Brewing beers by shifting gears? Human “Anat-toe-knee” ramifies like a tree; Researching for Needles (pop. 5,000) in Cal-i-forn-eye-haystacks; In pursuit of a pair of POTI

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Welcome to our August 4th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! 

Our featured puzzle this week is a clever challenge created by a friend of mine, Nikki Rajala of Rockville, Minnesota. Her creation is an Appetizer titled “Brewing beers by shifting gears?” It involves automobiles and beers: two things that ought never be mixed on the road but can safely be served up in a puzzle parlor such as Puzzleria!

I got to know Nikki when we worked together in a newsroom in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She is a wonderful writer and published author who is on the verge of publishing Book 2 in a series of historical novels about a young French-Canadian voyageur named Andre.  

Merci beaucoup, Nikki, for sharing a slice of your creativity with Puzzleria! (And Kiitos paleon too! ...which Nikki informs me is the Finnish equivalent of the same sentiment).

Also on this week’s menus are seven other chewy challenges:

One Slice not of POT PIE but of POTI,

Five Riffing/Ripping-Off Shortz Slices about Palindrhometowns, U.S.A, and

One Dessert that doubles as an anatomy lesson.

So hop into your auto, take an inventory of its parts, shift into Drive, drive down to Puzzleria!, bite into a slice of POTI, shift some cities and states into reverse and, for Dessert, take an inventory of your body parts.

And, as always, enjoy the ride.

Appetizer Menu

Bland Royalty Appetizer:

Brewing beers by shifting gears?

What brand name for a particular part of an automobile, if you change its last two letters, creates the brand name of a beer?

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Lists Of Leaders Slice:

In pursuit of a pair of POTI

Consider the following two lists of significant leaders who served during the Twentieth and/or Twenty-first centuries:

List A:

Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth Domitien, Benigno Aquino, Thomas Sankara, Martin Luther King, Narendra Modi, David Cameron

List B:

Charles de Gaulle, Olof Palme, John Kennedy, Agatha Barbara, Salote Tubou, Bill Clinton

All leaders on List A share something in common. 

All leaders on List B share something in common.

What President Of England 2.0... oops, I mean, what President Of The United States belongs on List A? Explain why. 

Two POTUSes (or POTI, if you prefer a more elegant plural form) appear on List B. Who is the third President Of The United States that belongs on List B? Explain why.

Now explain why the President Of The United States who belongs on List A shares the “something in common” with the other leaders on the list in an extra-special “twofold” way.
Finally, which leader on  List A shares the “something in common” with others on that list in an extra-special “threefold” way. Explain.
Hint: One might argue that both Kim Jong-un and his father Kim Jong-il belong on List A and not List B. But one might also argue that they both belong on List B and not List A.

Ripping Off Shortz And Krozel Slices:

Researching for Needles (pop. 5,000) in Cal-i-forn-eye-haystacks

Will Shortz’s July 30th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joe Krozel, reads: 

This week’s challenge... might require a little research. There is a city somewhere in the United States with a population of about 24,000 people. Change the last letter in the name of its state. If you now read the city plus the altered name of its state together, the result is a palindrome – that is, it reads backward and foreward the same. What city is it?

Puzzleria’s! Ripping Off Shortz Slices read:

ONE:

This puzzle might require a little research. There is an island somewhere in the United States with a population of about 1,600 people. Change the last letter in the name of a state that has something in common with this island that no other state has. If you now read the island plus the altered name of its state together, the result is a palindrome – that is, it reads backward and foreward the same. What island is it? What state shares something in common with the island?

TWO:

This puzzle might require a little research. There is a town somewhere in the United States with a population of about 150 people. Remove the last two letters in its name. If you now read the altered name of the city plus the  name of its state together, the result is a palindrome – that is, it reads backward and foreward the same. What city is it?

Hint: The palindrome is a king’s name sandwiched between half a laugh and a sigh of delight.

THREE:

This puzzle might require a little research. There is a city somewhere in the United States with a population of about four times that of Zion, Illinoiz (sic). Take the state this city is in and move its last letter to the beginning of the city, then discard the remaining letters of the state. If you now read all but the final four letters of this result backward, the result will be a different state. The final four letters of the result, read foreward, appear at the end of several U.S. cities, usually those situated near bodies of water. Althought the city you are to find is indeed situated near a body of water, the four letters at the end of its name are misleading. The city is eponymous. Its entire name is the surname of a pioneer settler in the region. What city is it?

FOUR:

This puzzle might require a little research. There is a city somewhere in the United States with a population of about 24,000 people. Take three consecutive letters from the name of its state. Insert them, in order, somewhere within the name of the city. (where you insert them will depend on which three consecutive letters you choose.)

If you now read the altered name of this city, the result is a number that would seem to be much larger that the population of the city. What city is it?

FIVE:

This puzzle might require a little research. Remove two letters from a state somewhere in the United States. If you now read the altered name of the state backward, the result is the surname of a well known actor or actress. What STATE is it?

Dessert Menu

Tinkering With Frankenstein Dessert:

Human “Anat-toe-knee” ramifies like a tree

Name a word for a human body part. Strings of consecutive letters beginning with the word’s third, fourth and fifth letters spell three other body parts. 

➔Six letters from the word can be rearranged to form plural body parts. 

➔Three letters can be rearranged to form other plural body parts.

➔Five letters can be rearranged to name something that protects body parts.

➔Five letters can be rearranged to name a word meaning physique.

➔Four letters can be rearranged to name a word meaning a body’s shape.

➔Four letters can be rearranged to name a particular collection of hundreds of similar very thin body parts.

What are these ten words related to the human body? 

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.)

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