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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Prams, trams and diagrams
The direct object of a four-word sentence is a seven-letter vehicle.
The vehicle is preceded, in order, by a subject, verb and the article “the”.
The subject and verb are formed by splitting the object into two parts.
What is this sentence?
Note: The subject and the object of the sentence are both, of course, nouns.
Tough Conundrums To Beat Appetizer:
More of Mathew’s musical musings
🥁1. Think of a contemporary music genre. Reverse the letters and split in two to get a word for domesticated animals and a term of endearment for one of these animals.
🥁2. Think of the first name of a well-known musician. Move the last letter to the beginning to name an item implicated in a well-known disaster.
🥁3. Think of the plural form of a common Hawaiian phrase, six letters. Shift each letter six places later in the alphabet to get an adjective relating to a music genre.
🥁4. Think of a popular comedy web series in three words. Take the third word, in five letters, and shift each letter four places earlier in the alphabet. The result will be a musical instrument.
🥁5. Think of a music genre in six letters. Shift each letter six places later in the alphabet to get a noun used in publishing.
🥁6. Think of the name of a band and the name of a musician/performer, in three and two words respectively. Read the first two words of the band and the last word of the musician one after the other. The result is a phrase associated with infants.
(Thanks to Bob Greenwade for the puzzle idea in Conundrum #6.)
Trans-World Ports Of Call Slice:
Around the world in 43 letters
Name a world capital (in 6 letters), a former word capital (4 letters), an Olympic host city (6 letters), a Chinese port (7 letters), three world nations (4, 5 and 5 letters) and one word in the name of a fourth nation (6 letters).
The 43 letters of those eight words consist of six different letters. Use all six letters – and no others than those six letters – to spell an eight-letter form of transport.
What is it?
Hint: The form of transport is a forerunner to certain vehicles used by participants in the Olympic Games.
Riffing Off Shortz And Huffman Slices:
Rearranging the rockers on the tape deck of the Titanic
Will Shortz’s February 10th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Puzzleria! contributor and friend Mathew Huffman of Oregon, reads:
Name a well-known rock band in three words. Change the first and third letters to the first and third letters of the alphabet — that is, A and C. You can rearrange the result to name another famous rock band in three words. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Huffman Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a well-known rock band in three words.
1. Rearrange the letters in the first word to form a word that in a solo artist’s song title is followed by “I’ve said it again,” and in another band’s two-word song title is repeated twice.
2. Rearrange the letters in the second word to form a word that in another band’s song title is followed by “shuffled his feet.”
3. Rearrange the letters in the third word to form a word that in other artists’ song titles has been described as “wild,” “crazy,” “little” and “livin’.”
Name the rock band and the three words formed with rearranged letters.
ENTREE #2:
Name a not-real-well-known British rock band in three words. Remove the final letters in two of the three words. You can rearrange the result to form a two-word term for an exchange of the shuttlecock following the serve.
What is the term and what is the name of the band?
ENTREE #3:
Name a reasonably well-known rock band in three words. You can rearrange the letters to form a two-word, 17-letter caption for the image pictured here. What is the caption and what is the name of the band?
Hint: The two words of the caption begin with an S and an E.
ENTREE #4:
Name a somewhat well-known rock band in three words. You can rearrange its letters to form three words that crush, grind, chop or pulverize:
1. a synonym of jaws,
2. a tool wielded by Babe’s master,
3. a tool wielded by Ooola’s boyfriend.
What is the name of the band? What are the three words?
ENTREE #5:
Name a pretty well-known rock band in three words. You can rearrange the letters to form a two-word, 14-letter caption for the image pictured here. The words begin with C and T.
What is the caption and what is the name of the band?
ENTREE #6:
Name a pretty well-known rock band in three words. You can rearrange the letters to form three words:
1. a synonym of tippler,
2. what a liver is, generally, and
3. what the tippler’s liver might do if the tippler keeps tippling.
What is the name of the band? What are the three words?
While My Guitar Gently Sheds Fake Tears Dessert:
Central Stratocasting
A legendary actress and a legendary guy guitarist share a last name.
Saying their first names together, his after hers, sounds like a synonym for “getting a F,” as Natasha or Boris Badenov or anyone else from Pottslyvania might pronounce it.
Who are this actress and guitarist?
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.
Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Prams, trams and diagrams
The direct object of a four-word sentence is a seven-letter vehicle. The vehicle is preceded, in order, by a subject, verb and the article “the”.
The subject and verb are formed by splitting the object into two parts.
What is this sentence?
Note: The subject and the object of the sentence are both, of course, nouns.
Appetizer Menu
Tough Conundrums To Beat Appetizer:
More of Mathew’s musical musings
🥁1. Think of a contemporary music genre. Reverse the letters and split in two to get a word for domesticated animals and a term of endearment for one of these animals.
🥁2. Think of the first name of a well-known musician. Move the last letter to the beginning to name an item implicated in a well-known disaster.
🥁3. Think of the plural form of a common Hawaiian phrase, six letters. Shift each letter six places later in the alphabet to get an adjective relating to a music genre.
🥁4. Think of a popular comedy web series in three words. Take the third word, in five letters, and shift each letter four places earlier in the alphabet. The result will be a musical instrument.🥁5. Think of a music genre in six letters. Shift each letter six places later in the alphabet to get a noun used in publishing.
🥁6. Think of the name of a band and the name of a musician/performer, in three and two words respectively. Read the first two words of the band and the last word of the musician one after the other. The result is a phrase associated with infants.
(Thanks to Bob Greenwade for the puzzle idea in Conundrum #6.)
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Trans-World Ports Of Call Slice:
Around the world in 43 letters
Name a world capital (in 6 letters), a former word capital (4 letters), an Olympic host city (6 letters), a Chinese port (7 letters), three world nations (4, 5 and 5 letters) and one word in the name of a fourth nation (6 letters).
The 43 letters of those eight words consist of six different letters. Use all six letters – and no others than those six letters – to spell an eight-letter form of transport. What is it?
Hint: The form of transport is a forerunner to certain vehicles used by participants in the Olympic Games.
Riffing Off Shortz And Huffman Slices:
Rearranging the rockers on the tape deck of the Titanic
Will Shortz’s February 10th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Puzzleria! contributor and friend Mathew Huffman of Oregon, reads:Name a well-known rock band in three words. Change the first and third letters to the first and third letters of the alphabet — that is, A and C. You can rearrange the result to name another famous rock band in three words. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Huffman Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a well-known rock band in three words.
1. Rearrange the letters in the first word to form a word that in a solo artist’s song title is followed by “I’ve said it again,” and in another band’s two-word song title is repeated twice.
2. Rearrange the letters in the second word to form a word that in another band’s song title is followed by “shuffled his feet.” 3. Rearrange the letters in the third word to form a word that in other artists’ song titles has been described as “wild,” “crazy,” “little” and “livin’.”
Name the rock band and the three words formed with rearranged letters.
ENTREE #2:Name a not-real-well-known British rock band in three words. Remove the final letters in two of the three words. You can rearrange the result to form a two-word term for an exchange of the shuttlecock following the serve.
What is the term and what is the name of the band?
ENTREE #3:
Name a reasonably well-known rock band in three words. You can rearrange the letters to form a two-word, 17-letter caption for the image pictured here. What is the caption and what is the name of the band?Hint: The two words of the caption begin with an S and an E.
ENTREE #4:
Name a somewhat well-known rock band in three words. You can rearrange its letters to form three words that crush, grind, chop or pulverize:
1. a synonym of jaws,
2. a tool wielded by Babe’s master,
3. a tool wielded by Ooola’s boyfriend.
What is the name of the band? What are the three words?
ENTREE #5:
Name a pretty well-known rock band in three words. You can rearrange the letters to form a two-word, 14-letter caption for the image pictured here. The words begin with C and T. What is the caption and what is the name of the band?
ENTREE #6:
Name a pretty well-known rock band in three words. You can rearrange the letters to form three words:
1. a synonym of tippler,
2. what a liver is, generally, and
3. what the tippler’s liver might do if the tippler keeps tippling.
What is the name of the band? What are the three words?
Dessert Menu
While My Guitar Gently Sheds Fake Tears Dessert:
Central Stratocasting
A legendary actress and a legendary guy guitarist share a last name. Saying their first names together, his after hers, sounds like a synonym for “getting a F,” as Natasha or Boris Badenov or anyone else from Pottslyvania might pronounce it.
Who are this actress and guitarist?
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.
Happy post-Valentine's Day everyone! After checking Puzzleria! late last night, I got all but #2 and #6 of the Conundrums, and I got Entree #1, and possibly the Schpuzzle. Will need lots of hints for the rest, Lego. On the homefront, Mia Kate and I have started on the Hunger Games book series, and she actually believes we could finish it by Tuesday. Pray for us.
ReplyDeletecranberry,
DeleteI indeed shall pray that you and your niece Mia Kate "hit the bookmark" as you "take aim" at the Hunger Games books!
LegoWhoIsAwareOfCourseThatcranberryRealizesThat"TakeAim"CanBeAnagrammedToSpell"MiaKate"
My Friday report is that I stayed up till 3 ish working on puzzles, when I SHOULD have been in bed, as I'd had only 1.5 hours of sleep the day before....how I managed to do anything at all is beyond me.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I got Conundrum #3 immediately, #4 fairly quickly because I lucked out in my Googling, and #s1, 2 and 5 with some more Googling effort. Although I have AN answer for the sixth Conundrum, I am sure it is wrong.
The TransWorld slice was fun, and once I caught on to one of the words, it all fell out beautifully.
As for the Riff Offs (I just noticed that they are no longer called Entrees), solved #1 (the only group I'd actually heard of), as well as #6, although I seemed to have three letters left over, so I just aplied them as an adjective to the word for 'liver', and I THOUGHT I had #5, getting the second word and the band, however, i can't turn the remaining letters INTO anything, so that is frustrating.
Haver pieces of #2 and 4, but can't seem to get any further.
I DID solve the Dessert, and that was fun, too.
As for the Schpuzzle, the answer I got can NOT be correct, as the 'first noun' really isn't....so it's back to the drawing board for that one.
Oops, I must have been sleepy even above, since now I note that individually they ARE still called Entrees.
ReplyDeleteGet some shut-eye, VT...
DeleteLegoLambdaSuggestsCountingSomeSheepdaToShepherdInSomeSweetDreams
I'm not sure at all, but think I MIGHT have finally come up with the correct vehicle for the Schpuzzle....even if the logic of the 'sentence' is a bit in doubt, as I see it anyhow. Question: does the correct Schpuzzle vehicle have any 'relationship' with another vehicle located within this set of P! puzzles??
ReplyDeleteViolinTeddy,
DeleteHope you got some slumber.
As to your question, however, I do not think so. Taking a quick glance at this week's images, I see a kind of a bus sporting a smiley face :-) and a hot air balloon with a gondola/wicker basket. Neither of those is my Schpuzzle vehicle.
My intended vehicle contains seven letters. The subject and predicate of my intended sentence contain 4 and 3 letters. Think London... not geographically, but literarily.
LegoWhoDon'tKnowJackAboutLondon
Lego
The reason I asked about the vessel relationship (not to any of the ones you mentioned directly above) is that I had come up with a SECOND answer that I thought made more sense than the original answer, which according to your hint, I THINK might have been correct...it just had made NO sense to me. I'll explain further on Wednesday.
DeleteI'll look forward to Wednesday, ViolinTeddy. In the past, as I recall, you have come up with some alternative answers that are more elegant than my intended answers!
DeleteLegoTheLessElegant
Well, Legolegante, I'm not sure if EITHER of my Schpuzzle answers is elegant OR even correct! But I still tend to think the one I made up (with the vessel in it) makes more sense than the one I think your hint was getting at.....ho hum....
DeleteSaturday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSOTW:
Forget the Rawhide Chews... Just give your pooch some musheroom.
CONUNDRUMS:
1. What ups debt the most? Spending on playmates and penthouse residents... "This Bimbo's for you!"
2. An uppercase 8 on the keyboard
3. Washington state is relatively close to Hawaii, as the "Bird of Island Paradise" flies
4. Lop an "h" from the first name of the "Ferns" guy to get a "Brown Band" that sometimes features ther musical instrument
5. Blues rock? Celtic punk? Funk metal?... "All the news that fits, we print"
6. It is a phrase that seems to come from the mouths of babes, "baby talk," if your please
TWPOCS:
The form of transport can be a bumpy ride, but it's cool.
ROSAHS:
ENTREE #1:
"It gets cold overnight out on the Outback, Mate!"
ENTREE #2:
The band's name:
1. Word preceding "Sharona"
2. Word preceding "Mary"
3. Word following "Funny"
ENTREE #3:
The band's name:
1. Word following "Sly" or "Rolling"
2. Word preceding "Mount" or "Owls"
3. Anagram of "Pistol"
ENTREE #4:
The band's name:
1. "Precious and Few" purveyor
2. Word that rhymes with, and is an example of, "Hues"
3. Homophone of a synonym of "Prohibited"
ENTREE #5:
The band's name:
At the climax of this music video, a woman uses a ___ to play a _____.
Rearrange the 11 letters in the two blanks and name of the band in the video to form a 2-word expression that has become a cultural catchphrase. That catchphase is the hint to the band that is the subject of this ENTREE.
ENTREE #6:
The band's name (it's an American band):
1. a synonym of "thou"
2. Golfer Fred
3. Word following "Underground"
WMGGSFTD:
King Kong's crush + the "King of 'Rumble'" = Actrees + Axman
LegoChristopherWalkenInMemphis
And thank you so much for all these lovely hints. Entree #5's hint is a whole puzzle unto itself! The only remaining question I now have is that the "C" first word seems to me that it should have been TWO separate words....or perhaps I have it wrong. Other than that, I got everything EXCEPT Conundrum #6 still. I'll have to put some more thought into IT.
DeleteVT,
DeleteIn ENTREE #5, the first word in the caption is a 4-letter adjective. The 10-letter T-word that follows is a compound word that, to my ears, is not really that common... perhaps over in Britain(?)
Thanks for your props on my #5 hint. I enjoyed writing it.
LegoBelievesThatThoseInTheCultOfJamesJoyceClamorFor"MoreMoocow!"
Oh, I understand now. I needed to move a three-letter word to the end of the second word, rather than having it attached to the end of the first word.
DeleteI got the Dessert, and I guess I was right about the Schpuzzle! Couldn't figure out Entree #5 like VT did. We're both still scratching our heads about Conundrum #6. That transport one seems like a bit much to figure out, too. That's one that I'd rather work backwards on. You know, get the transport, then figure out the different elements.
ReplyDeleteOh, I just made sense of Conundrum #6.....goody!
ReplyDeleteI can only think of one word that precedes "Sharona". I found one British rock band starting with that word and containing letters that can be arranged into a synonym for "shuttlecock". But I can't put together anything pertaining to "exchanging" from the leftover letters, even if I knew for sure which two to discard.
ReplyDeleteOther than that, I'm done.
Paul,
DeleteRemove the E from the end of the word following "Funny."
Remove the Y from either the word preceding "Sharona" or the word preceding "Mary."
The 15 remaining letters are then rearranged to form a 9-letter word for a game/sport beginning with B, and a 6-letter word beginning with V that is sometimes confused with "Rally," a kind of back-and-forth exchange in tennis, ping pong and other "net sports" (as Will Shortz could probably tell us!).
LegoWooCongratulatesPaulWhoHasAKnackForSolvation
OK, I had the wrong band. I found it in this list(which does not include the intended band). I knew it didn't really sync with "Funny" and "Mary" all that well, but the obvious "shuttlecock" synonym was very tempting.
DeleteWow. Pretty exhaustive Brit list, Paul.
DeleteIn retrospect, I now realize I ought to have written "Irish-British rock band." Sorry about that.
Some of my favorite artists are Irish.
LegoWhoAlsoLikesYeatsAndJoyce:TopO'TheChartsTopO'TheMournin'
Eleventh hour, Lego! Any more hints? I still don't have Conundrums #2 and #6, Entree #5, or the transport puzzle!
ReplyDelete11th Hour Hints:
ReplyDeleteCONUNDRUM #2:
When I am confounded by such a conundrum from a puzzle challenger like Mathew Huffman, I take a snack break... perhaps nosh on an Ore-Ida product.
CONUNDRUM #6:
Take the first two words in the band's name, change the last letter to an L, and you form a very large number. Change to an M the first letter of the second and third words in the name of a musician/performer to form an acronym you might see on a red hat at a boisterous rally.
Trans-World Ports Of Call Slice:
The form of transport is similar a "flat-bottomed boat" that might "sail across ice floes or snow." It is somewhat similar to the vehicle in this week's Schpuzzle. It is a fun form of transport powered by gravity.
ENTREE #5:
The caption has 4 and 10 letters beginning with a C and T. The first is a synonym for "adorable." The second word ends with S but is not plural.
The CEO of John Deere told his stockholders: "We are still the #1 manufacturer of farm machinery... don't sweat International Harvester!"
LegoNotSweatingTheSmallStuff
DOGS LED THE DOGSLED
ReplyDeleteDUBSTEP > PETS, BUD
RINGO (Starr) > O-RING (Challenger)
ALOHAS > GRUNGY
BETWEEN TWO FERNS > BANJO
FUSION > LAYOUT
GOO GOO (DOLLS) (LADY) GAGA
TOBOGGAN [BOGOTA, NAGANO, NANTONG, TOGO, GABON, TONGA, TOBAGO]
THREE DOG NIGHT > THERE, GOD, THING
MY BLOODY VALENTINE > BADMINTON VOLLEY [MY DYING BRIDE > BIRDIE ?????? didn't work out]
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS > SPOTLIT ELOPEMENTS
CLIMAX BLUES BAND > MANDIBLES AX CLUB
BLUE OYSTER CULT > CUTE TROLLEYBUS
GRAND FUNK RAILROAD > DRUNKARD, ORGAN, FAIL
FAY & LINK WRAY > "FAILINK"
SCHPUZZLE: FRIG ATE THE FRIGATE [which was my initial answer, PRE-hint, but I had thought it made no sense] When I put your hint into Google, about the musherooms, it somehow actually came up with something that had FRIGATE in it.....MUSH for dogs never occurred to me. Sigh....
ReplyDeleteBut I had come up with: BOBS LED THE BOBSLED, which related to my question about 'another vehicle' in the set of puzzles, because I thought TOBOGGAN and BOBSLED kinda went together. But just now, I accidentally saw above that it was DOGS, not BOBS...oh well.
CONUNDRUMS:
1. DUBSTEP => PETS & BUD
2. RINGO => O-RING [CHALLENGER SHUTTLE]
3. ALOHAS => GRUNGY
4. BETWEEN TWO FERNS => BANJO [A very special instrument in my heart, played by a dear friend who died 11+ years ago already.]
5. FUSION => LAYOUT
6. GOO GOO DOLLS & LADY GAGA => GOO GOO GA GA [Here is an alternative answer, that I'd come up with, if one were to change the puzzle to "get a children's book title": ALICE IN CHAINS & ALISON WONDERLAND => ALICE IN WONDERLAND]
TRANS-WORLD SLICE:
BOGOTA;
BONN;
NAGANO;
NANTONG;
TOGO, GABON & TONGA;
TOBAGO;
TOBOGGAN [My brother and I had these as kids, and would go sledding down the hill in the cow pasture behind our rented house!]
RIFF-OFFS:
1. THREE DOG NIGHT => THERE, GOD & THING
2. MY BLOODY VALENTINE => BADMINTON VOLLEY [Thanks to the hint, otherwise hopeless]
3. STONE TEMPLE PILOTS => SPOTLIT ELOPEMENTS [Impossible without the hint]
4. CLIMAX BLUES BAND => MANDIBLES , AX & CLUB [I'd had the Mandible and Ax, but not 'Club'... thought it was supposed to be 'stone' or 'flint', instead]
5. The Hint: BOW CELLO REM => BLUE OYSTER CULT => CUTE TROLLEYBUS [I had originally thought it was BAY CITY ROLLERS => Cxxxxxx TROLLEY]
6. GRAND FUNK RAILROAD => DRUNKARD, ORGAN, FAIL [I do not understand the hint about 'synonym of thou' Can't find any band called YOU Funk Railroad!!]
DESSERT: FAY WRAY and LINK WRAY => FAYLINK [FAILING]
"Thou" = 1,000 = "grand"
DeleteBoth "Bobs led the bobsled" and "Alice in (Chains/Alison) Wonderland" are solid alternatives, VT. And I also appreciate Paul's efforts to fit "birdie" into the bloody badminton/volley/shuttlecock valentiney puzzle.
DeleteAs for ENTREE #6: "thou," besides appearing in Omar's Rubaiyat: "A jug of Wine, a loaf of bread--and thou," is also a slang term for a thousand bucks, or a GRAND.
LegoWhoWouldLoveToFeastOnAJugOfWineALoafOfBreadAndThousandIslandDressingOnAReubenSandwich
Wow, I have never in my life come close to hearing that thou = grand!
DeleteSchpuzzle
ReplyDeleteDOGSLED, DOGS LED
Appetizer
Conundrums
1. DUBSTEP, PETS, BUD
2. RINGO(Starr), O-RING(Challenger Shuttle)
3. ALOHAS, GRUNGY
4. (Between Two)FERNS, BANJO
5. FUSION, LAYOUT
6. GOO GOO(Dolls), (Lady)GAGA, "GOO GOO GA GA"
Menu
TOBOGGAN(BOGOTA, NAGANO, NANTONG, TOGO, GABON, TONGA, TOBAGO)
Entrees
1. THREE DOG NIGHT(THERE, GOD, THING)
2. MY BLOODY VALENTINE("BADMINTON VOLLEY")
3. STONE TEMPLE PILOTS("SPOTLIT ELOPEMENTS")
4. CLIMAX BLUES BAND(MANDIBLES, AX, CLUB)
5. BLUE OYSTER CULT("CUTE TROLLEYBUS")
6. GRAND FUNK RAILROAD(DRUNKARD, ORGAN, FAIL)
Dessert
FAY and LINK WRAY("FAILINK")
No more cowbell. We're done here.-pjb
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
Prams, trams and diagrams
The direct object of a four-word sentence is a seven-letter vehicle.
It is preceded, in order, by a subject, verb and the article “the.”
The subject and verb are formed by splitting the direct object in two.
What is this sentence?
Answer:
"Dogs led the dogsled."
Appetizer Menu
Tough Conundrums To Beat Appetizer:
More of Mathew’s musical musings
1. Think of a contemporary music genre. Reverse the letters and split in two to get a word for domesticated animals and a term of endearment for one of these animals.
Answer:
DUBSTEP, PETS, BUD
2. Think of the first name of a well-known musician. Move the last letter to the beginning to name an item implicated in a well-known disaster.
Answer:
RINGO (Starr), O-RING (Challenger)
3. Think of the plural form of a common Hawaiian phrase, six letters. Shift each letter six places later in the alphabet to get an adjective relating to a music genre.
Answer:
ALOHAS, GRUNGY
4. Think of a popular comedy web series in three words. Take the third word, in five letters, and shift each letter four places earlier in the alphabet. The result will be a musical instrument.
Answer:
(Between Two) FERNS, BANJO
5. Think of a music genre in six letters. Shift each letter six places later in the alphabet to get a noun used in publishing.
Answer:
FUSION, LAYOUT
6. Think of the name of a band and the name of a musician/performer, in three and two words respectively. Read the first two words of the band and the last word of the musician one after the other. The result is a phrase associated with infants.
Answer:
GOO GOO DOLLS, LADY GAGA, GOO GOO GA GA
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Trans-World Ports Of Call Slice:
Around the world in 43 letters
Name a world capital (in 6 letters), a former word capital (in 4 letters), an Olympic host city (in 6 letters), a Chinese port (in 7 letters), three world nations (in 4, 5 and 5 letters) and one word in the name of a fourth nation (in 6 letters).
The 43 letters of those eight words consist of six different letters. Use all six – and no others than those six – to spell an eight-letter form of transport. What is it?
Hint: The form of transport is a forerunner to certain vehicles used by participants in the Olympic Games.
Answer:
Bogota, (capital of Colombia);
Bonn, (Germany);
Nagano, (Japan);
Nantong, (China);
Togo;
Tonga;
Gabon;
(Trinidad and) Tobago
All eight words consist only of A, B, G, O, N and T, the six different letters in the word "toboggan,"
The toboggan is "the runnerless forerunner" to the bobsled, luge and skeleton -- three events featured at the 2018 Winter Olympics last winter in Pyeongchang, South Korea, in which Togo, Tonga, Germany, China, Colombia and Japan competed.
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Huffman Slices:
Rearranging the rockers on the tape deck of the Titanic
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Huffman Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a well-known rock band in three words.
1. Rearrange the letters in the first word to form a word that in a solo artist’s song title is followed by “I’ve said it again,” and in another band’s two-word song title is repeated twice.
2. Rearrange the letters in the second word to form a word that in another band’s song title is followed by “shuffled his feet.”
3. Rearrange the letters in the third word to form a word that in other artists’ song titles has been described as “wild,” “crazy,” “little” and “livin’.”
Name the rock band and the three words formed with rearranged letters.
Answer:
Three Dog Night; "There," "God," "Thing";
"There! I Said it Again" (Bobby Vinton); "There, There" (Radiohead)
"God Shuffled His Feet" (Crash Test Dummies)
"Wild Thing" (Troggs); "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" (Queen); "Livin' Thing" (Electric Light Orchestra);
ENTREE #2:
Name a not-real-well-known British rock band in three words. Remove the final letters in two of the three words. You can rearrange the result to form a two-word term for an exchange of the shuttlecock following the serve. What is the term and what is the name of the band?
Answer:
Badminton volley; My Bloody Valentine
ENTREE #3:
Name a reasonably well-known rock band in three words. You can rearrange the letters to form a two-word, 17-letter caption for the image pictured here. What is the caption and what is the name of the band?
Hint: The caption begins with an S and E.
Answer:
Spotlit elopements; Stone Temple Pilots;
ENTREE #4:
Name a somewhat well-known rock band in three words. You can rearrange its letters to form three words that crush, grind, chop or pulverize:
1. a synonym of jaws,
2. a tool wielded by Babe’s master,
3. a tool wielded by Ooola’s boyfriend.
What is the name of the band? What are the three words?
Answer:
Climax Blues Band; Mandibles, ax, club
ENTREE #5:
Name a pretty well-known rock band in three words. You can rearrange the letters to form a two-word, 14-letter caption for the image pictured here. What is the caption and what is the name of the band?
Answer:
Blue Oyster Cult; Cute trolleybus
ENTREE #6:
Name a pretty well-known rock band in three words. You can rearrange the letters to form three words:
1. a synonym of tippler,
2. what a liver is,
3. what the tippler’s liver might do if the tippler keeps tippling.
What is the name of the band? What are the three words?
Answer:
Grand Funk Railroad; Drunkard, organ, fail
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A legendary actress and a legendary guy guitarist share a last name. Saying their first names together, his after hers, sounds like a synonym for "getting a F," as Natasha or Boris Badenov or anyone else from Pottslyvania might pronounce it. Who are this actress and guitarist?
Answer:
Fay Wray, Link Wray; Fay + Link sounds like "failink" ("failing")
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