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Welcome to our December 29th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! We are doing our best impersonation-of-the-Roman-god-Janus this week, looking ahead to 2018 with one face while looking back on 2017 with another.
On our menus are:
1 ⇩ Appetizer ringing in the new year wirh the Roman alphabet and Roman numerals (ye gods!);
1 ⇩ Appetizer that involves name-calling during the 2017 news cycle;
1 ⇩ Slice inviting you to Ramble and roll Bahamasward to celebrate the Junka“noo year”;
5 ⇩⇩⇩⇩⇩ Riffing Off Shortz Slices for those who love “Geogralphabetery”; and
1 ⇩ crib-notable Dessert.
➤The year 2018 is the product of a pair of primes. Puzzlerians! have always been prime-time puzzle players. We are celebrating the dawn of 2018 with nine new puzzles. Have a lot of fun with them.
My New Year’s Resolution? Recycle More! Appetizer:
Piston-ringing in the new mysteryear
Approxiately four months ere I launched Puzzleria!, I posted the following puzzle in the comments section of the Blainesville blog. The precise time of my post was 12:01 AM CST, January 1, 2014:
Name a synonym of Ella Mae Bailey, in five letters. Replace the second letter with its “Equidistant From The Center Of The Alphabet” (EFTCOTA) counterpart (A = Z, B = Y, C = X, D = W… M = N, see accompanying chart, below), and rotate the counterpart letter 90 degrees (clockwise, counterclockwise, Fahrenheit, Celsius, Centigrade, Kelvin… any way you want!) to form a new letter.
Now replace all five letters with their respective EFTCOTA counterpart letters. The result is timely, at least here in Minnesota and environs.
Here are two updated versions of that puzzle
(USE CAPITAL LETTERS):
1. Give a description (consisting of a 4-letter adjective and a 3-letter noun) of a 2005 Maybach Exelero, 1954 Packard Panther-Daytona Roadster or 1957 Jaguar XKSS.
Replace the second letters in both words with their “Equidistant From The Center Of The Alphabet” (EFTCOTA) counterparts (A = Z, B = Y, C = X, D = W… M = N, see accompanying chart, above), and rotate those two counterpart letters 90 degrees (clockwise or counterclockwise) to form two new letters.
Now replace all seven of these letters with their respective EFTCOTA counterpart letters and rearrange them to form a result timely to the season. What is this result?
2. Give a title for Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, A.J. Foyt or Mario Andretti (but not Shirley Muldowney or Danica Patrick), a 2-letter abbreviation and a 5-letter noun.
Replace the second letter in the noun with its “Equidistant From The Center Of The Alphabet” (EFTCOTA) counterpart (A = Z, B = Y, C = X, D = W… M = N, see accompanying chart, above), and rotate that counterpart letter 90 degrees (clockwise or counterclockwise) to form a new letter.
Now replace this new letter and all but the first letter in the abbreviaton with their respective EFTCOTA counterpart letters. Rearrange the seven letters now in front of you to form a result timely to the season. What is this result?
Name In The News Year Appetizer:
Name-calling... it’s how to be little
Think of a person who has been in the news in 2017, first and last names.
Replace a vowel in the name with a different vowel.
Rearrange some of the letters to form a belittling name the person was called in 2017.
The remaining letters can be arranged to form five consecutive letters in the alphabet.
Who is this person?
Rollin’ ‘N’ Ramblin’ Slice:
Journey to a Junkanoo
(Note/disclaimer: The following puzzle takes a liberty or two with the facts and with the maps.)
A resident of nassau, new providence, in the bahamas named umprey is invited by his girlfriend maronique to a junkanoo carnival and festival in her hometown of dolu.
Although dolu is a very small village near the southern coast of the island, doluians host a very festive and popular junkanoo parade every january 1st.
So, umprey hops into his 1955 nash rambler custom sedan and drives south out of nassau on blue hill road. After making two wrong turns and negotiating a detour, he turns right at cowpen road, then hangs a left at the junction with carmichael road.
Before long, as umpry’s rambler reaches the peak of a gentle crest, the outskirts of dolu, new providence, come into view, exactly one kilometer ahead.
The rambler’s odometer indicates that unprey has traveled 16.0934… kilometers, or exactly ten miles.
umprey’s rambler is equipped with six wheels: a steering wheel and five wheels fitted with dunlop tires, including a spare mounted via a “continental kit” in the rear.
These five non-steering, tire-fitted wheels appear to be identical in size but actually, perhaps because of factory inconsistency or differing air pressures, have diameters that vary slightly: In no particular order, tire A’s diameter is a silly millimeter longer than Tire B’s diameter; B’s is a millimeter longer than C’s; C’s is a millimeter longer than D’s; and D’s is a millimeter longer than F’s. Tire C’s diameter is 651 millimeters (25.63 inches).
Five miles into his trip, umphrey gets a flat tire and must replace it with the spare.
What is the minimum number of complete rotations of any one of the rambler’s dunlop tires necessary before maronique's hometown comes into view?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Geographabetical ardor
Will Shortz’s December 24th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
The name of what well-known U.S. city, in 10 letters, contains only three different letters of the alphabet?
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ONE:
The name of what well-known U.S. city, in more than nine letters, contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet?
Hint: The city’s name has been a popular place name across the country. It is the largest city. by population, in two states.
TWO:
The name of what world capital city, in more than nine letters, contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet?
THREE:
The name of what two countries, each with more than nine letters, each contain no duplicate letters of the alphabet?
Hint: The counties share a letter that only 14 other countries have in their names.
FOUR:
The name of what country contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet? This county’s capital city also contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet. The total number of letters in the country and city is 15. What are this capital city and country?
FIVE:
The name of what country contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet? This county’s capital city also contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet. The total number of letters in the country and city is 18. What are this capital city and country?
Plastic Spoon In The Teacher’s Mouth Dessert:
At sea in a midterm? No cribs, use your head!
The principal utters a terse command as she hands lesson plans to the substitute teacher, adding that he should fail any student he catches using a crib note during tests.
The command the principal uttered and the synonym for “crib note” the principal used are two-word phrases in which both first words are anagrams of each other, and both second words are also anagrams of each other.
What are these two phrases?
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 December 29th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! We are doing our best impersonation-of-the-Roman-god-Janus this week, looking ahead to 2018 with one face while looking back on 2017 with another.
On our menus are:1 ⇩ Appetizer ringing in the new year wirh the Roman alphabet and Roman numerals (ye gods!);
1 ⇩ Appetizer that involves name-calling during the 2017 news cycle;
1 ⇩ Slice inviting you to Ramble and roll Bahamasward to celebrate the Junka“noo year”;5 ⇩⇩⇩⇩⇩ Riffing Off Shortz Slices for those who love “Geogralphabetery”; and
1 ⇩ crib-notable Dessert.
➤The year 2018 is the product of a pair of primes. Puzzlerians! have always been prime-time puzzle players. We are celebrating the dawn of 2018 with nine new puzzles. Have a lot of fun with them.
Appetizer Menu
My New Year’s Resolution? Recycle More! Appetizer:
Piston-ringing in the new mysteryearApproxiately four months ere I launched Puzzleria!, I posted the following puzzle in the comments section of the Blainesville blog. The precise time of my post was 12:01 AM CST, January 1, 2014:
Name a synonym of Ella Mae Bailey, in five letters. Replace the second letter with its “Equidistant From The Center Of The Alphabet” (EFTCOTA) counterpart (A = Z, B = Y, C = X, D = W… M = N, see accompanying chart, below), and rotate the counterpart letter 90 degrees (clockwise, counterclockwise, Fahrenheit, Celsius, Centigrade, Kelvin… any way you want!) to form a new letter. 
Now replace all five letters with their respective EFTCOTA counterpart letters. The result is timely, at least here in Minnesota and environs.Here are two updated versions of that puzzle
(USE CAPITAL LETTERS):
1. Give a description (consisting of a 4-letter adjective and a 3-letter noun) of a 2005 Maybach Exelero, 1954 Packard Panther-Daytona Roadster or 1957 Jaguar XKSS. 
Replace the second letters in both words with their “Equidistant From The Center Of The Alphabet” (EFTCOTA) counterparts (A = Z, B = Y, C = X, D = W… M = N, see accompanying chart, above), and rotate those two counterpart letters 90 degrees (clockwise or counterclockwise) to form two new letters. 
Now replace all seven of these letters with their respective EFTCOTA counterpart letters and rearrange them to form a result timely to the season. What is this result?
2. Give a title for Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, A.J. Foyt or Mario Andretti (but not Shirley Muldowney or Danica Patrick), a 2-letter abbreviation and a 5-letter noun. 
Replace the second letter in the noun with its “Equidistant From The Center Of The Alphabet” (EFTCOTA) counterpart (A = Z, B = Y, C = X, D = W… M = N, see accompanying chart, above), and rotate that counterpart letter 90 degrees (clockwise or counterclockwise) to form a new letter. 
Now replace this new letter and all but the first letter in the abbreviaton with their respective EFTCOTA counterpart letters. Rearrange the seven letters now in front of you to form a result timely to the season. What is this result?Name In The News Year Appetizer:
Name-calling... it’s how to be little
Think of a person who has been in the news in 2017, first and last names.
Replace a vowel in the name with a different vowel.
Rearrange some of the letters to form a belittling name the person was called in 2017. 
The remaining letters can be arranged to form five consecutive letters in the alphabet. Who is this person?
MENU
Rollin’ ‘N’ Ramblin’ Slice:
Journey to a Junkanoo
(Note/disclaimer: The following puzzle takes a liberty or two with the facts and with the maps.)
A resident of nassau, new providence, in the bahamas named umprey is invited by his girlfriend maronique to a junkanoo carnival and festival in her hometown of dolu.
Although dolu is a very small village near the southern coast of the island, doluians host a very festive and popular junkanoo parade every january 1st.
So, umprey hops into his 1955 nash rambler custom sedan and drives south out of nassau on blue hill road. After making two wrong turns and negotiating a detour, he turns right at cowpen road, then hangs a left at the junction with carmichael road.
Before long, as umpry’s rambler reaches the peak of a gentle crest, the outskirts of dolu, new providence, come into view, exactly one kilometer ahead. The rambler’s odometer indicates that unprey has traveled 16.0934… kilometers, or exactly ten miles.
umprey’s rambler is equipped with six wheels: a steering wheel and five wheels fitted with dunlop tires, including a spare mounted via a “continental kit” in the rear.
These five non-steering, tire-fitted wheels appear to be identical in size but actually, perhaps because of factory inconsistency or differing air pressures, have diameters that vary slightly: In no particular order, tire A’s diameter is a silly millimeter longer than Tire B’s diameter; B’s is a millimeter longer than C’s; C’s is a millimeter longer than D’s; and D’s is a millimeter longer than F’s. Tire C’s diameter is 651 millimeters (25.63 inches).
Five miles into his trip, umphrey gets a flat tire and must replace it with the spare.What is the minimum number of complete rotations of any one of the rambler’s dunlop tires necessary before maronique's hometown comes into view?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Geographabetical ardor
Will Shortz’s December 24th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
The name of what well-known U.S. city, in 10 letters, contains only three different letters of the alphabet?
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ONE:
The name of what well-known U.S. city, in more than nine letters, contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet?
Hint: The city’s name has been a popular place name across the country. It is the largest city. by population, in two states. TWO:
The name of what world capital city, in more than nine letters, contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet?
THREE:The name of what two countries, each with more than nine letters, each contain no duplicate letters of the alphabet?
Hint: The counties share a letter that only 14 other countries have in their names.
FOUR:
The name of what country contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet? This county’s capital city also contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet. The total number of letters in the country and city is 15. What are this capital city and country?
FIVE:The name of what country contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet? This county’s capital city also contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet. The total number of letters in the country and city is 18. What are this capital city and country?
Dessert Menu
Plastic Spoon In The Teacher’s Mouth Dessert:
At sea in a midterm? No cribs, use your head!
The principal utters a terse command as she hands lesson plans to the substitute teacher, adding that he should fail any student he catches using a crib note during tests.
The command the principal uttered and the synonym for “crib note” the principal used are two-word phrases in which both first words are anagrams of each other, and both second words are also anagrams of each other. What are these two phrases?
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.
I don't quite understand why there is a big HUGE map of Nassau at the end of this week's P!
ReplyDeleteI believe I have everything!! (Well, I assume I do, main 'assumption' being on the Junkanoo slice). The wording on the dessert was somewhat confusing, but I ultimately worked it out.
And NOW to bed!!!!
Congrats on solving the sub teacher Dessert and Junkanoo Appetizer, ViolinTeddy. I added the HUGE Bahamas map at the foot of the blog because it needed to be that HUGE to be legible. It shows umpry's route: blue hill road, cowpen road and carmichael road, and shows approximately where dolu ought to be.
DeleteThere my be more than one intended answer for the Junkanoo Appetizer, but I prefer the more/most minimal one.
LegoRamblin'TowardOl'DoluForTheJunkanoo
Well, Lego, I don't actually trust that the sheer mathematical way that I did the Junkaroo IS what you intended....if there is some 'verbal trick' in there, then I have missed it completely, going literally for the arithmetic approach! [Your saying that you prefer the 'more/most minimal one' makes me worry!
DeleteDid you think that the Dessert was harder than usual?
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DeleteI am curious to see your Junkanoo answer. I trust you math more than I trust my math. My "verbal trick" is a also a kind of "visual trick."
DeleteI did think the Dessert was one of my tougher ones. But the synonym for "crib note," I think, is an easier "get" than the principal's command to the sub teacher. Was that your experience, VT?
LegoWithJunkanooInHisRambler'sTrunk
Yes, exactly, Lego. The synonym led directly to the directions! Hee hee..
DeleteAs for your verbal/visual 'trick', I'm up a 'crick', not knowing what it is. I took all the sentences literally, using the logic presented therein.
Happy New Year to all coming up!
ReplyDeleteTough ones this week. I only know for sure I have solved the "name-calling" Appetizer, the Dessert, and Ripoff #2(I think). I probably won't even attempt the Menu puzzle, because I don't know the first thing about logic puzzles. No offense Lego, but I've never done them in GAMES Magazine, so why start now? BTW toughest Ripoffs I've ever encountered since I first checked out this website. The letter-switching Appetizer seems difficult too. It seems more difficult than it should be, though I know which letters become other letters when you rotate them. Will expect hints for the toughies as soon as possible. Hope nobody misses the ball dropping Sunday night!
Early Hints:
ReplyDeleteMNYRRMA:
1. You just don't see that many 2005 Maybach Exeleros, 1954 Packard Panther-Daytona Roadsters or 1957 Jaguar XKSS's on the road.
2. Were it Duncan, Rogers and Charisse rather than Foyt, Andretti and Petty, we would be dealing with "Ms. Dancer."
NITNYA
It is an international name-calling.
RNRS:
Work hard on this puzzle. The more tired you get, the easier it may get.
ROSS:
1. When you read one of the cities with this name on a map, you will see a symbol next to it. That symbol is spelled out by the seventh, second, third and fourth letters of the city's name.
2. A compound 10-letter word. Another world capital and the first part of the compound word form a landmark transplanted to the U.S.
3. The letter the two countries share plays a "transitional role" in the first Appetizer.
4. The capital of the country kind of rhymes with another world capital -- one that is one letter longer and which also contains no duplicte letters of the alphabet.
5. This answer echoes Will's NPR puzzle from this past week.
PSITTMD:
The two words in the synonym for “crib note” rhyme with one another.
LegoWhoWondersIfTheSheetMusicTo"AwayInAManger"Is"CribNotes"
Once again, my post just now disappeared: Good thing I copied it:
DeleteYour hints for RIFFs #1 and #4 have me flustered, as I can't seem to make them work with my answers, especially #1's. All the other hints seem like giveaways [except for the "RNRS"], but then, that's probably because I know the answers.
ViolinTedditor,
DeleteYes, I goofed on my hint to the #1 Riff. It should be:
1. When you read one of the cities with this name on a map, you will see a symbol next to it. That symbol is spelled out by the seventh, eighth, third and fourth letters of the city's name.
4. The two capital cities begin with a letter that begins at least one of the words in this revised hint.
Thanks, VT. And good solving.
LegoChastisedButGrateful
Never "chastised", Lego our friend! Only 'confused by...'
DeleteI now rest assured, with said revised hint and the extra-info hint....
Both jan and skydiveboy have just posted Will Shortz's new NPR puzzle over on Blaine's blog. It is the brainchild of our own Patrick J. Berry (cranberry). Patrick's puzzle reads:
ReplyDeleteName a famous singer — 3 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Drop the middle letter of the last name and rearrange the result to name a variety of singing group. What is it?
If I am counting correctly, that is the THIRD puzzle created by Patrick that Will has used in 2017. That must be some kind of record. Hearty congratulations, Patrick!
LegoImpressed
Thanks again Lego! It was quite a surprise when I checked my Kindle today and saw another of my ideas used by the Puzzlemaster himself! That does make three of my ideas used in 2017! And coincidentally, this week I did send in a totally different, NPR-related puzzle which, if I'm lucky, Will might use in the new year! Let's keep our fingers crossed! BTW if anyone wants to check out Blaine's Blog, Lego praised my work there too!
ReplyDeleteCHARLESTON
ReplyDeleteBRIDGETOWN
SWITZERLAND, UZBEKISTAN
SWITZERLAND, BERN
SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE
DONALD TRUMP
DOTARD NLUMP >> LMNOP
TEACH THESE / CHEAT SHEET
RACE CAR
RZCE CZR
RNCE RNR
IMXV IMI
MMXVIII
MR RACER
MR RZCER
MR RNCER
MI IMXVI
MMXVIII
3,934 rotations? Where did I go wrong? I note that 4,036 = 2 x 2,018. And why are all the proper nouns uncapitalized?
Paul,
DeletePlease email me at jrywriter@aol.com
LegoWhoHasAn"OldSchool"EmailAddress
ROSS:
ReplyDelete1. Charleston (10) or [Boulder City (11)].
2. Bridgetown (10), Barbados.
3. Uzbekistan (10) or Switzerland (11).
4. Bern, Switzerland (15).
5. Singapore, Singapore (18).
DESSERT:
TEACH THESE.
CHEAT SHEET.
Congrats, ron. You have unearthed some excellent answers that are not my intended answers.
DeleteLegoWhoLovesUnintendedAnswers!
Appetizer
ReplyDelete1. RARE CAR=something with Roman numerals and an N
2. MR. RACER=something with Roman numerals and an N
Ripoffs
1. CHARLESTON
2. BRIDGETOWN(Barbados)
Dessert
CHEAT SHEET, "TEACH THESE."
Not my best going into the new year. I hope to do much better next Friday.-pjb
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ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER 1: RARE CAR => RZRE CZR => RNRE CNR => IMIV XMI => MMXVIII [2018]
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER 2: MR. RACER => MR. RZCER => MR. RNCER => MI IMXVI => MMXVIII again
APPETIZER NAME IN NEWS: DONALD TRUMP => DONALD TROMP => ADDRTU & 'LMNOP' => DOTARD
MENU JUNKANOO SLICE: The minimum number of rotations would be for the spare tire put on halfway through the trip, i.e. it would have to travel only 8.0467 KM which = 8,046,700 mm. Also, the minimum number of rotations would be travelled by the biggest diameter tire, i.e. tire 'A' [which has 653 mm diameter], if it happens to be the spare. Circumference of tire = π times diameter. Therefore: 8,046,700 mm / (653 mm x π) = 12,322 / π = 3922 complete rotations.
Conversely, the MAXIMUM number of rotations would be for the smallest tire (i.e. 'F' at 649 mm diameter) if it were on the road for the entire 16.0934 KM trip. Thus: 16.093,400 mm / (649 mm x π) = 24797/π = 7893 complete rotations
RIFF OFFS:
1. CHARLESTON [SC and WV]
2. BRIDGETOWN [BARBADOS]
3. SWITZERLAND and UZBEKISTAN [share a Z]
4. BUDAPEST, HUNGARY!! But also: DUBLIN, IRELAND (though that's not 15 letters); MINSK, BELARUS (also not long enough); CAIRO, EGYPT (ditto); QUITO, ECUADOR (ditto); ROME, ITALY (ditto); BERLIN, GERMANY (ditto); KIEV, UKRAINE (ditto); there are probably more, but I quit looking once I got to Hungary.
5. SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE
DESSERT: "TEACH THESE" and "CHEAT SHEET"
This week's answers for the record, Part 1:
ReplyDeleteAppetizer Menu
My New Year’s Resolution? Recycle More! Appetizer:
Piston-ringing in the new mysteryear
Here are two updated versions of a puzzle I posted on the Blainesville blog at 12:01 AM CST, January 1, 2014:
1. Give a description (consisting of a 4-letter adjective and a 3-letter noun) of a 2005 Maybach Exelero, 1954 Packard Panther-Daytona Roadster or 1957 Jaguar XKSS. Replace the second letters in both words with their “Equidistant From The Center Of The Alphabet” (EFTCOTA) counterparts (A = Z, B = Y, C = X, D = W… M = N, see accompanying chart), and rotate those counterpart letters 90 degrees (clockwise or counterclockwise) to form two new letters. Now replace all seven of these letters with their respective EFTCOTA counterpart letters and rearrange them to form a result timely to the season. What is this result?
2. Give a title for Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, A.J. Foyt or Mario Andretti (but not Shirley Muldowney or Danica Patrick), a 2-letter abbreviation and a 5-letter noun. Replace the second letter in the noun with its “Equidistant From The Center Of The Alphabet” (EFTCOTA) counterpart (A = Z, B = Y, C = X, D = W… M = N, see accompanying chart), and rotate that counterpart letter 90 degrees (clockwise or counterclockwise) to form a new letter. Now replace this new letter and all but the first letter in the abbreviaton with their respective EFTCOTA counterpart letters. Rearrange the seven letters you have to form a result timely to the season. What is this result?
Answers:
MMXVIII (2018) is the answer to both #1 and #2.
1. RARE CAR >> RZRE CZR >> RNRE CNR >> IMIV XMI >> MMXVIII = 2018
2. MR. RACER >> MR. RZCER >> MR. RNCER >> MI IMXV1 >> MMXVIII = 2018
Name In The News Year Appetizer
Name-calling... it’s how to be little
Think of a person who has been in the news in 2017, first and last names. Replace a vowel in the name with a different vowel. Rearrange some of the letters to form a belittling name the person was called in 2017. The remaining letters can be arranged to form five consecutive letters in the alphabet. Who is this person?
Answer:
Donald Trump
Replace the U with an O, yielding DONALD TROMP = DOTARD + LMNOP
Lego...
This week's answers for the record, Part 2:
ReplyDeleteMENU
Slice:
Journey to a Junkanoo
A resident of nassau, new providence, in the bahamas named umprey is invited by his girlfriend maronique to a junkanoo celebration in her hometown of dolu. Although dolu is a very small village near the southern coast of the island, doluians host a very festive and popular junkanoo parade every january 1st.
So, umprey hops into his 1955 nash rambler custom sedan and drives south out of nassau on baillou hill road. After making two wrong turns and negotiating a detour, he turns right at cowpen road. Before long, as umpry’s rambler reaches the top of a gentle crest, the outskirts dolu, new providence, come into view, exactly one kilometer ahead. His rambler’s odometer indicates that he has traveled 16.0934… kilometers, or exactly ten miles.
umprey’s rambler is equipped with six wheels: a steering wheel and five wheels fitted with dunlop tires, including a spare mounted via a “continental kit” in the rear.
These five non-steering, tire-fitted wheels appear to be identical in size but actually, perhaps because of factory inconsistency or differing air pressures, have diameters that vary slightly: In no particular order, tire A’s diameter is a silly millimeter longer than Tire B’s diameter; B’s is a millimeter longer than C’s; C’s is a millimeter longer than D’s; and D’s is a millimeter longer than F’s. Tire C’s diameter is 651 millimeters (25.63 inches). Five miles into his trip, umphrey gets a flat tire and must replace it with the spare.
What is the minimum number of complete rotations of any one of the rambler’s dunlop tires necessary before maronique's hometown comes into view?
Answer:
One rotation, or, if the dunlop logo is completely inverted on one of the five tires before umprey begins his trip, zero rotations. "dunlop" inverted is dolu np (Dolu, New Providence)
(or, if you don't like "trick answers," 3,922 (+ .426) rotations of the 653mm dia. tire, which was either the spare tire or the flat tire)
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Geogralphabetical ardor
ONE:
The name of what well-known U.S. city, in more than nine letters, contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet?
Hint: The city’s name has been a popular place name across the country. It is the largest city. by population, in two states.
Answer:
Charleston (West Virginia’s capital and largest city, and South Carolina’s largest city)
TWO:
The name of what world capital city, in more than nine letters, contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet?
Answer:
Bridgetown (Barbados)
THREE:
The name of what two countries, each with more than nine letters, each contain no duplicate letters of the alphabet?
Hint: The counties share a letter that only 14 other countries have.
Answer: Uzbekistan; Switzerland
Hint: Uzbekistan and Switzerland are two of 16 countries that contain a Z.
FOUR:
The name of what country contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet? This county’s capital city also contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet. The total number of letters in the country and city is 15. What are this capital city and country?
Answer:
Budapest, Hungary
FIVE:
The name of what country contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet? This county’s capital city also contains no duplicate letters of the alphabet. The total number of letters in the country and city is 18. What are this capital city and country?
Answer: Singapore, Singapore
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Plastic Spoon In The Teacher’s Mouth Dessert:
At sea in a midterm? No cribs, use your head!
The principal utters a terse command as she hands lesson plans to the substitute teacher, adding that he should fail any student he catches using a crib note during tests.
The command the principal uttered and the synonym for "crib note" the principal used are two-word phrases in which both first words are anagrams of each other, as are both second words. What are these two phrases?
Answer:
"Teach these!"; cheat sheet
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I can't believe I forgot the DOTARD part! I had it, I just forgot to put it down! And of course, Kim-Jong Un called Trump that.
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