,” in which a four-letter word goes in the blank. Rearrange those letters and you’ll get another familiar phrase in the form “I ___ you.” Both phrases get more than half a million hits in a Google search. What phrases are these?

Puzzleria’s Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz Slices read:

ONE:

Think of a familiar phrase in the form “mental ______,” in which a five-letter word goes in the blank. 

Rearrange those letters and you’ll get another familiar phrase in the form “mental ______.” One phrase is beneficial; the other is detrimental. What phrases are these?

TWO:

Think of a title of a play – and movie(s) – in the form “The __________ of _____ ______,” in which a ten-letter word goes in the first blank, a five letter word goes in the second blank, and a seven-letter word goes in the third blank.

Rearrange the letters of the word that goes in the third blank only. The result will be a phrase in the form “The __________ of _____ ______” that emphasizes accuracy in the tossing of two objects – one considered to be lucky, the other likely to be considerably destructive. 

What phrases are these?

THREE:

Think of a technological process in the form “audio _________,” in which a nine-letter word goes in the blank. Rearrange those nine letters to get another technological process in the form “audio _________.”

1. The first process involves delivering real-time audio through a network connection.

2. The second is a post-production process that involves preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage the source from which all copies will be produced by using methods such as pressing, duplication or replication.

What processes are these?

Dessert Menu

Cinemammoth Dessert

Big! Titanic! Jumbo! Towering Inferno! King-sized Kong!

Name a famous actor – first and last names. Replace the last letter in each name with a new letter to form two new words.

Name the same famous actor. Replace the second letter in each name with an “i” to form two other new words.

All four words you formed connote “having great size.”  Who is the actor and what are the four “supersized” words?

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.

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