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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Name, rank and cereal number
Name a food and a word associated with it that begin with the same letter.
These words are the last names of two TV characters who share the same rank.
What words are these?
A Number Of Conundrums Appetizer:
Fun, games, wordplay
🥁#1 Think of a linguistic word used by puzzle constructors in eleven letters.
Drop two vowels and rearrange the remaining vowels, leaving the consonants in the same order, to make a synonym for “unit”.
🥁#2 Think of a three word phrase used to explain a pun. Remove the spaces and shift each letter six places earlier in the alphabet. The result will be a Latin word for the smallest member of a set.
🥁#3 Think of an atomic element in seven letters, British spelling. Shift each letter three places earlier in the alphabet. The result will be a gambling card game.
🥁#4 Name a playful internet prank in eight letters. Drop the first letter and move the next three letters to the end. The result will be a synonym for playfulness.
🥁#5 Spoonerize a slangy two-word phrase for “agreement”. The result when spoken aloud will sound like a two word phrase for something a specific type of artist has done.
Did Mr. Cub really say “Let’s kill two!”? Slice:
Rest in Peace, Izzy & Newt
During a late-season 1907 baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and Boston Doves at South End Grounds III in Boston, Izzy Hoffman was the runner on first for the Doves with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning.
The Doves were down 4 to 3.
The crowd cheered hopefully as Dove right fielder Newt Randall (who was swapped from the Cubs to the Doves earlier in the season) strode to the plate.
Hurling for the Cubs was starting pitcher and shutout specialist Orval Overall.
Randall had worked the count to two balls and one strike.
Note: Because the first radio broadcast of a baseball game did not occur until August 5, 1921 (Pittsburgh Pirates versus Philadelphia Phillies), the following is a snippet from a fictionalized local radio broadcast of what happened next at South End Grounds III:
Overall, who is known for his slow sinker ball, has been feeding Newt a steady diet of rising fastballs. Here’s Orval’s next pitch, another screaming mitt-smacker. Newt swings and misses. That evens the count at 2 and 2.
Izzy takes a short lead off of first base. Overall winds up and throws his signature change of pace pitch.
Newt swings, and...
What happened when Newt Randall swung at Orval Overall’s signature change of pace sinker ball pitch?
Who was involved in the play?
Did the game end right there, or continue on?
Hint: Slightly tweaking three words – one in each sentence of the snippet – will help you solve this puzzle.
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Would a Denmark by any other name smell as rotten?
Will Shortz’s April 7th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
This challenge might require a little research. Name a country. Remove its last letter. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a word that means “country” in that country’s main language. What country is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices (all which might require a little research) read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a natural border between two countries. The border is often called only by an 8-letter uppercase word.
A common female first name popular in the northernmore country appears in the interior of the 8-letter word. Replace it with the letter “a”. Rearrange the result to spell a word that means “country” in the main language of that northernmore country.
What country is it?
ENTREE #2:
Name a country. Remove its first letter. The remaining letters spell a word that would describe the country if the Baltic Sea were drained and dammed. What country is it?
ENTREE #3:
Name a country. Interchange its penultimate and antepenultimate letters. Capitalize the new antepenultimate letter and rotate it clockwise 90 degrees. Rearrange all but the new penultimate letter and last letter to form a proper noun.
This noun, and the remaining pair of letters form a caption for the image pictured here. What is this caption?
What is the country?
ENTREE #4:
Name a present-day unincorporated community sometimes known as “Paradise.”
You will find it on the map west of New Madrid, south of Ste. Genevieve, east of Piedmont, and northwest of Dublin.
Remove the first letter from the name of the community. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a word that means “country” in the main language of the country where the community is situated.
What country is it?
What is the name of the community?
Hint: The community that is sometimes known as “Paradise” is a single word, but it can be split into two words that could complete the following sentence: Michelangelo was able to _____ Paradise __ the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
ENTREE #5:
Remove any consecutive pair of letters from the interior of an island nation in the Pacific Ocean. Place immediately after this result the second word in a two-word island nation in the Indian Ocean.
Divide the result in half to name a singer/songwriter, first and last names.
What are these two island nations? Who is the singer/songwriter?
Hint: The letters in the first word of the two-word island nation in the Indian Ocean can be rearranged to spell the title of a second singer/songwriter who shares the first name and is about a year younger than than the first singer/songwriter.
Phone Nym Name Dessert:
Topolo Honeymoon
A name on a topographic map is a homophone of a synonym of the word “name.”
What is this name on a map?
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:
Name, rank and cereal number
Name a food and a word associated with it that begin with the same letter. These words are the last names of two TV characters who share the same rank.
What words are these?
Appetizer Menu
A Number Of Conundrums Appetizer:
Fun, games, wordplay
🥁#1 Think of a linguistic word used by puzzle constructors in eleven letters.
Drop two vowels and rearrange the remaining vowels, leaving the consonants in the same order, to make a synonym for “unit”.🥁#2 Think of a three word phrase used to explain a pun. Remove the spaces and shift each letter six places earlier in the alphabet. The result will be a Latin word for the smallest member of a set.
🥁#3 Think of an atomic element in seven letters, British spelling. Shift each letter three places earlier in the alphabet. The result will be a gambling card game.
🥁#4 Name a playful internet prank in eight letters. Drop the first letter and move the next three letters to the end. The result will be a synonym for playfulness.🥁#5 Spoonerize a slangy two-word phrase for “agreement”. The result when spoken aloud will sound like a two word phrase for something a specific type of artist has done.
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Did Mr. Cub really say “Let’s kill two!”? Slice:
Rest in Peace, Izzy & Newt
During a late-season 1907 baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and Boston Doves at South End Grounds III in Boston, Izzy Hoffman was the runner on first for the Doves with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning. 
The Doves were down 4 to 3. The crowd cheered hopefully as Dove right fielder Newt Randall (who was swapped from the Cubs to the Doves earlier in the season) strode to the plate.
Hurling for the Cubs was starting pitcher and shutout specialist Orval Overall. Randall had worked the count to two balls and one strike.
Note: Because the first radio broadcast of a baseball game did not occur until August 5, 1921 (Pittsburgh Pirates versus Philadelphia Phillies), the following is a snippet from a fictionalized local radio broadcast of what happened next at South End Grounds III: 
Overall, who is known for his slow sinker ball, has been feeding Newt a steady diet of rising fastballs. Here’s Orval’s next pitch, another screaming mitt-smacker. Newt swings and misses. That evens the count at 2 and 2.Izzy takes a short lead off of first base. Overall winds up and throws his signature change of pace pitch.
Newt swings, and...
What happened when Newt Randall swung at Orval Overall’s signature change of pace sinker ball pitch?Who was involved in the play?
Did the game end right there, or continue on?
Hint: Slightly tweaking three words – one in each sentence of the snippet – will help you solve this puzzle.
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Would a Denmark by any other name smell as rotten?
Will Shortz’s April 7th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
This challenge might require a little research. Name a country. Remove its last letter. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a word that means “country” in that country’s main language. What country is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices (all which might require a little research) read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a natural border between two countries. The border is often called only by an 8-letter uppercase word. A common female first name popular in the northernmore country appears in the interior of the 8-letter word. Replace it with the letter “a”. Rearrange the result to spell a word that means “country” in the main language of that northernmore country.
What country is it?
ENTREE #2:
Name a country. Remove its first letter. The remaining letters spell a word that would describe the country if the Baltic Sea were drained and dammed. What country is it?
ENTREE #3:
Name a country. Interchange its penultimate and antepenultimate letters. Capitalize the new antepenultimate letter and rotate it clockwise 90 degrees. Rearrange all but the new penultimate letter and last letter to form a proper noun.
This noun, and the remaining pair of letters form a caption for the image pictured here. What is this caption? What is the country?
ENTREE #4:
Name a present-day unincorporated community sometimes known as “Paradise.”
You will find it on the map west of New Madrid, south of Ste. Genevieve, east of Piedmont, and northwest of Dublin.
Remove the first letter from the name of the community. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a word that means “country” in the main language of the country where the community is situated.
What country is it? What is the name of the community?
Hint: The community that is sometimes known as “Paradise” is a single word, but it can be split into two words that could complete the following sentence: Michelangelo was able to _____ Paradise __ the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
ENTREE #5:
Remove any consecutive pair of letters from the interior of an island nation in the Pacific Ocean. Place immediately after this result the second word in a two-word island nation in the Indian Ocean.
Divide the result in half to name a singer/songwriter, first and last names.What are these two island nations? Who is the singer/songwriter?
Hint: The letters in the first word of the two-word island nation in the Indian Ocean can be rearranged to spell the title of a second singer/songwriter who shares the first name and is about a year younger than than the first singer/songwriter.
Dessert Menu
Phone Nym Name Dessert:
Topolo Honeymoon
A name on a topographic map is a homophone of a synonym of the word “name.”
What is this name on a map?
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.
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ReplyDeleteHappy few short days until my 49th birthday(Monday the 15th)! I checked the site late last night, and was only able to get Entrees #2 and #5 and the Dessert. Tough ones again this week! I'll need all the hints I can get, Lego. Consider it an early birthday present? Thanks in advance! On the homefront, we had my nieces over, and Mia Kate and I took a short walk and had another interesting conversation. But we had to wait a while before my oldest niece Morgan came by to pick them up and take them to a carnival here in town. Then Mom and I finally had supper(Full Moon BBQ for her, Burger King for me). I just had to have a Double Stacker King! Yum! Paul's Prize Crossword was easy, and Ask Me Another and the Private Eye Crossword are reruns this week. See y'all later, and don't forget my birthday this Monday!
Monday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
The TV characters are both cops, one in a drama, one in a comedy.
A Number Of Conundrums:
#1 The linguistic word used by puzzle constructors in eleven letters begins with a potable and ends with a French word for a potable. The remaining letters, if you change one to an L, is a sweet potable sold in shops.
#2 The first 5 letters of the three-word phrase are palindromic.
#3 Kind of a hellish puzzle
#4 Kind of a ghastley puzzle
#5 Remove an E from the surname of a world leader and change the last letter to the letter preceding it in the alphabet to get the slangy two-word phrase for “agreement”.
DMCRS“LKT”S:
One of the images is the key to this puzzle's solution. The three words you must tweak contain a total of 17 letters.
ROSS:
ENTREE #1:
Think Europe
ENTREE #2:
Land o' Lincoln?
ENTREE #3:
The caption contains 9 and 2 letters.
ENTREE #4:
“Paradise” is smack-dab in the heartland of the good ol' USA.
ENTREE #5:
The first singer/songwriter's middle name is Albert. He wrote the lyrics of a signature song sung by another singer whose middle name is Albert.
PNND:
The moon map is a red herring. "Rock keys" is not a synonym of "name."
LegoAddsThatTheSchpuzzleIsTimely...AtLeastThroughSaturday
Busy today on my birthday, could only get Conundrum #1 from those hints. Need better ones to figure out.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, Patrick! Hints to come.
DeleteLegoBusyWrappingUpHints
It's about time I check in here, I guess.....prior to the above hints, I had solved Conundrums #2 and 4, and Entrees 1 and 2.
ReplyDeleteWith the hints' help, I just worked out Con #1 and 5, as well as (with difficulty and a LOT of searching), Entree #4.
But the remaining Conundrum (#4) and Entree #3 are VERY frustrating (re the latter, I went through ALL the possible countries of the right length and nothing worked.)
As for Entree #5, I believe the hints led me to the two singer/songwriters (well, three actually), but NOWHERE can I find an island to work backwards and get either the first name or the last name of who I think said "first singer" should be (and anyway, that guy is a year younger than the one who is supposed to be a year younger. BOY AM I CONFUSED.)
And I have NOT yet seriously tried to apply the hint to the Schpuzzle. Or to the Dessert, for that matter. And the baseball Slice has me completely mixed up. There are SIX sentences, not just three (the slice says to tweak "one word in each sentence of the snippet." Huh?
Sorry about the baseball sclice, VT. I rewrote the green italic broadcast text "snippet" to make it sound more like an announcer actually doing a live broadcast. It became six sentences long. The tweakable words now appear in the odd-numbered sentences... ignore 2, 4 and 6.
DeleteIn Mathew's Conundrum #4, the word "ghastley" (sic) echoes the surname of the butt of the prank.
To be continued...
LegoScully
My ENTREE #3 is poorly written. I tried to clarify the text it now reads:
Delete"Name a country. Interchange its penultimate and antepenultimate letters. Capitalize the new antepenultimate letter and rotate it clockwise 90 degrees. Rearrange all but the new penultimate letter and last letter to form a proper noun. This noun, and the remaining pair of letters form a caption for the image pictured here. What is this caption? What is the country?" (new text in bold).
The caption has 9 and 2 letters, which of course means that the country is 11 letters long.
For ENTREE #5, the island nation in the Pacific actually contains hundreds of small islands; it is 5 letters long.
The island nation in the Indian Ocean, containing two words, is just off the coast of a very populous nation.
LegoWhoInsistesThatTheSingerOf"Michelle"IsOneYearYoungerThanTheSingerOf"Diana"
Ah, this is kinda funny, I think: turns out, I was thinking of a THIRD singer/songwriter with the SAME first name as the two you intended, and HE is the guy who is a year OLDER than the initial "first songwriter". But now I know how you meant for the younger guy.
DeleteOKay, I now made sense of Entree 5....somehow, I had totally blanked out on the fact that the second island was in the INDIAN Ocean.
DeleteBut I'm still laughing that we are swimming (speaking of Oceans) in songwriters named "????"....
Finally finally, I stumbled on the internet prank, which I'd most assuredly never heard of...sheer luck at hunting to find it. Thus, I'm left with only the Baseball slice (which continues to mystify) and Entree 3, which I believe I had ALREADY attempted correctly to solve, and don't know what else to do now.
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DeleteDown to only one undone.....Entree 3 at long last became clear after I clicked on the actual photo, which I hadn't been able to properly see when it was tiny. That suddenly made my prior attempts work out.
DeleteSo saying, just solved the Schpuzzle. Never would have without the "cop" hint.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Dessert....good hint, even though it still took me awhile to land on the correct pair of words!!
ReplyDeleteANDERSON
ReplyDeleteNATALIE
AIW
RIM
NGGYU
OTTO
ADAMS
BANKE
JEAN
Y&S
EUPHORIA
JOHNNY
ELISHA
ANDERSON-"Pepper" Anderson; searching for "Sgt. Lemon" can also prove interesting.
DeleteNATALIE-Natalie Portman(teau)
AIW-"As it were"(in other words, "so to say")
RIM-"Fill it to the rim...with Brim!"(stone?)
NGGYU-"Never Gonna Give You Up"
OTTO-Ottowa, capital of Canada and birthplace of Justin Trudeau(not to mention Paul Anka)
ADAMS-Franklin P. Adams, author of "Baseball's Sad Lexicon"
BANKE-The Left Banke recording of "Walk Away Renee"
JEAN-Jean Sibelius, composer of "Finlandia"
Y&S-Y&S Candies, now a subsidiary of The Hershey Company
EUPHORIA-Like ECSTASY, the antithesis of AGONY; how about "Suffering never returning" as a definition for PARADISE?
JOHNNY-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpUVj0gphnQ
ELISHA-Elisha Mitchell, for whom the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in mainland eastern North America is named.
Just got Conundrum #4! Lego, your last hint did it for me!
ReplyDeleteLate Tuesday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
Catholics are particularly familiar with the food and a word associated with it
A Number Of Conundrums:
#2 The Latin word for the smallest member of a set is only one letter different from a common English word in which about 43% of the letters are the same consonant.
#3 I hope you don't overly suffer over this puzzle... It's not like you're being tormented by eternal fire and brimstone!
#5 Grabbed a Scrabble tile + tie knots to make lace
DMCRS“LKT”S:
The one of the images that is the key to this puzzle's solution is the small group photo.... 6-4-3, DP!
ROSS:
ENTREE #1:
Mister Mojo Risin rhymed the first half of this natural border with "mire."
ENTREE #3:
The caption is not a plug for Red Vines.
ENTREE #4:
Has this puzzle put you in a state of misery? It ought to put you in the state of Missouri!
LegoSituatedAboutTwentyMilesNorthOfDexter
Got Entree #1 finally! How come you ramble on about stuff I end up being unable to find whatsoever, but then I get only one element out of the whole list of hints? Shouldn't the hints get easier the closer we get to Wednesday? And I've found literally NOTHING about the community in Entree #4, BTW!
ReplyDeleteAnd I know TAT is the other part, but what does "grabbed a Scrabble tile" mean in this case?
ReplyDeletecranberry,
DeleteI'm just looking for a synonym of "grabbed" or "took" or "picked up" when it comes to replenishing your Scrabble tile rack.
The name of the community in ENTREE #4 can be divided into a 5-letter word and 2-letter word. The 5-letter word is something Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood did to their wagon. The 2-letter word is a common preposition.
LegoExclaims:AMusicalStarringLeeAndClint?!
Geez, pjb, Lego doesn't even have ANY obligation to provide hints at all. I am tired of your always insulting him, because you are stuck. Some of his hints are dead giveaways, which I know when I have already solved them.
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ReplyDeleteFinally figured out the Schpuzzle! Finally!
ReplyDeleteCurrent tally:
ReplyDeleteThe Schpuzzle, Conundrums #1 and #4, Entrees #1, #2, and #5, and the Dessert.
More hints, please!
ReplyDeleteSCHPUZZLE: FISH and FRIDAY => SGT DETECTIVE PHILIP FISH and SGT DETECTIVE JOE FRIDAY
CONUNDRUMS:
1. PORTMANTEAU minus "O and U" => A P A R T M E N T
2. SO TO SAY => MINIMUS
3. SULPHUR => PRIMERO
4. RICKROLL => ROLLICK
5. TRUE DAT => DREW TAT
MR. CUB SLICE: HITS...? (from HIS?) I wanted to add "...a homer" or "...Izzy home" but no such tweaking opportunities presented themselves!
ENTREES:
1. PYRENEES => (RENEE) => PYAS => PAYS (French for country)
2. FINLAND => INLAND
3. SWITZERLAND => TWIZZLER AD!!
4. PAINTON, MO => AINTON => NATION
5. PALAU minus "AL" plus LANKA [from Sri Lanka] => PAUL ANKA
DESSERT: APPALACHIANS => APPELLATION
PALAU minus "LA" also works, I think?
DeleteYeah, Paul, that's why (I finally figured out) the puzzle said "remove any two interior letters"....
DeleteVT, I want to first apologize if I've been a little hard on Lego about some of his past hints. What with my birthday and babysitting my nieces and all, I've been a little preoccupied this week, and when it came to trying to figure out the Puzzleria! hints, I guess I got a little angry(which VT should know since I really get into the puzzles every week, it'll drive you crazy sometimes if and when you still can't get it after a few days of mulling over the information provided plus a few hints, which I'm always thankful Lego is lenient enough to allow because he really doesn't have to do it at all, but we can all be glad he does offer hints, good, bad or indifferent)and I am truly sorry. I do enjoy these puzzles no matter how difficult they can appear at times, and I really appreciate the help since I still consider myself a neophyte at this sort of thing. Sorry everyone.
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle
Sergeant Detective Phil Fish(Abe Vigoda)from "Barney Miller" and Sgt. Det. Joe Friday(Jack Webb)from "Dragnet"
Appetizer
Conundrums
1. PORTMANTEAU, APARTMENT
2. SO TO SAY, MINIMUS
3. SULPHUR, PRIMERO
4. RICK ROLL, ROLLICK
5. TRUE DAT, "DREW TAT"
Menu
Entrees
1. PYRENEES, PAYS(French for "country")
2. FINLAND, INLAND
3. SWITZERLAND, TWIZZLERS AD
4. PAINTON, MO
5. PALAU and SRI LANKA, PAUL ANKA
Dessert
APPALACHIANS, APPELLATION
But could we do without the use of "penultimate" or "antepenultimate" in some directions? I tend to forget what uncommon words like these mean as I'm trying to look over the puzzles. Thanks anyway, Lego.-pjb
What I would appreciate, pjb, is if you wouldn't ORDER Lego to give hints...if you would THANK him once in awhile, and perhaps not just rant that his hints are inadequate, but state outright what is confusing specifically re a certain puzzle. I try to do that often, and I hope it helps Lego understand what is confounding me, at least.
DeleteThank you, cranberry and ViolinTeddy.
DeleteI understand your frustration, cranberry, and your point is well taken regarding "penultimate/antepenultimate." My wording in that puzzle was indeed confusing.
I appreciate your patience and understanding, VT. Your approach, about "stating outright what is confusing about a puzzle" seems to be a good approach. I know how frustrating it can be not to be able to solve a puzzle; this happens to be often with Will Shortz's NPR puzzles.
Thank you both. I value greatly your contributions to this blog.
LegoWhoBelievesThisToBeThePenultimateWeapon
This week's answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
Name, rank and cereal number
Name a food and a word associated with it that begin with the same letter.
These words are the last names of two TV characters who share the same rank.
What words are these?
Answer:
Fish, Friday; Sgt. Philip Fish ("Barney Miller"), Sgt. Joe Friday ("Dragnet")
Appetizer Menu
A Number Of Conundrums Appetizer:
Fun, games, wordplay
#1 Think of a linguistic word used by puzzle constructors in eleven letters.
Drop two vowels and rearrange the remaining vowels, leaving the consonants in the same order, to make a synonym for “unit”.
Answer:
PORTMANTEAU, APARTMENT
#2 Think of a three word phrase used to explain a pun. Remove the spaces and shift each letter six places earlier in the alphabet. The result will be a Latin word for the smallest member of a set.
Answer:
SO TO SAY, MINIMUS
#3 Think of an atomic element in seven letters, British spelling. Shift each letter three places earlier in the alphabet. The result will be a gambling card game.
Answer:
SULPHUR, PRIMERO
#4 Name a playful internet prank in eight letters. Drop the first letter and move the next three letters to the end. The result will be a synonym for playfulness.
Answer:
RICKROLL, ROLLICK
#5 Spoonerize a slangy two-word phrase for “agreement”. The result when spoken aloud will sound like a two word phrase for something a specific type of artist has done.
Answer:
TRU DAT, DREW TAT (tattoo)
Lego...
This week's answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteMENU
Did Mr. Cub Really Say “Let’s kill two!”? Slice:
Rest in Peace, Izzy & Newt
During a late-season 1907 baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and Boston Doves at South End Grounds III in Boston, Izzy Hoffman was the runner on first for the Doves with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning.
The Doves were down 4 to 3.
The crowd cheered hopefully as Dove right fielder Newt Randall (who was swapped from the Cubs to the Doves earlier in the season) strode to the plate.
Hurling for the Cubs was starting pitcher and shutout specialist Orval Overall.
Randall had worked the count to two balls and one strike.
Note: Because the first radio broadcast of a baseball game did not occur until August 5, 1921 (Pittsburgh Pirates versus Philadelphia Phillies), the following is a snippet from a fictionalized local radio broadcast of what happened next at South End Grounds III:
Overall, who is known for his slow sinker ball, has been feeding Newt a steady diet of rising fastballs. Here’s Orval’s next pitch, another screaming mitt-smacker. Newt swings and misses. That evens the count at 2 and 2.
Izzy takes a short lead off of first base. Overall winds up and throws his signature change of pace pitch.
Newt swings, and...
What happened when Newt Randall swung at Orval Overall’s signature change of pace sinker ball pitch?
Who was involved in the play?
Did the game end right there, or continue on?
Hint: Slightly tweaking three words – one in each sentence of the snippet – will help you solve this puzzle.
Answer:
Randall hit a hard grounder to shortstop Joe Tinker who fielded the ball and tossed it to second baseman Johnny Evers for the force out at second, who then relayed it to first baseman Frank Chance for the force out at first, thus ending the game with a double play. The final score: Cubs 4, Doves 3.
Hint:
Change the S in "sinker" to a T to form "Tinker."
Change the N in "evens" to a R to form "Evers."
Change the G in "change" to a C to form "Chance."
Answer:
The batter hits a grounder to Cubs shortstop Joe Tinker (sinker – s + T) who fields the ball and tosses it to second baseman Johnny Evers (evens – n + r) for the force out at second, who then relays it to first baseman Frank Chance (change – g + c) for the force out at first, thus ending the game with a double play.
Lego...
The answer above proves to me that there was never ANY hope of my solving this baseball puzzle. It was much too baseball-y for my limited knowledge (or interest!) In fact, I don't think I even UNDERSTAND the solution.
DeleteI agree. I never would have gotten it no matter how many hints Lego could offer. No offense, Lego. Also, in the future I shall try to ask for hints a lot nicer than I have. You have my word.
DeleteThis week's answers for the record, part 3:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz Slices:
Would a Denmark by any other name smell as rotten?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices (all which might require a little research) read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a natural border between two countries. The border is often called only by an 8-letter uppercase word.
A common female first name popular in the northernmore country appears in the interior of the 8-letter word. Replace it with the letter “a”. Rearrange the result to spell a word that means “country” in the main language of that northernmore country.
What country is it?
Answer:
France;
The Pyrenees (mountain range) is a natural border between France and Spain. Pyrenees - Renee + a = Pyas --> pays, which is the French word for "country."
ENTREE #2:
Name a country. Remove its first letter. The remaining letters spell a word that would describe the country if the Baltic Sea were drained and dammed. What country is it?
Answer:
Finland; Finland - F = inland
ENTREE #3:
Name a country. Interchange its penultimate and antepenultimate letters. Capitalize the new antepenultimate letter and rotate it clockwise 90 degrees. Rearrange all but the new penultimate letter and last letter to form a proper noun.
This noun, and the remaining pair of letters form a caption for the image pictured here. What is this caption?
What is the country?
Answer:
Twizzlers ad; Switzerland
Switzerland --> SwitzerlNad --> Twizzlers ad
ENTREE #4:
Name a present-day unincorporated community sometimes known as “Paradise.”
You will find it on the map west of New Madrid, south of Ste. Genevieve, east of Piedmont, and northwest of Dublin.
Remove the first letter from the name of the community. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a word that means “country” in the main language of the country where the community is situated.
What country is it?
What is the name of the community?
Hint: The community that is sometimes known as “Paradise” is a single word, but it can be split into two words that could complete the following sentence: Michelangelo was able to _____ Paradise __ the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Answer:
United States of America; Painton, (Missouri)
Painton - P = "ainton," the letterswhich can be rearranged to spell "nation," a word that means “country” in English, the main language of the country in which the community is situated.
ENTREE #5:
Remove any consecutive pair of letters from the interior of an island nation in the Pacific Ocean. Place immediately after this result the second word in a two-word island nation in the Indian Ocean.
Divide the result in half to name a singer/songwriter, first and last names.
What are these two island nations? Who is the singer/songwriter?
Hint: The letters in the first word of the two-word island nation in the Indian Ocean can be rearranged to spell the title of a second singer/songwriter who shares the first name and is about a year younger than than the first singer/songwriter.
Answer:
Palau; Sri Lanka
Palau - al (or Palau - la) = Pau; Pau+Lanka = Paul Anka; Sri --> Sir (Paul McCartney)
Dessert Menu
Dessert:
Topolo Honeymoon
A name on a topographic map is a homophone of a synonym of the word “name.”
What is this name on a map?
Answer:
Appalachian (Mountains); ("Appalachian" is a homonym of "appelation"; "Appelation" is a synonym of "name".)
A name on a topographic U.S. map is a homonym of a synonym of the word "name". What is this name on a map?
Lego!