Friday, October 20, 2017

Anatomy leads to antonymy; Translating algebra into English; Climate change of place; Men of (somewhat different) letters


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Welcome to our October 20th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
We feature this week a ⇓⇓⇓⇓ four-part Riffing Off Shortz Slice. It asks the solver to shift some numbers around to equalize inequalities, then to translate numerical equations into English poetry.
Also on our menus are:
One anatomical Appetizer,
One  Best Seller Slice, and
One world map Dessert.

Please enjoy.

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Body Language Appetizer:
Anatomy leads to antonymy 

Place the names of two body parts, singular and plural, next to each other without a space. Inserting spaces in two different places results in three consecutive new words. The first and third new words are antonyms of one another. The second new word names what one of the body parts allows you to do. What are these body parts?

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Best Seller Slice:
Men of (somewhat different) letters

Remove some consecutive letters from the full name (as it appears on dust jackets) of a best-selling author to form the full name (as it appears on dust jackets) of another best-selling author who has published about four times as many books as the first author, and in a different genre. Who are these authors?

Riffing Off Shortz And Guido Slices:
Translating algebra into English 

Will Shortz’s October 1st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Zack Guido, reads: 

Write down the equation 65 – 43 = 21. You’ll notice that this is not correct. 65 minus 43 equals 22, not 21. The object is to move exactly two of the digits to create a correct equation. There is no trick in the puzzle’s wording. In the answer, the minus and equal signs do not move.
Puzzleria’s! Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ONE:
Write down the equation 65 – 43 = 210. You’ll notice that this is not correct. 65 minus 43 equals 22, not 210. The object is to move exactly two of the digits to create a correct equation. 
There is no trick in the puzzle’s wording. In the answer, the minus and equal signs do not move. 
TWO:
Write down the equation 65 = 43 – 210. You’ll notice that this is not correct. The object is to delete exactly one digit and move exactly two of the remaining six digits to create a correct equation. There is no trick in the puzzle’s wording. In the answer, the minus and equal signs do not move.
THREE:
Translate the following equation into an English quatrain. The first and third lines are written in iambic tetrameter. The second and fourth lines are written in iambic trimeter with dangling unstressed syllables at their ends.
(13 + 20)  +  (30 + 43)  =  97
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Here is an outline of what the quatrain will look like:
A _____’_  _____  ____  _  _____ 
Divided  __  ______
Plus  ______  ____  ___  ____  __  ____
Will  _____  ______-_____.


FOUR:
Translate the following equation into an English quatrain in iambic heptameter
($100)(12) – [($0.10)(7,000) + ($0.25)(1,200)  + ($0.05)(x)] = 0
The first couplet of the quatrain consists of two declarative sentences, each ending with a period. The second couplet of the quatrain includes a colon and a comma, in that order, and ends with a question mark.
The verse contains 45 words. 
Its first line contains 11 words, one of them a contraction; The second line contains 12 words; The third line contains 11 words; The fourth line contains 9 words.
There are no hyphenated words in the verse.
The final words of the four lines are, in order, “times,” “bill,”  [a word that rhymes with “times”] and [a word that rhymes with “bill”].
The initial words of the four lines are, in order,
“My,” 
“Per,” 
“This” and “Twelve.” 
Below, in alphabetical order, are 25 of the 35 remaininng (43 – 8) words that appear in the quatrain. The number in parentheses following each word indicates the line in which it appears:
a (1), a (2), and (3), blown (3), break (2), cash (1), crisp (2), dollar (2), each (2), how (4), I (2), in (1), income’s (1), is (3), many (4), me (1), meager (1), month (2), on (3), paid (1), slots (3), sum (3), to (1), vendors (3), year (2);
The remaining 10 words (35 – 25) are evident in the algebraic equation that is to be translated.
Here is an outline of what the quatrain will look like:
My ______  ______’_  ____  __  __  __  ____  _  _____  times
Per ____.  ____  _____  _  _____  _  _____  ___  _______  ______  bill.  
This  ___  __  _____  __  _____  ___  _______:  _____  ________  [“times” rhyme],
Twelve  _______  ________  ____  ___  ____  _______  ______  [“bill” rhyme]?

(Finally, solve for x.)


Dessert Menu

Global Dessert:
Climate change of place

Remove a two-letter abbreviation from a city on the world map, leaving two words in which all five vowels appear exactly once except for “a” (which not appear at all)
Reverse the positions of the two words, remove the space, replace the “u” with an “a”  and eliminate the “e”. The result, spelled backward, names the climate of this city.
What is this city, and what is its climate?


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34 comments:

  1. Jerome and Isaac would be too easy (and probably inaccurate).

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  2. "all five vowels except “a” appear exactly once"

    EIOU or AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA......................EIOU

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    1. That's funny, Paul....he meant there is one set of EIOU and NO "A"s at all.

      As usual, I have no idea what your first comment means. Does it refer somehow to the Best Seller Slice, which I have yet to solve?

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    2. If J.D. Salinger and I.B. Singer somehow figure into BSS, mea culpa.

      I assume VT has solved the Dessert.

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    3. Thanks, VT. Paul, of course, is correct in his own particular version of "ViolinTedditing" (we might call it "Paultering"). The way I wrote it, the number of A's in the name of the city's remaining two words could be zero or any-number-greater-than-one. But as you both correctly realize, I meant zero.

      As for Paul's Jerome/Isaac comment, I am still pondering what he is getting at. But I'll agree with you that it likely has to do with the Best Seller Slice. By the way, when I refer to the "names" of the authors in that slice, I mean their full, first and last name, as they appear on the dust jackets.

      LegoLaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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    4. Ah, I just found the above answer about the full names, Legoaaaa....I had been wondering and almost posted the question down below. Fortunately, scrolled up and saw this post re Paul's comment.

      Yes, Paul, I have solved the Dessert, but sadly, have NOT solved the Best seller slice.

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  3. Now, Lego, Tedditor at work again: in RIp Off #3, you state that the 'first and third' lines are in iambic tetrameter, but then you say the same lines are in iambic trimeter.....I assume you meant to write that the SECOND and FOURTH lines were trimeter, right? I don't even understand what tetrameter means (one usually hears of iambic PENTAmeter.)

    Are the last word of the first and third lines in that same Rip Off supposed to rhyme? Because I surely can NOT make them do so. [My second and fourth lines rhyme nicely. But they were the easy ones.]

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    1. Good catch, ViolinTedditor. I made the correction. Thank you.
      A line in iambic pentameter contains five iambs (which are metrical feet of two-syllables, the first unstressed and the second stressed).
      Examples of words that are iambs include "assume," "belong" and "alone."
      Tetrameter = 4 metrical feet, in this case iambs
      Trimeter = 3 metrical feet, in this case iambs
      The second and fourth lines of the quatrain (which are in iambic trimeter) each contain seven, not six, total syllables, however, because there is a seventh unstressed syllable at the end of each.
      The last words of those first and third lines do indeed rhyme.

      LegoHintsThatThoseLastWordsBothAlsoRhymeWithTheSurnameOfAManWhoSharesAnElectoralDistinctionWithHillaryClinton

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    2. Well, it's beyond me, Lego, how to get the first and third lines to rhyme in your Rip Off #3 (had no such trouble in RIp Off #4)...in fact, although when English-describing only the 'sheer math' in equations, rather than trying to make rhymes, I have no trouble, I am beginning to doubt whether EITHER last word that I've got in those two lines is correct.

      I do think I have a good solution for Rip Off #4, however....the correct number of words, the proper rhymes...although that one would have been impossible without all the supplied words, as I had NO clue it was to be a 'story' rather than simply a description of the math.

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  4. I solved the Global Dessert puzzle. I never heard of the city and did not use a list to get the answer. I solved it using logic.

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    1. I, also, started out using logic (backwards as is so often the case), until I got stuck because having never heard of the city, I simply could NOT produce it without checking Google.

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    2. With Lego's clarification, I was able to deduce the vowels in the climate. I remembered one from junior high geography class that seemed to work. I guessed where to break it apart, and turning the pieces around gave me at least one word that made sense. I typed that word into Google and started typing in the other "word". Then I remembered the A/U substitution. Then Google started suggesting things to me, and lo and behold, there was the two-letter abbreviation I had first thought of. Then I remembered about the "e"limination, and thought I was home free. Except, according to Wikipedia, the city's climate falls "just short" of being a "true" representative of the climate I had in mind. It's enough to make me wanna cry! I suppose the logical thing to do at this point would be to consult a list of climates (I don't remember all the ones I learned in jr. high, and they (whoever they are) may have changed them a bit in the intervening years) to see if there's another one with the right set of vowels, or maybe even consider non-technical climatic terms like hot, cold, wet, dry, etc., but "close enough for government work," I say.

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    3. Paul,
      You had my intended answer.

      LegoTakingClimaticLibertes

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    4. Hello everyone. My apologies for not posting yesterday. I'm feeling under the weather. Stomach flu, I think. I'll spare you the messy details. Anyway, I did look over this week's puzzles, and I can honestly say it's unlikely I'll try to do the Ripoffs, since I'm not interested in math puzzles, no offense. As for the others, I really don't feel up to doing any of the detective work necessary for them. Hopefully I'll be feeling better soon, and I hope to comment again when I do. Sorry.

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    6. I hope you feel better soon, pjb.

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    7. You'll feel better if you are able to solve the Dessert Puzzle. You should find it easy.

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    8. Put de lime in de coconut.

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  5. I like both the Will Shortz Move Two Number puzzle and the two Joseph Young Riffing Off Shortz Slices. None of them require two weeks to solve!

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    1. Welcome, EKW. Thanks for commenting. You are correct about the "two weeks" thing. Most high school grads ought to be able to solve these "super" puzzles.

      LegoWelcoming

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    2. Dear Lego.

      Thank you for the welcome. I've been doing the Sunday Puzzle since
      Will asked how many possible outcomes there are to a four horse race. That was in the post card days of the previous century, around 1996 or so. I've never a call from Will, but I still send in entries once in
      a while. I follow the blogs a bit but rarely send comments.

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    3. Wow, EKW, that 4-horse puzzle was even easier than last week's 65 - 43 = 21 puzzle! I wonder how many correct entries Will Shortz got that week.
      Just curious, if you want to share: does "EKW" stand for something other than just your initials?

      LegoWhoMightFinishFifthInAFourHorseRace

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  6. Change in diagnosis: My hiatal hernia has gotten worse. We got the runaround from both the doctor's office and the drugstore, and my mother finally laid down the law with the doctor's and went to get my Pantoprazole. I fear it may be too late, though. As bad as I feel right now, I'm convinced I need surgery. Will visit the doctor in a few days to see what she thinks.

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    1. You are in my prayers, cranberry. And I am sure I speak for many others who participate in our blog.

      LegoHopingForHealing

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  7. In sympathy with ya, pjb, because I have one of those hiatal hernias as well. The gastro P.A. put me on omaprazole back in January...is that the same thing as Pantoprazole? It mostly works, although sometimes the dreaded 'rising' of the pain starts (especially when haven't eaten in 12 or more hours.) They told me surgery wasn't possible on it....I wonder? Do you need to find a specialist (i.e. gastroenterology), rather than just a family doctor, in order to get proper care?

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  8. I thought the EKW monogram looked familiar. "Equatorial Kelvin Wave", I believe. Correct me if I'm mistaken.
    Maybe my coconut joke wasn't very funny, or maybe laughter isn't the best medicine. Either way, I hope you're feeling at the top of your game very quickly, pjb.
    I'm officially bailing out on the ripriffs. Apparently, the first two are similar to the NPR original, and I don't have the patience to work through all the permutations (or write the code to have the computer do it for me). As long as EKW has them, we're good. And poetry just isn't my bag; no slam intended.
    I'm concentrating on BLA: I feel it's just eluding my grasp.

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    1. Dear Paul,

      You are correct. I only spelled out EKW one time, some years ago,
      on a blog that no longer exists. I am quite impressed with your memory.
      Are you an oceanographer?

      I only did the first two rip-offs, and they are indeed similar to the two week
      Will Shortz puzzle, which is still accepting answers until Thursday this week.
      Since the rip-off answers involve the same ideas as the Will Shortz problem,
      I'll comment after noon on Thursday.

      Regards,

      EKW

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    2. Paul:
      Maybe my coconut joke wasn't very funny, or maybe laughter isn't the best medicine"...
      I chuckled at your "lime/coconut/Nillson prescription," and I am sure Patrick picked up on the allusion because he knows his music!
      "And poetry just isn't my bag"...
      I seem to recall that you posted a comment on Word Woman's excellent PEOTS blog, not that long ago, that contained a wonderful biblically themed poem that your composed. (It was much better than one that I had posted on PEOTS earlier in that week's comments thread.)

      LegoWhoThinksPaulWouldShineInPoetrySlams

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    3. No, EKW, I'm not an oceanographer; I didn't even remember your screen name had anything to do with the sea until I looked it up in the archives. Are you still involved with the choral group? I wonder how Ross and Magdalen are doing these days.
      And I continue to hope Patrick feels better. There's nothing funny about feeling bad.
      I had forgotten all about our foray into the realm of double-dactyl poetry, Lego. "Unsanctimonious"? Surely I didn't come up with that all by myself. By the way, humid subtropical (the climate of Port St. Lucie) is a double-dactyl, I think, while tropical (the climate of Miami, where Desi Arnaz fled to escape the Batista regime) is merely a dactyl. Desi did say "Lucy, I'm home!" an' Lucy did cry "waaaaaah" sometimes.
      This morning when I woke up, I finally got NO(SE|E)YES.

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    4. Actually, I guess the climate of Miami is "tropical monsoon".

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  9. Port St. Lucie is a city on the Atlantic coast of southern Florida.

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  10. Egads, I completely forgot AGAIN; was outside raking leaves, and nearly fainting from the effort...though I had remembered last night, in the wee hours, that today was answer-day, but then it was too early to post them. Sorry to make you wait again, Lego.

    APPETIZER: NOSE EYES => NO / SEE / YES

    BEST SELLER SLICE: ????

    RIP OFFS:

    1. 65 - 43 = 210 => 65 - (4) cubed (i.e. exponent '3') = (21) raised to '0' power (which thus equals '1') So I moved the '3' and the '0'

    2. 65 = 43 - 210 => 65 = (4) cubed (i.e. exponent '3') - 1 squared (remove the '0'; moved the '3' and the '2') This is essentially the same thing as #1.

    3. A THIRTEEN's SUMMED WiTH A TWENTY; Divided BY ELEVEN; Plus THIRTY AND A FOUR THAT'S CUBED; Will EQUAL NINETY-SEVEN. [I could not rhyme the first and third lines, no matter what I thought of. Sigh....]

    4. MY MEAGER INCOME'S PAID TO ME IN CASH A DOZEN TIMES

    PER YEAR. EACH MONTH I BREAK A CRISP ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL.

    THIS SUM IS BLOWN ON SLOTS AT VENDORS : SEVEN THOUSAND DIMES,

    TWELVE HUNDRED QUARTERS AND HOW MANY NICKELS EQUAL NIL?

    X = 4000

    DESSERT: PORT ST. LUCIE (FL) => PORT LUCIE => LUCIEPORT => LACIPORT => TROPICAL

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  11. This week's official answers, for the record, Part 1:

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    Body Language Appetizer:
    Anatomy leads to antonymy
    Place the names of two body parts, singular and plural, next to each other without a space. Inserting spaces in two different places results in three consecutive new words. The first and third new words are antonyms of one another. The second new word names what one of the body parts allows you to do. What are these body parts?
    Answer:
    Nose; Eyes
    (no; see; yes)

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    Best Seller Slice:
    Men of (somewhat different) letters
    Remove some consecutive letters from the name of a best-selling author to name another best-selling author who has published about four times as many books as the first author, and in a different genre. Who are these authors?
    Answer:
    Stephen Hawking; Stephen King

    Riffing Off Shortz And Guido Slices:
    Translating algebra into English
    ONE:
    Write down the equation 65 – 43 = 210. You’ll notice that this is not correct. 65 minus 43 equals 22, not 210. The object is to move exactly two of the digits to create a correct equation. There is no trick in the puzzle’s wording. In the answer, the minus and equal signs do not move.
    Answer:
    Superscript the 4 and the 0:
    65 – 4 base 3 = 21 base 0
    65 – 64 = 1
    TWO:
    Write down the equation 65 = 43 – 210. You’ll notice that this is not correct. The object is to delete exactly one digit and move exactly two of the remaining six digits to create a correct equation. There is no trick in the puzzle’s wording. In the answer, the minus and equal signs do not move.
    Answer:
    Delete the 5, move the zero in its place, and superscript the 4:
    60 equals 3 base 4 minus 21
    60 = 81 – 21

    Lego...

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  12. This week's official answers, for the record, Part 2:

    MENU (continued)
    Riffing Off Shortz And Guido Slices:
    Translating algebra into English

    THREE:
    Translate the following equation into an English quatrain. The first and third lines are written in iambic tetrameter. The second and fourth lines are written in iambic trimeter with dangling unstressed syllables at their ends.
    (13 + 20) + (30 + 43) = 97
    11
    Here is an outline of what the quatrain will look like:
    A _____’_ _____ ____ _ _____
    Divided __ ______
    Plus ______ ____ ___ ____ __ ____
    Will _____ ______-_____.
    Answer:
    A baker’s dozen plus a score
    Divided by eleven
    Plus thirty plus the cube of four
    Will equal ninety-seven.
    FOUR:
    Translate the following equation into an English quatrain in iambic heptameter.
    ($100)(12) – [($0.10)(7,000) + ($0.25)(1,200) + ($0.05)(x)] = 0
    The first couplet of the quatrain consists of two declarative sentences, each ending with a period. The second couplet of the quatrain includes a colon and a comma, in that order, and ends with a question mark.
    The verse contains 45 words.
    Its first line contains 11 words, one of them a contraction; The second line contains 12 words; The third line contains 11 words; The fourth line contains 9 words.
    There are no hyphenated words in the verse.
    The final words of the four lines are, in order, “times,” “bill,” [a word that rhymes with “times”] and [a word that rhymes with “bill”].
    The initial words of the four lines are, in order,
    “My,”
    “Per,”
    “This” and “Twelve.”
    Below, in alphabetical order, are 25 of the 35 remaininng (43 – 8) words that appear in the quatrain. The number in parentheses following each word indicates the line in which it appears:
    a (1), a (2), and (3), blown (3), break (2), cash (1), crisp (2), dollar (2), each (2), how (4), I (2), in (1), income’s (1), is (3), many (4), me (1), meager (1), month (2), on (3), paid (1), slots (3), sum (3), to (1), vendors (3), year (2);
    The remaining 10 words (35 – 25) are evident in the algebraic equation that is to be translated.
    Here is an outline of what the quatrain will look like:
    My ______ ______’_ ____ __ __ __ ____ _ _____ times
    Per ____. ____ _____ _ _____ _ _____ ___ _______ ______ bill.
    This ___ __ _____ __ _____ ___ _______: _____ ________ [“times” rhyme],
    Twelve _______ ________ ____ ___ ____ _______ ______ [“bill” rhyme]?
    (Finally, solve for x.)
    Answer:
    My meager income’s paid to me in cash a dozen times
    Per year. Each month I break a crisp one hundred dollar bill.
    This sum is blown on slots and vendors: seven thousand dimes,
    Twelve hundred quarters plus how many nickels equals nil?
    x = 4,000 (nickels)

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    Global Dessert:
    Climate change of place
    Remove a two-letter abbreviation from a city on the world map, leaving two words in which all five vowels except “a” appear exactly once.
    Reverse the positions of the two words, remove the space, replace the “u” with an “a” and eliminate the “e”. The result, spelled backward, names the climate of this city.
    What is this city, and what is its climate?
    Answer:
    Port St. Lucie, Florida; tropical

    Lego...

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