PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 3(7!) SERVED
Schpuzzle Of TheWeek:
This is a job for INTERPOL!
Write down an international event in two words.
Arrange the letters, in order, in three lines, from top to bottom, with varying numbers of letters.
This arrangement of the letters represents a two-word term for organized crime activity that is kept on the down low.
What is this international event?
Worldplay Appetizer:
Army ants, Navy Seals & Marine biologists
Military transformation I
⚔1. Think of a weapon.
Take the first letter and move it to the end of the word to form a new word for figuratively more powerful weapons. What are these two weapons?
Military transformation II
👩2. Think of a term for a massive defeat. Drop the first letter to obtain a possible term of mockery for such a defeat. Substitute a different letter for the first letter of this result to obtain the term for a specific female. What are these three terms?
Hint: In the first and last term, the fourth and fifth letters from the end of each word are silent. In the second term, they are sounded as a different letter.
Military transformation III
🎖3. Think of a general term for a military asset. Remove an interior letter to obtain a term for an alloy of lead and tin that is likely included in many other modern military assets. What are the asset and the alloy?
Zoological nomenclature I
🐱🐶4. Think of a general term for a specific animal. Drop the two initial letters. The remaining letters give the general term for an adult male of this species. Add to this result two different letters to obtain the general term for an adult female of this species. What are the general terms for a member of this species and for adult males and females of this species?
Bonus: What is the scientific name of this species?
Sublime Slice:
Booting the Bard outta the business
Name an American business that other businesses are likely to patronize. Remove from this business the letters of two consecutive words in Shakespeare’s Sonnet VI.
The result is an attention-getting interjection that may lure customers into the business by subliminally suggesting something like, “Hey buddy, we’ve got an exclusive deal, just for you. But we can’t give this deal to just anybody.”
What are this business and interjection?
Riffing Off Shortz and Fogarty Slices:
Bowl over Beethtoven!
Will Shortz’s July 12th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Neville Fogarty, of Newport News, Virginia, reads:
Think of a two-word direction or command. Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get a common name for one receiving that direction or command. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Fogarty Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
The first name of a puzzle-maker is the last name of a group of singing brothers from New Orleans.
The last name of a puzzle-maker is the last name of two singing brothers from Berkeley... but only if you replace a vowel in the brothers’ last name to a vowel that appears seven times in the brothers’ 3-word band name.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a two-word encouragement given to a lethargic pooch with a hangdog demeanor.
Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get a word for the pooch that is receiving that encouragement.
What is the two-word encouragement?
What is the word for the pooch?
ENTREE #3:
A well-known truth-stretcher boasts: “I guarantee I will not be moving out of my present residence a half-year from now.”
Think of a two-word honest response to this boast that one of the person’s many lackeys may say to themselves but would never dare say aloud... lest they be told to pack up and leave their boss’s present residence posthaste!
But let’s pretend a brave soul speaks the honest response aloud. Take the first letter of the first word in the response plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get the first name of the one receiving that response.
What is this honest response?
Who would receive it (albeit not too happily)?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a two-word direction or command that a guy from Ohio may have given his sibling during some field tests they were conducting.
(The direction/command might have been prompted by a problematic leftward veering of what it was they were field-testing.)
Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get the last name of the one receiving that direction or command.
What is this last name?
Hint: The first word is a verb, but it is more commonly used as a noun for a part of what the siblings were field-testing.
ENTREE #5:
A teen gal and guy have the house to themselves and are making out on her parents’ living room sofa. The boy makes goo-goo eyes, necks, kisses lips, caresses cheek and, eventually, because he has maneuvered so ____ to one of the two appendages with which she has been blessed, _______ ___.
Consider the seven-letter and three-letter words at the very end of the previous sentence. Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get the four-letter word sandwiched between “so” and “to” that occurs earlier in the sentence.
What are these 7-letter, 3-letter and 4-letter words?
ENTREE #6:
Think of a two-word phrase for what a blackjack dealer does about 7.7% of the time.
Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, to form a new word.
Make a new two-word phrase (using the original first word and the new second word) for what a blackjack dealer does a tad more than 23% of the time.
What are these two phrases?
ENTREE #7:
Legendary Swiss marksman and assassin William Tell (who inspired John Wilkes Booth) was once commanded by a Hapsburg bailiff named Gessler to “_____ an _____ poised on his son’s head at a distance of 120 paces... using a bazooka!”
Tell objected, exclaiming “___’__ happen! Allow me to use my crossbow instead.”
The first word in Gessler’s command is a five-letter euphemism for a common vulgar four-letter word. You know the second word. Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get a what sounds like the five-letter contraction with which Tell’s objection begins.
What are the first three words of Gessler’s command? What does Tell exclaim?
ENTREE #8:
Name what a barber does, in two words. Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get an essential piece of barber shop equipment.
A blow dryer is an essential piece of a beauty salon equipment. Name what it blows out of the dryer, in two words. Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll name what gets blown by what blows out of the dryer.
What does a barber do? What is the essential piece of barber shop equipment?
What blows out of the beauty salon’s blow dryer? What gets blown?
Lodge-in-your-craw Dessert:
“Is there a Boast Western inn Fort Bragg?”
Name a lodging chain, (Blank) Hotels.
This chain, if preceded by the word “I”, sounds like a boast a real estate developer might make.
One such developer lives near a city that can be formed by replacing the second letter of the “Blank” word in the hotel chain with an “a”, and then inserting the original second letter into the fifth position.
What are this lodging chain and this boast?
Who is the developer?
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 TheWeek:
This is a job for INTERPOL!
Write down an international event in two words.
Arrange the letters, in order, in three lines, from top to bottom, with varying numbers of letters. This arrangement of the letters represents a two-word term for organized crime activity that is kept on the down low.
What is this international event?
Appetizer Menu
Worldplay Appetizer:
Army ants, Navy Seals & Marine biologists
Military transformation I
⚔1. Think of a weapon.
Take the first letter and move it to the end of the word to form a new word for figuratively more powerful weapons. What are these two weapons?Military transformation II
👩2. Think of a term for a massive defeat. Drop the first letter to obtain a possible term of mockery for such a defeat. Substitute a different letter for the first letter of this result to obtain the term for a specific female. What are these three terms?
Hint: In the first and last term, the fourth and fifth letters from the end of each word are silent. In the second term, they are sounded as a different letter.
Military transformation III🎖3. Think of a general term for a military asset. Remove an interior letter to obtain a term for an alloy of lead and tin that is likely included in many other modern military assets. What are the asset and the alloy?
Zoological nomenclature I
🐱🐶4. Think of a general term for a specific animal. Drop the two initial letters. The remaining letters give the general term for an adult male of this species. Add to this result two different letters to obtain the general term for an adult female of this species. What are the general terms for a member of this species and for adult males and females of this species?
Bonus: What is the scientific name of this species?
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Sublime Slice:
Booting the Bard outta the business
Name an American business that other businesses are likely to patronize. Remove from this business the letters of two consecutive words in Shakespeare’s Sonnet VI. The result is an attention-getting interjection that may lure customers into the business by subliminally suggesting something like, “Hey buddy, we’ve got an exclusive deal, just for you. But we can’t give this deal to just anybody.”
What are this business and interjection?
Riffing Off Shortz and Fogarty Slices:
Bowl over Beethtoven!
Will Shortz’s July 12th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Neville Fogarty, of Newport News, Virginia, reads:Think of a two-word direction or command. Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get a common name for one receiving that direction or command. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Fogarty Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
The first name of a puzzle-maker is the last name of a group of singing brothers from New Orleans.The last name of a puzzle-maker is the last name of two singing brothers from Berkeley... but only if you replace a vowel in the brothers’ last name to a vowel that appears seven times in the brothers’ 3-word band name.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a two-word encouragement given to a lethargic pooch with a hangdog demeanor.
Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get a word for the pooch that is receiving that encouragement.What is the two-word encouragement?
What is the word for the pooch?
ENTREE #3:
A well-known truth-stretcher boasts: “I guarantee I will not be moving out of my present residence a half-year from now.”
Think of a two-word honest response to this boast that one of the person’s many lackeys may say to themselves but would never dare say aloud... lest they be told to pack up and leave their boss’s present residence posthaste!But let’s pretend a brave soul speaks the honest response aloud. Take the first letter of the first word in the response plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get the first name of the one receiving that response.
What is this honest response?
Who would receive it (albeit not too happily)?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a two-word direction or command that a guy from Ohio may have given his sibling during some field tests they were conducting.
(The direction/command might have been prompted by a problematic leftward veering of what it was they were field-testing.) Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get the last name of the one receiving that direction or command.
What is this last name?
Hint: The first word is a verb, but it is more commonly used as a noun for a part of what the siblings were field-testing.
ENTREE #5:
A teen gal and guy have the house to themselves and are making out on her parents’ living room sofa. The boy makes goo-goo eyes, necks, kisses lips, caresses cheek and, eventually, because he has maneuvered so ____ to one of the two appendages with which she has been blessed, _______ ___.
Consider the seven-letter and three-letter words at the very end of the previous sentence. Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get the four-letter word sandwiched between “so” and “to” that occurs earlier in the sentence.What are these 7-letter, 3-letter and 4-letter words?
ENTREE #6:
Think of a two-word phrase for what a blackjack dealer does about 7.7% of the time.
Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, to form a new word. Make a new two-word phrase (using the original first word and the new second word) for what a blackjack dealer does a tad more than 23% of the time.
What are these two phrases?
ENTREE #7:
Legendary Swiss marksman and assassin William Tell (who inspired John Wilkes Booth) was once commanded by a Hapsburg bailiff named Gessler to “_____ an _____ poised on his son’s head at a distance of 120 paces... using a bazooka!”
Tell objected, exclaiming “___’__ happen! Allow me to use my crossbow instead.”
The first word in Gessler’s command is a five-letter euphemism for a common vulgar four-letter word. You know the second word. Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get a what sounds like the five-letter contraction with which Tell’s objection begins. What are the first three words of Gessler’s command? What does Tell exclaim?
ENTREE #8:
Name what a barber does, in two words. Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get an essential piece of barber shop equipment.
A blow dryer is an essential piece of a beauty salon equipment. Name what it blows out of the dryer, in two words. Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll name what gets blown by what blows out of the dryer. What does a barber do? What is the essential piece of barber shop equipment?
What blows out of the beauty salon’s blow dryer? What gets blown?
Dessert Menu
Lodge-in-your-craw Dessert:
“Is there a Boast Western inn Fort Bragg?”
Name a lodging chain, (Blank) Hotels.This chain, if preceded by the word “I”, sounds like a boast a real estate developer might make.
One such developer lives near a city that can be formed by replacing the second letter of the “Blank” word in the hotel chain with an “a”, and then inserting the original second letter into the fifth position. What are this lodging chain and this boast?
Who is the developer?
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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ReplyDeleteOkay, Lego here come a parade of questions: Schpuzzle: do you intend that the letters be arranged in a COLUMN (i.e. the top to bottom statement?) I couldn't figure that out, let alone figure any of the rest out.
ReplyDeleteI managed to get all geo's puzzles, but still have a question about a 'word' in #2, which to ME appears as "f 'square' or' after the word 'different.' What does that mean?
I solved all the Entrees except #5 and 6, but don't think #7's assembled word really SOUNDS enough like the contraction I wrote down to be accurate. ???
Have the intended interjection for the Sublime Slice, I am sure, but surely can't come up with a business that works. There are far too many two-word combos in the Shakespeare sonnet to even be able to guess which ones apply.
Lastly, sorry about the above deletion, but this blog site NOW suddenly actually POSTS one's comment after one signs in, whereas before, it would let you go back an alter/delete, whatever...so I used to just stick an 'x' in the box in order to sign in (it won't let me without SOMETHING in the box) which means now I'll always have to delete the 'x' comment. What to do?
Okay, ViolinTeddy, here come a parade of answers:
Delete1. If the international event was "OLYMPIC GAMES." for example, its letters may have been arraged something like this:
OLY
MPICG
AMES
2. I must apologize to geofan for messing up his "Military Transformation II" puzzle in Worldplay. Somehow I inserted a "medal emoji" into the text. I have tried to clean the text up, but I humbly ask him to comfirm that the current text is correct.
3. Regarding Entree #7, the prolematic sentence, I believe, is:
Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get a what sounds like the five-letter contraction with which Tell’s objection begins.
The first letter of the first word is the first letter in a five-letter word that is a euphemism for a common vulgar four-letter word. The contraction consists of an anagram of Cleo's suicide "weapon" and what Mr. Tell's close friends called him.
4. The business in the Sublime Slice is associated with the color "Brown." The name of the businesscontains a 3-letter acronym that is a plural word that is the antonym of the second of two words in the name of a famous horse-racing venue.
5. I apoligize to you, geofan and all other Puzzlerian!s for the issues you are having navigating our blog. I can only hope that the "interface" that my blog provider ("Blogger") is in the process of transistioning to will eventually be completed, and navigating Puzlleria! will become less stressful and frustrating.
LegoXBoxer
Thanks for all the answers, Lego. I shall see IF I can make anything of the Schpuzzle, although I am not optimistic.
DeleteRe the Sublime Slice, I think I liked the bamboo hint better!
OOPS -- correction: not the Sublime Slice, rather Entree #7. I keep getting lost among all the puzzles, and which ones we are talking about. Red faced....
DeleteI finally figured out Entree #7...but it surely turned out to be simpler than I had given it credit for.
DeleteVT,
DeleteI agree 100% with your comment, posted immediately above. There is a lot of "puzzley" verbiage to wade through before coming to a payoff that is more-or-less "meh."
Lego"AndYetskSomehowI'mAFeelin'BetterNoosk!"(13:08)
I forgot something....I do think that Entree #8's last word should be 'blown' not blowed, the latter it appears is used ONLY for comments to mean that one is amazed or something. Otherwise, the past particle of blow is blown, even for the object in question.
ReplyDeleteThanks, VioninTedditor."Blown," not "blowed."
DeleteLegoWhoNotesThatBadReliefPitchersAccumulate"BlownSaves"Not"BlowedSaves"
Here I am again: just solved Dessert, BUT I found the directions as to what to do with the 'second letter' of the hotel name to be VERY confusing....that is, it really needs to go in what would be the fifth position, IF that second letter were still where it had been. But it's the fourth position only AFTER said 'second letter' has been removed. I think!
ReplyDeleteSorry for error: The full sentence should read:
ReplyDelete"Substitute a different letter for the first letter of this result to obtain the term for a specific female."
ViolinTeddy, it should be possible to login to Puzzleria! at the extreme top right (above and to the right of the main title “Joseph Young's Puzzleria!”),without having to enter a dummy “x” as a message that you later delete. I believe that it is also theoretically possible to login at www.blogger.com and then to open Puzzleria! from there. These two ways do not involve the use of a “dummy” message and avoid cluttering the blog with deleted messages.
ReplyDeleteHere, I am still having problems to login to Puzzleria! It was always totally impossible from Chrome browser and now also fails as well about 90 % of the time from Firefox. The only good news is that once one has logged in, there appears to be no problem with subsequent messages.
My solution to avoid total frustration is now to draft all comments on a separate word processor file and then cut-and-paste the completed comment into the blog. Whether or not the post then succeeds is then totally random (90 % of the time the “embedded” error is returned). But at least the time spent in drafting the blog entry itself is not lost.
Blogger.com is of absolutely no use, as all the help issues there are addressed to the blog writer (administator/owner), not to submitters of entries to other blogs (as we are all here except Joe/Lego).
Thanks, geo...I've never even seen the sign-up at the right top of the page, but I will try that in future when what I want to type is complicated, unlike this post...which I'm going to trust to auto-post!!
DeleteAh, I see it now. Often, I have my window shrunk in width (so as to see other windows in which I am doing things), which must be why I haven't noticed the sign-in up there.
DeleteHappy Friday everyone!(Hope I don't have as much trouble getting through on the blog!)
ReplyDeleteMy supper's ready, so I'll try to make this brief: Next week we're going to FL to celebrate my brother's birthday. We will try to stay safe. Now on to this week's offerings:
I've got geofan's first puzzle(smart!), and Entrees #1, #3, part of #4, #7, and #8.
Hints will be necessary. That is all. Good solving and luck to all, and stay safe!
Well, I am well and truly stumped re that Sublime Slice. Lego, I literally copied the Sonnet and then eliminated every word that contained letters that were NOT in the pretty-well-pinned-down-by-your-hint business as well as those that had more than the allowed number of letters contained said business.
ReplyDeleteNothing is left possible! Are you sure you meant Sonnet VI? One word had appeared promising, but there isn't another word next to it that doesn't either contain a verboten letter OR a duplicate of a letter that isn't IN the business. So I'm utterly stuck.
I found two (short) adjacent words in Sonnet VI that fit the bill, but then there is no obvious interjection (or interjection phrase remaining after the letters are dropped.
DeleteDitto on both of those posts. I must be missing something. I'm pretty sure I'm working from the correct business name.
DeleteVT, geofan and GB,
DeleteThe business name contains three words.
The interjection is a vowelless single word. It appears in Merriam-Webster.
LegoWhoWishesAll(WithShoutsOfBravo)Well(n)ess
PISCES GEMINI !!
DeleteLego: If the 4-letter interjection in the Sublime Slice is the word I believe it is, then the 2nd instance of the duplicated letter is missing from the original company name. Plus, if the word is to be obtained after the elimination of "ere it" from the original company name, then another letter is missing as well.
DeleteEither situation would also explain CB's comment "Pisces Gemini".
Lego: Please advise as to how to proceed.
I'm SO glad you posted that, geo!! I had been wondering if I should....because by now I'm fed up with trying to force the obvious business name into becoming what I had chosen from the beginning as the interjection, when (at least) ONE letter isn't there in the business name.
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DeleteGeo and Ted: I meant I had found the missing piece and was about to solve the puzzle. Sorry if it was too cryptic. You guys must have the right business. Try a variation. Look at the website.
DeleteFound what I think is the solution to the Sublime Slice.
DeleteBut I don't like it. It is like hitting below the belt on the Web site.
From before the above discussion, I had an alternate answer that uses a 1-consonant interjection that is hinted at (but not specifically listed) in Merriam-Webster. Will list on Wed. along with the intended answer.
DeleteNot-So-Sublime-Slice:
DeleteThe business is "the world's largest franchisor of retail etc. etc. ... Today, there are more than 5,000 independently owned ??? ??? ????? locations..."
Some stats:
Headquarters: San Diego
Founded: 1980
Areas served: U.S., Canada
LegoWhoBelievesThisPuzzleMayHaveNotManyUpsAndTooManyDowns!
Clearly, we have all been using the WRONG business. I have no idea yet what the correct one IS, but I am searching.....I am stumped, however, as to how it could have an abbreviation that meets the prior hints.
DeleteOR be connected to the color brown and NOT be what we've all been using.
DeleteI can't find anything that works.
You've got the right business, Ted. Just the part that I had to start with and had to vary from. I tried shoehorning Sonnet VI every way I could. No luck. Then it jumped out. You know how these businesses grow tentacles. More than 5000 of them, so says Lego's stored up info.
DeleteViolinTeddy, the business name is related to the one that you have been (and which I had been) thinking of, but it is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the better-known one.
DeleteTHank you both, guys....finally I stumbled on what you are talking about. ANd there sits the interjection! Now I only need to figure out which two words from the sonnet to remove, but it shouldn't be too hard. Whew...
DeleteSaturday Hints
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
The three horizontal lines (rows) contain:
1. a prime number of letters;
2. a number of letters that is not prime;
3. a prime number of letters.
There are a non-prime total of letters in the international event. The two words of the event each contain a number of letters that is prime
Worldplay Appetizer:
Note: I have not yet solved Ken Pratt's Worldplay Appetizers #2 and #4, so I shall rely on geofan (Ken Pratt), or others who have solved them, to provide hints for #2 and #4.
But here are my hints for #1 and #3:
1. Military transformation I
As cranberry noted in his comment, a "smart" puzzle. And, those who wield the more powerful weapons tend to be pretty smart.
3. Military transformation II
The two terms' first letters are pronounced the same, as are their last letters... and they share an "e" pronounced as a schwa. But the other letters in the interior of the two terms sound not the same.
Sublime Slice:
There are three different letters in the 4-letter exclamation. All occur within a 5-letter alphabetical string (such as JKLMN, for example).
Riffing Off Shortz and Fogarty Slices:
ENTREE #1:
The star singing brother from New Orleans is Aaron.
The star singing brother from Berkeley is John.
ENTREE #2:
"Coffee" might be a fitting name for this pooch... even if it is not coffee-colored.
ENTREE #3:
I shall presume to reprint a clever comment posted on Blaine's blog by a poster named Lancek, on Monday, July 13:
"Purge resident."
ENTREE #4:
The first word is a verb that is normally used as a noun. As a noun, it is a part of a bird or a part of a building that juts out.
ENTREE #5:
The 7-letter and 3-letter words are both associated with bunnies. The 7-letter word is what they may do to your finger or a carrot.
ENTREE #6:
A blackjack dealer turns over a heart 25% of the time, a black jack a bit more than 3.8% of the time.
ENTREE #7:
In the contraction, “___’__,” the contracted letters are w and i.
ENTREE #8:
What blows out of the beauty salon’s blow dryer is also blown into a really big balloon.
The essential piece of barber shop equipment usually swivels.
Lodge-in-your-craw Dessert:
FDR had a temporary White House office set up at the (Blank) Hotel when he vacationed in Miami.
LegoWhoAddsaThatTheSecondWordOfTheSchpuzzle'sInternationalEventIsSomethingFoundOnAGolfGreen
Well, that sends a bazooka blast into my Schpuzzle guess. But, I'll post it for consideration anyway.
ReplyDeleteIf I may be so bold (and if I am correct): Appetizer #2 seems to have a familiar ring to it. Appetizer #4 Bonus - Rumor has it that the namers are revisiting the second word in the name of the species.
Apologies if I overstep.
Appetizer #2 was written several months before the related puzzle (I believe, by sdb) appeared on P!. But the hint is still a good one.
DeleteAppetizer #4: You have almost certainly seen this animal. They are extremely numerous.
Most other animals would definitely say: far too numerous.
DeleteYes, GB, please post your "bazooka-shelled" alternative answer to my Schpuzzle come this Wednesday. The alternative answers that you Puzzlerian!s come up with are oftentimes more solid than my intended answers!
DeleteAnd, the more overstepping done here on P!, the better our blog!
(My Schpuzzle, by the way, is a riff/rip-off of this NPR offering.)
I admit to being in a bit of a fog regarding GB's Entree #2 "familiar ring" and the Entree #4 "name of the species" allusions... but that's par for my course. I'm also in a fog about geofan's Entree #2 and Entree #4 comments but I truly do appreciate his efforts to untangle the thicket of verbiage I've cultivated this week!
LegoWhoEncouagesAllPuzzlerian!sToNotEverStopTheirEffortsToOverstep
Regarding Appetizer #2, see Lego's Entrée #5 from 19 June 2020 . I submitted my Appetizer #2 to Lego on 17 Apr 2020, so 2 months before Lego's Entrée #5 appeared.
DeleteCorrection: Entrée #5 was from Lego, not sdb. My error.
Thanks, geofan. That clears out the "fogginess" I had been experiencing. And, thanks to your comment (above) I now know the answer to your "Military Transformation II" puzzle from this week's great edition of Wordplay by Ken Pratt!
DeleteEntrée #5 from 19 June 2020 was actually a puzzle that Greg VanMechelen composed. Will Shortz had used a puzzle of Greg's on the June 14 NPR Weekend Edition Sunday program. Greg sent me six "riff-offs of his own puzzle, which appeared as "Riffing off Shortz and VanMechelen" puzzles that week. After posting a pair of riff-off puzzles of my own, I prefaced Greg's six "self-riff-offs" (Entrees #3 through #8) with the following note:
Note to Puzzlerians!: Cana-wedding-like, we are saving the best for last. The following six riff-off puzzles were created by Greg VanMechelen himself.
He is thus “riffing off” his own NPR puzzle!
It was just another one of those cases of great minds thinking alike... Ken Pratt and Greg VanMechelen coming up with essentially the same clever puzzle idea independently of each other!
LegoWhoHasBeenExperiencingSomeKindaFoggyMemoryBreakdown!
Got the Dessert from the FDR hint (with a bit of research). IMO there is a error in the text: the "I" should precede, not follow, the hotel chain name. This error led me astray to the only reasonable possibility for a "following" I: Wyndham => Wind am (I), which does not really make sense.
ReplyDeleteHint: the hotel chain is defunct.
"Preceded," not "followed." Of course! Thanks, geofan. Fixed it.
DeleteLegoWhoNeverthelessLovesTheIngenuityOfgeofan's"WindAmI"(Although"Mentally"Winded"AmIInTheMidstOfAGruelingPuzzleria!Weekend!)
Finally got the Dessert with the re-positioned "I", and confirmed by the FDR mention. (Place has quite a history.) Geo and Ted: See note (hint) above on the Sublime Slice. My Zodiac interjection might have been too sub of the rosa.
ReplyDeleteGot Entrees #4 and #5! BTW We're leaving for FL on Wednesday, so my answers may be a little late.
ReplyDeleteAny more hints, Lego? Still a day away from my trip!
ReplyDeleteTuesday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of TheWeek:
The international event contains 8 letters.
The two-word term for "organized crime activity that is kept on the down low" contains 17 letters.
Worldplay Appetizer:
2. Enos _________
3. The military asset = "boots on the ground; The alloy of lead is viscous until it cools down.
4. ???
Sublime Slice:
"What can this business do for you?"
Riffing Off Shortz and Fogarty Slices:
ENTREE #2:
"Coffee" might be a fitting name for this pooch... after all, you percolate coffee, right?.
ENTREE #6:
How often does a blackjack dealer turn over a bullet? How about the dealer turning over "royalty?"
Lodge-in-your-craw Dessert:
Did Mr. Berle put his audience to sleep?
LegoKeepingOnTheDownLow
I think I just had a 'breakthrough' idea re the Schpuzzle (I'd had three possibilities for the event....they were ALL the correct length, as it turns out....), however, I can't finish the idea....I don't know how to turn the second word into the 7 letters of the activity. Of course, I'm assuming my 'idea' is correct.
DeleteAlso, I believe I finally came up with an answer for Entree #6. It may not be exactly the intended answer, I am just not sure, but the math is correct!
DeleteLast hint for Worldplay #4:
DeleteLook into the mirror, and you will see one of these animals.
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteRegarding the Schpuzzle:
If you have not already done so, I suggest you revisit Will Shortz's Sunday puzzle that I ripped-off/ riffed-off for my Schpuzzle (I believe it was one of Will's own compositions):
Question:
Write down the letter C. Beneath that write ENT. And beneath that write a G. What profession do these letters represent? Here's a hint: It's a two-word phrase — 10 letters in the first word, 5 letters in the second.
Answer:
Under C, Over a G, ENT --> UNDERCOVER AGENT
LegoWhoWondersIfSewageMaintenanceWorkersWhoMustOpenManholeCoversInOrderToAccessSewerLinesCanBeProperlyCalled"UndercoverAgents"
The Answer above sounds like a heraldic description (of a coat-of-arms): Ger. Blasonierung
DeleteThanks, geofan,
DeleteThe fine hint in your "July 21, 2020 at 2:06 PM" comment led me to the answer for your fine Worldplay #4 puzzle.
LegoWhoIsAHinteeAsWellAsAHinter
WORLD
ReplyDeleteC
UP > UNDERWORLD COVERUP
SWORD > WORDS
SLAUGHTER > LAUGHTER > DAUGHTER
SOLDIER > SOLDER
HUMAN > MAN > WOMAN > HOMO SAPIENS
THE UPS STORE - ERE THOU = PSST
NEVILLE FOGARTY / THE NEVILLE BROTHERS / CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL (TOM & JOHN FOGERTY) [but I count 7 E's]
PERK UP, PUP
DREAM ON, DON
WING RIGHT, WRIGHT
NEAR / NEAREST EAR
SHOOT APPLE > SAP'LL?
CUTS HAIR > CHAIR / HOT AIR > HAIR
BILTMORE > BALTIMORE, which isn't far from Washington D.C.; "I built more hotels" sounds like something the Boaster in Chief might say.
Thank for the crEEdEncE clEarwatEr rEvival corrEction, Paul. I guess that after I counted to six e's I just got plumb bored!
DeleteLeeeeeeego
SCHPUZZLE: [Event Guess prior to Tuesday hint, along with David Cup and Ryder Cup:] WORLD CUP W O R L D, with "C" under that, and "UP" under that => UNDERWORLD, C, OVER UP => UNDERWORLD COVERUP? [I know this doesn't match the even/odd prime number of letters hint.]
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS:
1. SWORD => WORDS
2. SLAUGHTER => LAUGHTER => DAUGHTER
3. SOLDIER => SOLDER
4. HUMAN => MAN, WOMAN Bonus: HOMO SAPIENS
SUBLIME SLICE: THE UPS STORE minus ERE THOU => PSST [PSST was my initial thought for the interjection, but regular UPS spelled out wouldn't work.]
ENTREES:
1. NEVILLE BROTHERS plus John & Tom FOGERTY [CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL] => NEVILLE FOGARTY
2. PERK UP => PUP
3. BODES ILL => BILL [Stepien]; TRUMP, of course!
4. WING RIGHT => WRIGHT [Bros] [I also thought WAFT might be a good verb, until I saw the in-puzzle hint.]
5. NIBBLES EAR => NEAR
6. 1/13 = 7.7% OF TIME DEALING/DRAWING ANY PARTICULAR DENOMINATION CARD, i.e. an ACE, or a KING, or a TWO => FURNISH / FLIP ACE => FURNISH / FLIP FACE, because 3 times 7.7% = 23.1%
7. SHOOT an APPLE => SAPPLE => SAP'LL happen!
8. CUTS HAIR => CHAIR; HOT AIR => HAIR
DESSERT [Pre-hints]: BILTMORE HOTELS -> BALTIMORE => TRUMP, again, of course [I BUILT MORE]
VT,
DeleteI like your "BODES ILL => BILL [Stepien" idea for Entree #3 andf also your "WAFTS right" alternative answer to Entree #4.
As to my Saturday Schpuzzle Hint:
The three horizontal lines (rows) contain:
1. a prime number of letters;WORLD (5 letters)
2. a number of letters that is not prime;C (1 letter)
3. a prime number of letters.UP (2 letters)
It is a bit controversial, but the consensus seems to be that 1 is not prime!
LegoWhoIsOneWhoIsNotInThePrimeOfHisLife
Well, Lego, I was on the side of considering it to BE a prime!
DeleteViolinTeddy,
DeleteAnd I consider you to be one of the most primo Puzzlerian!s in the universe!
LegoWhoDeemsViolinTeddyA"ReadyForPrimeTime"Player
Schpuzzle: WORLD/C/UP => under WORLD C over UP => UNDERWORLD COVERUP [post-Tues-hint]
ReplyDelete(1 is not a prime number, so 2nd row of the 3 is not prime)
Worldplay Appetizer:
#1: SWORD => WORDS
#2: SLAUGHTER – S => LAUGHTER – L + D => DAUGHTER
#3: SOLDIER – I => SOLDER
#4: HUMAN – HU => MAN + WO => WOMAN
Sublime Slice: UNITED PARCEL SERVICE – ERE IT => UND PACL SERVICE =>
“C – UPS CAN DELIVER!” [Is “see” an interjection?]
[post-Sun-AM-discussion]: THE UPS STORE – ERE THOU => PSST
Entrées
#1: NEVILLE FOGARTY => Neville Brothers; FOGERTY => Creedence Clearwater Revival
#2: PERK UP => PUP
#3: DREAM ON => DON(ald) Trump
#4: WING RIGHT => WRIGHT
#5: NIBBLES EAR => NEAR
#6: FLIP an ACE => FLIP a FACE
#7: SHOOT an APPLE => SAPPLE => SAP'LL (sap will)
#8: CUT HAIR => CHAIR; HOT AIR => HAIR
Dessert: BILTMORE – I + A + I => BALTIMORE (I built more) [post-Sat-hint]
geofan,
DeleteI really love your
UNITED PARCEL SERVICE – ERE IT => UND PACL SERVICE =>
“C – UPS CAN DELIVER!” alternative answer.
"See!" (if you put an exclamation mark after it) seems to me to be an intejection! (But, then again putting an exclamation mark after any word would maks it seem to be an interjection!)
LegoCryingOut:"Interjection!YourHonor,TheProsecutingAttorneyIsLiterallyThrowingTheBook(InThisCaseTheSwearing-InBible)AtMyClient!
Schpuzzle: WORLD'S FAIR
ReplyDeleteW
ORLD'S
FAIR
Rebus of sorts for (Under) World's (a) Fair [read as affair]
Underworld's Affair is something the organized crime boys would want to keep on the QT.
I know that's not the intended solution, but it stuck in the gray cells.
Appetizers:
1. Sword & Words
2. Slaughter, Laughter, Daughter
3. Soldier & Solder
4. Human, Man, Woman Bonus: Homo Sapiens (observing the passing parade of late, the namers might revisit the sapiens part)
Sublime Slice: The UPS Store & PSST (four letter interjection hint was the breakthrough, that and a look at the United Parcel Service website)
Entrees:
1. Neville Fogarty
2. Perk up & Pup
3. Dream on & Don
4. Wright (Wing or Wheel, depending on the subject of the test)
5. Nibbles, Ear, Near
6. Flips ace & Flips face
7. Shoot an apple & Sap'll happen
8. Cut Hair, Chair, Hot Air, Hair
Dessert: Biltmore (Hotels); I built more; The developer named in Entree #3 above (Post re-positioned "I" and confirmed by FDR hint)
GB,
DeleteYour
W
ORLD'S
FAIR
=
Underworld's Affair
is very creative.
I also like "WHEEL Right = Wright.
LegoLaments:TheWorld'sFairIsRunByMobsters?SayItAin'tSo,GB!
Sorry, my brother was so late picking us up today.
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle
WORLD
C
UP
"UNDERWORLD COVER-UP"
Appetizer Menu
1. SWORD, WORDS
2. SLAUGHTER, LAUGHTER, DAUGHTER
3. SOLDIER, SOLDER
4. HUMAN, MAN, WOMAN
Menu
UPS STORE, PSST!
Entrees
1. NEVILLE FOGARTY(FOGERTY)
2. PERK UP, PUP
3. DREAM ON, DON
4. WING RIGHT, WRIGHT
5. NIBBLES EAR, NEAR
6. FLIPS ACE, FLIPS FACE
7. SHOOT, APPLE, SAP'LL
8. CHAIR, HOT AIR, HAIR
Dessert
BILTMORE HOTELS, "I BUILT MORE!", BALTIMORE
Thank goodness Lego hasn't revealed all just yet!-pjb
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of TheWeek:
This is a job for INTERPOL!
Write down an international event in two words. Arrange the letters, in order, in three lines, from top to bottom, with varying numbers of letters. This arrangement of the letters represents a two-word term for organized crime activity that is kept on the down low.
What is this international event?
Answer:
World Cup; (Underworld cover-up; UNDER WORLD, C OVER UP)
WORLD
C
UP
(Write down “WORLD CUP” so that UP is beneath C and WORLD is above both.)
The World Cup, which is an international football (soccer) competition.
Appetizer Menu
Worldplay Appetizer:
Army ants, Navy Seals & Marine biologists
Military transformation I
1. Think of a weapon. Take the first letter and move it to the end of the word to form a new word for figuratively more powerful weapons. What are these two weapons?
Answer:
Sword, Words
Military transformation II
2. Think of a term for a massive defeat. Drop the first letter to obtain a possible term of mockery for such a defeat. Substitute a different for the first letter of this result to obtain the term for a specific female. What are these three terms?
Hint: In the first and last term, the fourth and fifth letters from the end of each word are silent. In the second term, they are sounded as a different letter.
Answer:
Slaughter, Laughter, Daughter
Military transformation III
3. Think of a general term for a military asset. Remove an interior letter to obtain a term for an alloy of lead and tin that is likely included in many other modern military assets. What are the asset and the alloy?
Answer;
Soldier, solder
Zoological nomenclature I
4. Think of a general term for a specific animal. Drop the two initial letters. The remaining letters give the general term for an adult male of this species. Add to this result two different letters to obtain the general term for an adult female of this species. What are the general terms for a member of this species and for adult males and females of this species?
Bonus: What is the scientific name of this species?
Answer:
Human, Man, Woman
Bonus: Homo Sapiens
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Sublime Slice:
Booting the Bard outta the business
Name an American business that other businesses are likely to patronize. Remove from this business the letters of two consecutive words in Shakespeare’s Sonnet VI. The result is an attention-getting interjection that may lure customers into the business by subliminally suggesting something like, “Hey buddy, we’ve got an exclusive deal, just for you. But we can’t give this deal to just anybody.”
What are this business and interjection?
Answer:
The UPS Store; Psst!
The UPS Store – "ere thou" (meaning "before you...." as in Shakespeare's Sonnet VI: "In thee thy summer, ERE THOU be distill'd") = PSSt
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz and Fogarty Slices:
Bowl over Beethtover!
ENTREE #1:
The first name of a puzzle-maker is the last name of a group of singing brothers from New Orleans.
The last name of a puzzle-maker is the last name of two singing brothers from Berkeley... but only if you replace a vowel in the brothers’ last name to a vowel that appears seven times in the brothers’ 3-word band name.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
Answer:
Neville Fogarty
ENTREE #2:
Think of a two-word encouragement given to a lethargic pooch with a hangdog demeanor. Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get a word for the pooch receiving that encouragement.
What is the two-word encouragement?
What is the word for the pooch?
Answer:
Perk up; Pup;
ENTREE #3:
A well-known truth-stretcher boasts: “I guarantee I will not be moving out of my present residence a half-year from now.” Think of a two-word honest response to this boast that one of the person’s many lackeys may think to themselves but would never dare say aloud... lest they be told to pack up and leave his present residence posthaste!
But let’s pretend a brave soul speaks the honest response aloud. Take the first letter of the first word in the response plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get the first name of the one receiving that response.
What is this honest response?
Who would receive it (albeit not too happily)?
Answer:
"Dream on"; Don(ald Trump)
ENTREE #4:
Think of a two-word direction or command that a guy from Ohio may have given his sibling during some field tests they were conducting. (The direction/command might have been prompted by a problematic leftward veering of what it was they were field-testing.) Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get the last name of the one receiving that direction or command. What is it?
Answer:
"Wing Right, Wright!"
("wing," verb, Definition #5)
(Orville and Wilber Wright, field-testing their "Wright Flyer" in 1903)
ENTREE #5:
A teen couple have the house to themselves and are making out on her parents’ living room sofa. The boy makes goo-goo eyes, necks, kisses lips, caresses cheek and, eventually, because he has maneuvered so ____ to one of the two with which she has been blessed, _______ ___.
Consider the seven-letter and three-letter words at the end of the previous sentence. Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get the four-letter word sandwiched between “so” and “to” that occurs earlier in the sentence.
What are these 7-letter, 3-letter and 4-letter words?
Answer:
Nibbles ear, near
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz and Fogarty Slices (continued):
ENTREE #6:
Think of a two-word phrase for what a blackjack dealer does about 7.7% of the time.
Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, to form a new word. Make a new two-word phrase (using the original first word and the new second word) for what a blackjack dealer does a tad more than 23% of the time.
What are these two phrases?
Answer:
Flips aces; Flip faces (jacks, queens and kings)
ENTREE #7:
Legendary Swiss marksman and assassin William Tell (who inspired John Wilkes Booth) was once commanded by a Hapsburg bailiff named Gessler: “_____ an _____ poised on his son’s head at a distance of 120 paces... using a bazooka!” Tell objected, exclaiming “___’__ happen! Allow me to use my crossbow instead.”
The first word in Gessler’s command is a five-letter euphemism for a common vulgar four-letter word. You know the second word. Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get a what sounds like the five-letter contraction with which Tell’s objection begins.
What are the first three words of Gessler’s command? What does Tell exclaim?
Answer:
Shoot (an) Apple; "Sap'll Happen!"
ENTREE #8:
Name what a barber does, in two words. Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll get an essential piece of barber shop equipment.
A blow dryer is an essential piece of a beauty salon equipment. Name what it blows ut of the dryer, in two words.
Take the first letter of the first word plus the entire second word, in order, and you’ll name what gets blowed.
What does a barber do? What is the essential piece of barber shop equipment?
What blows out of the beauty salon’s blow dryer? What gets blowed?
Answer:
Cuts hair, chair;
Hot Air, hair
Lodge-in-your-craw Dessert:
Name a lodging chain, (Blank) Hotels. This chain, if followed by the word “I”, sounds like a boast a real estate developer might make. One such developer lives near a city that can be formed by moving the second letter of the missing word of the chain into the fourth position and placing an “a” where it was.
What are this lodging chain and this boast?
Who is the developer?
Answer:
Biltmore (Hotels); "I built more hotels." Donald Trump, who lives in Washinton, D.C., near Baltimore
Lego!