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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Thor9ss 4 you 2 transl8
The sum of the following sequence of seventeen numbers is 1,626,110. Translate the sequence:
3,121
6,837
4,112
19
106
389
2,187
311
15,289
61
10
216,787
731,986
21
614,389
21,317
9,168
International House Of Puzzles Appetizers:
Four puzzle-stops on a world tour
Country alchemy
❓1. Think of a large country. Remove two adjacent internal letters to obtain another, smaller country on the other side of the world.
What are the two countries?
Numerogeography 101
❓2. Insert the designator for the least-significant digit in a multiple-place integer into the name of a country to form the name of another country. What are the two countries and the insert?
Short nickname
❓3. A large country has a short, informal nickname that shares no letters with the official name of the country. What are the country and its informal nickname?
Unloved in his own country
❓4. An American author, who has lived most of his life in Massachusetts, is known worldwide for a bestseller that was the first of a trilogy. This novel formed the basis for a 2013 German feature film that was a #1 box-office hit in Germany and Spain. The novel, author, and film are all rather obscure in the USA. Who is the author and what are the titles of the novel and film?
Hints: The film starred Tom Payne and Ben Kingsley (dubbed into German and Spanish). The second novel of the trilogy won the first James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction in 1993.
Autos And Autocrats Slice:
It’s (not) a Duesey!
Name a past world leader, first and last names. Replace the the first and final letters of the full name with a letter that appears late in the alphabet.
Switch the positions of two vowels in the second name, then remove one of them.
The result is the names of two automobiles:
1. the make of a subpar subcompact from the past, and
2. an informal name for a well-known automotive brand.
Who is this world leader and what are these car names?
Riffing Off Shortz And Lipscomb Slices:
Non-look-alike sound-alikes
Will Shortz’s September 22nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Tyler Lipscomb of Augusta, Georgia, reads:
Think of an adjective in five letters in two syllables. The first syllable phonetically sounds like a synonym of the full, five-letter word. And strangely these two words have no letters in common. What words are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Lipscomb Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a Midwestern city in nine letters in two words.
The city’s first word phonetically sounds exactly like the second-last word, an exclamation, in the lyrics of a 1970’s-era hit song by a singer whose stage name echoes the names of a pair of comic opera collaborators. And strangely, the city’s first word and this word of exclamation have no letters in common.
And even more strangely, the Midwestern city’s second word phonetically sounds exactly like the final word in the song’s lyrics.
What city and song lyrics are these?
Hint: The Midwestern city phonetically sounds like a two-word name for a room in a house. The first word in this name is the type of wood that might be used used to panel the room, and the second word is a synonym of “den” or “man cave.”
ENTREE #2:
(Note: The following puzzle is a hot mess. Thus, I beg your indulgence.)
Consider the following sentence:
“A political candidate may harbor fears that the prejudice voiced by his/her main opponent is bogus – and that the opponent is thus actually less prejudicial than himself/herself.”
The sentence above contains a five-letter synonym of a seven-letter word.
The first syllable of this seven-letter word phonetically sounds like a synonym of a second word in the sentence, and sounds also like a synonym of a third word in the sentence. And strangely this first syllable has no letter in common with the synonym of the second word, and only one letter in common with synonym of the third word.
The second and third syllables of this seven-letter word spell a synonym of a fourth word in the sentence.
What is the seven-letter word, and what is its synonym in the sentence?
What are the two words that sound like the first syllable in the seven-letter word, and what are their respective synonyms in the sentence?
What word is spelled by the second and third syllables of the seven-letter word, and what is its synonym in the sentence?
ENTREE #3:
(Note: the information in the following puzzle is largely phony and faux.)
In today’s world, human joints are replaced using hard polished metal alloys, durable ceramic and tough, slick plastic.
Back in the day, however, other more primitive materials were used... wood, for example.
Take three words:
1. The tree from which one of the woods used in the replacement was harvested,
2. A word describing the inauthentic status of the new joint, and
3. the joint that the wood replaced
This three-word term phonetically sounds like a three-syllable noun for the soothingly harmonious, pleasing-to-the-ear reassurances spoken to the patient as he was going under the knife! (Okay okay, scalpel.)
And strangely each of these three words and each of their corresponding three sound-alike syllables have only one, zero and one letter in common.
What is this three-word term for this back-in-the-day joint replacement?
What is the three-syllable noun for the soothingly harmonious, pleasing-to-the-ear reassurances spoken to the patient
ENTREE #4:
Think of a noun in five letters and in two syllables meaning a relatively small piece of isolated land.
Replace the two letters in the first syllable with three different letters to form a noun in six letters and in two syllables meaning a relatively small opening. Keep the second syllables as they are. Indeed these two second syllables are identical to one another.
The two first syllables are phonetically identical even though, strangely, they have no letters in common.
What two nouns are these?
ENTREE #5:
Think of a proper noun in seven letters and in two syllables. It is the surname of a person who has a sports venue named after him.
The first syllable phonetically sounds like a creature in a nursery rhyme. The first syllable of this proper noun plus the first letter of its second syllable spell the name of this creature.
The second syllable of the proper noun sounds like a syllable in the name of the creature’s owner.
Strangely this second syllable and syllable in the name of the creature’s owner have only one letter in common.
The first name (which is a nickname) of the person with the sports venue named after him is an adjective describing both his hair and the nursery rhyme creature’s hair.
Who is the person with the sports venue named after him?
What is the nursery rhyme?
What is the creature?
ENTREE #6:
Think of a Midwestern city in four syllables. Remove from its interior a four-letter priest (according to Ogden) that phonetically sounds like a creature that photographically looks like the creature in ENTREE #5. Strangely these two look-alike creatures have three consecutive letters in common.
The remaining letters in the city spell a musical instrument.
A simple version of this instrument can be constructed by using a simple grooming device and something in which you can wrap sandwiches. It is an instrument that can be played by using particular body parts. These body parts followed by the grooming device form the surname of a puzzle-maker.
What city is this?
What is the creature that photographically looks like the creature in ENTREE #5?
What is the musical instrument?
What are the grooming device and body parts?
Who is the puzzle-maker?
Pro Forma Performer Dessert:
Performing verbal surgery on a profession
Name the profession of a well-known performer from the past, in one word.
Change the fourth letter in this word to a different vowel. Place an anagram of the first four letters of the performer’s real first name in front of this altered profession to form a longer word.
When you place this longer word in front of the one-word profession of the performer the result is a two-word profession that does not describe or pertain to the performer at all.
Name this performer and profession, and the performer’s real first name.
What is the two-word profession that neither describes nor pertains to the performer?
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.
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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Thor9ss 4 you 2 transl8
The sum of the following sequence of seventeen numbers is 1,626,110. Translate the sequence:
3,121
6,837
4,112
19
106
3892,187
311
15,289
61
10
216,787
731,986
21
614,389
21,317
9,168
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International House Of Puzzles Appetizers:
Four puzzle-stops on a world tour
Country alchemy
❓1. Think of a large country. Remove two adjacent internal letters to obtain another, smaller country on the other side of the world.
What are the two countries?
Numerogeography 101
❓2. Insert the designator for the least-significant digit in a multiple-place integer into the name of a country to form the name of another country. What are the two countries and the insert?
Short nickname
❓3. A large country has a short, informal nickname that shares no letters with the official name of the country. What are the country and its informal nickname?
Unloved in his own country
❓4. An American author, who has lived most of his life in Massachusetts, is known worldwide for a bestseller that was the first of a trilogy. This novel formed the basis for a 2013 German feature film that was a #1 box-office hit in Germany and Spain. The novel, author, and film are all rather obscure in the USA. Who is the author and what are the titles of the novel and film?
Hints: The film starred Tom Payne and Ben Kingsley (dubbed into German and Spanish). The second novel of the trilogy won the first James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction in 1993.
Autos And Autocrats Slice:
It’s (not) a Duesey!
Name a past world leader, first and last names. Replace the the first and final letters of the full name with a letter that appears late in the alphabet.
Switch the positions of two vowels in the second name, then remove one of them. The result is the names of two automobiles:
1. the make of a subpar subcompact from the past, and
2. an informal name for a well-known automotive brand.
Who is this world leader and what are these car names?
Riffing Off Shortz And Lipscomb Slices:
Non-look-alike sound-alikes
Will Shortz’s September 22nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Tyler Lipscomb of Augusta, Georgia, reads:
Think of an adjective in five letters in two syllables. The first syllable phonetically sounds like a synonym of the full, five-letter word. And strangely these two words have no letters in common. What words are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Lipscomb Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a Midwestern city in nine letters in two words.
The city’s first word phonetically sounds exactly like the second-last word, an exclamation, in the lyrics of a 1970’s-era hit song by a singer whose stage name echoes the names of a pair of comic opera collaborators. And strangely, the city’s first word and this word of exclamation have no letters in common.
And even more strangely, the Midwestern city’s second word phonetically sounds exactly like the final word in the song’s lyrics.
What city and song lyrics are these?Hint: The Midwestern city phonetically sounds like a two-word name for a room in a house. The first word in this name is the type of wood that might be used used to panel the room, and the second word is a synonym of “den” or “man cave.”
ENTREE #2:
(Note: The following puzzle is a hot mess. Thus, I beg your indulgence.)
Consider the following sentence:
“A political candidate may harbor fears that the prejudice voiced by his/her main opponent is bogus – and that the opponent is thus actually less prejudicial than himself/herself.”
The sentence above contains a five-letter synonym of a seven-letter word.
The first syllable of this seven-letter word phonetically sounds like a synonym of a second word in the sentence, and sounds also like a synonym of a third word in the sentence. And strangely this first syllable has no letter in common with the synonym of the second word, and only one letter in common with synonym of the third word.
The second and third syllables of this seven-letter word spell a synonym of a fourth word in the sentence.What is the seven-letter word, and what is its synonym in the sentence?
What are the two words that sound like the first syllable in the seven-letter word, and what are their respective synonyms in the sentence?
What word is spelled by the second and third syllables of the seven-letter word, and what is its synonym in the sentence?
ENTREE #3:
(Note: the information in the following puzzle is largely phony and faux.)
In today’s world, human joints are replaced using hard polished metal alloys, durable ceramic and tough, slick plastic.
Back in the day, however, other more primitive materials were used... wood, for example.Take three words:
1. The tree from which one of the woods used in the replacement was harvested,
2. A word describing the inauthentic status of the new joint, and
3. the joint that the wood replaced
This three-word term phonetically sounds like a three-syllable noun for the soothingly harmonious, pleasing-to-the-ear reassurances spoken to the patient as he was going under the knife! (Okay okay, scalpel.)
And strangely each of these three words and each of their corresponding three sound-alike syllables have only one, zero and one letter in common.
What is this three-word term for this back-in-the-day joint replacement?
What is the three-syllable noun for the soothingly harmonious, pleasing-to-the-ear reassurances spoken to the patient
ENTREE #4:
Think of a noun in five letters and in two syllables meaning a relatively small piece of isolated land.
Replace the two letters in the first syllable with three different letters to form a noun in six letters and in two syllables meaning a relatively small opening. Keep the second syllables as they are. Indeed these two second syllables are identical to one another. The two first syllables are phonetically identical even though, strangely, they have no letters in common.
What two nouns are these?
ENTREE #5:
Think of a proper noun in seven letters and in two syllables. It is the surname of a person who has a sports venue named after him.
The first syllable phonetically sounds like a creature in a nursery rhyme. The first syllable of this proper noun plus the first letter of its second syllable spell the name of this creature.
The second syllable of the proper noun sounds like a syllable in the name of the creature’s owner. Strangely this second syllable and syllable in the name of the creature’s owner have only one letter in common.
The first name (which is a nickname) of the person with the sports venue named after him is an adjective describing both his hair and the nursery rhyme creature’s hair.
Who is the person with the sports venue named after him?
What is the nursery rhyme?
What is the creature?
ENTREE #6:
Think of a Midwestern city in four syllables. Remove from its interior a four-letter priest (according to Ogden) that phonetically sounds like a creature that photographically looks like the creature in ENTREE #5. Strangely these two look-alike creatures have three consecutive letters in common.
The remaining letters in the city spell a musical instrument. A simple version of this instrument can be constructed by using a simple grooming device and something in which you can wrap sandwiches. It is an instrument that can be played by using particular body parts. These body parts followed by the grooming device form the surname of a puzzle-maker.
What city is this?
What is the creature that photographically looks like the creature in ENTREE #5?
What is the musical instrument?
What are the grooming device and body parts?
Who is the puzzle-maker?
Dessert Menu
Pro Forma Performer Dessert:
Performing verbal surgery on a profession
Name the profession of a well-known performer from the past, in one word.
Change the fourth letter in this word to a different vowel. Place an anagram of the first four letters of the performer’s real first name in front of this altered profession to form a longer word.
When you place this longer word in front of the one-word profession of the performer the result is a two-word profession that does not describe or pertain to the performer at all.Name this performer and profession, and the performer’s real first name.
What is the two-word profession that neither describes nor pertains to the performer?
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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ReplyDeleteI don't fully understand ENTREE #4, but I'm convinced there's a connection to one of the other puzzles on this page.
ReplyDeleteAnd somewhere in the midst of this confusion, Sheila waltzed off after draining my bank account!
Sorry, I meant ENTREE #1, I haven't even gotten started on #4. See what you've done to me Sheila!?
DeleteWell, now I think it's safe to say I understand #4. I'll have to get back to #1.
DeleteAm in the midst, but need to quit and go to bed. So far, I managed to solve #s 1 & 4 of Geo's, and possibly #3, although I'm not at all sure about that one.
ReplyDeleteHave read only the first two Entrees, but amazingly to me, have just gotten them both. Also worked out the AUTOS Slice.
Haven't read the rest of the Entrees yet, nor the Dessert, but definitely have NO idea how to approach the Schpuzzle.
Ooh, I couldn't resist trying the Dessert, and solved it, to my delight.
ReplyDeleteHee hee, instead of going to bed, I have finished all the Entrees. They were fun, because logic and prudent research produced answers, without getting all mixed up and confused.
ReplyDeleteI just added a new bit of information in ENTREE #4:
ReplyDeleteThe second syllables in the relatively small piece of isolated land and in relatively small opening are identical.
LegoAddsThatThisIdenticalSyllableIsAlsoAStandAloneCommonWord
Totally baffled by the SOTW so far. Have all the others, but my answer for the Dessert may be an alternate -- the 1st 4 letters are not anagrammed to form the long word, and the first name is the real name, not a pseudonym. Otherwise it fits.
ReplyDeleteGot Entrée #1 immediately (simultaneously with reading it - maybe it helped that I have been there.
Where'd my comment go?
ReplyDeleteCan't make heads or tails out of the Schpuzzle.
ReplyDeleteGot all Worldplays except #2.
Can't get the world leader/car puzzle.
Got all the Entrees except #3.
Don't have the person's name in the Dessert.
Thought for sure I'd published my previous comment.
Will need hints wherever necessary.
BTW it's Ben, not Bob, Kingsley.
ReplyDeleteOK, thanks. Remember that I do not pay attention to actors so the error did not strike me. At least the first letter was right :)
DeleteBob Kingsley was host of American Country Countdown when I was growing up. It was the country music version of American Top 40.
ReplyDeleteHave heard of him - possibly why the error slipped through.
DeleteLego et al., if possible, please correct the incorrect "Bob" in Worldplay #4 to "Ben." My apologies to all for any confusion.
ReplyDeleteFixed it geofan. Thanks. Rotten editing on my part.
DeleteLegoWhoHopesToVisitLondonToSeeBigBobChimeTheTimeAndTheBenniesQuashingCrime!
Lego, thanks for correcting my original error.
DeleteMore Ben and Bobbies
DeleteLegoHasJustOneQuestion:WhatIsTheNameOfThatDanceThey'reDoing?
I have a translation for the sequence, but if the sum has any meaning at all, it must require a different algorithm.
ReplyDeleteThe sum is a red herring. But if the sum were 6,216,110 instead of 1,626,110, and if you would translate it backward, you would get blotto exotic animals!
DeleteLegoWhoUnderstandsThatTheOrangutansAreSkepticalOfChangesInTheirCagesAndTheZookeeperIsVeryFondOfRum!
It is paradoxical.
Delete-.0891
But very cool.
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4I98 8541R3, Paul! 912 ju72 6171.
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Sunday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle:
The sequence ought to be translated into a sentence. You will need to eliminate a mess of commas, and move a few remaining ones sideways then upward into the vicinity of apostrophehood.
This week's answer to Ken Pratt's (geofan's) Worldplay #3 is a hint.
Worldplay:
1. Mr. Green was taken to the river, as he requested. But he subsequently relocated and stopped surfing and started skiing.
2. The briny depths are washing tons of sea salt against 17 bottles of pinkish-orange salad dressing!
3. This week's NPR puzzle creator, Ms. Baker, would likely wind up solving this puzzle pretty easily.
4. Author = HamDad + SundownDittyist
Autocrats And Autos Slice:
Who goes there? A Southern Hemisphere socialist faithful to Fidel.
The informal name for a well-known automotive brand? Try chasing a SNaiL!
ROSALS:
ENTREE #1:
The midwestern city in ten letters and two words has its share of Cheeseheads... but also a decent smattering of Helga Horns.
ENTREE #2:
The four operative words in the sentence are: "fears," "opponent," "bogus" and "prejudice."
ENTREE #3:
The tree from which one of the woods used in the replacement was harvested sounds like a type of turn.
A word describing the inauthentic status of the new joint sounds like a syllable intoned by a giant with a keen olfactory sense.
The joint that the wood replaced sounds like a syllable intoned by knights who appreciate tasteful shrubbery.
ENTREE #4:
"Sorry if I let you down, Wallace."
ENTREE #5:
Gelid turf
ENTREE #6:
The four-letter holy man and the creature that phonetically sounds like it appear in a short poem by a poet whose first name is a city in Utah and whose last name is the first syllable of a city in Tennessee.
PFPD:
The performer wasn't really bald (as far as we know) but he was rather arch. He was a marquee star who was a supportee, not a supporter.
LegoImplores:GodGrantMeTheSerenityToAcceptThesePuzzlesInTheSpiritInWhichTheyAreGiven,TheEncouragementFromFellowSolversToHangInThere,AndTheWisdomKnowTheAnswers
Lego, with all due respect, the leader's country in the Autocrat and Auto Slice lies entirely north of the Equator, though in the tropics. It is thus not in the Southern Hemisphere, though its continent does mostly lie south of the Equator.
ReplyDeleteHint for Worldplay #2: One country is entirely mad up of islands. The other is mostly a large peninsula in an ocean named after itself.
Your hints for the SOTW were helpful, but more info is needed.
Thank you, geofan, for your gentle correction, and for the respect granted me... which indeed may not be all that due to me! I bow to your expertise in all things great and geographical.
DeleteIn the Schpuzzle, the sentence translated from the sequence of numbers will contain a limited number of different letters... fewer, in fact, than one-third of our alphabet.
LegoWhoWasUsingThisWorldMap(YeahThat'sTheTicket!)
Correction/editing: An "ocean named after itself" would be the Ocean Ocean. The intended antecedent of "itself" is "the other [country]." Also,"mad" should read "made"
DeleteBack to English 101 and typing class...
WRT the SOTW hint, I now know how to get there, just have to do the work...
Lego-
DeleteFor the SOTW, I can get a coherent sentence from the number list that also agrees with the reverse sum hint. But to do so, I must force "double-equivalences" for three pairs of number-letter correspondences (e.g., 4=Q and 5=Q -- not correct, used here as illustration only). Is this correct?
geofan,
DeleteCorrect you are. And, it sounds as if you've solved the Schpuzzle. Good going.
The "double-equivalences" do exist in this puzzle. As I composed the sentence I considered that a double-edged sword, so to speak:
On the positive edge, I knew that the "double-equivalences" for the three pairs of number-letter correspondences would make my puzzle trickier to solve.
On the negative edge, I could have composed more interesting sentences with ten letters (instead of the mere seven letters that were available to me).
LegoWhoSendsKudosG814a9'7Way
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ReplyDeleteI, myself, am thrilled to say I just worked out, albeit rather grindingly and inelegantly, the Schpuzzle sentence.
ReplyDeleteOnly after I'd done so, and was neatening up my answer for posting on Wed, did I THEN see where the equivalences came from. DUH!
[I used the end of one of Lego's hints to start the process, but the hint about the reversed, altered SUM still doesn't make sense to me, so I hope you will explain on Wed. please.]
Congrats, ViolinTeddy. Glad you got it.
DeleteI'll try to remember to explain my "6,216,110 translated backward = blotto exotic animals" this Wednesday.
LegoNotes(AsAPreview)That011Plus6126Equals"BlottoExoticAnimals"
Thanks, Lego.....I DO get the first three (backwards) numbers/letters of the changed sum, but not the rest....
DeleteViolinTeddy, the number-to-letter correspondences for the sum are the same as for the main sentence. If the second word (from 6126) is not familiar (as the word "blotto" was not familiar to me), check in a dictionary.
DeleteI still don't get how to do the Schpuzzle, but I've never been into puzzles that use numbers in any way, however unusual, whatsoever. I certainly haven't got a sentence out of any of it.
DeleteEach digit in the Schpuzzle must be converted into a letter. The answer is a 17-word compound sentence with a comma somewhere in the middle.
DeleteLegoObservesThatDorothy'sLittleDogWasNotWildButSweet
Geo, I get it now. I don't know WHY when I went to translate 0116126 after having the full sentence, I somehow did it wrong...perhaps it was the euphoria? Now, no explanation by Lego tomorrow will be necessary, at least on my account. Thanks....
DeleteUsually I'm good at cracking coded messages, but not this one. How about a few more hints before tonorrow?
ReplyDeleteExcuse me, tomorrow not tonorrow.
ReplyDeletecranberry, remember the "double-equivalences" mentioned above . The clue that revealed this fact to me was the first word, which is the name of a well-known dog. The 2-letter locale of the dog (in the movie) also gives another of the letter-equivalences.
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ReplyDeleteLegoNotesThatANamesakeTheWellKnownDogOfWhichgeofanWritesMakesAnAppearanceOnALinkInMyOctober1At5:46PMComment
Toto sets foot on Oz's ten toes
ReplyDeletetoo often so Oz tosses stones to soften Toto's nose.
INDIA > INDONESIA
AUSTRALIA > OZ
NOAH GORDON, THE PHYSICIAN
HUGO CHAVEZ > YUGO, CHEVY
EAU CLAIRE, OH CLAIR, OAK LAIR
YEW+FAUX+KNEE > EUPHONY
ISLET > EYELET
KALAMAZOO > KAZOO
It wasn't Sheila that took my money and ran off to Venezuela (where Hugo Chavez used to preside), it was Matilda. I always get those two mixed up for some reason.
Here is how I keep them straight, Paul:
DeleteShelia was a whisperer.
Matilda was a waltzer.
LegoWhoIsA(Feckless)WhistleBlower
Oh Clair and The Physician connect through GORDON. Gordon Mills was the manager who came up with stage names for Gilbert O'Sullivan, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Tom Jones.
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1. AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA
3. AUSTRALIA, OZ
4. NOAH GORDON, THE PHYSICIAN
HUGO CHAVEZ, YUGO, CHEVY
Entrees
1. EAU CLAIRE(Wisconsin), OH CLAIR(Gilbert O'Sullivan), OAK LAIR
2. PHOBIAS, FEARS
FOE, OPPONENT
FAUX, BOGUS
BIAS, PREJUDICE
3. EUPHONY(YEW+FAUX+KNEE)
4. ISLET, EYELET
5. (Curly)LAMBEAU, LITTLE BO PEEP, LAMB
6. KALAMAZOO(Michigan), KAZOO, LLAMA, LIPS, COMB, (Tyler)LIPSCOMB
Dessert
ARCHIBALD LEACH(Cary Grant), ACTOR, CHARACTER ACTOR
"There's no place like down under...there's no place like down under..."-pjb
SOTW: TOTO SETS FOOT ON OZ'S TEN TOES TOO OFTEN, SO OZ TOSSES STONES TO SOFTEN TOTO'S NOSE. The first word (Toto) clued me in on the "double equivalents" -- it could not have been Todo, Tono, Tomo,...
ReplyDeleteWorldplay:
#1 AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA
#2 INDIA + ONES => INDONESIA
#3 AUSTRALIA, OZ
#4 NOAH GORDON, THE PHYSICIAN How many of you had heard of Noah Gordon or The Physician?
AAAS: HUGO CHAVEZ => YUGO, CHEVY
Entrées
#1 EAU CLAIRE (WI) / OH CLAIR / OAK LAIR
#2 bogus (FAUX), opponent (FOE), prejudice (BIAS) => PHOBIAS
#3 YEW, FAUX, KNEE => EUPHONY
#4 ISLET, EYELET (I got this one immediately on reading it)
#5 (Curly) LAMBEAU , LAMB, BO (Little Bo Peep)
#6 KALAMAZOO, LAMA, LLAMA, KAZOO, LIPSCOMB.(How do a llama and a lamb look photographically alike, other than that they both have fur, often are white, and have 4 legs?)
Dessert ARCHIBALD LEACH (Cary Grant), CHARACTER ACTOR
Alternate answer: CHARLIE CHAPLIN (not a pseudonym), CHARACTER ACTOR
P.S.: Sorry for all the deletes. It is hard to correlate with Paul's answers, as he does not number them, so it difficult to see which ones he missed/skipped over. So decided to delete "same as Paul..." and listed them separately.
geofan,
DeleteTo my two eyes, a llama looks a bit like a lamb... (albeit a lamb on steroids).
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Oh rats, once again, I completely forgot.....sigh...
ReplyDeleteSCHPUZZLE: 0 = Z; 1 = O; 2 and 3 = T; 4 and 5 = F; 6 and 7 = S; 8 = E; 9 = N [All the first letters of their written-out names]
3, 121 6,837 4,112 19 106 389 2,187 311 15,289 61 10 216,787 731,986 21 614,389 21,317 9,168
TOTO SETS FOOT ON OZ'S TEN TOES TOO OFTEN, SO OZ TOSSES STONES TO SOFTEN TOTO'S NOSE
WORLDPLAY:
1. AUSTRALIA => AUSTRIA
2. INDIA & INDONESIA? [ONES] [Post geo-hint]
3. ANTARCTICA => SO. POLE ???; Other Idea: GREAT BRITAIN => U.K.
4. NOAH GORDON; THE PHYSICIAN, first of the COLE TRILOGY
AUTOS SLICE: HUGO CHAVEZ => YUGO CHAVEY => YUGO & CHEVY
ENTREES:
1. GILBERT O'SULLIVAN; EAU CLAIRE => Song is "CLAIR" [Hint: OAK LAIR]
2. FEARS = PHOBIAS; 1st syllable: FOE / OPPONENT & FAUX / BOGUS; 2nd & 3rd syllables: BIAS / PREJUDICE.
3. YEW & FAUX & KNEE => EUPHONY
4. ISLET => EYELET
5. LAMBEAU ; LITTLE BO PEEP; CURLY LAMBEAU
6. KALAMAZOO => remove LAMA/ LLAMA => KAZOO or LIPS/COMB => LIPSCOMB
DESSERT: ACTOR / ACTER; "RACHEL MEGHAN MARKLE" => CHAR/ACTER ACTOR
Ooh, I see that my Dessert answer turns out to be an alternative one! I had thought it was particularly timely, with all the Sussex news of late...
ReplyDeleteYes, VT, I like your alternative Dessert answer (and that of geofan also) better than my intended Judy Judy Judy answer.
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Nice alternate, VT! I originally thought of Rachal as a possibility before Cary Grant, but could not think of a Rachel character actor.
DeleteThanks, Geo and Lego. Actually, you didn't WANT a character actor named Rachel...it had to be a NON-character actor, and in the past, thus Meghan Markle popped into my head, when it became clear that we needed 'CHAR' ahead of the 'ACTER.'
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ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
Thor9ss 4 you 2 transl8
The sum of the following sequence of seventeen numbers is 1,626,110. Translate the sequence:
3,121
6,837
4,112
19
106
389
2,187
311
15,289
61
10
216,787
731,986
21
614,389
21,317
9,168
Answer:
Toto sets foot on Oz's ten toes too often, so Oz tosses stones to soften Toto's nose.
(Each of the seventeen numbers contains two-to-six digits. The first letters of these digits spell words of two-to-six letters. For example, 3,121 = ThreeOneTwoOne=TOTO.)
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International House Of Puzzles Appetizers:
Four puzzle-stops on a world tour
Country alchemy
1. Think of a large country. Remove two adjacent internal letters to obtain another, smaller country on the other side of the world. What are the two countries?
Answer:
Australia, Austria
Numerogeography 101
2. Insert the designator for the least-significant digit in a multiple-place integer into the name of a country to form the name of another country. What are the two countries and the insert?
Answer:
Indonesia, India; ones
Short nickname
3. A large country has a short, informal nickname that shares no letters with the official name of the country. What are the country and its informal nickname?
Answer:
Oz (Australia)
Unloved in his own country
4. An American author, who has lived most of his life in Massachusetts, is known worldwide for a bestseller that was the first of a trilogy. This novel formed the basis for a 2013 German feature film that was a #1 box-office hit in Germany and Spain. The novel, author, and film are all rather obscure in the USA. Who is the author and what are the titles of the novel and film?
Hints: The film starred Tom Payne and Ben Kingsley (dubbed into German and Spanish). The second novel of the trilogy won the first James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction in 1993.
Answer:
Noah Gordon; "The Physician"; "The Physician"
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteAutocrats And Autos Slice:
It’s (not) a Duesey!
Name a past world leader, first and last names. Replace the the first and final letters of the full name with a letter that appears late in the alphabet. Switch the positions of two vowels in the second name, then remove one of them.
The result is the names of two automobiles:
1. the make of a subpar subcompact from the past, and
2. an informal name for a well-known automotive brand.
Who is this world leader and what are these car names?
Answer:
Hugo Chavez; Yugo, Chevy
(Hugo Chavez >> Yugo Chavey >> Yugo Chevay >> Yugo Chevy)
Riffing Off Shortz And Lipscomb Slice:
Non-look-alike sound-alikes
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Lipscomb Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a midwestern city in ten letters and two words.
The city’s first word phonetically sounds exactly like the second-last word, an exclamation, in the lyrics of a 1970s-era hit song by a singer whose stage name echoes the names of a pair of comic opera collaborators. And strangely, the city’s first word and this word of exclamation have no letters in common.
And even more strangely, the midwestern city’s second word phonetically sounds exactly like the final word in the song’s lyrics.
What city and song lyrics are these?
Hint: The midwestern city phonetically sounds like a two-word name for a room in a house. The first word is the type of wood used to panel the room, and the second word is a synonym of “den” or “man cave.”
Answer:
Eau Claire (Wisconsin);
"Oh Clair" (the final two words in Gilbert O'Sullivan's hit single "Clair")
Hint: "Eau Claire" sounds like "Oak Lair"
ENTREE #2:
Consider the following sentence:
“A political candidate may harbor fears that the prejudice voiced by his/her main opponent is bogus – that the opponent is thus actually less prejudicial than himself/herself .”
The sentence contains a synonym of a seven-letter word.
The first syllable of this seven-letter word phonetically sounds like a synonym of a second word in the sentence, and also like a synonym of a third word in the sentence. And strangely this first syllable has only one letter in common with the synonym of the second word, and no letters in common with the synonym of the third word.
The second and third syllables of this seven-letter word spell a synonym of a fourth word in the sentence.
What is the seven-letter word, and what is its synonym in the sentence?
What are the two words that sound like the first syllable in the seven-letter word, and what are their respective synonyms in the sentence?
What word is spelled by the second and third syllables of the seven-letter word, and what is its synonym in the sentence?
Answer:
Phobias (Its synonym in the sentence is "fears.");
"Pho" sounds like a synonym of "opponent" (foe), and like a synonym of "bogus" (faux).
The second and third syllables of the seven-letter word spell "bias" which is a synonym of "prejudice."
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ENTREE #3:
In today’s world, human joints are replaced using hard polished metal alloys, durable ceramic and tough, slick plastic. Back in the day, however, other more primitive materials were used... wood, for example.
Take three words:
1. The tree from which one of the woods used in the replacement was harvested,
2. A word describing the inauthentic status of the new joint, and
3. the joint that the wood replaced
This three-word term phonetically sounds like a three-syllable noun for the soothingly harmonious, pleasing-to-the-ear reassurances spoken to the patient as he was going under the knife! (Okay okay, scalpel.)
And strangely each of these three words and each of their corresponding three sound-alike syllables have only one, zero and one letter in common.
What is this three-word term for this back-in-the-day joint replacement?
What is the three-syllable noun for the soothingly harmonious, pleasing-to-the-ear reassurances spoken to the patient?
Answer:
Yew faux knee; Euphony (Eu+pho+ny)
ENTREE #4:
Think of a noun in five letters and in two syllables meaning a relatively small piece of isolated land. Change the first syllable to form a noun in six letters and in two syllables meaning a relatively small opening. Keep the second syllables as they are.
The two first syllables are phonetically identical even though, strangely, they have no letters in common.
What two nouns are these?
Answer:
Islet; eyelet
ENTREE #5:
Think of a proper noun in seven letters and in two syllables. It is the surname of a person who has a sports venue named after him.
The first syllable phonetically sounds like a creature in a nursery rhyme. The first syllable plus the first letter of the second syllable spell this creature.
The second syllable of the proper noun sounds like a syllable in the name of the creature’s owner. Strangely these two words have only one letter in common.
The first name (which is a nickname) of the person with the sports venue named after him is an adjective describing both his hair and the nursery rhyme creature’s hair.
Who is the person with the sports venue named after him?
What is the nursery rhyme?
What is the creature?
Answer:
Curly Lambeau; "Little Bo-Peep"; Lamb;
ENTREE #6:
Think of a midwestern city in four syllables. Remove from its interior a four-letter holy man that phonetically sounds like a creature that photographically looks like the creature in ENTREE #5. Strangely these two look-alike creatures have three consecutive letters in common.
The remaining letters in the city spell a musical instrument. A simple version of this instrument can be constucted by using a simple grooming device and something in which you can wrap sandwiches. It is an instrument that can be played by using particular body parts. These body parts followed by the grooming device form the surname of a puzzle-maker.
What city is this?
What is the creature that photographically looks like the creature in ENTREE #5?
What is the musical instrument?
What are the grooming device and body parts?
Who is the puzzle-maker?
Answer:
Kalamazoo (Michigan);
Lama; Kazoo; Comb and Lips;
Tyler Lipscomb
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This week's official answers for the record, part 4:
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Pro Forma Performer Dessert:
Performing verbal surgery on a profession
Name the profession of a well-known performer from the past, in one word. Change the fourth letter in this word to a different vowel. Place an anagram of the first four letters in the performer’s real first name in front of this altered profession to form a longer word. When you place this longer word in front of the one-word profession of the performer you form a two-word profession that does NOT describe or pertain to the performer.
Name this performer and profession, and the performer’s real first name.
What is the two-word profession that neither describes nor pertains to the performer?
Answer:
Cary Grant, actor; Archibald (Leach); Character actor
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