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Welcome to our May 4th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! This edition of P! marks our fourth anniversary!
To properly observe our anniversary we are running this week a rather lengthy puzzle that master puzzle chef LegoLambda has been baking up for a few years or so.
It is the first puzzle under this week’s MENU... a Serendipitously Inverted Digital Display Slice, titled “Pain-ankle upside-down chafe.”
Lego composed the puzzle as a tribute to the infamous yet ingenious “upside-down digital clock” puzzle (created by Sam Williamson of Charlevoix, Michigan) that appeared on Will Shortz’s NPR Weekend Edition Puzzle segment from February 2, 2014.
That puzzle read:
“Where in most homes will you see the words SHE and HIS, and what word will you see right after HIS?”
Master puzzle-solver “Al” posted the correct answer “SIS” over on Blaine’s puzzle blog.
Al was only one of 15 people that week who submitted this correct intended answer to NPR. (3:45 viewed upside-down on a digital clock spells ShE; 5:14 spells hIS; 5:15 spells SIS.)
Lego’s puzzle this week is not as ingenious as Sam Williamson’s, but it does possess a certain charm.
Also on our menus this week are:
ONE “Pulling-your-food-chain” Appetizer;
ONE “Alpha-Beta-Carotene” Dessert; and
TEN Hall of Fame Slices.
So, celebrate this fourth day in May with us. May our Fourth be with you... just as our First, Second and Third were.
And, as Will Shortz the Puzzlemaster himself has said, keep on having a lot of fun on Puzzleria!
Fangs Wings Claws Paws Appetizer:
Missing links in the food chain
Name two body parts associated with certain non-human creatures.
Pool their letters, then rearrange them to form a word sometimes used to describe the food obtained from these creatures.
Replace the the third and fourth letters of this adjective with different letters to name how the food is often obtained.
What are the body parts?
What word is sometimes used to describe the food obtained from these creatures?
How is the food often obtained?
Serendipitously Inverted Digital Display Slice:
Pain-ankle upside-down chafe
The parents of a baby girl born in 1958 named her after a fictional character who is now an octogenarian, a character whose “birth” was inspired by Nellie Bly.
In 1982, this young woman was a down-to-earth working gal living in southern California. She had lately been experiencing a bit of lower back pain, so decided to spend some of her hard-earned cash on those gravity inversion boots that were all the rage after they were popularized by Richard Gere’s character in “American Gigolo.”
She resolved to spend an hour daily shod in those gravity boots suspended upside-down in a doorway at her apartment.
The young woman set up a 60-minute LED digital countdown timer within eyeshot, so she would know when to come back down to earth.
On her first day of inversion, she maneuvered herself into position and was about ready to begin the timer with a remote control when she realized she had forgotten to invert the timer display so it would be easily readable from her topsy-turvy perspective.
But because it would have taken her a bit of time and effort to disengage herself from the boots, the woman instead made a mental note to invert the timer in time for tomorrow’s inversion, and proceeded to click the timer on with her remote.
The seconds began ticking down: 60:00, 59:59, 59:58, 59:57... but upside-down, of course, not upside-up.
(Note: The young woman ignored the hundredths-of-seconds movement on the display because they were an unreadable virtual blur.
Also, on her display the “6” appeared as an inverted “9” – both consistin of six, not five, LED segments. Also on the display, the “7” consists of three, not four, segments.
On the display inn the “60-minute LED digital countdown timer” link provided above, the “6” consists of only five segments and the “7” consists of four segments.)
Before even a minute had elapsed, however, the young woman’s skin began to chafe a bit beneath the ankle supports. But she soldiered on bravely.
A few minutes later, she happened to glance at the timer and, for a second, a plural common noun appeared, then vanished after a second – but she did take note of it.
Within the next 30 seconds a second plural common noun flashed, just for a second. Again she took note. Both nouns, serendipitously, were products that might salve the effects of ankle chafing.
Twenty seconds later, again within the span of one second, her subconscious recognized two proper nouns simultaneously on the display, one of four and the other of five letters.
With the previous two common nouns, her subconscious had ignored the puntuation on the timer’s display, but this time her subconscious somehow took the punctuation into account, spelling it out mentally, thereby creating additional letters that helped to form the two proper nouns which, again serendipitously, were the names of two competing chain stores in her neighborhood where she could purchase the products that might salve the effects of ankle chafing.
A little less than six minutes later, this time again ignoring the display’s punctuation, the woman saw her own first name flash on the display.
When her hour was up, she uprighted herself, rubbed her ankles a bit, and recollected the first four words she saw. She promptly hopped into her sporty red 1970 Subaru R2 Super S and drove to one of the stores named by the proper nouns she saw on the inverted timer.
There, she purchased a salving product named by one of the first two common nouns. She then drove to the competing store and purchased the other salving product there.
What are the two salving products and the two competing stores? What is the young woman’s first name?
Addendum: As she drove to the two chain stores, the young woman recalled two other words she had noticed during her inversion:
1.) at about 7 minutes before the halfway point there appeared something she suspected was developing (as a result of the chafing) in something she wore, and
2.) at about 5 minutes before the halfway point, there appeared what it was that she wore.
So, she bought more replacement pairs of what she wore.
What developed in what she wore, and what was it that she wore?
Riffing Off Shortz And Hamel Slices:
Did Bobby Cox wear bobby sox?
Will Shortz’s April 29th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Ray Hamel of Madison, Wisconsin, reads:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Take a letter out of the last name and move it into the first name. The result will name something you might see at a concert. What is it?
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz and Hamel Slices read:
ONE:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Remove the space between first and last names, then remove all but the first, last, fourth-last and third-last letters from the last name. Move the fourth-last letter to the end, followed by the last two letters of the city where the hall of famer played during his entire career.
Divide the result into two equal parts to name someone you will likely someday see in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – a performer whose former spouse is already in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Who are these two rock-and-rollers and one baseball player?
TWO:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Insert within the last name the first letter of the nickname of the team with which he played his entire career. The result is a kind of dramatic production.
Insert within the first name the second letter of the nickname. The result is the name of a character (disguised as a conman named Applegate) who appears in such a production from the 1950s. Rearrange the letters of this character’s name to name the title character of another such dramatic production, in particular a production performed about seven years ago at mall in New Jersey.
Who is the hall of famer? What are the titles of the two dramatic productions: the one from the 1950s and the more recent one?
THREE:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Move the first letter of the first name to the end of the first name. Take the first letter from the last name and move it to the beginning of the first name.
The result will be two words: what the player did with his helmet after reaching base safely following a milestone career hit, and where on the diamond that he did it.
Who is the player? What did the player do after reaching base safely? Where was he on the diamond when he did it?
FOUR:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Place duplicates of the first two letters of the last name at the beginning of the first name and remove the last letter of the first name. Remove the first letter from the last name. The result is two words:
1. a word contained in an anagramatic nickname of the lead singer in a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band, and
2. an instrument integral to the band’s sound played by a bandmate whose initials both appear in the ballplayer’s surname.
Who is the ballplayer. Who is the lead singer and what is his anagramatic nickname? Who is the bandmate and what is his instrument?
Hint: The lead singer and ballplayer have identical first-and-last-name initials.
Answer:
FIVE:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Move a letter from the last name to the end of the first name, then remove the first letter from the first name. The second part of this result will name a concession you can now enjoy at many major league ballparks. The first part of the result will name a chain store where vendors might by implemets to slice this enjoyable concession.
What is the ballplayer? What is the concession and where can one buy an implement for slicing it?
SIX:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Take a letter out of the last name and move it to the end of the first name. The result will describe a professional who restores large antiquarian bound volumes.
Who is this ballplayer? What is the description of the professional?
SEVEN:
Name a famous performer in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Remove the first and second letters from the the last name, and replace the fourth letter with an “l” to form a word for a vinyl rock and roll artifact that has a label with a hole in the middle.
Consider the performer’s full name. Delete the final four letters and remove the word “lymph” from the the result. Rearrange the letters that remain to spell a proper noun that you might see on one of those labels with a hole in the middle.
Take the last, third and first letters of the last name, then take the second letter of the first name and the third letter of the last name to form two abbreviations that you might see on the label with a hole in the middle.
Who is this performer? What are proper noun and the two abbreviations?
EIGHT:
Name a famous performer in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Take the first letter out of the last name and move it to the beginning of the first name. The result will be a first name of a star in 1926 silent movie (the 3-word title of which is hinted at in the image pictured here) and the last name of her co-star.
The first name of the star is also a VW model; the last name of the co-star is also a midwestern university town.
Who is the rock and roll performer? Who are the star and co-star of the silent movie, and what is the title of the movie?
NINE:
Name a famous performer in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Remove the first letter from the last name. The second part of this result is the name of a rental company. The first part is one factor (in addition to hours) that determines how much the rental company charges during a transaction.
Who is the performer? What is the name of the company? What determines how much the rental company charges?
TEN:
Name a famous group in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in two words. Interchange the fourth letter of the first word with the last letter of the second word. Rearrage the letters in the first part of this result. The final result is a two-word caption for the image pictured here.
What is the name of the group? What is the caption?
Alpha-Beta-Carotene Dessert:
Various fruits: Apples to Zucchinis
Name a 2-syllable verb for something you might do to a fruit beginning with an A, a fruit beginning with a B, a fruit beginning with a C, and various other fruits.
Dehyphenate the verb to name a synonym for “various.”
What are this verb and synonym?
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 May 4th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! This edition of P! marks our fourth anniversary!To properly observe our anniversary we are running this week a rather lengthy puzzle that master puzzle chef LegoLambda has been baking up for a few years or so.
It is the first puzzle under this week’s MENU... a Serendipitously Inverted Digital Display Slice, titled “Pain-ankle upside-down chafe.” Lego composed the puzzle as a tribute to the infamous yet ingenious “upside-down digital clock” puzzle (created by Sam Williamson of Charlevoix, Michigan) that appeared on Will Shortz’s NPR Weekend Edition Puzzle segment from February 2, 2014.
That puzzle read: “Where in most homes will you see the words SHE and HIS, and what word will you see right after HIS?”
Master puzzle-solver “Al” posted the correct answer “SIS” over on Blaine’s puzzle blog.
Al was only one of 15 people that week who submitted this correct intended answer to NPR. (3:45 viewed upside-down on a digital clock spells ShE; 5:14 spells hIS; 5:15 spells SIS.)
Lego’s puzzle this week is not as ingenious as Sam Williamson’s, but it does possess a certain charm.
Also on our menus this week are:
ONE “Pulling-your-food-chain” Appetizer;
ONE “Alpha-Beta-Carotene” Dessert; and
TEN Hall of Fame Slices.
So, celebrate this fourth day in May with us. May our Fourth be with you... just as our First, Second and Third were.
And, as Will Shortz the Puzzlemaster himself has said, keep on having a lot of fun on Puzzleria!
Appetizer Menu
Fangs Wings Claws Paws Appetizer:Missing links in the food chain
Name two body parts associated with certain non-human creatures.
Pool their letters, then rearrange them to form a word sometimes used to describe the food obtained from these creatures.
Replace the the third and fourth letters of this adjective with different letters to name how the food is often obtained. What are the body parts?
What word is sometimes used to describe the food obtained from these creatures?
How is the food often obtained?
MENU
Serendipitously Inverted Digital Display Slice:
Pain-ankle upside-down chafe
The parents of a baby girl born in 1958 named her after a fictional character who is now an octogenarian, a character whose “birth” was inspired by Nellie Bly.
In 1982, this young woman was a down-to-earth working gal living in southern California. She had lately been experiencing a bit of lower back pain, so decided to spend some of her hard-earned cash on those gravity inversion boots that were all the rage after they were popularized by Richard Gere’s character in “American Gigolo.”
She resolved to spend an hour daily shod in those gravity boots suspended upside-down in a doorway at her apartment.
The young woman set up a 60-minute LED digital countdown timer within eyeshot, so she would know when to come back down to earth.
On her first day of inversion, she maneuvered herself into position and was about ready to begin the timer with a remote control when she realized she had forgotten to invert the timer display so it would be easily readable from her topsy-turvy perspective. But because it would have taken her a bit of time and effort to disengage herself from the boots, the woman instead made a mental note to invert the timer in time for tomorrow’s inversion, and proceeded to click the timer on with her remote.
The seconds began ticking down: 60:00, 59:59, 59:58, 59:57... but upside-down, of course, not upside-up.
(Note: The young woman ignored the hundredths-of-seconds movement on the display because they were an unreadable virtual blur.
Also, on her display the “6” appeared as an inverted “9” – both consistin of six, not five, LED segments. Also on the display, the “7” consists of three, not four, segments.
On the display inn the “60-minute LED digital countdown timer” link provided above, the “6” consists of only five segments and the “7” consists of four segments.)
Before even a minute had elapsed, however, the young woman’s skin began to chafe a bit beneath the ankle supports. But she soldiered on bravely.
A few minutes later, she happened to glance at the timer and, for a second, a plural common noun appeared, then vanished after a second – but she did take note of it.
Within the next 30 seconds a second plural common noun flashed, just for a second. Again she took note. Both nouns, serendipitously, were products that might salve the effects of ankle chafing. Twenty seconds later, again within the span of one second, her subconscious recognized two proper nouns simultaneously on the display, one of four and the other of five letters.
With the previous two common nouns, her subconscious had ignored the puntuation on the timer’s display, but this time her subconscious somehow took the punctuation into account, spelling it out mentally, thereby creating additional letters that helped to form the two proper nouns which, again serendipitously, were the names of two competing chain stores in her neighborhood where she could purchase the products that might salve the effects of ankle chafing.A little less than six minutes later, this time again ignoring the display’s punctuation, the woman saw her own first name flash on the display.
When her hour was up, she uprighted herself, rubbed her ankles a bit, and recollected the first four words she saw. She promptly hopped into her sporty red 1970 Subaru R2 Super S and drove to one of the stores named by the proper nouns she saw on the inverted timer.
There, she purchased a salving product named by one of the first two common nouns. She then drove to the competing store and purchased the other salving product there.What are the two salving products and the two competing stores? What is the young woman’s first name?
Addendum: As she drove to the two chain stores, the young woman recalled two other words she had noticed during her inversion:
1.) at about 7 minutes before the halfway point there appeared something she suspected was developing (as a result of the chafing) in something she wore, and
2.) at about 5 minutes before the halfway point, there appeared what it was that she wore.
So, she bought more replacement pairs of what she wore.
What developed in what she wore, and what was it that she wore?
Riffing Off Shortz And Hamel Slices:
Did Bobby Cox wear bobby sox?
Will Shortz’s April 29th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Ray Hamel of Madison, Wisconsin, reads:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Take a letter out of the last name and move it into the first name. The result will name something you might see at a concert. What is it?
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz and Hamel Slices read:
ONE:Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Remove the space between first and last names, then remove all but the first, last, fourth-last and third-last letters from the last name. Move the fourth-last letter to the end, followed by the last two letters of the city where the hall of famer played during his entire career.
Divide the result into two equal parts to name someone you will likely someday see in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – a performer whose former spouse is already in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Who are these two rock-and-rollers and one baseball player?
TWO:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Insert within the last name the first letter of the nickname of the team with which he played his entire career. The result is a kind of dramatic production. 
Insert within the first name the second letter of the nickname. The result is the name of a character (disguised as a conman named Applegate) who appears in such a production from the 1950s. Rearrange the letters of this character’s name to name the title character of another such dramatic production, in particular a production performed about seven years ago at mall in New Jersey. Who is the hall of famer? What are the titles of the two dramatic productions: the one from the 1950s and the more recent one?
THREE:Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Move the first letter of the first name to the end of the first name. Take the first letter from the last name and move it to the beginning of the first name.
The result will be two words: what the player did with his helmet after reaching base safely following a milestone career hit, and where on the diamond that he did it.
Who is the player? What did the player do after reaching base safely? Where was he on the diamond when he did it?FOUR:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Place duplicates of the first two letters of the last name at the beginning of the first name and remove the last letter of the first name. Remove the first letter from the last name. The result is two words:
1. a word contained in an anagramatic nickname of the lead singer in a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band, and 2. an instrument integral to the band’s sound played by a bandmate whose initials both appear in the ballplayer’s surname.
Who is the ballplayer. Who is the lead singer and what is his anagramatic nickname? Who is the bandmate and what is his instrument?
Hint: The lead singer and ballplayer have identical first-and-last-name initials.
Answer:
FIVE:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Move a letter from the last name to the end of the first name, then remove the first letter from the first name. The second part of this result will name a concession you can now enjoy at many major league ballparks. The first part of the result will name a chain store where vendors might by implemets to slice this enjoyable concession. What is the ballplayer? What is the concession and where can one buy an implement for slicing it?
SIX:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Take a letter out of the last name and move it to the end of the first name. The result will describe a professional who restores large antiquarian bound volumes.Who is this ballplayer? What is the description of the professional?
SEVEN:Name a famous performer in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Remove the first and second letters from the the last name, and replace the fourth letter with an “l” to form a word for a vinyl rock and roll artifact that has a label with a hole in the middle.
Consider the performer’s full name. Delete the final four letters and remove the word “lymph” from the the result. Rearrange the letters that remain to spell a proper noun that you might see on one of those labels with a hole in the middle.Take the last, third and first letters of the last name, then take the second letter of the first name and the third letter of the last name to form two abbreviations that you might see on the label with a hole in the middle.
Who is this performer? What are proper noun and the two abbreviations?
EIGHT:
Name a famous performer in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Take the first letter out of the last name and move it to the beginning of the first name. The result will be a first name of a star in 1926 silent movie (the 3-word title of which is hinted at in the image pictured here) and the last name of her co-star.
The first name of the star is also a VW model; the last name of the co-star is also a midwestern university town.Who is the rock and roll performer? Who are the star and co-star of the silent movie, and what is the title of the movie?
NINE:
Name a famous performer in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Remove the first letter from the last name. The second part of this result is the name of a rental company. The first part is one factor (in addition to hours) that determines how much the rental company charges during a transaction.Who is the performer? What is the name of the company? What determines how much the rental company charges?
TEN:
Name a famous group in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in two words. Interchange the fourth letter of the first word with the last letter of the second word. Rearrage the letters in the first part of this result. The final result is a two-word caption for the image pictured here.What is the name of the group? What is the caption?
Dessert Menu
Alpha-Beta-Carotene Dessert:
Various fruits: Apples to ZucchinisName a 2-syllable verb for something you might do to a fruit beginning with an A, a fruit beginning with a B, a fruit beginning with a C, and various other fruits.
Dehyphenate the verb to name a synonym for “various.” What are this verb and synonym?
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 finally found the 1926 film!
ReplyDeleteBig-time extra credit for that fine find, Paul! There is no more obscure film in the history of filmdom! You must have worked backward after figuring out the partial names of the cast members? Don't tell me the image I provided offered you any assistance!
DeleteLegoWhoOnceDroveAGolden1986Volkswagen(NotASciroccoSchwimmwagenRabbitOrGolf)IntoTheProverbialGroundUntilItExpired(BurstBubblelike)LikeTheDeacon'sOneHossShay!
I got lucky going down the list of R & R Hall of FAme inductees, and hit upon a name to try, and it worked out. From there, I searched the right year and happen to hit on the correct movie (checking for the co-star's last name) on the first try, although as I look again, there were only two choices--HA!
DeleteYour pictorial hint is really cute...it didn't help, but once one knows the movie title, one can fully appreciate it.
There were more than enough Brits in India, prior to 1947.
ReplyDeleteHAPPY 4th ANNIVERSARY, Lego!! I haven't looked yet at any of the puzzles; was too tired last night, and just now got caught up in all the screen captures of the other anniversary beginnings....for instance, I had NO memory of the puzzle two years ago that included my screen name. And I tried to read the tiny intro from the very first P!, more than a year (I think?) before I found you.
ReplyDeleteWhich makes me realize, I SHOULD go back and look at all the Puzzlerias that I never have seen, especially including the first one! Why has that idea never occurred to me before?
OKay, Lego, I believe I have the two salve products AND the girl's name for your very long Menu puzzle, however, the math is giving me fits, because to get what I did, the six minutes had to come off the FIRST salve product, not the second. Which leaves me totally confused re the 20 seconds, as I can not come up with ANY chain store(s) doing that subtraction from either of the two salve product times. PLus, I am confused about 'spelling out' the punctuation...how could that give us only a FIVE-letter store? Let alone not being able to (despite list perusals) peg a four-letter store with any time I've tried.
ReplyDeleteOops, I take back the part about the six minutes...it CAN come off the second noun's time. But the rest is still unattainable
DeleteVT,
DeleteI did make a slight goof. The sentence:
"A little more than six minutes later, this time again ignoring the display’s punctuation, the woman saw her own first name flash on the display."
should read:
"A little less than six minutes later, this time again ignoring the display’s punctuation, the woman saw her own first name flash on the display."
I have changed it in the text. Thank you.
As for the two proper nouns quandary:
"...her subconscious somehow took the punctuation into account, spelling it out mentally, thereby creating additional letters that helped to form the two proper nouns which, again serendipitously, were the names of two competing chain stores in her neighborhood where she could purchase the products that might salve the effects of ankle chafing."
Those proper nouns are, in order, four and five letters long. She actually "sees" only four of those letters. The remaining letters she "fills in" by mentally spelling out the punctuation.
LegoPosting FromAPhoneBooth
The part that has me stuck, though, is STILL the 20 seconds thing. 20 seconds from either noun's time fails to yield any chain store that I can find or have ever heard of, be it of four or five letters.
DeleteMay the fourth be with you, Lego. Happy 4th blogaversary to you!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Word Woman. If it weren't for you, this blog wouldn't exist!
Delete(Note to Puzzlerians!: Word Woman, who had begun her excellent Partial Ellipsis Of Th Sun (PEOTS) blog late in 2013, generously walked me through the Blogger process, and gave me much needed and appreciated encouragement, mentoring, ideas and confidence.)
LegoGratefulToMazie'sMistress
Happy 4th anniversary, Lego! I've spent most of the day babysitting Mia Kate and Maddy(as usual), but I did manage to check Puzzleria! late last night, and somehow I got almost everything except the chain store names in the Menu and the anagram from the remaining letters in the Hall-of-Famer's full name in #7. Again, Lego, happy anniversary and May the 4th be with you(though if I were you, I'd probably be tired of that pun after everyone had been saying it to me all day long, and I love puns)! Here's to you, Lego-Wan! May your empire continue to prosper(and possibly "strike back" if necessary)! Also, can I be in the P! prequel? Just curious.
ReplyDeletecranberry,
DeleteYou can be in our Puzzleria! prequel, sequel, NyQuil, DayQuil, goose-quill... any kind of quill you like!
Already you have proved to have been a major player on P!... as a solid solver, contributor of clever word puzzles, constructor of amazing cryptic crosswords and poster of interesting comments. You'll always have a role to play here.
LegoSaysToLookForwardToSeeingAnotherOfPatrick'sWonderfulWordPuzzles...ComingSoonToAComputerScreen/Notepad/SmartPhoneNearYou!
Quitting for the night, I'm still royally stuck on the Appetizer (very frustrating), those two chain stores, and Riff #4. [GIven that neither baseball nor rock music are my 'thing', I'm pleased to have solved all the rest, though of course, that required LOTS of list perusals. Took hours.]
ReplyDeleteVT,
DeleteSorry for the frustration. The chain stores are what we used to call "drug stores" in this Wisconsin/Minnesota neck of the woods. One of the chain names is a possessive word.
LegoWhoRecallGoingTo"DrugStores"AfterSundayChurchAndMyParentsTreatingUsKidsTo"GreenRiver"Or"CherryPhosphate"DrinksThatWeSippedThroughStrawsWhileSittingOnStoolsAtTheSodaFountainBar
Question re your long Menu SLice: seems to me that the timing for the 'what she wore' in Addendum #2 OUGHT to not be five minutes before halfway, but about 15 seconds before halfway. Am I wrong?
ReplyDeleteVT,
DeleteThanks for spending time on my "mother of all upside-down digital alarm-clock-or-timer puzzles."
Perhaps not "about 15 seconds before halfway," but rather "about 45 seconds before halfway?"
That type of footwear (displayed at 30:45) would have indeed been an excellent plausible alternative answer, but it is not my intended answer. My intended answer is also footwear, but footwear that doubles as legwear.
LegoAdmitsHoweverThatViolinTeddy'sAlternativeFootwearIsBetterThanHisMoreSuspectFootwear
Oh geez, Lego, I mixed myself up somehow! I indeed meant 45 seconds before halfway! But now I have to figure out what your INTENDED answer might be. The drug stores have not yet made their names known.
DeleteOh, I got it (the foot/leg wear, not the stores.)
DeleteSpelling out the punctuation will provide the complementary letters necessary to complete the spelling of the two chain stores.
DeleteLegoWhoNotesThatThe35:04apparelIsWornOnThe56:37BodyParts
Looking back over the Menu puzzle altogether(complete with the addenda etc.), I may be way more confused than I was before. Got any other hints that might help, Lego?
ReplyDeletecranberry,
DeleteMy Addendum is really just a kind of afterthought. It gives the young woman reason to buy more products at the two chain stores. In addition to the products that salve her chafing, she now determines that she ought to purchase footwear/legwear to replace the pair she just ruined because of the gravity-boot chafing. ViolinTeddy astutely suspected that the damaged footwear might have been of the hard-soled, well-heeled and tight-laced variety... and it could well have been. But that happened not to be what I intended. Still, hers is an excellent thought.
But the real crux of this puzzle is the identification of the two chain store names. And that identification hinges on two things:
1. Determining the exact time the woman saw the four inverted digits that formed the first two letters of one of the stores and the final two letters of the other store, and
2. Filling in the remaining letters by spelling out the punctuation.
LegoSuggestsBuyingSomeGravityInversionBootsAnd60MinuteDigitalTimerAndRecreatingThePuzzleInYourHomes!
Goodness, yes, Lego, let us all RUSH out to buy the necessities to hang ourselves upside down like bats!
DeleteBINGO, send up rockets, and light the fireworks. Your explanation above JUST clued me in to the fact that we had NOT been understanding what you were asking for previously and I JUST FINALLY SOLVED the two stores!! [However, one of them at least is defunct.] The original explanation in no way made it clear how we were to come up with these two stores.
DeleteAnd so you don't think you have to give any clue for Riff #4 (at least on my account), I finally grunged it out...but literally going through the Hall of Famers list until I stumbled on a last name that could be turned into an instrument. The hint about the same initials with the lead singer was a big help.
DeleteSurely you don't mean actually spelling out the name of the punctuation itself! I haven't found any chain stores with DOT, PERIOD, POINT, COLON, COMMA, HYPHEN---nothing like that! And then, once you consider them as their symbols in the stores' names, I'm batting zero there too! What on earth do you mean?! There are only a few numbers that look like letters upside-down in the first place. Now you have to complicate things by including the punctuation!? I have the salves, I have the article of foot/legwear. If you can't explain "spelling out the punctuation", I'm giving up from there! Just so you know, I wasn't too crazy about the original "digital clock" puzzle, and I still say HIS and HER were found in the words WHISKEY and SHERRY, not on the clock upside-down! I was fine figuring out the "upside-down numbers becoming letters" thing back when I still had a calculator, but I've gotten through most of my life without it, thank God! Most kids figure out they can spell crap like HELLHOLE and BOOBIES, and then move on! If you've got any hints that might actually help me here, okay. Otherwise, I'll probably just be happy not having solved the Menu this week, if it's all the same to you.
ReplyDeleteOK, cranberry. Good, honest, passionate post. I am here to try to help.
DeleteThe punctuation in the countdown timer consists of two dots, right? It is not a DOT, PERIOD, POINT, SEMICOLON, COMMA, HYPHEN, ASTERISK, HASHTAG, AMPERSAND or DASH.
But, for the sake of argument, let's say the punctuation on our timer display is HYPHEN-like. Indeed, let's call it a DASH, shall we?
At precisely the "30-05" mark on our digital countdown clock, as we view it from our inverted perspective it will appear as:
SO - OE. If our subconscious somehow also manages to spell out the word "DASH" between the "SO" and "OE" what we see will be:
SO DASH OE, or SODA SHOE. These are not chain store names, of course, but they might be interpreted as a SODA shop and a SHOE store.
I did not mean this puzzle to be so frustrating for its solvers. I am sorry.
LegoPunctuatawneyPhilPoppingHisHeadOutAndSeeingShadowsOfDiscontent!
Yippie, yippie, I just solved the Appetizer, at long last. Had been close all along, had just never put it all together properly.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm the first one today, that never happens!
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER: FIN and GILL => FILLING => FISHING
BIG HUGE MENU SLICE: GELS [57:36] ; OILS [57:10] minus 20 seconds = 56:50 + COLON => OS/CO and LON/GS
HER NAME: LOIS (Lane) [51:07]; Addendum: HOLE [37:04]; HOSE [35:04]; My add'l answer: SHOE [30:45]
RIFF OFFS:
1. CARL YASTRZEMSKI => CARLY SIMON
2. STAN MUSIAL => MUSI(C)AL [Cardinals]; SATAN in DAMN YANKEES; SANTA in "MALL SANTA MUSICAL"
3. DAVE WINFIELD => WAVED and INFIELD
4. JOE MORGAN => MOJO and ORGAN; JIM MORRISON / MR. MOJO RISIN'; RAY MANZAREK played the ORGAN.
5. MIKE PIAZZA => IKEA and PIZZA
6. TOM SEAVER => TOME SAVER
7. CLYDE MCPHATTER => PLATTER; DECCA; RPM and LP
8. ETTA JAMES => JETTA Goudal and Robert AMES; "THREE FACES EAST"
9. MILES DAVIS => Mileage and AVIS
10. PEARL JAM => PEAML JAR => MAPLE JAR
DESSERT: SUN-DRY; SUNDRY
SUN-DRY > SUNDRY
ReplyDeletePEARL JAM > MAPLE JAR [>AMPLE RAJ]
MILES DAVIS > AVIS, MILES
ETTA JAMES > JETTA, AMES {JETTA GOUDAL, ROBERT AMES, THREE FACES EAST} [AT LAST!]
STAN MUSIAL > MUSICAL, SATAN, SANTA?
Appetizer
ReplyDeleteFIN, GILL, FILLING, FISHING
Riff-Offs
1. CARL YASTRZEMSKI(played for the Boston Red Sox), CARLY SIMON(once married to James Taylor)
2. STAN MUSIAL, MUSICAL, SATAN("Damn Yankees"), "Mall Santa Musical"
3. DAVE WINFIELD, WAVED, INFIELD
4. JOE MORGAN, MOJO(Mr. Mojo Risin', Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors), ORGAN(played by the Doors' Ray Manzarek)
5. MIKE PIAZZA, PIZZA, IKEA
6. TOM SEAVER, "TOME SAVER"
7. CLYDE McPHATTER, PLATTER, DECCA RPM LP
8. ETTA JAMES, JETTA GOUDAL and ROBERT AMES(in "Three Faces East")
9. MILES DAVIS, AVIS, MILES
10. PEARL JAM, "MAPLE JAR"
Dessert
SUN-DRY, SUNDRY
"This is the end," as Mr. Mojo Risin' once said.-pjb
This week's answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteAppetizer Menu:
Fangs Wings Claws Paws Appetizer:
Missing links in the food chain
Name two body parts associated with certain non-human creatures. Pool their letters, then rearrange them to form a word sometimes used to describe the food obtained from these creatures. Replace the the third and fourth letters of this adjective with different letters to name how the food is often obtained.
What are the body parts?
What word is sometimes used to describe the food obtained from these creatures?
How is the food often obtained?
Answer:
Gill, fin; Filling; Fishing
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This week's answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteMENU
Serendipitously Inverted Digital Display Slice
Pain-ankle upside-down chafe
The parents of a baby girl born in 1960 named her after a fictional character who is now an octogenarian, and whose “birth” was inspired by Nellie Bly.
In 1987, this young woman was a down-to-earth working gal living in southern California. She had of late been experiencing a bit of lower back pain, so decided to spend some of her hard-earned cash on those gravity boots that were all the rage during the disco era. She resolved to spend an hour daily shod in those gravity boots suspended upside-down in a doorway at her apartment. She set up a 60-minute LED digital countdown timer within eyeshot, so she would know when to come back down to earth.
On her first day of inversion, she maneuvered herself into position and was about ready to begin the timer with a remote control when she realized she had forgotten to invert the timer display so it is easily readable from her topsy-turvy perspective. But because it would have taken her a bit of time and effort to disengage herself from the boots, she instead made a mental note to invert the timer tomorrow and proceeded to click it on with her remote. The seconds began ticking down: 60:00, 59:59, 59:58, 59:57... but upside-down.
Before even a minute had elapsed, however, the young woman’s skin began to chafe a bit beneath the ankle supports. But she soldiered on bravely.
A few minutes later, she happened to glance at the timer and, for a second, a noun appeared, then vanished after a second – but she DID take note of it. Within the next 30 seconds a second noun flashed, just for a second. Again she took note. Both nouns, serendipitously, were products that might salve the effects of ankle chafing.
Twenty seconds later, again within the span of one second, her subconscious recognized TWO proper nouns simultaneously on the display, of four and five letters. With the previous two words, her subconscious had ignored the puntuation on the timer’s display, but this time her subconscious somehow took the punctuation into account, spelling it out mentally, thereby creating additional letters that helped to form the two proper nouns which, again serendipitously, were the names of two competing chain stores in her neighborhood where she could purchase the products that might salve the effects of ankle chafing.
A little more than six minutes later, this time ignoring the display’s punctuation, she saw her first name flash on the display.
When her hour was up, she uprighted herself, rubbed her ankles a bit, and recollected the first four words she saw. She hopped into her sporty red 1970 Subaru R2 Super S and drove to one of the stores named by the proper nouns she saw on the inverted timer. There, she purchased a product named by one of the first two nouns. She then drove to the competing store and purchased the other salving product there.
What are the two salving products and the two competing stores? What is the young woman’s first name?
Answer: gELS (57:36), OILS (57:10); OSco, LongS (56:50); LOIS (51:07)
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This week's answers for the record, part 3:
ReplyDeleteMENU (continued)
Serendipitously Inverted Digital Display Slice
Pain-ankle upside-down chafe
Addendum: As she drove to the two chain stores, the young woman recalled two other words she had noticed during her inversion:
1.) at about 7 minutes before the halfway point there appeared something she suspected was developing (as a result of the chafing) in something she wore, and
2.) at about 5 minutes before the halfway point, there appeared what she wore.
So, she bought more replacement pairs of what she wore.
What developed in what she wore, and what was it that she wore?
Answer:
Addendum: A hOLE (37:04) developed (as a result of the chafing) in her hOSE (35:04). So, she bought more hose.
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This week's answers for the record, part 4:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Hamel Slices:
Did Bobby Cox wear bobby sox?
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz and Hamel Slices read:
ONE:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Take all but the first, last, fourth-last and third-last letters out of the last name and remove the space between names first and last names. Move the fourth-last letter to the end, followed by the last two letters of the city where the hall of famer played during his entire career. Divide the result into two equal parts with a space to name someone you will likely someday see in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – an artist whose former spouse is already in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Who are these two rock-and-rollers and one baseball player?
Answer:
Carl Yastrzemski; Carly Simon, James Taylor
[Carl Yastrzemski - (a+s+t+r+z+e+k) = Carly + sim + on (Boston) = Carly Simon]
TWO:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Insert within the last name the first letter of the nickname of the team with which he played his entire career. The result is a kind of dramatic production.
Insert within the first name the second letter of the nickname. The result is the name of a character (disguised as a conman named Applegate) who appears in such a production from the 1950s. Rearrange the letters of this character’s name to name the title character of another such dramatic production, in particular a production performed about seven years ago at mall in New Jersey.
Who is the hall of famer? What are the titles of the two dramatic productions: the one from the 1950s and the more recent one?
Answer:
Stan Musial;
"Damn Yankees"
"Mall Santa Musical"
THREE:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Move the first letter of the first name to the end of the first name. Take the first letter from the last name and move it to the beginning of the first name. The result will be two words: what the player did with his helmet after reaching base safely following a milestone career hit, and where on the diamond that he did it.
Who is the player? What did the player do after reaching base safely? Where was he on the diamond when he did it?
Dave Winfield; Waved, Infield
FOUR:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Place duplicates of the first two letters of the last name at the beginning of the first name and remove the last letter of the first name. Remove the first letter from the last name. The result is two words:
1. a word in an anagramatic nickname of the lead singer in a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band, and
2. an instrument integral to the band’s sound played by a bandmate whose initials both appear in the ballplayer’s surname.
Who is the ballplayer. Who is the lead singer and what is his anagramatic nickname? Who is the bandmate and what is his instrument?
Hint: The lead singer and ballplayer have identical first-and-last-name initials.
Answer:
Joe Morgan; Jim Morrison (of The Doors), "Mr. Mojo Risin' "; Ray Manzarek, Organ
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This week's answers for the record, part 5:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Hamel Slices:
Did Bobby Cox wear bobby sox?
(continued)
FIVE:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Move a letter from the last name to the end of the first name, then remove the first letter from the first name. The second part of this result will name a concession you can now enjoy at many major league ballparks. The first part of the result will name a chain store where vendors might by implemets to slice this enjoyable concession.
What is the ballplayer? What is the concession and where can one buy an implement for slicing it?
Answer:
Mike Piazza; Pizza, Ikea
SIX:
Name a famous player in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Take a letter out of the last name and move it to th end of the first name. The result will describe a professional who restores large antiquarian bound volumes.
Who is this ballplayer? What is the description of the professional?
Answer:
Tom Seaver; Tome saver
SEVEN:
Name a famous performer in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Remove the first, second and fourth letters from the the last name to name a vinyl rock and roll artifact that has a label with a hole in the middle.
Remove the last four letters of the last name and remove a “lymph” from the result. Rearrange the letters that remain to spell a word you might see on the label with a hole in the middle.
Take the last, third and first letters of the last name, then take the second letter of the first name and the third letter of the last name to form two abbreviations that you might see on the label with a hole in the middle.
Who is this performer? What are proper noun and the two abbreviations?
Answer:
Clyde McPhatter;
Platter; Decca, LP, RPM
EIGHT:
Name a famous performer in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Take the first letter out of the last name and move it to the beginning of the first name. The result will be a first name of a star in 1926 silent movie (the 3-word title of which is hinted at in the image pictured here) and the last name of her co-star. The first name of the star is also a VW model; the last name of the co-star is also a midwestern university town.
Who is the rock and roll performer? Who are the star and co-star of the silent movie, and what is the title of the movie?
Answer:
Etta James; Jetta, Ames; "Three Faces East" (1930 talkie version)
NINE:
Name a famous performer in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Remove the first letter from the last name. The second part of this result is the name of a rental company. The first part is one factor (in addition to hours) that determines how much the rental company charges during a transaction.
Who is the performer? What is the name of the comapany? What determines how much the rental company charges?
Answer:
Miles Davis; Avis; miles
TEN:
Name a famous group in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in two words. Interchange the fourth letter of the first word with the last letter of the second word. Rearrage the letters in the first part of this result. The final result is a two word caption for the image pictured here.
What is the name of the group? What is the capton?
Answer:
Pearl Jam; Maple jar
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This week's answers for the record, part 6:
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Alpha-Beta-Carotene Dessert:
Various fruits, from Apples to Zucchinis
Name a 2-syllable verb for something you might do to a fruit beginning with an A, a fruit beginning with a B, a fruit beginning with a C, and various other fruits. Dehyphenate the verb to name a synonym for “various.” What are this verb and synonym?
Answer: sun-dry (as apricots, bananas, cherries... or figs, grapes or tomatoes); sundry
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