PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 8!/21 SERVED
A Second Schpuzzle Of the Week:
Beatles? Boo! Chipmunks? Cheers!
Change one vowel in the name of a place associated with “rock” and what might be called a “British sound.”
Rearrange the result to spell two rodents.
What are this place?
What are the two rodents?
Schpuzzle Of The Week (For A Day):
Broadway flop? No, Broadway flip!
Invert one letter in the last name of a Broadway performer.
Move the inverted letter to the end to form the title of a Broadway show.
What is the show?
State Capitals & State Capitols Appetizer:
Reductio ad Capitolium etc.
Note: We at Puzzleria! are pleased to launch a new feature this week titled “State Capitals & State Capitols.” It is the brainchild of Ken Pratt, whom you might know better by his screen name, geofan. Welcome, Ken, and thank you for sharing your creativity with us!
Reductio ad Capitolium
1. Think of a state capital. Rearrange its letters to give a second state capital, the postal abbreviation for this second capital’s state, and a Greek letter.
In this string of letters, exchange the vowel in the postal abbreviation with two adjacent letters in its state capital.
The result will spell a third state capital followed by five “leftover” letters.
Keeping these leftover letters in position, change the first one to the letter one place later in the alphabet, then change the fourth one to the letter two places later in the alphabet.
Remove the third leftover letter, leaving the postal abbreviation of the third state capital’s state and the postal abbreviation for the original state capital’s state.
What are these three capitals, states and postal abbreviations. What is the final lone letter you removed?
Look what I found
2. Think of a U.S. state.
Change one member of a doubled letter to the immediately preceding letter in the alphabet.
Rearrange the result to name fossils found in a number of state capitols.
What are these fossils?
Getting there
3. How do Juneau, AK; Dover, DE; Jefferson City, MO; and Pierre, SD stand apart from all other state capitals?
How Is This Capitol Different from (Most) All Other Capitols?
4. What distinguishes the state capitols of NY, LA, VA, ND, HI and AK from those of the majority of US states?
Bonus: Are there any other such “nonconformers’’?
Matchmaking Slice:
Is #11 a spoon, or ism’t it?
Compose terse captions for the 18 images pictured here. Use only one or two words.
Then match the eighteen pictures properly into nine pairs.
Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:
A, E, I, O, U et Y aussi
Will Shortz’s May 26th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota, reads:
This week’s challenge is not so hard. Take a common English word in 3 letters. Translate it into French – also 3 letters. (The French word is one everyone knows.) And between them these two words consist of 6 different vowels and no consonants. What words are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Take a common English noun in 8 letters. (It is “proper” common noun, one of those uppercase words you see on a calendar.) Translate it into French, in 5 letters.
Rearrange these 13 letters to form 3 words that complete the following brief synopsis of a 1957 movie: “12 Angry Men ___ ____ ______.” Complete the sentence with a past-tense verb, a noun that functions as a modifier, and a plural noun.
What is this 8-letter proper common noun and its 5-letter translation?
ENTREE #2:
Take a common English word for a creature in 3 letters.
Translate it into French – a word that is longer than 3 letters.
Rearrange these letters to form the English word for a large marine fish in 3 letters, and the English word for a high-pitched sound uttered by a larger land creature.
What four words are these?
ENTREE #3:
Take a common color, in English. Translate it into German. The combined letters of these two words consist of 83 percent consonants. What words are these?
ENTREE #4:
Take a common English noun in 4 letters. You can see it in the sky.
Translate it into Spanish – a word of 8 letters.
Rearrange these letters to form an adjective form of the noun and a flower shaped like the noun, both in English.
What are these four words?
ENTREE #5:
A traveler on a meadow road might pass by a large grove of trees.
Name a 4-letter word for this large grove of trees.
Translate it into Spanish.
Rearrange the combined letters in the word and its translation to form the term “meadow road.”
What are this 4-letter word and translation?
Purebred? Cockateal? Salmon? Dessert:
A horse (or other) of no different color
A number of consecutive letters at the end of the name a creature spell a common color of the creature.
What is this creature?
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.
A Second Schpuzzle Of the Week:
Beatles? Boo! Chipmunks? Cheers!
Change one vowel in the name of a place associated with “rock” and what might be called a “British sound.” Rearrange the result to spell two rodents.
What are this place?
What are the two rodents?
Schpuzzle Of The Week (For A Day):
Broadway flop? No, Broadway flip!
Invert one letter in the last name of a Broadway performer. Move the inverted letter to the end to form the title of a Broadway show.
What is the show?
Appetizer Menu
State Capitals & State Capitols Appetizer:
Reductio ad Capitolium etc.
Note: We at Puzzleria! are pleased to launch a new feature this week titled “State Capitals & State Capitols.” It is the brainchild of Ken Pratt, whom you might know better by his screen name, geofan. Welcome, Ken, and thank you for sharing your creativity with us!
Reductio ad Capitolium
1. Think of a state capital. Rearrange its letters to give a second state capital, the postal abbreviation for this second capital’s state, and a Greek letter.
In this string of letters, exchange the vowel in the postal abbreviation with two adjacent letters in its state capital. The result will spell a third state capital followed by five “leftover” letters.
Keeping these leftover letters in position, change the first one to the letter one place later in the alphabet, then change the fourth one to the letter two places later in the alphabet.
Remove the third leftover letter, leaving the postal abbreviation of the third state capital’s state and the postal abbreviation for the original state capital’s state.
What are these three capitals, states and postal abbreviations. What is the final lone letter you removed?
Look what I found
2. Think of a U.S. state.
Change one member of a doubled letter to the immediately preceding letter in the alphabet.Rearrange the result to name fossils found in a number of state capitols.
What are these fossils?
Getting there
3. How do Juneau, AK; Dover, DE; Jefferson City, MO; and Pierre, SD stand apart from all other state capitals?
How Is This Capitol Different from (Most) All Other Capitols?
4. What distinguishes the state capitols of NY, LA, VA, ND, HI and AK from those of the majority of US states?
Bonus: Are there any other such “nonconformers’’?
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Matchmaking Slice:
Is #11 a spoon, or ism’t it?
Compose terse captions for the 18 images pictured here. Use only one or two words.
Then match the eighteen pictures properly into nine pairs.
Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:
A, E, I, O, U et Y aussi
Will Shortz’s May 26th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota, reads:
This week’s challenge is not so hard. Take a common English word in 3 letters. Translate it into French – also 3 letters. (The French word is one everyone knows.) And between them these two words consist of 6 different vowels and no consonants. What words are these?Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Take a common English noun in 8 letters. (It is “proper” common noun, one of those uppercase words you see on a calendar.) Translate it into French, in 5 letters. Rearrange these 13 letters to form 3 words that complete the following brief synopsis of a 1957 movie: “12 Angry Men ___ ____ ______.” Complete the sentence with a past-tense verb, a noun that functions as a modifier, and a plural noun.
What is this 8-letter proper common noun and its 5-letter translation?
ENTREE #2:
Take a common English word for a creature in 3 letters.
Translate it into French – a word that is longer than 3 letters. Rearrange these letters to form the English word for a large marine fish in 3 letters, and the English word for a high-pitched sound uttered by a larger land creature.
What four words are these?
ENTREE #3:
Take a common color, in English. Translate it into German. The combined letters of these two words consist of 83 percent consonants. What words are these?
ENTREE #4:
Take a common English noun in 4 letters. You can see it in the sky.
Translate it into Spanish – a word of 8 letters. Rearrange these letters to form an adjective form of the noun and a flower shaped like the noun, both in English.
What are these four words?
ENTREE #5:
A traveler on a meadow road might pass by a large grove of trees.
Name a 4-letter word for this large grove of trees. Translate it into Spanish.
Rearrange the combined letters in the word and its translation to form the term “meadow road.”
What are this 4-letter word and translation?
Dessert Menu
Purebred? Cockateal? Salmon? Dessert:
A horse (or other) of no different color
A number of consecutive letters at the end of the name a creature spell a common color of the creature.
What is this creature?
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.
Starting things off for this week, I can report that the Entrees worked out pretty well (except #2, which I had thought WAS going to be fairly simple...got fooled) and I THINK I got the Dessert answer.
ReplyDeleteI tried valiantly to do the Matching puzzle (but only a few seem to 'work out', assuming my theory is even correct for it, which it may well NOT be), but Geo's puzzles are thus far hopeless, and the Schpuzzle, as per usual, is frustrating. I had a strategy for tackling that one, but couldn't find anything that worked (doing it backwards, of course.)
Hi everyone,
ReplyDeleteGot all the Entrées almost immediately: For #5, knew both words in a related (but the same) meaning. For the DM, have 3 answers: one is about 40 %, one about 45 %, and one 100 % correct. But I do not know whether any of them is what Lego is looking for. so may have to visit the zoo for more inspiration.
No ideas on the SOTW or the pictures yet.
An alternate version of Entrée #4:
ReplyDeleteTake a common English noun in 4 letters. You can see it in the sky. Translate it into Spanish – a word of 8 letters. Distill off a fruity class of organic compounds. The residue can then be rearranged 3 ways (#1, #2, and #3) to describe a certain orange blob. Of these, he would use #1 himself. The rest of us would use #2 to describe him or #3 to describe his immediate advisors.
BTW, Such a procedure in organic synthesis is often called a "work-up."
Nice riff-off, geofan.
DeleteAll three of my answers contain two words:
The first could describe Derek Jeter in July.
The second could describe Ivan the Terrible, even on a good day.
The third could describe the NYC subway system, any day.
LegoWhoFoundTheAnswerNotInSomeChemistryBookButInTheBiblicalBookOfEster(sic)!
True. Only comment is that the NYC subway is far better than it was several decades ago - speaking as one who likes, uses and relies on public transportation all over the world.
DeleteAs presented, the MS looks rather like an Advent calendar on drugs. [this is not a hint.]
ReplyDeleteAs a possible help (not a hint) for the MS, if you click on the picture and then download is as a .jpg, you can see it in better resolution. Only in this way could I read the printing on pic #6, for example
ReplyDeletegeofan.
Can the Schpuzzle be what I think it is?
ReplyDeleteBTW, my spellchecker just flagged "Schpuzzle".
Probably, Paul. Yeah, there is a "trick."
DeleteLegoWhoBelievesItIsTimeForPaulToUpdatedHisOutdatedSchpellchecker!
Lego and Paul,
DeleteEither I also found the trick, or if not, it would be a fantastic trick to use in a future puzzle.
Working backwards, still must find the performer.
geofan
Assuming the answer's what I think it is- wasn't this a Sunday Puzzle a year or two ago?
DeleteMake that three years ago. Time flies.
DeleteGot the SOTW.
DeleteMegatart Stratagem,
DeleteOh no! Please say that ain't so. I was just starting to get over the pain and misery that the my ARTS & Crafts --> CARTS & RAFTS puzzle (created in 2006 by Mike Reiss) caused me!
LegoThoughWhoIsHopefulThatMegatartStratagemMayBeMistakenBecauseHeJustNowDidASearchForTheSchpuzzleAnswerInTheBlaine'sBlogSearchEngineAndCameUpEmpty
Sorry to be the bringer of bad news, but I did the Blainesville search for "exclamation point". The puzzle in question was aired on April 17, 2016.
DeleteMegatart Stratagem and geofan are, alas, correct.
DeleteMy apologies, Puzzlerians!
LegoSad
I suspect that Megatart also made a similar search (though possibly on "Oliver!" as she at that point had likely solved the puzzle.) At the corresponding point, I only had the use of the ! in mind so could not search for "Oliver!".
DeleteAlso, I had intended to credit Megatart for her suspected similar search in my previous post, but neglected to do so. I hope that this ex post facto credit makes up for this omission.
It is really ex post facto :)
DeleteFor the record, Blainesville searches for "exclamation point" and for "Oliver!" yield hits, while "Olivier" does not. This is because Blaine gave the answer as Oliv¡er and not as Olivier.
DeleteSo much for checkers.
DeleteI did in fact remember the puzzle from three years ago, but Broadway is not my forte so it still took me a while to realize it was the same answer. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news! It's a clever puzzle and certainly merits a double-discovery.
DeleteFor what it's worth, I verified by googling "Sunday Puzzle Olivier" since I already suspected the performer. The answer from the following week on the SP website was one of the first results. Blaine's would've been an even better resource in retrospect.
Remove the last letter from the third state capital of Appetizer #1. Change an interior letter to another letter having a few similar properties. That's my hint for Appetizer #4.
ReplyDeleteYou've got it, Paul. Excellent hint.
DeleteLegoWhoIsSuddenlyPeckishForAPieceOfPiALaMode
Lego, for the MS, is there an overall theme for the 9 pairs, or only 9 within-pair connections? Or should we await a hint?
ReplyDeletegeofan,
DeleteYes, there is indeed an overall theme for what connects each of the nine pairs. There is a hint for that theme in the italicized title of the puzzle.
This is one of those puzzles that if you solve one, the others will topple like dominoes.
LegoWhoCallsThisThe"TopplerEffect"
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Deleteсольшое бпасибо
Delete...and the dominos are toppling
DeleteThe last one will fall for me when I figure out the link between a happy meal and a septuple bogey.
DeletePaul,
DeleteDon't you mean beptuple sogey and mappy heal?
LegoWhoHasAlwaysContendedThatDoctorsHaveKeenSensesOfDirection(TheyKnowTheirWayAroundAPancreas!)
Alas, what I thought was a beach pebble was something different. Two pairs left.
DeleteHappy June Eve to all!
ReplyDeleteDid my other puzzle-related duties today. Also got a haircut and did some grocery shopping, and got some fast food for supper. Tough puzzles this week! I could only get the first and last Entree. Not sure about the thing you can see in the sky. There is an eight-letter Spanish word for something in the sky, but I don't think it applies here. All hints will be greatly appreciated as always. Good luck to everyone else on the blog!
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ReplyDeleteActually, the percentage of consonants in the English/German color is >83.
ReplyDeleteOn a cattle ranch you round-up. On a puzzle blog you round-down.
DeletelegoAddsThatAtAnIntersectionYouRoundAbout
Or you keep endlessly repeating yourself.
DeleteFinally got all 9 pairs. The last one was hardest, as the musician was totally unknown to me and the arrow misled.
ReplyDeleteHowever, one could maintain that I cheated by solving the SOTW via Blaine, so the vaunted trophy may go to another.
Also I found a fourth creature that solves the DM and is 100 % correct. But in this case 100 % of its letters are used in naming the color. So in summary for the DM: 4 solutions - 100 %, 100 %, 45 %, and 40 % correct. More Wednesday.
If color-words from other languages are allowed, some species of parrot might qualify, notably the scarlet macaw.
ReplyDeleteSmunday Hints:
ReplyDeleteASSOTW:
Changing the vowel in the name of the place results in a common misspelling of the place.
Rearranging the letters in one rodent results in two body parts the rodent has.
Rearranging the letters in the other rodent results in a man's first name.
SOTW:
A poem I composed many years ago:
Sir Laurence whom numerous actresses kissed
Is more of an Olive than Oliver Twist
Who in turn is more Olive that Popeye's best goyle...
Though, of all, has her hair the Oliviest coyle!
SC&SCA
I will defer to Ken regarding hints for his puzzles. If he wants me to provide some hints, I shall attempt some.
MS:
One of the images appeared in the May 3, 2019 Puzzleria!
The scorecard for #9 reads: "Got on the green in 2!"
#3 played in bands with Jorma and Jack.
#4: Who are those guys?
ROSAYS:
ENTREE #1:
Goober Pyle's Hollywood impression
ENTREE #2:
Backward, the creature is a deity, and the fish is a dwarf.
ENTREE #3:
If you translate the color into French instead of German, you might end up withB BRAIN LOCK!
ENTREE #4:
Add an R to the end of what you can see in the heavens to see who, since last Sunday, you might see in heaven.
ENTREE #5:
One snowy evening Robert Frost appended an S to his "large grove of trees."
PCsSDt:
The creature is not a mako shark.
LegOliveOyl!
Got the ASSOTW just before the hint. Trick wording.
ReplyDeleteFor the PCsSDT (DM), found yet a FIFTH creature that qualifies.
ReplyDeleteOf these 5 creatures, any of them could fly from point A to Point B. But at least one of them (I believe that one is Lego's expected answer) would have to use United or Southwest.
Some advice on the MS (not really a hint): If you find the solution, you will know you have it. On several of them, I laughed or groaned when I found the solution. Congrats to Lego for the uplift!
ReplyDeleteState Capitals & State Capitols Appetizer HINTS:
ReplyDelete1. Reductio ad Capitolium:
The capitals, one -by-one, begin on a coast, coast their way far inland, then saunter back coastward.
The Greek letter has gotten much publicity in recent years.
2. Look what I found:
Unlike the red-herring image that accompanies the puzzle's text, the "fossils" are not state politicians, but actual geological fossils found in the brick and mortar (well, more brick than mortar). If you are unfamiliar with the name for the fossils (into which the altered state's spelling anagrams) try finding an informal collective term for guns-and-such plus an informal term for dusk-to-dawns.
3. Getting there
Topeka, KS and Austin, TX are not on this stand-apart list? Why am I not surprised! EEeeeIkes!
4. How Is This Capitol Different from (Most) All Other Capitols?
"Come and tour our state capitol building. Perhaps you'll see a singing celeb, like Peter Garrett, Michael Stipe or Moby!
LegoWhoHopesPuzzlerians!MayNowMakeSomeCapitalGains
Here are my hints for the SC&SC:
ReplyDelete#1 Whittling down God Almighty yields dead soldiers who arrive in planes.
#2 Lego should have gotten this one quickly.
#3 The title is a hint. Look at a road map carefully.
#4 Look at pictures and you will see. Also see Paul's hint of May 31.
Be easier to just have the Entrees. I'd be done by now. Also, I think it's a little unfair to add another Schpuzzle while we still can't get the first one. Got nothing from the state capital hints. More hints needed!
ReplyDeletecranberry,
DeleteReread Sunday's thread of comments beginning with Megatart Stratagem's May 31 at 3:25 PM post and ending with Megatart Stratagem's June 1 at 10:23 AM post. My Schpuzzle was used three years ago as on of Will Shortz's Sunday challenges.
So, the cat was out of the bag.
I felt obligated to provide faithful Puzzlerian!s with a second Sphuzzle of the Week, one that I was pretty sure had not been used by Will.
For the second Schpuzzle, the terms "rock" and "British Sound" are in quotation marks for a reason. The two album covers are both red herrings. Concentrate on the word "place." This is actually a geography puzzle in Carnaby clothing!
For Ken's (geofan's) SC&SC puzzles, let his and my hints marinate in your mind for a spell. If more hints are needed we'll try to provide them.
For the Dessert, the answer is not Mako Shark, but it is marine life.
I have confident you can pair up #3 and #4 with their counterparts in the Matchmaking Slice.
LegoSays"YesThatIsAFireplaceThatIsAPeachCrateThoseAreBoutiques..."
The second Schpuzzle ain't easy; the way things are goin', more hints will be needed.
DeleteI don't "have confident" about it myself. All I figured out was the Olivier/Oliver! puzzle, and all the Entrees. More hints please!!
DeleteI think I have everything but the Dessert, but Entree #4 still bothers me.
DeleteASSOTW: They say the apes are insured by Prudential.
ReplyDeleteSC&SC
#1: Split it into two parts. (1) Think of other names for God Almighty. (2) Where are dead soldiers often brought back to the USA? After you get (2), get the middle capital city by going backwards.
#3 Think ancient cephalopods in limestone, not brick. Where is Lego from?
#4 Look at pictures of the state capitols mentioned (and some of the othere not mentioned) to see the difference. Use th4e Internet.
Correction/addition to above:
ReplyDelete#2 Think ancient cephalopods in limestone, not brick. Where is Lego from?
#3 Look at a road map and list the highways that go to the stated capitals. Then do the same for any other state capital.
Early Tuesday Hints:
ReplyDeleteASSOTW:
Both rodents are common in laboratories.
Singer George is more into country than rock but his surnamre is a hint to the place (it's even spelled the same as what you see on the map.)
MS:
1. These dancers ain't grinding but they may be _______. (and they appear to be wearing denim.)
2. Where Sonny Corleone met his end
3. The band in which he is playing is Hot... and they don't need to tune a piano; they are instead a "plucky" and "strummy" band.
4. These mates are getting their ears lowered.
5. the caption = (Neptune - e + i), but rearranged into two words.
6. It connects to the ulna... seriously
7. Shops that sell stuff nobody really needs... like a fashion boot with a teak wood sole.
8. The critter + the communications device
9. Okay, the golfer was on the green in two. He got an 11 on the hole. What did he do on the green (besides cuss a lot)?
10. Yeah, they're a pair of birds, but what's most prominent?
11. No, it is not a spoon.
12. I thought I applied the "lipstick" well, if I do say so myself!
13. She's engrossed in a chick-flick; he's catching up on some snoralicious slumber.
14. Rhymes with "beach date"
15. That's no ball he's about to roll down the lane; it's a _____!
16. Just what they look like... tennis racquets!... (no, just joshin')
17. I understand that Orson (still living!) and his brothers excelled in the high- and long-leaping field events in high school. Fans called them the _______ _____.
18. Exactly what it looks like!
ROSAYS:
#4. Each of the four words contains the same pair of adjacent consonants. The English noun and its adjectival form both begin with these two letters. The flower is a homophone of the surname of a couple of John Jacobs.
PCSD:
This is probably the worst possible color for a sporty Chevy. Prince could tell ya that red is much better.
LegoWhoIsTheKindOfPersonWhoParksHisHintsSideways
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ReplyDeleteBTW outside of geofan's #2, I give up on those.
ReplyDeletecranberry, more hints:
Delete#1 Work backwards. AFB stands for air force base. The AFB is named after the shortest (last) capital in the trio. Planes bring coffins with fallen US troops to that AFB from overseas from the many overseas US wars (starting, I believe, with Vietnam). The middle capital is a mile high. The first (longest) is another name for God. Look at a list of state capitals to find the one that is a name for God.
#3 Look at a road map of any of the capitals in the list. Then do the same for any other state capital (pick a smaller one to save you work). List all the highways that go to the selected capital. One category (think freeways) should not be in your list for those capitals in the puzzle question.
#4 Compare exterior pictures of, say, the capitols (buildings) of AK and ND with those of, say, CA, PA, or TX. The ones in the puzzle question do not have a do not have an important, usually central, architectural feature.
In #3, by "category" think of the classes (not the numbers) of the highways.
DeleteAnd how am I supposed to get the Dessert from a hint about Prince?That has nothing to do with it, does it?
ReplyDeletecranberry,
DeleteThe best color for a sporty Chevy (Corvette)is red. The color of of a cloudy sky is not a good color for a Corvette. The common color of the creature, however is the color of a cloudy sky.
LegoNotesThatTheWord"Corvette"CanPrecedeTheNameOfTheCreature
Got it! Thanks!
DeleteI solved the Dessert back originally, and I don't get that Prince hint, either. But then I know zilch about the guy.
ReplyDeleteBless you, ViolinTeddy.
DeleteLegoWhoHerebyDubsViolinTeddy"ThePrincessOfPuzzleria!"
I will happily accept the title, LegoDubber, although I don't know quite WHY based on the particular comment I made directly above.
DeleteUnless the title really might mean "PrinceLESS"
DeleteGIBRALTAR > RAT, GERBIL [John Lennon & Yoko Ono, 3/20/69]
ReplyDeletePROVIDENCE > DENVER, CO; PI > DOVER CENPI > DENRI > DE RI
MINNESOTA > AMMONITES
No Interstate highway [Interstate H-1 seems a bit oxymoronic]
No dome [M is like a V on crutches; straight lines; Roman numerals; consonants; etc?]
1-BUMPING JEANS-JUMPING BEANS-17
2-TOLL BOOTH-BOWL TOOTH-15
3-CREACH PATE-PEACH CRATE-14
4-WHO SHORN-SHOE HORN-11
5-PINE NUT-NINE PUTT-9
6-FUNNY BONE-BUNNY PHONE-8
7-BOUTIQUES-TWO BEAKS-10
12-PLIER FACE-FIREPLACE-18
13-SHOW SNOOZE-SNOWSHOES-16
THURSDAY, JEUDI > HAD JURY DUTIES
DOG, CHIEN > COD, NEIGH [god, Doc]
BLACK, SCHWARZ [INEQUALITY: 5/6 > .83]
STAR, ESTRELLA > STELLAR, ASTER ????
WOOD, MADERA > MEADOW ROAD
STIN(GRAY)
Nice solving, Paul.
DeleteLegoAlsoCongratulatesPaulForFindingA"Rock/BritishSound/Gibraltar"NexeusOfWhichLegoWasNotAware:JohnAndYokoWereMarriedOnTheRock!
Accounting for my "ain't easy" and "the way things are goin'" hints. (I didn't realize "think" was also a hint until after I'd posted it.)
DeleteSame answers as Paul except:
ReplyDeleteMS #3/#7 CREACH POP - PEACH CROP (I had never heard the word "pate." The arrow is not misleading if it denoted "pate"). After 2nd hint, found Lego's solution also.
DM/PCSD
Also got STINGRAY, the best answer
Alternate creatures/colors:
CARDINAL (now officially Northern Cardinal), color CARDINAL (100 %)
RAVEN (Common Raven), color RAVEN (100 %). Color word used mostly for hair
BOBWHITE (mostly brown, color WHITE (ca. 40 % white, mostly on belly)
GREAT WHITE [shark]. gray on top, white on bottom (ca. 45 %)
Good solving and SC&SC #1-#4 hint, Paul!
ReplyDeletecranberry, please see my last hints to gat an idea of how my brain works. I will do so on your cryptic crosswords to try to attain competency on my end.
Correction: MS #3/#14 CREACH POP - PEACH CROP
ReplyDeleteBefore I got the Spoonerism theme from Lego's hint, I had a hypothesis of 9 "couples." But the only one I found was #6 (bone parts => Bonaparte) - #17 (jumping beans => Josephine).
ReplyDeleteAlso, #8 looked like rabbit call => robot call, but no link to any other picture.
With the spoonerism hint (which I should have seen, with the italics, the dominoes started falling quickly. Loge gave me a host of chuckles and laughs on this one!
oops … Lego transformed to Loge.
ReplyDeleteTHE NEW SECOND SCHPUZZLE: GIBRALTAR => RAT & GERBIL
ReplyDeleteGEO'S PUZZLES:
1. PROVIDENCE => DENVER, CO & PI => DOVER & CENPI => DOVER & DE & RI [Removed an "N"]
2. MINNESOTA => MIMNESOTA => AMMONITE
3. They have NO interstate highway accessing them; in fact, JUNEAU has NO roads at all that let anyone drive to it.
4. NO DOME !!!! Bonus: ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO; the newer FLORIDA capitol bldg
MATCHMAKING SLICE: [I know from one of the hints above that my "smooth stone" is supposed to be a 'pine nut", potentially? BUt I simply couldn't face having to RE-DO the puzzle, i.e. hunt for another "PN" which would mess up yet a third pair, etc etc.]
1. DANCING STUDENTS & 7. DEPARTMENT STORE = DS;
2. TOLL BOOTH & 6. THIGH BONE = TB;
3. FIDDLE PLAYER & 18. FIREPLACE = FP; [My favorite, of course!]
4: THE WHO & 12. TOUCAN WRENCH = TW;
5. SMOOTH STONE & 16. SNOW SHOES = SS;
8. PHONING BUNNY & 10. PARROT BEAKS = PB;
9. ??PUTTED CRUMMILY?? & 14. PEACH CRATE = PC;
11. SHOE HORN & 13. SLEEPING HUSBAND = SH;
15. JUG BOWLING & 17. JUMPING BEANS = JB.
ENTREES:
1. THURSDAY => JEUDI => HAD JURY DUTIES
2. DOG => CHIEN [I don't get it.... the fish should be COD (obviously), but I don't know of any another, longer French word for DOG.]
3. BLACK & SCHWARZ
4. STAR & ESTRELLA => STELLAR & ASTER
5. WOOD & MADERA
DESSERT: STINGRAY (GRAY)
VT - Interesting alternate take on the "couples"! Sleeping husband??
DeleteWell, after I went to see Paul's/your answers, i realize I did the whole thing completely wrong. If there was a 'hint' to spoonerize, I never saw it. BUt I was probably too pooped anyway to start all over, even if I HAD. When I first saw picture #1, I IMMEDIATELy said "fiddle player' and matched it to the fireplace, and never considered any other 'option.'
DeleteOh, I forgot to mention: I originally wrote down "SNORING husband!!"
DeleteBased on Paul's answer for Entree 2, I am at a loss as to how we were supposed to turn "CHIEN" into NEIGH....there was no instruction to CHANGE one consonant. Also, I had completely failed to realize we were to ALSO use the "DOG" part to anagram the letters. I was trying to do it all from JUST "Chien", which obviously, wasn't long enough. PLEASE EXPLAIN, someone!
ReplyDeleteVT - The text to #3 states "these letters" (i.e., all the letters, not only the letters in CHIEN.)
DeleteCHIEN + DOG => CHIENDOG => NEIGH + COD
DeleteVT,
DeleteYou make an excellent point. My wording was lacking in clarity.
My text:
Take a common English word for a creature in 3 letters.
Translate it into French – a word that is longer than 3 letters.
Rearrange these letters to form the English word for a large marine fish in 3 letters, and the English word for a high-pitched sound uttered by a larger land creature.
What four words are these?
What I should have written is:
Take a common English word for a creature in 3 letters.
Translate it into French – a word that is longer than 3 letters.
Rearrange the letters in these English and French words to form the English word for a large marine fish in 3 letters, and the English word for a high-pitched sound uttered by a larger land creature.
What four words are these?
DOG + CHIEN = COD + NEIGH
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Schpuzzle
ReplyDelete(Sir Laurence)OLIVIER, OLIVER!
Second Schpuzzle
GIBRALTAR, GERBIL, RAT
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2. MINNESOTA, ATOM MINES
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1/17 BUMPING JEANS/JUMPING BEANS
6/8 FUNNY BONE/BUNNY PHONE
7/10 BOUTIQUES/TWO BEAKS
13/16 SHOW SNOOZE/SNOWSHOES
12/18 PLIERFACE/FIREPLACE
5/9 PINE NUT/NINE PUTT
3/14 (Papa John)CREACH PATE/PEACH CRATE
2/15 TOLLBOOTH/BOWL TOOTH
4/11 WHO SHORN/SHOEHORN
Entrees
1. THURSDAY, JEUDI, HAD JURY DUTIES
2. DOG, CHIEN; COD, NEIGH
3. BLACK, SCHWARZ
4. STAR, ESTRELLA; STELLAR, ASTER
5. WOOD, MADERA
Dessert
STINGRAY, GRAY
Sorry, geofan. Those state capital puzzles of yours were tough!-pjb
This week's answers for the record, Part 1:
ReplyDeleteA Second Schpuzzle Of the Week
Beatles? Boo! Chipmunks? Cheers!
Change one vowel in the name of a place associated with “rock” and what might be called a “British sound.”
Rearrange the result to spell two rodents.
What are this place?
What are the two rodents?
Answer:
Gibraltar (Gibraltar - a + e = Gibralter --> Gerbil + Rat)
Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Broadway flop? No, Broadway FLIP!
Invert one letter in the last name of a Broadway performer.
Move the inverted letter to the end to form the title of a Broadway show.
What is the show?
Answer:
Oliver!; (Laurence) Olivier;
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State Capitals & State Capitols Appetizer
Reductio ad Capitolium (et cetera)
Note: We at Puzzleria! are pleased to launch a new feature this week titled “State Capitals & State Capitols.” It is the brainchild of Ken Pratt, whom you might know better by his screen name, geofan. Welcome, Ken, and thank you for sharing your creativity with us!
Reductio ad Capitolium
1. Think of a state capital. Rearrange its letters to give a second state capital, the postal abbreviation for this second capital’s state, and a Greek letter.
In this string of letters, exchange the vowel in the postal abbreviation with two adjacent letters in its state capital. The result will spell a third state capital followed by five “leftover” letters.
Keeping these leftover letters in position, change the first one to the letter one place later in the alphabet, then change the fourth one to the letter two places later in the alphabet. Remove the third leftover letter, leaving the postal abbreviation of the third state capital’s state and the postal abbreviation for the original state capital’s state.
What are these three capitals, states and postal abbreviations. What is the final lone letter you removed?
Answer:
Providence, Rhode Island (RI), Denver, Colorado (CO), Dover, Delaware (DE); N is the final letter removed
Providence = Denver + CO + pi = DENVERCOPI --> DOVER + CENPI --> DOVER + DENRI = DE + N + RI
Look what I found
2. Think of a US state. Change one member of a doubled letter to the immediately preceding letter in the alphabet. Rearrange the result to give fossils found in a number of state capitols. What are these fossils?
Answer:
MINNESOTA => MIMNESOTA => AMMONITES. Many state capitols were constructed using fossiliferous limestones. Many of these contain ammonite fossils (WI, LA, ME, likely others) that are visible in the floors and walls. In many others, cut “snail shells’’ are visible that are probably gastropod fossils but could be ammonites (cephalopods) in some cases.
Getting there
3. How do Juneau, AK; Dover, DE; Jefferson City, MO; and Pierre, SD stand apart from all other state capitals?
Answer:
These are the four state capitals that are not on the US interstate highway system. Note: Honolulu has interstates H-1, H-2, and H-3, which conform to interstate highway standards and are signed as such, but obviously do not connect with other states.
How Is This Capitol Different from (Most) All Other Capitols?
4. What distinguishes the state capitols of NY, LA, VA, ND, HI and AK from those of the majority of US states?
Bonus: Are there any other such “nonconformers’’?
Answer:
None have domes.
The others without domes: VA, OH, OR, NM and DE.
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Matchmaking Slice
Is #11 a spoon, or ism’t it?
Compose terse captopns for the 18 images pictured here. Use only one or two letters. Then match the eighteen pictures properly into nine pairs.
Answer:
1 Bumping jeans: 17 Jumping beans
2 tollbooth: 15 Bowl tooth
3 Creach pate; 14 peach crate
4. Who shorn; 11 Shoehorn
5 Pine nut; 9 Nine-putt
6 Funny bone; 8 Bunny phone
7 Boutiques; 10 Two beaks
12 Plier face; 18 Fireplace
13 Show-snooze; 16 Snowshoes
Lego...
This week's answers for the record, Part 2:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:
A, E, I, O, U et Y aussi
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Take a common English noun in 8 letters. (It is “proper” common noun, one of those uppercase words you see on a calendar.) Translate it into French, in 5 letters. Rearrange these 13 letters to form 3 words that complete the following brief synopsis of a 1957 movie: “12 Angry Men ___ ____ ______.” Complete the sentence with a past-tense verb, a noun that functions as a modifier, and a plural noun.
What is this 8-letter proper common noun and its 5-letter translation?
Answer:
Thursday; Jeudi; "...had jury duties."
ENTREE #2:
Take a common English word for a creature in 3 letters. Translate it into French – a word that is longer than 3 letters. Rearrange these letters to form the English word for a large marine fish in 3 letters, and the English word for a high-pitch sound uttered by a larger land creature. What four words are these?
Answer:
Dog; chien; cod, neigh
ENTREE #3:
Take a common color, in English. Translate it into German. The combined letters of these two words consist of 83 percent consonants. What words are these?
Answer:
Black, schwarz
ENTREE #4:
Take a common English noun in 4 letters. You can see it in the sky. Translate it into Spanish – a word of 8 letters. Rearrange these letters to form an adjective form of the noun and a flower shaped like the noun, both in English. What are these four words?
Answer:
Star, estrella; Stellar, aster
ENTREE #5:
A traveler on a meadow road might pass by a large grove of trees. Name a 4-letter word for this large grove of trees. Translate it into Spanish. Rearrange the combined letters in the word and its tranlation to form the term “meadow road.” What are this 4-letter word and translation?
Answer:
Wood, madera
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Purebred? Cockateal (sic)? Salmon? Dessert:
A horse (or other) of no different color
A number of consecutive letters at the end of the name a creature spell a common color of the creature.
What is this creature?
Answer:
Stingray; stinGRAY
Lego!
Definition #1 of wood, i.e. the material, was more familiar to me, in both languages, than #2 (the small grove), but def #2 made the puzzle setting possible.
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