Schpuzzle Of The Week:The Wright stuff
Name a word associated with flying, circa 1900.
Change a vowel to a different vowel to form a 7-letter expression that became associated with flying about half a century later.
This latter expression is often spelled with only 4 letters. What are this word and expression?
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Words, Wheels And Perhaps Tar Heels Appetizer:2, 4, 6, 8... Who’s a dweller in this state?
The subject of a rural painting by an American artist contains two words and four wheels. Remove the last letter of the first word. In the second word, place duplicates of the second and and third letters in its fourth and fifth positions, but in reverse order. Remove the space to spell what any resident of a certain U.S. state is called.
What is a resident of this state called?
Consumed By Drama Appetizer:
Hairpins, hailstones hit Seneca!What consumable product is the following sentence subliminally advertising?
Hint: There are seven separate instances of the advertising in the text:A mechanic begins engineering a format change on the Minnie Pearl Greyhound tour bus’s gyroscopic stabilization system after a roadie loses her balance during a dramatic hairpin turn as the bus, in a hailstorm intensifying, logs Joplin-to-Seneca, Mo. mileage.
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Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Slices:
Fortune 500 mortar-and-brickyard
Will Shortz’s June 18th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mike Reiss, reads:Think of a familiar hyphenated 7-letter word. The first 4 letters name a prominent American company, and the last 4 letters name a different prominent American company. What word is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Slices read:
ONE:
Think of a Fortune 500 food company/corporation with a fun-to-say name that is also an informal interjection. When spelled backward this name is a Spanish adverb that intensifies what it modifies. What is this company?
TWO:Remove the initial letter from a prominent Fortune 500 company/corporation to form a short-form nickname of a U.S. president. Remove the initial letter from a less-prominent Fortune 500 company/corporation to form the first name of a more recent U.S. president’s sibling. What are these two companies?
THREE:
Remove four vowels from the name of a somewhat prominent Fortune 500 company/corporation, leaving four consonants that are all the same. What is this company?
FOUR:
Name two prominent Fortune 500 companies/corporations that begin with the same letter of the alphabet. Replace the fifth letter of one of them to name what Mildred Wattigny opted to do in October of 1930... something that involved someone now enshrined in Cooperstown. Replace the first letter of the other to name a Chicago Cub who is enshrined in Cooperstown.FIVE:
Name a somewhat prominent Fortune 500 corporation that promotes health and hygiene.
Replace its second letter with its final letter to form a deadly virus.
Name the same health-and-hygiene-promoting corporation. Replace its last two letters with a vowel and add some punctuation to form bacteria that can cause sickness.
What are this company, deadly virus and bacteria?
SIX:
Name a one-syllable shorthand expression for a car brand with a cross logo, followed by the screen name of a very-valued contributor to Puzzleria! The result is a prominent and “energetic” Fortune 500 corporation.
What is this corporation?
SEVEN:
Remove one letter from somewhat prominent Fortune 500 corporation to name something that is unbearably light, according to Milan Kundera.
What is unbearably light?
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ReplyDeleteA bit of 'V-tedditor-ing', if I may, Lego: in RIff #5, the second sentence doesn't make sense. I managed to figure it out, but thought you'd want to clean that up...perhaps with "replace its second letter with its last letter"?
Thanks,VT. I attempted a fix.
DeleteLegoTeddited
Am stuck on only the Schpuzzle (btw, what kind of course/meal is a schpuzzle?) and the first Appetizer.
ReplyDeleteVT,
DeleteA schpuzzle is a very "schpecial puzzle. Indeed, it is a "Schpuzzle of the Week."
LegoSaysTheSchpuzzleIsTheCourse/MealYouHaveJustGotToTry
One of these puzzles didn't take too long to solve.
ReplyDeleteWhich one, Paul?
DeleteLegoCurious
It's the subliminal ad puzzle, and, to be honest, I haven't completely solved it yet. I got the product and six of the "instances", but, when the seventh didn't immediately present itself, I made up my own.
DeletePaul,
DeleteThe seventh instance you "made up" will likely be more interesting than my seventh instance. I await Wednesday's reveal with baited breath and bated hook.
LegoNotesThatTheInstancesOfThisProductAreOften"Instants"
The 'seventh instance" that I found in the second (Drama) Appetizer is, as far as I could research, spelled wrong.
DeleteI made my seventh find this morning. It was the second instance. My first find last Friday was the seventh instance, which, I agree, usually is spelled with an H. I'm beginning to think this really did take too long to solve.
DeleteThis was my bad. I shoulda mentioned in a puzzle note that one of the seven instances involved a British spelling. I am sorry.
DeleteLego(S)limeyLover
I can get different answers for one of the riffs, depending on the meanings of certain terms.
ReplyDeleteI will wait for further elucidation on Wednesday, Paul, unless you prefer to spill the beans earlier.
DeleteLegoNotCryingOverSpiltBeans
It depends upon what the meanings of "short-form nickname", "prominent", and, most-importantly, "are" are.
DeletePaul,
DeleteAs for what the meaning of "are" is, I am not even too sure what the meanings if "is" are! In this "instance" (see our posts above regarding the subliminal puzzle), I am pretty sure the "are" is not a "were," and that both companies are "prominent," but one just advertises more.
LegoNowSuspectsThatPaulIsAPluralVersionOfTheFortyFirstManToServeAsPresident(PerhapsTwoOfHisTripletsThatWeNeverKnewAbout)
At one time, Tandy was a Fortune 500 company. Andrew Jackson was president long before the Clinton era.
DeleteHST's "canine sibling" Tandy? Old Hickory baseball bats, custom furniture, buildings & sheds?
DeleteLegoThinks"OldHickory"IsJustNotThatSnappyAsNicknamesGo
Happy Friday everyone!
ReplyDeleteI checked the site late last night, and started work on it this afternoon. So far I have Part 2 of the Appetizer and all of the Riff-Offs except #3. Other than that, really tough ones this week! Lego, I hope you've got some good hints for those! On the homefront, we celebrated my oldest niece Morgan's 19th birthday last night with a strawberry cake(tasted pretty good!), and my mom finally found two credit cards this afternoon which she had misplaced yesterday. Unfortunately, she had all but given up, and called to cancel both of them earlier today. The woman she talked to on the phone said when she once lost hers, she later found it in the freezer! Would've loved to help her retrace her steps on that one! Mom's cards only fell out of her purse. How would they turn up in the freezer? LOL
A few hints:
ReplyDeleteSOTW:
The 7-letter expression contains 2 words. The "latter expression" contains one word and something else.
James Taylor.
WWAPTA:
Yo, Mr. Newton!
The artish was not out-of-focus, but was a tad fuzzy.
CBDA:
Don't read between the lines... read between the words.
ROSARS:
ONE:
Ohio Express
TWO:
1950s prez; 1990s prez
THREE:
Not Andrew & Lyndon, but a competitor
FOUR:
A Giant in right field. A Cub at third.
FIVE:
Umberto and a black dog
SIX:
PauLinc?
Caddiecranberry?
VWVT?
SEVEN:
Jerry Lewis movie title becomes a Peter Sellers movie title, in part.
LegoDuesy
I think I only have #3, and even then I'm not sure. Anything else, Lego?
ReplyDeleteA few more hints:
ReplyDeleteSOTW:
Very early James Taylor.
WWAPTA:
Yo, Mr. Peel (not the cricketer, but an earlier Brit with "principles")
The artist was a tad fuzzy.
CBDA:
A letter of the alphabet
ROSARS:
ONE:
Flick in which Lemmon portrays a swinging bachelor (the "The Apartment")
TWO:
A likable guy, according to a button; "____, Rover Land route."
THREE:
Shiloh high priest + A flower that neither "toils nor spins"
FOUR:
the earliest of five stars with eight consecutive 100-RBI seasons; A Cub in the broadcast booth
FIVE:
Umberto ___ and a chocolate dog
LegoALikableGuyAccordingToThoseWhoLikeEverybody
While I get the James Taylor reference, I still don't have the exact word or phrase. I thought I had an idea, but it required a bit more variation in spelling than is required. One more hint, Lego?
ReplyDeleteI don't like to recommend drinking while solving, bit those who are hung up on this "Schpuzzle of the Week" may want to try quaffing down one of these.
ReplyDeleteLegoHic!
I am reminded of an early hit song by the Cars(just the title)with this hint. Thanks Lego, and congrats on getting another idea of yours accepted by the Puzzlemaster, BTW! Glad I'm able to solve everything today! I'm done, and I'll see you Wednesday!
ReplyDeleteThanks, cranberry. Congrats on solving the NPR puzzle.
DeleteLegoLikesWhenJamesTaylorChannelsRingoAndHimself
Re: Your email
ReplyDeleteMy lips are sealed.-pjb
I'm amazed there are no other answers on here yet today, as I'm quite delayed due to an out of town post-op and other stuff. It IS Wednesday, past 12 noon, right? Okay, here goes:
ReplyDeleteSCHPUZZLE: MACHINE => MACH ONE? I.E. MACH 1? [Not at all sure of this answer.]
WHEELS APPETIZER: Despite my best efforts, I could never solve this one....BOb Ross? Robert PEEL? Thomas Kinkade?
DRAMA APPETIZER: TEA: GINSENG, MATCHA, EARL GREY, HERBAL, CHAI, MINT, C(h)AMOMILE
RIFFS [ALL PRE HINTS] :
1. YUM => MUY
2. NIKE => IKE; KROGER => ROGER
3. ELI LILLY => LLLL
4. MARRIOTT => MARRY OTT; MONSANTA => MONSANTO
5. ECOLAB => EBOLA; ECOLAB => E. COLI
6. CHEVROLET => CHEV & RON => CHEVRON
7. BOEING => BEING
MACHANE MACHENE MACHINE MACHONE MACHUNE
Oops, Ignore that last line, please...I forgot to remove it prior to copying/pasting.
DeleteGood solving, VT.
DeleteYou Schpuzzle answer is correct.
As for "C(h)AMOMILE," I couldn't find a Missouri town that ended with "CHA" so I went with the British spelling. I found it curious that The British spelling is "camomile"... "chamomile" seems more British in my mind.
LegoWhoEnjoysFishAndCips
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteMACHINE, MACH ONE
Appetizer Part 1
HAY WAIN(by John Constable), HAWAIIAN
Appetizer Part 2
They are all types of tea:
GINSENG(beGINS ENGineering)
MATCHA(forMAT CHAnge)
EARL GREY(PEARL GREYhound)
HERBAL(HER BALance)
CHAI(dramatiC HAIrpin)
MINT(hailstorM INTensifying)
CAMOMILE(SeneCA, MO. MILEage)
Menu/Riff-Offs
1. YUM(muy)
2. NIKE(Dwight David "IKE" Eisenhower), KROGER(ROGER Clinton, Bill's brother)
3. ELI LILLY(LLLL)
4. MARRIOTT(marry Ott; Mildred was Mel Ott's wife.), MONSANTO(Ron Santo)
5. ECOLAB(Ebola, E. coli)
6. CHEVRON(Chevrolet, ron)
7. BOEING("The Unbearable Lightness of Being")
The Cars tune I referenced was "Just What I Needed", which was quite apropos considering I had just solved my very last puzzle thanks to Lego's Jagermeister(Chuck Yeager)link. Well played, Lego!-pjb
Looks like you ran the table, cranberry. Nice work.
DeleteLegoWhoEnjoysJagermeisterWithHisFishAndCips
This week's answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
The Wright stuff
Name a word associated with flying, circa 1900. Change a vowel to a different vowel to form a 7-letter expression that became associated with flying about half a century later. This latter expression is often spelled with only 4 letters. What are this word and expression?
Answer:
(Flying) Machine; Mach One (or, Mach 1)
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Words, Wheels And Perhaps Tar Heels Appetizer:
2, 4, 6, 8... Who’s a dweller in this state?
The subject of a rural painting by an American artist contains two words and four wheels. Remove the last letter of the first word. In the second word, place duplicates of the second and and third letters in its fourth and fifth positions, but in reverse order. Remove the space to spell what any resident of a certain U.S. state is called.
What is a resident of this state called?
Answer:
Hawaiian;
(The) Hay Wain (by John Constable)
Hay Wain - y = Ha wain >> Ha+wai+ia+n >> Hawaiian
Consumed By Drama Appetizer:
Hairpins and hailstones hit Seneca!
What consumable product is the following sentence subliminally advertising?
Hint: There are seven separate instances of the advertising in the text:
A mechanic begins engineering a format change on the Minnie Pearl Greyhound tour bus’s gyroscopic stabilization system after a roadie loses her balance during a dramatic hairpin turn as the bus, in a hailstorm intensifying, logs Joplin-to-Seneca, Mo. mileage .
Answer:
Seven kinds of tea: (Ginseng, Matcha, Earl Grey, Herbal, Chai, Mint, and Camomile)
A mechanic beGINS ENGineering a forMAT CHAnge on the Minnie pEARL GREYhound tour bus’s gyroscopic stabilization system after a roadie loses HER BALance during a dramatiC HAIrpin turn as the bus, in a hailstorM INTensifying, logs Joplin-to-SeneCA, MO. MILEage.
CAMOMILE
Lego...
This week's answers for the record, part 2:
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Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Slices:
Fortune 500 mortar-and-brickyard
ONE:
Think of a Fortune 500 food company/corporation with a fun-to-say name that is also an informal interjection. When spelled backward this name is a Spanish adverb that intensifies what it modifies. What is this company?
Answer:
Yum! Brands (muy)
TWO:
Remove the initial letter from a prominent Fortune 500 company/corporation to form a short-form name of a U.S. president. Remove the initial letter from a less-prominent Fortune 500 company/corporation to form the first name of a more recent U.S. president’s sibling. What are these two companies?
Answer:
Nike (Ike, nickname of Dwight Eisenhower)
Kroger (Roger, Bill Clinton’s brother)
THREE:
Remove four vowels from the name of a somewhat prominent Fortune 500 company/corporation, leaving four consonants that are all the same. What is this company?
Answer:
Eli Lilly
FOUR:
Name two prominent Fortune 500 companies/corporations that begin with the same letter of the alphabet. Replace the fifth letter of one of them to name what Mildred Wattigny opted to do in October of 1930... something that involved someone now enshrined in Cooperstown. Replace the first letter of the other to name a Chicago Cub who is enshrined in Cooperstown.
Answer:
Marriott; {Marry (Mel) Ott}
Monsanto (Ron Santo)
FIVE:
Name a somewhat prominent Fortune 500 corporation that promotes health and hygiene.
Move its last letter in the place its second letter to form a deadly virus.
Name the same health-and-hygiene-promoting corporation. Replace its last two letters with a vowel and add some punctuation to form bacteria that can cause sickness.
What are this company, deadly virus and bacteria?
Answer:
Ecolab; Ebola; E.coli
SIX:
Name a one-syllable shorthand expression for a car brand with a cross logo, followed by the screen name of a very-valued contributor to Puzzleria! The result is a prominent and “energetic” Fortune 500 corporation.
What is this corporation?
Answer:
Chevron (Chev, short for Chevrolet) + (ron, the screen name of a very-valued contributor to Puzzleria!)
SEVEN:
Remove one letter from somewhat prominent Fortune 500 corporation to name something that is unbearably light, according to Milan Kundera.
What is unbearably light?
Being (Kundera penned "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"); (Boeing)
Lego...
I do feel I should mention the recent controversy involving the term "Hawaiian". Apparently the term only really applies to Native Hawaiians, whereas if you are merely a resident of Hawaii, you must be referred to as such. And if you are not by definition a "Native" Hawaiian but were born there, you also can't be called a Hawaiian. Therefore, "any resident" cannot necessarily be called "Hawaiian". I first heard about it on "Says You" this past weekend, and once I solved the Hay Wain puzzle, I pondered whether or not I should say something about it. At some point I did look it up to find out more, but it still seems a little confusing, IMHO. I wonder if anyone else on the blog knew about this?
ReplyDeleteI sure didn't. Thanks for the info, cranberry.
DeleteLegoAResidentOfMinnesota
Basically, this means "Hawaiian" is actually a nationality, not describing a person from a state. Since it's an island, it makes all the difference.
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