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Welcome to our April 28th edition
of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
We are serving up a few fewer puzzles
this week, so you can concentrate on submitting entries to Will Shortz’s two-week NPR creative challenge.
We offer a five-part Ripping-Off-Shortz-Slice of that April 23rd challenge, and will be serving up ten additional rip-offs next Friday, May 5th..
Also on this week’s menus:
1. A short but sporty Hors d’Oeuvre;
2. A home-grown tercet, as an Appetizer; and
3. An “ailimentary” Dessert.
Please enjoy!
Hors d’Oeuvre Menu
Coming Up Short Hors d’Oeuvre:
Short-handed goal: Shorter shorts!
Because a certain professional team has a “longish” nickname, it is sometimes known as, or is called by, only a shorthand
version of its full nickname.
Shorten that shorthand version even further
by removing one letter. The result, if you interpret the first part of it
correctly, reveals the shorthand version of the full nickname of a second
professional team in a different sport.
What are these two teams?
Hint: About 16 months after the second
team won a national championship in its sport, the first team won a
national championship in its sport.
Appetizer Menu
Anapestic Hacienda Appetizer:
Cut a B from a word for a home,
The result is a word for a poem.
Name these words, which rhyme also. Shalom!
MENU
Ripping Off Shortz’s Creative Open-Ended
Slice:
Will Shortz’s
April 23rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
It’s a two-week creative challenge. …
The object is to mashup the titles of past No. 1 hits on the Billboard 100 pop
chart to tell a story. For example:“I Shot the Sheriff” “The Night the Lights
Went Out in Georgia.” “The Morning After” “I’ll Be There” Leaving On A Jet
Plane.”
Wikipedia has a list of the Billboard
100 No. 1 singles from the Hot 100 era, 1958 to present, which you can use.
Your story can include up to seven song titles. …
Puzzleria’s
Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz Slice reads:
Each of the five listings of Billboard
100 No. 1 singles, below, represents a very short and tenuous “story,” or a more-or-less (or, to be frank, a less-than-more) coherent phrase.
Can you decipher them?
1. “Family Affair” “Look Away” “Look Away”!
“Hold On” “Hold On” “Hold On”!... “Shake You Down”, “Again” “She Loves You” “It’s
My Party”, “Show And Tell” “Arthur’s Theme” “Missing You” “Like A Prayer”… “One
Week”!
2. “When I Need You” “Stranger On The Shore”
“Heart Of Glass” “Abracadabra” Crack A Bottle”, “One Dance”? “No One” “We Are
Young”!
3. “Take On Me”“Missing You” “Seasons In The Sun” “Arthur’s
Theme” “Africa” “Like A Virgin” “With A Little Luck”: “ “Hold On” “I’m Sorry” “Amanda”
“She Loves You” “My All”“My All”!”
4. “Always” “Heart Of Gold”, “Amazed” “Duke
Of Earl” “Lost In Emotion” “Arthur’s Theme” “Black And Yellow” “Arthur’s Theme”
“Alone” “Blaze Of Glory”. “Informer” “Show And Tell”, “No One” “Black Or White”
“The Happy Organ”. “American Woman”, “Sherry” “__” “__”
“Telstar”!
5. “Boogie Oogie Oogie” “Moody River”. “Sukiyaki”.? “No One” “Say It Right”! “Black Or White”, “The Happy Organ”.
Dessert Menu
Ounce Of Prevention Dessert
Ezra Pound of “Litera-cure”
Delete the first half of a last name
from a title character from a famous work of literature, leaving a word for an
ailment. Delete the middle letter from a last name from a second title
character from the same work of literature, leaving what someone suffering from
the ailment might swallow to get relief.
What are these two last names? What are
the ailment and what might the sufferer swallow?
Hint: Insert the middle letter you
removed from the second title character’s surname into the exact middle of the deleted half of the first character’s surname name to form a word that appears
35 times in the author's oeuvre, but not once in the work of literature
alluded to above.
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Happy Friday Lego and everyone else! I didn't realize you put out this website so early on a Friday! Already I've got the Appetizer(easiest one, BTW)! I did kind of worry how you might rip off the two-week challenge. Looking through your ripoffs, I can see I did have something to worry about after all. Wouldn't it be cool if you offered a few hints the next time I come back here later tonight? It may be too early yet, though. You would know better than I would, I guess. Good morning anyway!
ReplyDeleteAnd I have just solved the Dessert! Easy stuff's over now, I guess!
ReplyDeleteYes, this is about the third time, I think, that I've seen the new Puzzleria up in the wee hours of the morning (of course, out here, it's even wee-er than you guys further east!!) I haven't looked at anything yet, but fear if I do, I'll be going to bed at 6 a.m.!!
ReplyDeleteAnd Happy Friday to you, pjb, and everyone else.
OK, the Hors D'O, Appetizer and Dessert indeed weren't too hard. But I am utterly STUMPED as to how to approach those five Rip Offs...no idea in the slightest. Clear as mud!
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday. The late bird gets the leftovers, I guess.
ReplyDeleteI haven't solved the sports puzzle yet. Are both of the pictured sports having playoffs right now? I don't pay attention to that stuff.
Yes, the Appetizer is easy, but 'poem' does not rhyme with either 'home' or 'shalom'; I'm dogmatic about that. Selah.
The Rip-offs seem difficult at first; then they get worse.
I solved the damme Dessert.
Congrats to all who have already solved the Hors d'Oeuvre, Appetizer and Dessert; I thought the Hors d'Oeuvre and Dessert were pretty tricky, but not tricky enough evidently for you Puzzlerians!
DeleteOnce you have solved one of the five sub-puzzles in the Ripping Off Shortz’s Creative Open-Ended Slice (ROSCOES), you will have solved them all. There is only one "trick" involved.
Paul is correct, of course, about my questionable rhyming of "poem" with "home" and "shalom."
I could fall back on the old "approximate rhyme" defense, I suppose, but I doubt that would appease Paul. And yet, although I have not renewed my "poetic license" lately, I do not believe it has yet expired... (or am I thinking about my fishing license?)
Alas, all my efforts to correct my error have proven feckless.
First, I tried substituting "hoem" for "home" and "shaloem" for "shalome," but I subsequently discovered that "hoem" and "shaloem" are misspellings!
Second, I tried substituting "pome" for "poem"...
Alas:
1. although "bungalow" and "ungalow," "building" and "uilding," and "barrack" and "arrack" do indeed rhyme, neither "ungalow," "uilding" nor "arrack" is any kind of fruit, not even some exotic variety. I checked.
2. although one might argue that "habitation" and "Haitation" are "approximate" rhymes, "Haitation" is not a fruit either... I believe it is the name for a citizen in Haiti.
3. "Cabin" and "Cain" don't even rhyme and, besides, I was abel to determine from a careful reading the Book of Genesis that while "Cain" may have been a fruit farmer, he was not himself a fruit.
So, I have no choice but to leave my flawed text stand.
LegoWhoIsNotSoDogmaticWhenItComesToHisOwnDoggerel
All that prose, Lego, and not a single 'hint' for the RIp Off trick!! However, I suddenly came up with something, although much of it doesn't make any sense at all! [Some of it does make a little sense.] So I don't know if I'm way off the mark or not.
Delete:)
DeleteVT,
DeleteThere is a pretty good chance you may have solved the ROSCOES. Some of my answers do make a modicum of sense. But others are quite a bit far-fetched. You are probably on the mark.
LegoWhoSensesASnafuInHisPuzzlingRadar(ScubaDoobieDoo!)
Kind of a long clip, but worth it, IMHO.
DeleteIMHO also, Paul. Thanks for linking. My dad was a big Barney Miller fan. He liked Barney Fife too.
DeleteLegoWhoHasABlackAndWhiteBarnKittenNamedSmitten
Why do you sense a 'snafu in your puzzling radar', Lego?
DeletePaul, got a kick out of the My Fair Lady link you posted. Am listening to the Barney Miller post, waiting for its relevance (I am impatient!)...unlike Lego's dad, I never watched that show at all.
The actor playing Charlie Jeffers in the Barney Miller clip was the great ROSCOE Lee Browne.
DeleteHey Lego, how about those hints?
ReplyDeleteHints:
ReplyDeleteCUSHO:
NBA/NFL
AHA:
Mr. Boone sings an anagram of the home in my lyrical link.
ROSCOES:
1. Santa
2. Booze cruise in a Checker?
3. 867-5309
4. "The next time you sit in your stand, Nimrod, bring your shotgun, or else just throw your arrows as if they were mini-javelins. Then feast on the pork and venison!"
5. "We come to praise and venerate the Puzzlemaster, not to boo-ry him."
Also, roscoe is not a hint, but ROSCOE is.
What's more, “Sukiyaki” looks like "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" when you spell it out.
OOPD:
See ROSCOES hint #5. Same author, different play.
LegoAntonyIntones"FriendsRomansPuzzlerians!LendMeYourBrains"
Well, it appears I DO have the Rips Offs, after all. A couple things still don't make sense to me, tho. Not to mention the last two sentences of the hints themselves....
DeleteWell I wish you'd explain them to me, VT, because I got nothing! Also, NBA/NFL doesn't necessarily narrow it down either.
ReplyDeletecranberry,
DeleteI realize that my puzzles sometimes seem fubar, and I admittedly have made a snafu or two... hundred-or-so in our nearly three years of Puzzleria! But if you just adjust your formidable puzzle-solution-location radar (or sonar if you're in scuba gear) a smidge, I'm certain you will prevail.
I hope that helps with the ROSCOES.
As for my CUSHO, the Stilt played in both cities where the teams play their home games. One of the franchises he played for also played their home games in both of the cities.
LegoAdmiresSolvers'EarnestResponses
PJB, go looking for a list of team nicknames....that's how I happened upon the answers...I had been thinking prior to finding them of two completely WRONG "long nicknames" (what few I knew offhand.)
DeleteA hint for the Rip Offs: pay attention to things that 'are not small."
Nice hint, ViolinTeddy, one that I would put in the upper one percent of all hints that have appeared on Puzzleria! in our three years.
DeleteLegoBelievesThatSolvingTheFiveRipOffsShouldNowBeALockForAllOurSolvers
That's very sweet of you, Lego, as is so often the case. (Verily, once again I blush.)
DeleteDoes the NBA even HAVE a national championship? IDK. LOL.
ReplyDeleteThe reigning NBA national champion is led by a Cavalier king named James.
DeleteLegoNotesThatTheRoyalsWonTheBaseballCrownBeforeTheCubbiesSnatchedIt
My notes from the weekend:
DeleteHors d’Oeuvre:
What two sports have their championships four months apart?
Appetizer:
(aB)ode
DOGMAtic > BETHany Sloane (BETH is Hebrew for HOUSE, I believe)
Ripping Off Shortz’s Creative Open-Ended Slice:
1.FALALAHOHOHOSYDASLYIMPSATATMYLAPOW >Fa la la, ho,ho,ho (SYD?) A sly imp sat at (as opposed to 'on') my lap. Ow!
2.WINYSOTSHOGACABODNOWAY >Winy sots hog a cab(ernet?), O.D.? No way!
3.TOMSITSATALAVWALLHOISASLYMAMA >Tom sits at a 'lav' wall. "Ho is a sly mama!"
4.AHOGADOELIEATBYATABOGISATNOBOWTHOAWS_ _T
5.BOOMRSNOSIRBOWTHO
Dessert:
Romeo Montague & Juliet Capulet > AGUE & CAPLET
Shakespeare + pound > 'pound of flesh' > Jean Claude van Damme
HORS D'O: CLEVELAND CAVALIERS (CAVS) => (AVS) DALLAS MAVERICKS
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER: ABODE => ODE
RIP OFFS:
1. FA LA LA! HO HO HO! ... SYD, A SLY IMP, SAT AT MY LAP... OW!
2. WINY SOTS HOG A CAB, OD? NO WAY! [This makes sense now--sort of-- only when I saw your hint of May 1 What does "OD" refer to?]
3. TOM SITS AT A LAV WALL: HO IS A SLY MAMA! [The hint now makes this a bit more clear, but not completely. Who is HO?]
4. A HOG, A DOE LIE AT BAY AT A BOG. I SAT, NO BOW THO. AW, S * * T!
5. BOO MR. S? NO SIR! BOW, THO. [I don't understand the last two sentences in the hint, about ROSCOE and Sukiyaki.]
DESSERT: MONTAGUE => AGUE; CAPULET => CAPLET [Hint: MOUNT]
ViolinTeddy,
Delete1. OD
2. Paul is correct about "cab" being short for "cabernet."
3. ho, the slang definition
5. The key to solving the puzzles is not to focus on "roscoes" which are simply "handguns," but to focus on ROSCOES, as an acronym for "Ripping Off Shortz’s Creative Open-Ended Slice" (as it functions in the puzzle title) and to think, for example, of "WALL" as an acronym of Sir Paul's "With A Little Luck."
“Sukiyaki,” translates into the "S" in "Mr. S." When you spell out "S" it looks like ESS, which is what "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" translates into.
LegOD'ingOnLife
Appetizer
ReplyDeleteABODE-AB=ODE
Dessert
(Romeo and Juliet)MONTAGUE, AGUE;CAPULET, CAPLET(the remaining letters spell MOUNT)
Sometimes "It Don't Come Easy".-pjb
PJB, 6he Rip Offs 'trick' was using only the capital letters of each of the words (which is why I said to pay attention to stuff that was not small.) Perhaps you figured that out already, seeing Paul's and my answers?
DeleteIt occurs to me to wonder, why isn't the brief nickname for the Mavericks "the Mavs" instead of "Avs"?
ReplyDeleteThis week's official answers for the record, Part 1:
ReplyDeleteHors d’Oeuvre Menu
Coming Up Short Hors d’Oeuvre:
Short-handed goal: Shorter shorts!
Because a certain professional team has a “longish” nickname, it is sometimes known as, or is called by, only a shorthand version of its full nickname.
Shorten that shorthand version even further by removing one letter. The result, if you interpret the first part of it correctly, reveals the shorthand version of the full nickname of a second professional team in a different sport.
What are these two teams?
Hint: About 16 months after the second team won a national championship in its sport, the first team won a national championship in its sport.
Answer:
Philadelphia Seventy-Sixers, sometimes called the "Sixers";
San Francisco Forty-Niners, sometimes called the "Niners";
Sixers - S = ixers = "9ers" if you read the ix as a Roman numeral = Niners
Hint: 49ers, January, 1982; 76ers, May, 1983
Appetizer Menu
Anapestic Hacienda Appetizer:
“Come on home to your adobe...”
Cut a B from a word for a home,
The result is a word for a poem.
Name these words, which rhyme also. Shalom!
Answer:
home = abode
poem = ode
abobe - "a B" = ode
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, Part 2:
ReplyDeleteMENU
Ripping Off Shortz’s Creative Open-Ended Slice:
MonsterMashUpsideDown
Each of the five listings of Billboard 100 No. 1 singles, below, represents a very short and tenuous “story,” or a more-or-less (or, to be frank, a less-than-more) coherent phrase.
Can you decipher them?
1. “Family Affair” “Look Away” “Look Away”! “Hold On” “Hold On” “Hold On”!... “Shake You Down”, “Again” “She Loves You” “It’s My Party”, “Show And Tell” “Arthur’s Theme” “Missing You” “Like A Prayer”… “One Week”!
2. “When I Need You” “Stranger On The Shore” “Heart Of Glass” “Abracadabra” Crack A Bottle”, “One Dance”? “No One” “We Are Young”!
3. “Take On Me”“Missing You” “Seasons In The Sun” “Arthur’s Theme” “Africa” “Like A Virgin” “With A Little Luck”: “ “Hold On” “I’m Sorry” “Amanda” “She Loves You” “My All”“My All”!”
4. “Always” “Heart Of Gold”, “Amazed” “Duke Of Earl” “Lost In Emotion” “Arthur’s Theme” “Black And Yellow” “Arthur’s Theme” “Alone” “Blaze Of Glory”. “Informer” “Show And Tell”, “No One” “Black Or White” “The Happy Organ”. “American Woman”, “Sherry” “__” “__” “Telstar”!
5. “Boogie Oogie Oogie” “Moody River”. “Sukiyaki”.? “No One” “Say It Right”! “Black Or White”, “The Happy Organ”.
Answers:
(Take the first letters of each word in each song title and spell them out to form words.
1. "Fa la la! Ho ho ho! Syd, a sly imp, sat at my lap... Ow!
2. Winy sots hog a cab, OD? No way!
3. Tommy sits at a lav wall: "Ho is a sly Mama!"
4. A hog, a doe lie at bay at a bog. I sat, no bow tho. Aw, S_ _ T!
5. Boo Mr. S.? No sir! Bow, tho.
Dessert Menu
Ounce Of Prevention Dessert
Ezra Pound of “Litera-cure”
Delete the first half of a last name from a title character from a famous work of literature, leaving a word for an ailment. Delete the middle letter from a last name from a second title character from the same work of literature, leaving what someone suffering from the ailment might swallow to get relief.
What are these two last names? What are the ailment and what might the sufferer swallow?
Hint: Insert the middle letter you removed from the second title character’s surname into the exact middle of the deleted half of the first character’s surname name to form a word that appears 35 times in the author's oeuvre, but not once in the work of literature alluded to above.
Answer:
(Romeo) Montague and (Juliet) Capulet
ague and caplet
Hint: Insert the middle letter you removed from the second title character’s surname into the exact middle of the deleted half of the first character’s surname name to form a word that appears 35 times in the author's oeuvre, but not once in the work of literature alluded to above.
Lego...