PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER (987 + 65) SERVED
Welcome to our November 24th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
Happy Cold Turkey Sandwich Day! It’s the day we rightly give thanks for leftovers. But don’t expect any leftover puzzles on this week’s menus – all are fresh from our oven and piping hot.
We are serving up:
⇓One “bad mother of invention” Appetizer
⇓One “there is no puzzle either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” Slice;
⇓⇓⇓⇓Four highly unusual... well okay, rather perhaps somewhat unusual Riffing-Off-Shortz Slices; and
⇓One “wokking on eggshells” (using vegetable oil as a soothing agent) Dessert.
So, quick, stick your gray-matter forks in these mysterious morsels. Make your Black Friday a Red Letter puzzle-solving Day. And, please enjoy the feast.
Eponymous Weaponry Appetizer:
Bad cons and connotations
Think of a kind of weapon named after its inventor. Three consecutive letters in the name of the weapon form a word with bad connotations. Replace it with a different three-letter word with bad connotations to form the last name of a bad guy who used similar albeit perhaps more destructive weapons.
What is this weapon and who is this bad guy?
Droppin’ A “G” On You Slice:
“Somethin’ is forgotten in the state of Texas”
Name a one-word synonym for “acting obsequiously.”
A guy from Texas, say, who speaks Southern American English might pronounce this synonym by “forgetting” to enunciate its final “g.” A bystander who overhears this Texan’s prounciation might think he is giving a somewhat pejorative name for the place he hangs his hat, the hamlet he calls home.
What is this synonym? What does the bystander mishear it as?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Sad & blue... can’t do the boogaloo
Will Shortz’s November 19th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
I’m going to give you six words. Besides the fact that each word contains the letter E, what highly unusual property do they share?
ADIEU
AMAZED
BUREAUS
ELATES
HEAD-ON
SIENNAS
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ONE:
I’m going to give you six words. Besides the fact that none of the words contains the letters D or T, and only two contain an A, what highly unusual property do they share?
ABASE
E-BOOK
I'VE
UM
A
SUN
TWO:
I’m going to give you eleven words. Besides the fact that no word contains the letter B, J, K, P, Q or Y, what somewhat unusual property do they share?
The words are in alphabetical order. Put them in a different order based on the unusual property they share. Find a twelfth word that also shares the property and would logically fit into the twelfth position.
(There may be more than one word that works. My intended answer begins and ends with consonants and contains nine letters.)
CAVEFISH
EXIST
FIGHTER
INTERZONAL
NEWTONS
SCROFULA
SIENNA
TETHERS
UNSEVERED
VENOM
VENTS
* Extra credit: Identify the cookie and all nine people over the age of 9 in the collage of photos pictured in this puzzle slice (ignore the people in the TV screen). Anyone who identifies the tenth person pictured gets extra-extra-read-all-about-it credit.
THREE:
I’m going to give you seven words. Besides the fact that six of the seven words contain the letter E and all seven contain a consonant in common, what somewhat unusual property do they share?
BALKED
DONNED
DOPE
HANDS
SKATED
STEADY
TOILED
FOUR:
I’m going to give you nine words. Besides the fact that the first letters of the ten words can be rearranged to form the words “CAR HICCUPS,” what somewhat unusual property do they share?
Note: One of the 10 words in the list is purposely misspelled. A duplicate of one of its letters was removed to make it eligible for the purposes of this puzzle.
ABASE
CONTENT
UKE
HERMIT
CONVENT
INDULT
REVEL
SUPLICATE
CONTEST
PRODUCT
Compounding The Foodie Problem Dessert:
The incredible inedible eggshell?
Each of the two parts of a compound word for a food is also by itself a word for a food. All three foods usually contain inedible parts.
Place the word for one of these usually inedible parts after the first part of the compound word. Remove the first letter of the result to form a plant associated with vegetable oil production.
What are these three foods and the plant associated with vegetable oil?
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.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.
Welcome to our November 24th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!Happy Cold Turkey Sandwich Day! It’s the day we rightly give thanks for leftovers. But don’t expect any leftover puzzles on this week’s menus – all are fresh from our oven and piping hot.
We are serving up:
⇓One “bad mother of invention” Appetizer
⇓One “there is no puzzle either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” Slice;
⇓⇓⇓⇓Four highly unusual... well okay, rather perhaps somewhat unusual Riffing-Off-Shortz Slices; and
⇓One “wokking on eggshells” (using vegetable oil as a soothing agent) Dessert.So, quick, stick your gray-matter forks in these mysterious morsels. Make your Black Friday a Red Letter puzzle-solving Day. And, please enjoy the feast.
Appetizer Menu
Eponymous Weaponry Appetizer:Bad cons and connotations
Think of a kind of weapon named after its inventor. Three consecutive letters in the name of the weapon form a word with bad connotations. Replace it with a different three-letter word with bad connotations to form the last name of a bad guy who used similar albeit perhaps more destructive weapons.What is this weapon and who is this bad guy?
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Droppin’ A “G” On You Slice:
“Somethin’ is forgotten in the state of Texas”
Name a one-word synonym for “acting obsequiously.” A guy from Texas, say, who speaks Southern American English might pronounce this synonym by “forgetting” to enunciate its final “g.” A bystander who overhears this Texan’s prounciation might think he is giving a somewhat pejorative name for the place he hangs his hat, the hamlet he calls home.
What is this synonym? What does the bystander mishear it as?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Sad & blue... can’t do the boogaloo
Will Shortz’s November 19th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
I’m going to give you six words. Besides the fact that each word contains the letter E, what highly unusual property do they share?
ADIEU
AMAZED
BUREAUS
ELATES
HEAD-ON
SIENNAS
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ONE:
I’m going to give you six words. Besides the fact that none of the words contains the letters D or T, and only two contain an A, what highly unusual property do they share?
ABASEE-BOOK
I'VE
UM
A
SUN
TWO:
I’m going to give you eleven words. Besides the fact that no word contains the letter B, J, K, P, Q or Y, what somewhat unusual property do they share?
The words are in alphabetical order. Put them in a different order based on the unusual property they share. Find a twelfth word that also shares the property and would logically fit into the twelfth position.
(There may be more than one word that works. My intended answer begins and ends with consonants and contains nine letters.)
CAVEFISH
EXISTFIGHTER
INTERZONAL
NEWTONS
SCROFULA
SIENNA
TETHERS
UNSEVERED
VENOM
VENTS
* Extra credit: Identify the cookie and all nine people over the age of 9 in the collage of photos pictured in this puzzle slice (ignore the people in the TV screen). Anyone who identifies the tenth person pictured gets extra-extra-read-all-about-it credit.
THREE:I’m going to give you seven words. Besides the fact that six of the seven words contain the letter E and all seven contain a consonant in common, what somewhat unusual property do they share?
BALKEDDONNED
DOPE
HANDS
SKATED
STEADY
TOILED
FOUR:I’m going to give you nine words. Besides the fact that the first letters of the ten words can be rearranged to form the words “CAR HICCUPS,” what somewhat unusual property do they share?
Note: One of the 10 words in the list is purposely misspelled. A duplicate of one of its letters was removed to make it eligible for the purposes of this puzzle.ABASE
CONTENT
UKE
HERMIT
CONVENT
INDULTREVEL
SUPLICATE
CONTEST
PRODUCT
Dessert Menu
Compounding The Foodie Problem Dessert:The incredible inedible eggshell?
Each of the two parts of a compound word for a food is also by itself a word for a food. All three foods usually contain inedible parts.
Place the word for one of these usually inedible parts after the first part of the compound word. Remove the first letter of the result to form a plant associated with vegetable oil production.
What are these three foods and the plant associated with vegetable oil?
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.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.
MENTAL
ReplyDeleteDENTAL
LADEN
HEAVEN
HUDDLE
CERTAIN
WONDER
TABLE
MEDAL
READY
ACCENT
RECENT
ODE
TOO
FOUL
FINE
MIX
SEVER
MIGHT
NICE
DEN
HERO
CALM
HARM
FORM
Should I BE LOOKING FOR a somewhat MORE unusual PROPERTY?
Paul, if this list pertains to ROSS ONE, then, yes, I think so.
DeleteLegoWhoBelievesPaulMayBeMoreThanSomewhatMoreUnusuallyIntelligentThanHimself
No, that list does not pertain to ROSS ONE. For ROSS ONE I recommend a list of Saints. And for ROSS THREE, how about:
DeleteBANSHEE
GHOST
GHOUL
MUMMY
VAMPIRE
WEREWOLF
ZOMBIE
One of the pictured people recently expressed thanks for "God's mercy, grace and favor." Others have done so in the past, when they understood the gravity of their situation. I didn't really check, but I don't think any of the ladies got out of jail recently; I'd be surprised if any of them have ever been in trouble at all; males are more likely to be the rascals in the group, in a school or any unruly environment. Sylvester comes to mind, as does Ogden Nash. I have no idea who the one with the fruit and cake is.
ReplyDeleteAt first glance, one of those ladies could have been Emma Thompson, for all I knew.
DeleteDe Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
ReplyDeleteWell, Happy Day After, P! friends. As usual, I delightedly found the new puzzles in the wee hours of the morning, and thus spent time when I should have gone to bed, on them instead. Also as usual, I have NO idea what Paul's "hints" mean. Managed to solve the Appetizer and Dessert, but nowhere on the Texas slice, or indeed ANY of the 'what do these words have in commons." I am TERRIBLE at those (I did NOT get last Sunday's NPR puzzle, for example.)
ReplyDeleteThe people and cookie were identifiable, all but the guy with the TV set and the kid. So despite all efforts, there is nothing left that I can even attempt. [Shedding small tear....is there a keyboard 'emoticon' for that?]
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ReplyDeleteSo as to not waste the accidental duplication of my first post (don't know WHY that happens) and subsequent deletion, I thought I'd just add that I finally figured out the TV set guy (discovered a way to put a photo into an ID box in GOogle. Yippee...as I'd never heard of this fellow.)
DeleteHappy Black Friday everyone! We had a great Thanksgiving yesterday, though I wasn't too crazy about the food. My sister-in-law's sister Leanne prepared the turkey this time around, but even though they insisted it was a Butterball(my favorite brand), I was not impressed with how she cooked it. I don't think I really like smoked turkey that much. Then later that evening I drank some water and it felt like I had acid reflux again, and I felt dizzy all over again when I went to bed. Luckily I don't feel as bad today, but it still worries me. So far I have the Appetizer, but nothing else. I really got lucky with last week's Sunday Puzzle, so these Ripoffs seem rather tricky. I will, of course, need hints for all others.
ReplyDeleteEarly Hints:
ReplyDeleteEWA:
Yancy. Sloopy singer
DAGOYS:
The synonym for “acting obsequiously" has three syllables. What the bystander hears has two syllables.
ROSS:
ONE:
"Sad & blue... can’t do the boogaloo " is a hint for this first ROSS.
("UM" and "A" are a bit redundant.)
TWO:
This one is unlike Will's six-word puzzle, although it does require some rearrangement of letters.
THREE:
This one is very much like Will's six-word puzzle. As in the NPR puzzle, you ought to concentrate on the letter in common, a consonant in this case. One of the answers to my puzzle also applies to Will's puzzle, in a way.
FOUR:
This one is something like Will's six-word puzzle, but instead of removing a letter and rearranging the remaining letters, you do something somewhat akin to that to alter each word. Then try to contemplate what the new words have in common.
CTFPD:
Were I solving this one, I think I would try thinking of as many compound words for a food as I could. There cannot be that many of those.
LeG'EarlyManWantsToPompYouUp...Puzzlewise
Ah, re Texas slice, that DOES, then, turn out to be the very word I originally thought...I just hadn't understood how to shorten it so it would be geographically locatable....but I have it now.
DeleteOn to the Riff hints....thanks, Lego
Re your dessert hint: that is EXACTLy what I did (already).
DeleteYour eloquence escapes me.
DeleteA clarification of my hints: ROSS FOUR involves no rearrangement of letters.
DeleteAnother Dessert hint: spring training
LegoAdds:NotThePlantInTheDesertLeagueButTheOtherLeague
Paul, WHOSE 'eloquence escapes' you? Was that meant for ME or for Lego?
DeleteBOTH, I guess; I just don't know my Texas towns, apparently.
DeleteWords are hard to find; they're meaningless and all that's true; so, don't think me unkind (and please don't call the police!), I'm just trying to make another of my obscure hints (about the Dessert puzzle, which I DID solve).
Paul, I'd never heard of this particular town either (despite being born in that state).....which is why I initially didn't think I had the correct synonym (since I couldn't turn it into anything I had recognized.)
DeleteHowever, if the eloquence comment had anything to do, as you state above, with the DESSERT, I, for the umpteenth time, do NOT get the obscure hint! [And I have the Dessert answer already.]
Thank God for Oxford
ReplyDeleteThank Oxford for God
DeleteLegoPushingTheTheologicalEnvelope
Sent an email 11/25 to the jrywriter address. Is that the best way to contact you?
ReplyDeleteHi Nikki. Yes, jrywriter@aol.com is the best way to contact me. Glad to hear your novel publication is progressing apace.
DeleteLegoLiterary
Got the Menu puzzle, Ripoffs #2 and #3, and the Dessert!
ReplyDeleteI also have most of the people and/or things named in the collage!
ReplyDeleteHere are my hints to hints I posted this past week over on the fine Blainesville blog to Will Shortz's ADIEU, AMAZED, BUREAUS... puzzle:
ReplyDeleteSunday 6:40 PM
Blooms elide (Oldsmobile + e).
LegoWhoHopedToHaveHisReeboksResoled(R.E.Olds + e)UntilHeWasThreatenedWithLegalAction
Sun 7:06:00 PM
An awkward, tentative, Tarzanesque 3-short-word response to "Madam, I'm Adam" might be "Uh, me Eve."
(Humvee + e = "Uh, me Eve.")
Mon 12:57 AM
Will's challenge this week is the sorta puzzle that sorta teases (Testa Rossa + e) the brain. And, such fairly esoteric proof of your answer epitomizes the brand of elite banter (Berlinetta + e) you expect to see here at Blainesville.
LegoWhoInsistsHeAin'tLyin' ("Lyin" linked to an image of a prevaricatin' guy with his backside on fire... in other words, a "rear fire" (Ferrari + e).
Mon 2:17:00 PM
I found four answers to your challenge, Pizza Guy ("I DON'T GIVE A ____":
1. a word that precedes Gibson (Hoot)
2. a word that precedes Newton (fig)
3. a word that precedes shoot (crap)
4. a 2-word phrase with 4 and 8 letters that can be rearranged to to name "what won Super Bowls XXXVI and XXXVIII," in 3 words of 1, 8 and 3 letters. The 4-letter word in the 2-word phrase has an apostrophe; the 8-letter word in the 3-word phrase has an apostrophe. And someone won 2 Super Bowl trophies. (a Patriot's Toe = rat's patootie)
Mon 5:46:00 PM
Will Shortz, ye swill the heady nectar of the puzzle gods.
Each Sunday doth thou set a sly wile snare, a maze that prods
Our brains to find the solute truth beneath thy false facades...
Yes Will, we silly solvers sometimes do, against all odds.
(The letters in all four 2-word phrases in parentheses, minus e, can be rearranged to spell "Willys."
LegoWhoBelievesDonaldTrumpGotAndRoyMooreWillGetThe(Chevrolet+e)
Ha ha ha...the 'lecher vote" Love it!
DeleteI still can't figure out Ripoffs #1 and #4. How about a few more hints, Lego? It's crunch time!
ReplyDelete"Sad & blue... can’t do the boogaloo" is a clue to ROSS ONE. These are song lyrics. There is a nonsense word of one syllable in the song that is the key to solving the puzzle.
ReplyDeleteROSS FOUR is really tough, perhaps unfairly so. In each word a letter can be replaced to form a new word. There is something about those new words that is the key to the solution. It has o do with pronunciation.
LegoHopesYouCanUseTheseCluesAndPutThemToGoodUse
I only worked on the Texas offering. The answer is KOWTOWING > COW TOWN.
ReplyDeleteAh, reminiscent of "Cattle own ya".
DeleteYes, and not to be confused with a cow towing business.
DeleteDerringer pistol invented by Henry Deringer; John Dillinger preferred a submachine gun invented by John (not Emma) Thompson.
ReplyDeleteAdd DAT to the words in ROSS ONE to get other words. (New Orleans Saints fans have been known to say "who dat?" I have no idea why.
I blurted out RE-ENVELOP a few days too early, but I doubt that it helped anyone discover the anagrammed numbers 0-10 concealed within the words of ROSS TWO. Besides, I hope Lego's answer is more elegant: Google kept insisting I really meant RED ENVELOPE and sending me to gift shopping sites. The Oxford dictionary finally came to my rescue.
Sir Isaac and Olivia were easy for me to recognize, as was the plate of fruit and cake bars. I guessed that the lads in the cowboy outfits were Wayne and his brother Jerry, aka Rascals in Rhythm, and the guy standing next to the "vast wasteland" is Mr. Minow. The other lady in the top row goes by the name "Juice", but was not recently paroled. Huey, next to her, and Cam, down in the opposite corner, both spent some time behind bars, and both are Panthers. For a while, I thought Huey looked like Arnold, who I sometimes confuse with Sylvester, but not the one who no doubt agrees with Ogden about the best way to respond to a panther, and might get the remaining lady mixed up with Olivia's character.
I provided a list of UNDEAD creatures because I think W.H. Auden would fit right in with Blake, Donne, Poe, Nash (again), Keats, Yeats, and Eliot.
I got the fact that each ROSS FOUR word can become another word with the change of just one letter, and started making a list of other words with that property, but soon realized that by itself, that's not all that unusual at all. I don't know what the other constraint(s) might be.
GRAPEFRUIT >> RAPESEED OIL
I wish they'd find another name for that plant. I was shocked when that word found its way into the lyrics of the Police song I kept quoting from all week.
Both Huey and Cam are Panthers. Fantastic, Paul!
DeleteLegoNotesThatJordyAndBabyFaceNelsonAreBothPackers
Appetizer
ReplyDeleteDERRINGER, (John)DILLINGER, ERR, ILL
Menu
KOWTOWIN'("COW TOWN")
Ripoffs
1. Add DAT to the beginnngs to make new words: DATABASE, DATEBOOK, DATIVE, DATUM, DATA, DATSUN
2. Numbers: INTERZONAL(ZERO), VENOM(ONE), NEWTONS(TWO), TETHERS(THREE), SCROFULA(FOUR), CAVEFISH(FIVE), EXIST(SIX), UNSEVERED(SEVEN), FIGHTER(EIGHT), SIENNA(NINE), VENTS(TEN)
Extra Credit: JUICE NEWTON, OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN, SIR ISAAC NEWTON, NEWTON N. MINOW, WAYNE NEWTON, FIG NEWTONS, CAM NEWTON
3. Famous poets: BALKED(William)BLAKE, DONNED(John)DONNE, DOPE(Edgar Allan)POE, HANDS(Ogden)NASH, SKATED(John)KEATS, STEADY(William Butler)YEATS, TOILED(T. S.)ELIOT
4. ABASE, ABUSE; CONTENT, CONTEXT; UKE, USE; HERMIT, PERMIT; CONVENT, CONVERT; INDULT, INSULT; REVEL, REBEL; SUPLICATE(SUPPLICATE), DUPLICATE; CONTEST, CONGEST; PRODUCT, PRODUCE(Some of the words may be pronounced two different ways.)
Dessert
GRAPEFRUIT, RAPESEED
God I hate that Pipkins song!-pjb
I'm not very proud of myself this week....all the hints in the world (although if there WERE any last minute ones, I haven't seen them, as I purposely do NOT look when posting answers, lest I be 'tempted'.....ha ha)....wouldn't have helped me with the 'what unusual property' Riff Offs.
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER: D(ERR)INGER => D(ILL)INGER
DROPPING "G" SLICE: GROVELING & GROVELAND, TX
RIFF OFFS:
1. ?????? BASTE BOOKED DIVE MUD AD NUTS ?????
2. EXTRA CREDIT: Cookie: FIG NEWTON; People: HARRY NEWTON; JUICE NEWTON; OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN; ISAAC NEWTON; NEWTON MINOW; THANDIE NEWTON; WAYNE & JERRY NEWTON; CAM NEWTON?
3. BALKED -D = BLEAK; STEADY -D = YEAST; SKATED -D = STAKE or STEAK; DONNED -D = NO END ???????
4. CONTENTION, CONVENTION, PRODUCTION???
DESSERT: GRAPE/FRUIT [Inedible part: SEED] => GRAPESEED => RAPESEED OIL [includes CANOLA]
This week's official answers, for the record (Part 1):
ReplyDeleteAppetizer Menu
Eponymous Weaponry Appetizer:
Bad cons and connotations
Think of a kind of weapon named after its inventor. Three consecutive letters in the name of the weapon form a word with bad connotations. Replace it with a different three-letter word with bad connotations to form the last name of a bad guy who used similar albeit perhaps more destructive weapons.
What is this weapon and who is this bad guy?
Answer:
Derringer pistol [invented by Henry Deringer (sic), gunsmith]; (John) Dillinger, gangster
MENU
Droppin’ A “G” On You Slice:
“Somethin’ is forgotten in the state of Texas”
Name a synonym for “acting obsequiously.” A guy from Texas, say, who speaks Southern American English might pronounce this synonym by “forgetting” to enunciate its final “g.” A bystander who overhears this Texan’s prounciation might think he is decribing the place he hangs his hat, the hamlet he calls home.
What is this synonym? What does the bystander mishear it as?
Answer:
Kowtowing; cow town
Lego...
This week's official answers, for the record (Part 2):
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz Slices:
Sad & blue... can’t do the boogaloo
ONE:
I’m going to give you six words. Besides the fact that none of the words contains the letters D or T, and only two contain an A, what highly unusual property do they share?
ABASE
E-BOOK
I'VE
UM
A
SUN
Answer:
Placing a DAT before each word results in the formation of a new word:
DATABASE, DATEBOOK, DATIVE, DATUM, DATA, DATSUN
TWO:
I’m going to give you eleven words. Besides the fact that no word contains the letter B, J, K, P, Q or Y, what somewhat unusual property do they share? The words are in alphabetical order. Put them in a different order based on the unusual property they share. Find a twelfth word that also shares the property and would logically fit into the twelfth position.(There may be more than one word that works. My intended answer begins and ends with consonants and contains nine letters.)
CAVEFISH
EXIST
FIGHTER
INTERZONAL
NEWTONS
SCROFULA
SIENNA
TETHERS
UNSEVERED
VENOM
VENTS
Answer:
The correct order is:
VENOM, NEWTONS, TETHERS, SCROFULA, CAVEFISH, EXIST, UNSEVERED, FIGHTER, SIENNA, VENTS.
The property they share is that each contains interior consecutive letters that can be rearranged to spell ZERO, ONE, TWO, THREE... TEN.
My intended answer for the twelfth word is LEVELNESS, (ELEVEN) but there may be others that work also.
THREE:
I’m going to give you seven words. Besides the fact that six of the seven words contain the letter E and all seven contain a consonant in common, what somewhat unusual property do they share?
BALKED
DONNED
DOPE
HANDS
SKATED
STEADY
TOILED
Answer:
If you remove a D from each word the remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the last name of a noted poet:
(William) BLAKE, (John) DONNE, (Edgar Allen) POE, (Ogden) NASH, (John) KEATS, (William Butlet) YEATS, (T. S.) ELIOT.
FOUR:
I'm going to give you nine words. Besides the fact that the first letters of the ten words can be rearranged to form the words “CAR HICCUPS,” what somewhat unusual property do they share?
Note: One of the 10 words in the list is purposely misspelled. A duplicate of one of its letters was removed to make it eligible for the purposes of this puzzle.
ABASE
CONTENT
UKE
HERMIT
CONVENT
INDULT (LINK)
REVEL
SUPLICATE
CONTEST
PRODUCT
Answer:
If you replace one letter of each word with the right letter you will form what is called a “grammatical function heteronym” – that is, a word that, depending on what part-of-speech role it plays, is pronounced differently, although its spelling is identical in either case. For example, consider the word “graduate” in the sentence, “The MIT graduate (noun) said that she was proud to graduate (verb) with magna cum laude honors.”
ABASE >> ABUSE (A spouse who abuses a spouse is guilty of domestic abuse.)
CONTENT >> CONTEST
UKE >> USE
HERMIT >> PERMIT
CONVENT >> CONVERT
INDULT >> INSULT
REVEL >> REBEL
SUPLICATE (sic) >> DUPLICATE
CONTEST >> CONTENT
PRODUCT >> PRODUCE
Dessert Menu
Compounding The Foodie Problem Dessert:
The incredible inedible eggshell?
Each of the two parts of a compound word for a food is also by itself a word for a food. All three foods usually contain inedible parts.
Place the word for one of these usually inedible parts after the first part of the compound word. Remove the first letter of the result to form a plant associated with vegetable oil production.
What are these three foods and the plant associated with vegetable oil?
Answer:
Grapefruit, grape, fruit, rapeseed
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