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Welcome to our June 2nd edition
of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
Last week we encouraged you to listen to
Mark Scott’s appearance on Will Shortz’s puzzle segment on the May 28th
Weekend Edition Sunday program hosted by Lulu Garcia-Navarro on National Public
Radio.
This week we encourage you to try
solving another excellent puzzle created by Mark Scott (whose screen name is “skydiveboy”)
in this edition of Puzzleria!
Mark’s offering is our featured puzzle
this week, a tasty Worldly-wise Hors d’Oeuvre titled “A tour of two cities.”
In addition to skydiveboy’s gem, we serve up eight fresh puzzles this
week, including four Rip/Riff-offs of Will Shortz’s “Eli, Lois and Leslie”
puzzle.
Also on our menus are:
5. A mysterious but magnificent Appetizer,
6. A “Puzzly and Herriot” Appetizer,
7. A suspenseful yet secretive Slice, and
8. A bouquet of two flowers for Dessert.
Please feel free to freefall headlong into our “Wild
Blue Ponder.” And try to enjoy the ride, and the rush, before it’s time to pull
the ripcord.
Hors d’Oeuvre Menu
Worldly-wise Hors d’Oeuvre:
A tour of two cities
Name two world capital cities.
Think of
two words that could describe a bargain holiday in the first city and then find
two words that rhyme with those words and describe a well-known tourist
attraction in the second city.
What are they?
Appetizer Menu
Land Of Nodding Off Appetizer:
No dose of No-Doz grows typos
“Consciousness occasionally vanishes…
faltering energy, falling eyelidszzz…
The seven words written above might well explain a mystery that cropped up briefly in the news this past week.
Tell who was involved
in the mystery, and what is relevant and significant about these magnificent
seven words.
You Know The Movie Song Appetizer:
Two creatures, great and small
Name the title of a song that was
featured in a movie with two characters who were known by nicknames – one naming things seen
on a billiard table, and the other naming things seen on a poker table. The
song is about somewhat smaller versions of very great creatures.
Take the initial letters of the title
and spell them backward to name something created by a very small creature.
What is the song title, and what is the
small creature’s creation?
MENU
Sign-Off Slice:
Secretary of Secrecy and Suspense
Name a two-word term found recently in
the news that smacks of secrecy and irregularities. Now think of a television
show sign-off, in six words, that smacked of suspense and a “what-will-happen-in-the-next-week’s-episode”
regular tease.
The two-word term in the news sounds a
lot like the final two words of the six-word TV show sign off.
What are the two-word term and the
six-word sign-off?
Hint: The campy television show was
popular during the decade of the “say hey!” heyday of Mays, Mantle, McCovey, Killebrew and
Aaron.
Ripping Off Shortz Slices:
“I see lilies LOL!”
Will Shortz’s
May 28th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, reads:
If ELI is 173,
and LOIS is 5,107, how much is LESLIE?
Puzzleria’s
Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz Slices read:
ONE:
If ELI is 11,
LOIS is 13, ELSIE is 19, and LESLIE is 26, how much is BESSIE?
TWO:
If ELI is 21, BILL is 392, and LESLIE is
2,205, how much is BELLE?
THREE:
If ELI is 26,
LOIS is 55, ELSIE is 50, and LESLIE is 62, how much is BESSIE?
FOUR:
If PATRICK is 15, TEDDY is 10, STEPH is
10, MARK is 10, DAVID is 10, PAUL is 6, and RON is 3, how much is JOSEPH?
Dessert Menu
Blooming Unconventionally Dessert:
Flower rearrangement
Add a letter to the beginning of the
name of a flower to form a new word. Rearrange the letters in this new word to
form a word that might be called a “flower” – if, that is, you pronounce a vowel sound in the word “flower”
unconventionally.
Name the original flower. What new word is formed when a letter is added to the beginning of its name?
What is the other
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Happy Friday everyone! Just had supper with my brother Bryan and the kids. Then my niece Mia Kate wanted me to read her a book. After that I finished a great Prize Crossword by Paul on the Guardian website, and the New York Times crosswords, and now I'm doing Puzzleria! I don't expect SDB to give any hints for his puzzle any more than he should expect me to solve his puzzle in the first place without hints. I also have both Appetizers, Ripoff puzzles #1 and #2, and I think I know what you're getting at with the Dessert. Still, I may need hints for all others. I will say this: I've got the signoff phrase, just not the phrase in the news. So hints are still required.
ReplyDeleteHowdy to ya, pjb, Paul, Ron, and whoever else I'm not thinking of who participates. I purposely didn't want to be first this week making a comment some hours ago, so I waited.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, once again, cranberry and I have solved the exactly same puzzles....both appetizers and Rip Offs 1 and 2.
I've made various attempts at trying to decode the proper math for Rip Off 3, but thus far have not succeeded. #4 really has me stumped!
And since I don't think I have ever solved one of sdb's puzzles, I don't hold out much hope....I did try earlier, had several ideas, but ultimately, they all led nowhere.
And I'm just now about to go read the Dessert for the first time. Happy Friday!
As for the Dessert:
ReplyDeleteNot a hint yet. But a clarification is necessary. I have changed the text. The changes are indicated in bold italics.
The original incorrect version reads:
Add a letter to the beginning of the name of a flower to form new word. Rearrange the letters in this new word to form a word for another “flower” – if, that is, you pronounce a vowel sound in this other “flower” unconventionally.
Name the original flower.
What new word is formed when a letter is added to the beginning of its name?
What is the other unconventionally pronounced “flower” formed when the letters of the new word are rearranged?
Te revised version reads:
Add a letter to the beginning of the name of a flower to form new word. Rearrange the letters in this new word to form a word that might be called a “flower” – if, that is, you pronounce a vowel sound in the word “flower” unconventionally.
Name the original flower.
What new word is formed when a letter is added to the beginning of its name?
What is the other “flower” formed when the letters of the new word are rearranged?
In short, It is crucial how the word "flower" is pronounced, not how you pronounce the name of the "flower" you formed by rearranging the letters of the new word.
LegoApologizes
YIPPEE, Lego, that solves the Dessert for me! I had had the correct original flower chosen last night, plus the right (among many ideas) word, and had even noticed (last night) that rearranging said word led to the "flower", but now your re-statement of the sentence tells me that that IS the answer. Hurrah.
DeleteBreaking news from Bluebeard's castle:
ReplyDeleteSiegfried is 82
Roy is 6
Paul,
ReplyDeleteThere seems to be an operatic method to your numerical madness!
Bluebeard's Castle = Bartok = ?
Siegfied = VolksWagner = ??
Roy = Rob Roy/The Roy-Al Opera House = ???
But then again, I may be trilling up the wrong tree.
LegoDivaOffaTheDeepEndLambda
I wish I knew WHICH rip off yo guys are talking about.
DeleteJust solved #3, which turned out to be way easier than I had somehow thought last night.
And, I got AN answer for sdb's Hors D'O....I'm not at all sure it is correct since it relies on a foreign language, but at least, it's an answer, which is more than has usually happened to me with his puzzlers.
I have no idea what sdb is looking for, but I suspected a language other than English was probably involved, and thus would not be at all surprised if your answer is correct.
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DeleteTHanks for the encouragement, Paul!
DeleteBTW, if anything I write is lacking a 'u', it's because that key as well as my 'J' and my '7' have broken on this stupid keyboard, so I must cut and paste each 'u', etc, and I have already forgotten to do that once, above.
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteThat keyboard (especially if it was its U and R keys instead of its U and J keys that didn't work) would have come in quite handy for solving Will Shortz's "Sea Turtle/Seattle" puzzle from a few weeks back (the one that skydiveboy "got the call" for solving.)
Just type in "Sea turtle" and, voila!, "Sea ttle" appears!
(Indeed, I'll bet that is precisely how sdb solved that tough-as-turtle-shells challenge!)
LegoWouldNotShout(UmpireLike)"YouAreOuttaHere!"ButWouldInsteadIntone(TrumpireLike)"YouAreNoLongerPerformingYourJobDutiesSoYou'reFired!"
My puzzle does not rely on a foreign language. It is very straight forward and no covfefe is involved.
ReplyDeleteWell, sdb, I'm going to keep my answer anyway, because I think it's kinda clever (even if the rhyme for the second word is a bit suspect.) Will attempt again to come up with an answer all in English.
DeleteI have an answer which I doubt is the intended answer, but I like it... (My rhymes work perfectly)
DeleteSaturday Night's Alright For Hinting:
ReplyDeleteWHO:
Who? No, what! What the Dickens! The puzzle's title, "A tour of two cities," is a Pip of a hint.
SOS:
The two-word term found recently in the news involved those pesky Russkies!
And oh hey, my "Hint" about the campy television show being popular during the decade of the “say hey!” heyday of batsmen such as Mays, Mantle, McCovey, Killebrew and Aaron... I forgot to mention "Robinson..." Brooks yes, but mostly Frank.
ROSS:
THREE:
A steak sauce
a vitamin or bomber
This precedes PO
Surname of the actor who played Ozzie and Harriet's next-door neighbor; the neighbor was a character who shared the surname of a Marvelously popular Metropolitan
...
What sometimes follows the words, Chevrolet Camaro...
FOUR:
Are you drawing a blank? Think of an activity where that actually helps, not hinders, you!
BUD:
John Jacob tells me this one is "a lock" for you solvers... but not a Yale lock. Have you ebber heard anything so preposterous?!
LegoWhoSometimesPlaysEbbernezerScroogeWithHisHintGiving
Thanks, LegoScrooge....that gave me RIp Off #4. Am annoyed I didn't think of it myself.
DeleteSo now I'm all set, except for the Hors D'O (meaning sdb's intended answer, since the one I have is wrong.)
Now I've got the two-word phrase in the news! Hadn't heard of it before, but it definitely fits with the signoff!
ReplyDeleteI get which two cities are involved, and I've looked up tourist attractions for both, but what constitutes a "bargain holiday"?
ReplyDeletecranberry,
DeleteLet's suppose that the Washington Nationals' ace southpaw hurler is named "Muscles" Malloy. He is known to be a "freak-of-nature ironman," often pitching on only two days of rest, for example, and averaging just under 200 pitches per nine innings!
Malloy's fans travel to Washington D.C. from all across the nation (and even the world) to watch Muscles in action, and to see if he can crack the all time record for pitches pitched in one ballgame.
What is it that attracts these touristy fans? Muscles' pitch-count!
Oh, and incidentally, I hear that due to the current favorable the Dollar/Euro exchange rate and other factors that tend to minimize costs for travelers to Belgium, the time is now ripe for a Brussels discount!
LegoThinksThatTouristsToBelgiumWillMaybeEnjoyBrusselsSproutsButKnowsThatTouristsToOurNation'sCapitalWillDefinitelyEnjoyMuscles'Outs!
Lo and behold, I got it...the hint was excellent....FINALLY, an sdb puzzle! Happy Day!
DeleteHow does that example help me? I have two other cities in mind!(The Sunday Puzzle hint was a little late for me to get, but I do have the answer to that one! Order and method, y'all!)
DeleteGot Ripoff #3!
ReplyDeleteAh, closure!
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DeleteQuick question - for you - or anyone else who has been so lucky to get picked to play the Puzzle on NPR... Did they call you on Thursday afternoon? Just wondering because our 15-year-old son constantly gets the right answer, but he is worried if he gets called, it will be right at 3pm - while he's still in school. Thanks and congrats!
ReplyDeleteErin:
DeleteSorry, but I am going to have to advise you to become a bad parent and keep your son home from school on Thursdays. I got the call about two minutes after Noon, Pacific Time. I almost missed it, as I was just heading out the door for a bike ride.
Erin,
DeleteWelcome to our blog. And thank you for your excellent question.
skydiveboy's experience in "getting the call" is similar to mine. I have been called thrice, and every time it has been on Thursday either at exactly 3 PM Eastern Time or pretty soon thereafter. The latest I got a call was at 3:10 PM Eastern Time. (Perhaps the first call or two they make sometimes goes unanswered or goes to voicemail, so they need to keep calling until a real person answers.)
I don't suppose they allow phones in your son's school? Assuming they don't, I suggest that instead of writing your son's phone number into the NPR submission form, write the number of a family member who is available at 3 PM, perhaps you. You can then take the call on his behalf. An NPR intern or employee will ask you a few questions about your son: such as his interest in "The Puzzle," how he solved this one, his other hobbies perhaps, and other interesting stuff about him. Easy things you can answer. I am pretty sure NPR would be flexible enough to allow this.
The only fly in the ointment might be the following day, Friday, the day they will want to call your son back, usually around noon and on a land line, to record the on-air puzzle segment.
If they won't let him do this at school, I would take skydiveboy's tongue-in-cheek advice and keep him home that day (or at your or his father's or other relative's place of work, if that is possible) so he can record the program in peace. (If I were his principal or teacher, I would allow him to do the recording in class in front of his peers. It would be educational for all. And I'll bet Will and Lulu and NPR might get a kick out of it also!)
Good luck! I look forward to hearing your son play on-air with Will Shortz one of these Sundays.
LegoWhoCanTellThatYouAreAGreatParent(EvenIfYouAllowYourSonToPlayHookyOnAnOccasionalFridayOrThursday)
Yeah, good luck! I certainly can't solve this week's Sunday Puzzle! Lego, I don't suppose you have a good clue for it that might help me here?
ReplyDeletecranberry,
Delete"Work forward," not backward, on the NPR puzzle this week. That is, find the city first. There are not that many well-known U.S. cities with two words in their names. And even fewer in which the second word sounds like the last name of a famous 20th-century writer.
LegoWhoBelievesSolvingWill'sPuzzleWillNotRequireAnyHerculeanEffort...OrPerhapsItWill!
Thank you both so much for taking the time to respond. We *love* "The Puzzle" - it's our Sunday tradition. My son, Tony, at 9 - had a measured IQ of 152. (He's now 15.) He also has autism. He's incredibly smart, talented and sweet. That puzzle a while back with the unanswered riddle from an old magazine in the early 1900s (I think) where one of the "ingenius" answers could have been "clown fish" - well Tony came up with that in about 20 seconds. He just finished taking Pre-Calculus as a freshman and coasted right through it with his grade wavering between a 99 to a 100 all year long. Not bragging, I promise. Anyway, Tony is very "matter of fact" and I think his biggest challenge if he gets called will be the small talk. ;-) He plays Quiz Bowl and excels at music... He's met Neil DeGrasse Tyson twice - once was when Tony was asked to sing the national anthem for a huge event honoring teachers in San Antonio. Here's a link in case anyone is interested in putting a face with the name: https://youtu.be/LzYCfgcDzug But I digress... I seriously thank you for the suggestions on getting whatever class he's in to allow him to take the call. Tony is very "by the rules" and when I suggested he ask to run to the bathroom if he ever got a call from NY on a Thursday - he was extremely hesitant to even submit an answer. He did then ask his Biology teacher if he got called, if he could take it outside. Anyway, I digressed again. ;-) Sorry. Good to know about the landline too. Yikes. We are one of those families with 4 cell phones (2 teens) and no landline. Again, thanks for the tips! Peace!
ReplyDeleteErin:
DeleteYou digress on DeGrasse! Well just don't forget to mow de lawn. :-)
I seem to recall that several years a teacher got the call and did the bit on air with her class. Also the interns will ask questions in order to have an idea what chit-chat to begin with, so it should work out just fine, and they can edit, although they did not edit mine.
Erin,
DeleteAfter accessing your link, it is obvious to me that you are justifiably proud of your son Tony. So, brag away!
I took the liberty of supplying this clickable link so we can more easily access this remarkable young man's talents. (Hey ViolinTeddy, check it out. Tony plays cello! I'd like to see that on YouTube too.)
Tony deserves an NPR lapel pin, yes, but soooo much more! I believe I can speak for all Puzzlerians! in saying we are pulling for Tony in ALL his endeavors using ALL his cornucopia of gifts. This gifted kid is going places.
(BTW, I am not sure if NPR requires a land line phone for the Friday noonish taping, but they do at least mention and suggest it. Tony, of course, could just sing his answers and they would come across loud and clear over any phone line, even one like this!)
LeguCopiousPraiserOfTony!
Erin, I've been called twice ---here on the West Coastm it was precisely at noon on Thursday, with the Friday taping session around 9:30 a.m., or perhaps it was 9:45 Pacific time.
ReplyDeleteSome months back, there was a student winner who played the on-air game with her teacher! So that school must have not only allowed, but encouraged their student(s) to enter. Could you speak to your son's school and teacher about this? Perhaps they could come up with a nice solution, particularly for the Friday lunchtime (where you live, I presume) taping session?
Another pointer I might make, which I did too late for Lego's third win, was to have paper and pencil ready to write down what Will says...it's a BIG help to have the visual. The nice girl (with a British accent) who called me the second time on both Thurs and Friday gave me that advice!
Best of luck to your son, if he is chosen!
BTW still having trouble with sdb's puzzle and the Ripoff that bears my name. Hints please!
ReplyDeleteROSS FOUR:
Deletepatjberry= 23
LegoSuggestsThatSolversChannelTheirInnerCircusBoyToby,MaryMooreAndPresidentJohn
Hors d'Œuvre Menu:
ReplyDeleteROME>>>MAFIA RATE, a Roman Holiday at a “Mafia Rate,” the rate a member of the Mafia would receive, would certainly be a “bargain holiday.”
NEW DEHLI>>>INDIA GATE, India's Arc-de-Triomphe, a well-known tourist attraction.
As I said, I doubt this is the intended answer, but I like it...
ROSS:
ONE: BESSIE = 25
TWO: BELLE = 3528
THREE: BESSIE = 59
FOUR: JOSEPH = 18
ron,
Delete"Mafia Rate/India Gate" is a very solid alternative answer, IMO.
(The author of the puzzle will perhaps weigh in on whether your alt answer is "very solid, IsdbO".)
LegoRemarks:Nixon'sHenchmenLaunderedMoneyInNewDelhi?SoundsLikeIndiaGateToMe!
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ReplyDeleteViolinTeddy,
DeleteCongratulations!
I don't know why you deleted your post, but you got the right answer to my puzzle. I thought it would be an easy one to solve, but perhaps not. They are much easier to make up than to solve, I know that.
Tank you, sdb! [I deleted the first post only because I had stupidly forgotten to remove the math notes I'd left at the bottom for the RIp Offs....and didn't catch that they were still there until it was already posted.] Actually, initially I thought I'd have to find a rhyme with "London Eye", but suddenly the Paris deal/ferris wheel pair hit me.
DeleteHow did you like my alternate answer?
OOps, somehow I missed the 'h' in THANK
DeleteI don't know what your alternate answer is?
DeleteIt's directly below this reply to your post, sdb, because after I deleted the post with the goof, I RE-posted, so directly after "LONDON", it says: "MY ALTERNATE ANSWER" etc.
DeleteVT:
DeleteI did finally locate your alt answer. I think it is clever, but I never would have thought of it. I don't speak French.
DOn't feel bad, sdb, I had to actually look up the translation for "time share"....because it could have been some kind of idiom. But I did get a big kick out of it when I realized that TEMPS and CHAMPS rhymed!
DeleteHORS D'O: PARIS DEAL => FERRIS WHEEL [LONDON] ; MY ALTERNATE ANSWER: BRUSSELS => TEMPS PARTAGÉ (French for TIME SHARE) => CHAMPS ÉLYSÉE [PARIS]
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER #1: TRUMP and his Twittered made-up word, COVFEFE, which is made up of the initials of the seven stated words. [Lego, I just KNEW the minute I heard about this word last week, that you would do a puzzle with it!!]
APPETIZER #2: MOVIE: HATARI [POCKETS and CHIPS]; "BABY ELEPHANT WALK" => "WEB"
SIGN OFF SLICE: "BACK CHANNEL" Batman: "SAME BAT TIME, SAME BAT CHANNEL"
RIP OFF SLICES:
1. ELI = 11, LOIS = 13, ELSIE = 19, LESLIE = 26 => BESSIE = 8 + 3 + 5 + 5 + 1 + 3 = 25 [ADD, using the upside down number values, as in NPR puzzle]
2. ELI = 21, BILL = 392, LESLIE = 2205 => BELLE = 8 x 3 x 7 x 7 x 3 = 3528 [MULTIPLY, using same]
3. ELI [5 + 12 + 9] = 26, LOIS [12 + 15 + 9 + 19] = 55, ELSIE [5 + 12 + 19 + 9 + 5 ] = 50, LESLIE [12 + 5 + 19 + 12 + 9 + 5] = 62 => BESSIE = 2 + 5 + 19 + 19 + 9 + 5 = 59 [Regular alphabetical values]
4. PATRICK = 15, TEDDY = 10, STEPH = 10, MARK = 10, DAVID = 10, PAUL = 6, RON = 2 => JOSEPH = 8 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 4 = 18 [SCRABBLE VALUES]
Question to Lego: why is MINE the only screen name, rather than real first name? (ha ha)
DESSERT: ASTER => MASTER => STREAM (a flow-er)
ViolinTeddy,
Delete"Question to Lego: why is MINE the only screen name, rather than real first name?"
Answer from Lego: Because you are a 10, I am sure, not merely an 8.
I think your "BRUSSELS/PARIS TEMPS PARTAGÉ/CHAMPS ÉLYSÉE" rhyme was ingenious. I wish I were fluent in French... I'm more of a drip, drip, drip...
You are correct, as usual, VT. Therewas no way I could pass on "covfefe!"
LegoWhoFindsItOddlyChillingThatWeAreDiscussingTouristAttractionsInLondonAndParisGivenTheEventsOfThisPastWeek'sNewsCycle
Hee hee, I appreciate that, Lego/Joseph (who is an 18!!)
DeleteAnd thanks, as always, for the compliment re Brussels etc.
Indeed, it IS chilling that we are talking about London and Paris, in the wake of so much horror in both places.
A time share apartment is "un appartement multipropriété;" "temps partagé" is used only in computing.
DeleteTIME SHARING.
DeleteWell, Ron, the trouble is, that ruins my lovely rhyme with CHAMPS ÉLYSÉE! Boo hoo.
DeleteWell, VT, that may be, but it wasn't the answer, and you not only got the correct answer, but are the only one to do so, other than Lego, who got it prior to using it.
DeleteI humbly accept this honor, sdb!!!!!
DeleteAppetizer #1
ReplyDeleteCOVFEFE! The new word our President "coined" on Twitter.
Appetizer #2
HATARI! starring Red Buttons as "Pockets" and Gerard Blain as Charles "Chips" Murray; "BABY ELEPHANT WALK", WEB(something a spider would make)
Ripoff Menu
1. BESSIE is 25.
2. BELLE is 1,228.
3. BESSIE is 59.
Dessert
ASTER, MASTER, and STREAM(a flow-er)
Gotta go celebrate Mia Kate's 10th birthday! See y'all Friday!-pjb
I mismultiplied. Sorry I didn't check that sooner. BELLE is 3,528.
ReplyDeleteThis week's official answers, for the record, Part 1:
ReplyDeleteHors d’Oeuvre Menu
Worldly-wise Hors d’Oeuvre:
A tour of two cities
Name two world capital cities.
Think of two words that could describe a bargain holiday in the first city and then find two words that rhyme with those words and describe a well-known tourist attraction in the second city.
What are they?
Answer:
Ferris Wheel (the London Eye); Paris Deal
Appetizer Menu
Land Of Nodding Off Appetizer:
No dose of No-Doz grows typos
“Consciousness occasionally vanishes… faltering energy, falling eyelidszzz…”
The seven words written above might well explain a mystery that cropped up briefly in the news this past week.
Tell who was involved in the mystery, and what is relevant and significant about these magnificent seven words.
Answer:
In the wee hours of the cusp between May and June, President Donald Trump mysteriously tweeted "Despite the constant negative press covfefe". The first letters of the seven words in “Consciousness Occasionally Vanishes… Faltering Energy, Falling Eyelidszzz…” spell out COVFEFE.
You Know The Movie Song Appetizer:
Two creatures, great and small
Name the title of a song that was featured in a movie with two characters who were known by nicknames – one naming things seen on a billiard table, and the other naming things seen on a poker table. The song is about somewhat smaller versions of very great creatures.
Take the initial letters of the title and spell them backward to name something created by a very small creature.
What is the song title, and what is the small creature’s creation?
Answer:
"Baby Elephant Walk," from the movie "Hatari!"
MENU
WEB, spun by a spider
Lego...
This week's official answers, for the record, Part 2:
ReplyDeleteSign-Off Slice:
Secretary of Secrecy and Suspense
Name a two-word term found recently in the news that smacks of secrecy and irregularities. Now think of a television show sign-off, in six words, that smacked of suspense and a “what-will-happen-in-the-next-week’s-episode” regular tease.
The two-word term in the news sounds a lot like the final two words of the six-word TV show sign off.
What are the two-word term and the six-word sign-off?
Hint: The campy television show was popular during the decade of the “say hey!” heyday of Mays, Mantle, McCovey, Killebrew and Aaron.
Answer:
back channel
bat channel, from the phrase "Same bat time, same bat channel."
Hint: "Batman," the television show, ran in decade of the 1960s, from 1966 to 1968:
Mays, Mantle, McCovey, Killebrew and Aaron.
Ripping Off Shortz Slices:
“I see lilies LOL!”
ONE:
If ELI is 11, LOIS is 13, ELSIE is 19, and LESLIE is 26, how much is BESSIE?
Answer:
3 + 1 + 5 + 5 + 3 + 8 = 25 (sum of the digits of the inverted letters of BESSIE)
TWO:
If ELI is 21, BILL is 392, and LESLIE is 2,205, how much is BELLE?
Answer:
3 x 7 x 7 x 3 x 8 = 3,528 (product of digits of the inverted letters of BELLE)
THREE:
If ELI is 26, LOIS is 55, ELSIE is 50, and LESLIE is 62, how much is BESSIE?
Answer:
2 + 5 + 19 + 19 + 9 + 5 = 59 (sum of alphanumeric values of the letters: A=1, B=2, C=3... z=26)
FOUR:
If PATRICK is 15, TEDDY is 10, STEPH is 10, MARK is 10, DAVID is 10, PAUL is 6, and RON is 3, how much is JOSEPH?
Answer:
8 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 4 = 18 (sum of the Scrabble values of the letters)
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Flower rearrangement
Add a letter to the beginning of the name of a flower to form new word. Rearrange the letters in this new word to form a word for another “flower” – if, that is, you pronounce a vowel sound in this other “flower” unconventionally.
Name the original flower.
What new word is formed when a letter is added to the beginning of its name?
What is the other unconventionally pronounced “flower” formed when the letters of the new word are rearranged?
Answer:
p=830>Aster;
Master (M + aster);
Stream; (A "steam" is not a flower in the strict dictionary sense. But I suggest that it is reasonable to interpret the word "flower" as "one that flows" ("flow-er"), in which the "o" is pronounced as a "long o," as in "go" or "flow.")
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I knew I forgot BACK CHANNEL(Same bat time, same bat channel)!
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ReplyDeleteTHanks for the encouragement, Paul!
BTW, if anything I write is lacking a 'u', it's because that key as well as my 'J' and my '7' have broken on this stupid keyboard, so I must cut and paste each 'u', etc, and I have already forgotten to do that once, above.
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