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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
“See you in the funny papers”
Name a comic strip character in two words. Adding the same letter to the beginning of each word forms two new words.
Rearranging the combined letters in those new words spells a service, in two words, with eight colorful triangles in its logo.
What is the service?
Who is this comic strip character?
Unbeatable Conundrums Appetizer:
Thespian theaters: The pains, the tears...
🥁1. Start with a synonym for urge.
Add an S to get a slang term for circumstances. Add a T to get a word used in a proverb about preparation.
Add an R to get the last name of a stage actress.
🥁2. Think of an actor, four and four letters. Shift the letters of his last name twelve places forward in the alphabet to describe his physical appearance.
🥁3. Rearrange the nonsense phrase “go greet IKEA” into an actor’s name.
🥁4. Name an actor, first and last names, two and six letters. Replace the last three letters with an A to name a domesticated animal in one word.
🥁5. Think of a contemporary actress. Replace the first letter of her last name with the first letter of her first name to get the brand name of a bottled water company.
Hamilton Had A Burr In His Saddle Appetizer:
Washing on monuments
Rearrange the eleven letters of a two-word Washington landmark to describe, in two words, what might have happened during a bloody duel before the landmark was built.
What was it that might have happened?
What is the landmark?
Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices:
Tiquettee Table
Will Shortz’s December 9th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Dominick Talvacchio of Chicago, Illinois, reads:
Think of a word that can go before “table” to make a familiar phrase. Move the last letter to the front, and you’ll have a word that can go after “table” to make a familiar phrase. What phrases are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a six-letter word that appears in the title of a Robert De Niro movie and in the title of a Simon & Garfunkel B-side and deep album cut.
Place after it a five-letter plural word that is a homophone of the last name of a big-name actor who never appeared in a movie with Robert De Niro.
This result could be a collective two-word term for teams of supporting people in the pit.
Now move the last letter of the five-letter word to the front. Put this result in front of the six-letter word to form an 11-letter instrument that might be used by a supporting person in the pit.
What term and instrument are these?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a word that can go before “table,” as illustrated in this image at the right. Move the first letter of this word to the end, and you’ll have a word that can go after the word “table” to make a somewhat familiar phrase.
What phrases are these?
ENTREE #3:
Think of a word that can go before “economy” to make a familiar phrase with positive connotations. Move the first letter to the end, and you’ll have a word that can go after “economy” to form a word for charts which might perhaps support the familiar phrase. What are this phrase and the word for these possibly supportive charts?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a word that can go before “table,” as illustrated in this image at the right. Move the last letter of the word to the front, and you’ll have a word that can go after “table” to form a two-word synonym of “dining room chair” What phrases are these?
ENTREE #5
Think of a five-letter word that can go before a word for a certain member of the nuclear family to name the last two words of the title of an album recorded in Abbey Road Studios around the time The Beatles were breaking up.
Move the first letter to the end, and you’ll have a word that can go after the same member of the nuclear family to make a familiar phrase.
What are this album title and phrase?
ENTREE #6
Think of a seven-letter phrase for what this is. Move the last letter to the front, and you’ll have a word for a president’s residence. What phrase and word are these?
ENTREE #7
Name popular vacation getaways to a particular resort city that people book using online travel services, in two words of five letters each.
Move the last letter of the second word to the front of that word, and you’ll have a two-word phrase for where these tourists will likely spend their time. What are these getaways and phrase?
Hint: These ten letters can be rearranged to form two synonyms of “hole.”
ENTREE #8
Name a puzzle-maker and artist, first and last names, in 18 total letters. Double the last letter of the last name and triple the first letter of the last name.
Form a Roman numeral with two letters. Transpose the letters to form another Roman numeral. Take the difference of these two Roman numerals and add it to the value of the proper fraction formed from their ratio. This sum is approximately the value of a lowercase letter in our Roman alphabet.
Replace the two letters used to form the Roman numerals with the lowercase letter from the Roman alphabet.
Rearrange these 20 letters to form:
1. A game piece in the shape of a rectangular prism
2. A simple game (#hugsandkisses?)
3. Something you’ll likely need before you can play hopscotch on the sidewalk
Who is this puzzle maker? What are the game piece, the game and what you need to play hopscotch?
Cinema Title Spawns Subtitles Dessert
“Here’s looking at you, Karate Kid”
Replace the third word of an Oscar-nominated movie title with a rhyming word, and replace the last three letters of the second word with an “e”.
Write the original title and altered title one after the other, separated by the word “is.” The result is a line of dialogue that could have been spoken by the movie’s male lead.
What is this movie?
What is the line of dialogue that could have been?
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.
“See you in the funny papers”
Name a comic strip character in two words. Adding the same letter to the beginning of each word forms two new words. Rearranging the combined letters in those new words spells a service, in two words, with eight colorful triangles in its logo.
What is the service?
Who is this comic strip character?
Appetizer Menu
Unbeatable Conundrums Appetizer:
Thespian theaters: The pains, the tears...
🥁1. Start with a synonym for urge.
Add an S to get a slang term for circumstances. Add a T to get a word used in a proverb about preparation.
Add an R to get the last name of a stage actress.
🥁2. Think of an actor, four and four letters. Shift the letters of his last name twelve places forward in the alphabet to describe his physical appearance.
🥁3. Rearrange the nonsense phrase “go greet IKEA” into an actor’s name.
🥁4. Name an actor, first and last names, two and six letters. Replace the last three letters with an A to name a domesticated animal in one word.
🥁5. Think of a contemporary actress. Replace the first letter of her last name with the first letter of her first name to get the brand name of a bottled water company.
Hamilton Had A Burr In His Saddle Appetizer:
Washing on monuments
Rearrange the eleven letters of a two-word Washington landmark to describe, in two words, what might have happened during a bloody duel before the landmark was built.
What was it that might have happened?
What is the landmark?
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Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices:
Tiquettee Table
Will Shortz’s December 9th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Dominick Talvacchio of Chicago, Illinois, reads:
Think of a word that can go before “table” to make a familiar phrase. Move the last letter to the front, and you’ll have a word that can go after “table” to make a familiar phrase. What phrases are these?Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a six-letter word that appears in the title of a Robert De Niro movie and in the title of a Simon & Garfunkel B-side and deep album cut.
Place after it a five-letter plural word that is a homophone of the last name of a big-name actor who never appeared in a movie with Robert De Niro. This result could be a collective two-word term for teams of supporting people in the pit.
Now move the last letter of the five-letter word to the front. Put this result in front of the six-letter word to form an 11-letter instrument that might be used by a supporting person in the pit.
What term and instrument are these?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a word that can go before “table,” as illustrated in this image at the right. Move the first letter of this word to the end, and you’ll have a word that can go after the word “table” to make a somewhat familiar phrase. What phrases are these?
ENTREE #3:
Think of a word that can go before “economy” to make a familiar phrase with positive connotations. Move the first letter to the end, and you’ll have a word that can go after “economy” to form a word for charts which might perhaps support the familiar phrase. What are this phrase and the word for these possibly supportive charts?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a word that can go before “table,” as illustrated in this image at the right. Move the last letter of the word to the front, and you’ll have a word that can go after “table” to form a two-word synonym of “dining room chair” What phrases are these?ENTREE #5
Think of a five-letter word that can go before a word for a certain member of the nuclear family to name the last two words of the title of an album recorded in Abbey Road Studios around the time The Beatles were breaking up.
Move the first letter to the end, and you’ll have a word that can go after the same member of the nuclear family to make a familiar phrase. What are this album title and phrase?
ENTREE #6
Think of a seven-letter phrase for what this is. Move the last letter to the front, and you’ll have a word for a president’s residence. What phrase and word are these?
ENTREE #7
Name popular vacation getaways to a particular resort city that people book using online travel services, in two words of five letters each.
Move the last letter of the second word to the front of that word, and you’ll have a two-word phrase for where these tourists will likely spend their time. What are these getaways and phrase?Hint: These ten letters can be rearranged to form two synonyms of “hole.”
ENTREE #8
Name a puzzle-maker and artist, first and last names, in 18 total letters. Double the last letter of the last name and triple the first letter of the last name. Form a Roman numeral with two letters. Transpose the letters to form another Roman numeral. Take the difference of these two Roman numerals and add it to the value of the proper fraction formed from their ratio. This sum is approximately the value of a lowercase letter in our Roman alphabet.
Replace the two letters used to form the Roman numerals with the lowercase letter from the Roman alphabet.
Rearrange these 20 letters to form:
1. A game piece in the shape of a rectangular prism2. A simple game (#hugsandkisses?)
3. Something you’ll likely need before you can play hopscotch on the sidewalk
Who is this puzzle maker? What are the game piece, the game and what you need to play hopscotch?
Dessert Menu
Cinema Title Spawns Subtitles Dessert
“Here’s looking at you, Karate Kid”
Replace the third word of an Oscar-nominated movie title with a rhyming word, and replace the last three letters of the second word with an “e”.
Write the original title and altered title one after the other, separated by the word “is.” The result is a line of dialogue that could have been spoken by the movie’s male lead. What is this movie?
What is the line of dialogue that could have been?
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 have a Washington landmark, a duel that took place before the landmark was built (but not in the same location), and an anagram that ALMOST works. If it DID work, this would be a wonderful hint, but it doesn't, so it isn't.
ReplyDeleteI think I have everything else.
Bravo, Paul. These puzzles were not so easy, imho.
DeleteYour link is a wonderful hint... and a wonderful link. The tense that is past is crucial... it accounts for the D in the landmark.
LegoWhoSaysAnotherOfMyPuzzlesMayBeAvailableForSolvingComeSunday
Good Friday to all in Puzzlerialand(though not THE Good Friday, of course)! Mom's at a banquet for a few hours, I've solved the Private Eye crossword, the Prize Crossword isn't available yet, "Ask Me Another" is a rerun this week, and there'll be full-color episodes of "I Love Lucy" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show" coming up on CBS this evening. I checked Puzzleria! late last night, and only managed to get Conundrums #1, #3, and #4 and the Dessert. Also, I know you've got an Entree that uses the puzzlemaker's name from last Sunday's puzzle, but I never thought you'd make that puzzle so tough! Hints please, Lego(not just for that one, but also all the others I haven't gotten yet, of course)! And may we all have a great time 'til Wednesday!
ReplyDeleteI found the new P! around midnight last night, to my delight, and was able to solve all five Conundrums (for a change!) plus all the Entrees except #2.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I don't think the answer I came up with for the Non-Con Appetizer (as I like to call those) is reliable. My landmark DOES have a "D" in it, as mentioned above, but I don't like the two words that it anagrammed to...not sure they make much sense. Of course, the question is WHICH Washington are you referring to? Clearly we are meant to assume DC, from the pictures, but I rather suspected otherwise.
I got nowhere on the Dessert, and every attempt on the Schpuzzle ended up not working out [i.e. I had finally come up with a suspected company, and even a suspected comic strip character, but never the twain did meet.)
You found the actor with eight letters total in his name AND got his physical appearance? I've gone through so many actors' names and got nowhere fast! He can't be that famous. I've gone from Brad Pitt to Sean Penn to Burl Ives to Bert Lahr! Nothing worked. I did much better getting CUBED and MELON last week! I don't suppose, VT, you have a good hint for that or the bottled water one, hm?
ReplyDeleteImj az, imj arr.
DeleteDon't forget to breathe; very important.
See actor clue below....re the water bottles, think LARGE...that's my hint.
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DeletePJB, you mentioned the very actor....
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ReplyDeleteJoy of joys, I just now figured out the Dessert!
ReplyDeleteWell now I have all the Conundrums, but I still need the one about the Washington landmark and the Entrees. BTW I must have misread the one about the (4,4) actor. I had the last part all along!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome???
DeleteSorry, VT, thank you. BTW I also don't have the Schpuzzle. I neglected to mention that.
DeleteHey VT, cute Dessert huh?
DeleteI have gotten AN answer, at long last, for the Schpuzzle, but I am NOT at all confident about it, as I seem to have the actual TITLE of the comic strip, rather than an actual character....also, the 'logo' mentioned doesn't appear (to me,at least) to have 8 triangles, i.e. has only 4, but at least they are colorful.
DeleteOops, part of my reply just got eliminated. Don't know what happened...but it was only "Yes it is", re the dessert.
DeleteLego, are we talking about Mount Rainier having this landmark?
ReplyDeleteNope. Too far inland. Head northwest from Mount Rainier.
DeleteLegoLookingForALandmarkInAHaystack
OOh, goody, that tells me I DO have the right landmark after all (see my quandary above, in first comment I'd made this week)...however, I STILL don't like my two anagrammed resultant words.
DeleteGot Entrees #1, #4, #5, and, despite my best efforts, #8. The other Entrees, the Schpuzzle and the landmark Appetizer still escape me though. BTW, congrats Lego, for having another puzzle used by WS this week! Thank goodness it was much easier!
ReplyDeleteHoly Day Hints:
ReplyDeleteSOTW:
The comic strip character's pal was perhaps the first rapper.
The comic strip character's name smacks of buckets, bowling and, historically, football.
CONUNDRUMS:
1. "Behead" the synonym for urge to get a vowelless "sound of disagreement, frustration."
2. Rearrange the letters of the actor's first name to get a word that does not describe his physical appearance.
3. The actor played a helmsman but in real life was likely never a "Jesse Helmsman."
4. Remove the interior letters of the actor's last name to name, along with his first name, a food animals eat.
5. "Hey man! You have to count every stroke you take, even the rotten ones!"
HHABIHSA:
The "verb portion" of "what might have happened during a bloody duel" is admittedly a bit of a stretch, definitionally. The "noun" portion of "what might have happened during a bloody duel" is normally smaller and/or larger than the two implements that do the "verbing."
ROSATS:
ENTREE #1:
The six-letter word is one of the things the "man" in Conundrum Hint #5 uses. pears in the title of a Robert De Niro movie and in the title of a Simon & Garfunkel B-side and deep album cut. The five-letter plural word that is a homophone also of the last name of the "lyin' son of someone" who conspired with Lee Harvey, according to a lyin' someone who could fire a gun on 5th Avenue and not get arested!
ENTREE #2:
The word that can go before “table” was in the news in 1976.
ENTREE #3:
It sounds like Christmas creche sales might contribute to this particular “economy.”
ENTREE #4:
The word that can go before “table,” as illustrated in this image, is a verb. A proper caption for the image would also identify the ravenous "nom-nomming" urchin.
ENTREE #5
A shorter synonym of the certain member of the nuclear family rhymes with "Bomb." The group that recorded album at Abbey Road Studios has a color in its name (and the name of a fictional barber).
ENTREE #6
The current occupant of this "president’s residence" is not the resent occupant of the White House... but he might as well be, some say.
ENTREE #7
Elvis
ENTREE #8
The sum of the two Roman numerals is X. Their difference is II. Their ratio is II/IV. The lowercase letter from the Roman alphabet represents something transcendental.
1. The game piece in the shape of a rectangular prism is a song sung by a bloke named Morrison.
2. A simple game begins with a breath mint and ends with a digit.
3. The something you’ll likely need before you can play hopscotch on the sidewalk is pictured in the image.
CTSSD:
The hint to ENTREE#!, above, says "the six-letter word is one of the things the 'man' in Conundrum Hint #5 uses." That six-letter word is a form of the first word in both the original title and the altered title.
LegoNotLyin'!
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ReplyDeleteA few more hints, please, Lego?
ReplyDeleteMonday Monday, Can't Trust Those Hints...:
ReplyDeleteSCHPUZZLE:
Title of a song by the "Dollywood Gargoyles?"
HHABIHSA:
The plural "noun portion" (first word) of "what might have happened during a bloody duel" is 60% one vowel.
The "verb portion" (second word) of "what might have happened during a bloody duel," minus its final letter, is the last name of a popularizer of the phrase "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
ROSATS:
#2 I've been lately reading a famous sermon in one of the Gospels, and I am wondering if some ill-informed host might have served oysters to the occupants at this table?
#3 The word preceding "economy": "Are your bullish on the economy? Bearish on the economy? How about horsish?"
The word following "economy": "Charts and graphs and _____ and cha_r_."
#6 I had a typo in my previous hint to this one:
"The current occupant of this "president’s residence" is the Present (not resent) occupant of the White House... but he might as well be, some say."
But, if you put in a little extra effort, and make the correct connections, the answer will come to you eventually.
#7 This place is a destination that might be magic ("candelabracadabracal"), funny, insulting, "tame-trained," Newtonian, a little bit country, or a little bit rock "n" roll.
(Suzanne and Chevy are both _____."
LegoWhoseNewMottoIs"WeWillBury Clues!"
I see how VT isn't crazy with the words she got in the landmark puzzle. Sadly, I can't figure out the rest of it. I have the right comic strip, but I'm unfamiliar with the "service".
ReplyDeleteI'm confused, pjb. If you haven't solved the Landmark puzzle, how do you know WHY I'm not crazy about the two words I found? if you DO know what I found, that means you have the landmark.....but are trying to find two OTHER words to anagram out of it?
DeleteThe "rest of it" refers to what I haven't solved yet of the puzzles not connected to the landmark puzzle. I have the landmark puzzle. All I know about your not being crazy about the words you found is when you mentioned it earlier, VT. That's all. I think I have the right words according to Lego's recent hints.
DeleteGot anything else, Lego?
ReplyDeleteIn the Landmark puzzle, you know the landmark, right? I cannot imaging solving this puzzle in any other way than guessing the landmark, and then rearranging its letters to form an noun and verb that describe what happened at a bloody battle/encounter... even if those two words are a bit strange and far-fetched.
DeleteAs for the Schpuzzle, I am sure you are familiar with this service (perhaps "service" is the wrong word?)... Well, okay, I guess I am not that familiar with it either, but at least I have heard of it, and I believe you too have at least heard of it.
If you have the correct comic strip character (who lives not on the Moon, but in a place using 3 of the letters in "Moon"), then all you need is to find the letter that will form two new words when you place it in front of each of the two words in the character's name. I believe there is only one letter that really works.
LegoWhoHopesThisHelps
I only have trouble understanding the "service" part. Otherwise, I have the comic strip part and just have difficulty figuring out the anagram. First letters for the anagram might help.
DeleteForget what I just posted. I just got it. Why didn't I think of it before? The Schpuzzle is solved!
DeleteI only have the Entrees left(2,3,6, and 7)! One more go-round for hints, Lego?
DeleteTuesday Afternoon (Way After Noon!) Hints
Delete(You're just beginning to see,
Now you're on my way.
It really does matter to me,
Chasing your clouds away...")
ROSATS:
#2 The famous sermon I was reading in one of the Gospels was Matthew 7:6... and I am still wondering if some ill-informed host might have served oysters to the occupants at this table? Probably not what you're supposed to do.
#3 The word preceding "economy": "Are you bullish on the economy? Bearish on the economy? How about horsish?" "Horsish housing," that is.
The word following "economy": "Charts and graphs and _____... and chairs."
#6 What is the name of the group? What do you open to see/hear the group sing?
#7 Suzanne ("Luka") and Chevy (not Chase, the 1970s subcompact) are both _____."
LegoWhoNowBidsGoodByeAndAdieuToRubyClueDayTuesday...
All of a sudden, after driving me crazy all week, I suddenly realized the answer to Entree #2 (I had had the correct word days ago, pre the latest hints)...HOWEVER, what I have to do to get this answer is BACKWARDS from what the puzzle SAYS!!! That is, one has to take the word that goes before 'table' and move the FIRST LETTER to the end,not the other way around. Am I right here, or do I still have the wrong answer? I can't believe I WOULD, given all those hints....but....????
DeleteYou have the correct answer ViolinTeddy. Congratulations. This has to be the longest I have ever gone before making a correction, which I just did now. ENTREE #2 SHOULD read:
Delete"Think of a word that can go before “table,” as illustrated in this image at the right. Move the first letter of this word to the end, and you’ll have a word that can go after the word “table” to make a somewhat familiar phrase.
What phrases are these?"
My apologies to "ViolinTedditor" and other Puzzlerians!
And, thanks to VT.
LegoTheFallible
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DeleteI got everything but #6. What does REM have to do with it?
ReplyDeleteI know the CD/D.C. part, but what's the seven-letter part?
ReplyDeleteI like your "CD/D.C." answer, cranberry. It is really a wonderful alternative solution. But it is not my intended answer.
DeleteThe "what this is" is a phrase containing two parts: a 3-letter acronym (which you know) and a 4-letter noun.
LegoStillPravidingHints
I need more to go on than just "a 4-letter noun". I don't have the whole word for "a President's residence".
ReplyDeleteFor the 4-letter noun, think sausage, think golf (but in the singular form), think bling...
DeleteThere's more than one president in this world. Two of them have made headlines galore the past few years... Think of the smarter one.
LegoThinksPeopleAreFunnyAndThatKidsSayTheDarndestThings
Think Piltdown.
DeleteLegoWhoSaysWhatTheseTwoAreActuallyRhymes!
According to Wikipedia's list of duels:
ReplyDeleteJuly 22, 1867: John Bull killed Langford Peel in a quick-draw duel in Salt Lake City, Utah. Peel challenged Bull after the two argued about their business, an argument which culminated in Peel slapping Bull. Bull reasoned that he did not have a gun, but Peel told him to get his own and come back. Peel waited in the saloon for an hour but left, not knowing that Bull had not refused his offer but was simply late. After meeting again in another saloon, the two drew their weapons and Bull gunned down Peel.
So PEEL ESCAPED seems to be something that "might have happened" but didn't. But it isn't an anagram of SPACE NEEDLE, anyway. The Avengers clip I found does end with PEEL ENCASED in the drapery, however.
ALLEY OOP > GALLEY GOOP > GOOGLE PLAY
ITCH > SITCH > STITCH > STRITCH
BRAD PITT > BUFF
GEORGE TAKEI
AL PACINO > ALPACA
CAREY MULLIGAN > CULLIGAN
SPACE NEEDLE > EPEES LANCED
DRIVER CREWS > SCREWDRIVER
SWINE TABLE > TABLE WINES
STABLE ECONOMY > ECONOMY TABLES
EATS TABLE > TABLE SEAT
ATOM HEART MOTHER > MOTHER EARTH
R.E.M. LINK > KREMLIN
VEGAS TRIPS > VEGAS STRIP
DOMINICK TALVACCHIO > DOMINICK TTTALVACCHIOO > DOMINICK TTTALACCHOOe (VI-IV=2; e=2.718 > 2.667) > DOMINO, TIC-TAC-TOE, CHALK
DRIVING MISS DAISY IS DRIVING ME CRAZY
Paul,
DeletePEEL ENCASED in the drapery is sufficiently "space-needly" in my book. You get credit for two correct Appetizer answers!
Thanks for the bloody duel link. Worth it just for the Primo bit of trivia Trivia that Phil Hamilton bought it in a duel about 2.5 years before his pops Alex did.
LegoWhoAdmitsThatIfWillShortzUsesAnotherOneOfDominickTalvacchio'sPuzzlesTheRiffOffPuzzleMightBeABitIffy!
SCHPUZZLE: ALLEY OOP => GALLEY GOOP => GOOGLE PLAY
ReplyDeleteCONUNDRUMS:
1. ITCH => SITCH => STITCH => STRICH
2. BRAD PITT => BUFF
3. GEORGE TAKEI
4. AL PACINO => ALPACA
5. CAREY MULLIGAN => CULLIGAN
HAMILTON APPETIZER: SPACE NEEDLE => LANCED EPEES?
ENTREES:
1. DRIVER; CREWS [CRUISE] => SCREWDRIVER
2. SWINE TABLE => TABLE WINES [This is putting the FIRST letter to the end, to arrive at the word going AFTER 'table', but this is the reverse of the puzzle's directions.]
3. STABLE ECONOMY => ECONOMY TABLES
4. EATS TABLE => TABLE SEAT
5. HEART MOTHER => EARTH MOTHER => MOTHER EARTH
6. R.E.M. LINK => KREMLIN
7. BEACH TRIPS => BEACH STRIP
8. DOMINICK TALVACCHIO => DOMINICK TTTALVACCHIOO; VI and IV => 6 - 4 = 2; ratio = 6/4 = 1.5 => (1.5 + 2) = 3.5 [although that is closer to C or D] => put in E in place of I and V =>
1. DOMINO 2. TIC TAC TOE 3. CHALK
DESSERT: DRIVING MISS DAISY is DRIVING ME CRAZY!
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteALLEY OOP(GALLEY, GOOP), GOOGLE PLAY
Appetizer Part 1
Conundrums
1. ITCH, SITCH, STITCH, (Elaine)STRITCH
2. BRAD PITT, BUFF
3. GEORGE TAKEI
4. AL PACINO, ALPACA
5. CAREY MULLIGAN, CULLIGAN
Appetizer Part 2
SPACE NEEDLE, "EPEES LANCED"
Menu Entrees
1. DRIVER CREWS, SCREWDRIVER
2. SWINE TABLE, TABLE WINES
3. STABLE ECONOMY, ECONOMY TABLES
4. EATS TABLE, TABLE SEAT
5. (Atom)HEART MOTHER(by Pink Floyd), MOTHER EARTH
6. REM LINK, KREMLIN
7. VEGAS TRIPS, VEGAS STRIP
8. DOMINICK TALVACCHIO(DOMINO, TIC-TAC-TOE, CHALK)
Dessert
"DRIVING MISS DAISY is DRIVING ME CRAZY!"
Personally, I prefer Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album. "Welcome To The Machine" is my favorite track.-pjb
This week's answers for the record, Part 1:
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“See you in the funny papers”
Name a comic strip character in two words. Adding the same letter to the beginning of each word forms two new words. Rearranging the combined letters in those new words spells a service, in two words, with eight colorful triangles in its logo. What is the service? Who is this comic strip character?
Answer:
Google Play; Alley Oop; (Alley Oop >> galley + goop >> Google Play)
Appetizer Menu
Unbeatable Conundrums Appetizer:
Thespian, theaters: The pains, the tears...
1. Start with a synonym for urge. Add an S to get a slang term for circumstances. Add a T to get a word used in a proverb about preparation. Add an R to get the last name of a stage actress.
Answer:
ITCH, SITCH, STITCH, (Elaine) STRITCH
2. Think of an actor, four and four letters. Shift the letters of his last name twelve places forward in the alphabet to describe his physical appearance.
Answer:
(Brad) PITT, BUFF
3. Rearrange the nonsense phrase “go greet IKEA” into an actor’s name.
Answer:
GEORGE TAKEI
4. Name an actor, first and last names, two and six letters. Replace the last three letters with an A to name a domesticated animal in one word.
Answer:
AL PACINO, ALPACA
5. Think of a contemporary actress. Replace the first letter of her last name with the first letter of her first name to get the brand name of a bottled water company.
Answer:
CAREY MULLIGAN, CULLIGAN
Hamilton Had A Burr In His Saddle Appetizer:
Washing on monuments
Rearrange the letters of a two-word Washington landmark to describe, in two words, what might have happened during a bloody duel before the landmark was built.
What might have happened?
What is the landmark?
Answer:
Epees lanced; (Space Needle, in Seattle, Washington)
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This week's answers for the record, Part 2:
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Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices:
Tiquettee Table
ENTREE #1:
Name a six-letter word that appears in the title of a Robert De Niro movie an in the title of a Simon & Garfunkel B-side and deep album cut. Place after it a five-letter plural word that is a homophone of the last name of a big-name actor who never appeared in a movie with Robert De Niro. This result could be a collective two-word term for teams of supporting people in the pit.
Now move the last letter of the five-letter word to the front. Put this result in front of the six-letter word to form an 11-letter instrument that might be used by a supporting person in the pit. What term and instrument are these?
Answer:
Driver crews; Screwdriver
ENTREE #2:
Think of a word that can go before “table,” as illustrated in this image. Move the last letter of the word to the front, and you’ll have a word that can go after the word “table” to make a somewhat familiar phrase. What phrases are these?
Answer:
Swine table; table wines
ENTREE #3:
Think of a word that can go before “economy” to make a familiar phrase with positive connotations. Move the first letter to the end, and you’ll have a word that can go after “economy” to form charts which perhaps support the familiar phrase. What are this phrase and these supporting charts?
Answer:
Stable economy; Economy tables
ENTREE #4:
Think of a word that can go before “table,” as illustrated in this image. Move the last letter to the front, and you’ll have a word that can go after “table” to form a two-word synonym of “dining room chair” What phrases are these ?
Answer:
"Eats table"; Table seat
ENTREE #5
Think of a five-letter word that can go before a word for a certain member of the nuclear family to name the last two words of the title of an album recorded in Abbey Road Studios around the time The Beatles were breaking up. Move the first letter to the end, and you’ll have a word that can go after the same “member of the nuclear family” to make a familiar phrase. What are this album title and phrase?
Answer:
"Atom Heart Mother"; Mother Earth
Lego...
This week's answers for the record, Part 3:
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ENTREE #6
Think of a two-word phrase for what this is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tRVSucPZPs Move the last letter to the front, and you’ll have a word for a president’s residence. What phrase and word are these?
Answer:
R.E.M. link; Kremlin
ENTREE #7
Name popular vacation getaways to a particular resort city that people book using online travel services, in two words of five letters each. Move the last letter of the second word to the front of that word, and you’ll have a two-word phrase for where these tourists will likely spend their time. What are these getaways and phrase?
Hint: These ten letters can be rearranged to form two synonyms of “hole”.
Answer:
Vegas trips; Vegas Strip
Hint: VEGAS TRIPS = GRAVES = PITS
ENTREE #8
Name a puzzle-maker and artist, first and last names, in 18 total letters. Double the last letter of the last name and triple the first letter of the last name. Form a Roman numeral with two letters. Transpose the letters to form another Roman numeral. Take the difference of these two Roman numerals and add it to the value of the proper fraction (https://www.mathsisfun.com/proper-fractions.html) formed from their ratio. This sum is approximately the value of a lowercase letter in our Roman alphabet.
Replace the two letters used to form the Roman numerals with the lowercase letter from the Roman alphabet.
Rearrange these 20 letters to form:
1. A game piece in the shape of a rectangular prism (https://www.shmoop.com/basic-geometry/three-d-prisms-cylinders-cones-spheres.html)
2. A simple game (#hugsandkisses?)
3. Something you’ll likely need before you can play hopscotch on the sidewalk
Who is this puzzle maker? What are the game piece, the game and what you need to play hopscotch?
Answer:
Dominick Talvacchio; Domino, tic tac toe, chalk
Dominick Tttalvacchioo - VI + e = domino + tic tac toe + chalk; VI - IV = II (6-4=2); 4/6 = 2/3 = 0.66666; 2 + .6666 = 2.66666; e= 2.719
Dessert Menu
Cinema Title Spawns Subtitles Dessert
“Here’s looking at you, Karate Kid”
Replace the third word of an Oscar-nominated movie title with a rhyming word, and replace the last three letters of the second word with an “e”. Write the original title and altered title one after the other, separated by the word “is”. The result is a line of dialogue that could have been spoken by the movie’s male lead.
What is this movie?
What is the line of dialogue that could have been?
Answer:
"Driving Miss Daisy" is driving me crazy!
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