Countries and Postal Codes; Water “oover” the Whooville Dam; Signs of the “Kazoodiac?” Double your money by double-branding; Thumb through to “miss” in the thesaurus

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Double your money by double-branding

Write down a long-standing one-word brand name twice. 

Change a letter in the first instance of the name and delete a letter from the second instance of the name. 

The result is a two-word term that means “easy money.” 

What is this brand?

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Global Coding Appetizer:

Countries and Postal Codes

 

If you remove the first letter of Finland, then you will get a sequence of state postal codes (IN=Indiana, LA=Louisiana, ND=North Dakota).

1. What other countries have the property that if you remove the first letter, then you will get a sequence of state postal codes?

2. What countries have the property that if you remove the last letter, then you will get a sequence of state postal codes?

3. What country is a sequence of state postal codes?

(Global nations, no matter how landlocklocked or coastal

May have ties to a Code in the U.S. that’s Postal. 

– LegoLambda) 

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Synonymity Slice:

Thumb through to “miss” in the thesaurus

Remove the first two and last two letters from a synonym of “miss.” Place them next to each other to spell an antonym of  “miss.” 

Change one letter of what remains to an “a” and remove the middle two letters of the result, leaving a second synonym of “miss.” 

What are these two synonyms and one antonym?

Riffing Off Shortz And Reynolds Slices:

Water “oover” the Whooville Dam

Will Shortz’s January 17th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Gerry Reynolds of Chicago, Illinois, reads:

Name a national landmark in six and three letters. Add the name of a chemical element. Rearrange all the letters to name two states.
What are they?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Reynolds Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker, first and last names. Add the name of a seven-letter chemical element. 

Rearrange these twenty letters to name a disorder that exists in laboratories where scientists sometimes too enthusiastically put certain rodents through their experimental
paces on treadmills and in mazes, thereby irritating the rodents. 

The disorder consists of three words of six, six and eight letters beginning with an O, G and S. 

Who is the puzzle-maker?

What is the chemical element?

What is the disorder?

ENTREE #2

Name a national landmark in six and three letters. 

Add the name of an eight-letter chemical element. 

Rearrange all the letters to name two states and the five-letter name of baseball leagues that were formed a century ago – leagues where players like Hank, Jackie, Josh and Sachel plied their trade.

What landmark and element are these?

What are the two states and the baseball leagues that were formed a century ago?

ENTREE #3

Name a national landmark in six and four letters. Add the name of a chemical element. 

Rearrange all the letters to name the title character (in 3 and 5 letters) in a tragedy written by a satirical English dramatist/novelist and the eight-letter surname of an American novelist. 

What landmark and element are these?

Who are the title character and the American novelist?

Hint: The first five letters in the English dramatist’s surname are the same as the last five letters in the surname of the American novelist’s most well known character. 

ENTREE #4

Name a national landmark in seven and four letters. Add the name of a chemical element with an atomic number that is a perfect number. 

Rearrange all the letters to name:

A. a six-letter world capital city,

B. a five-letter mineral that is an ore source of a
chemical element with an atomic number that is also a square number, and

C. a six-letter chemical element with an atomic number that is also a cube number. 

What landmark and element are these?

ENTREE #5

Name a national landmark in seven and four letters. 

Add the name of a chemical element that is a word in a Box Tops’ 45. 

Rearrange these 15 total letters to name a vessel and the first names of two young fictional friends surnamed Campbell and Algar. 

The first name of one of the friends is also the
first name of a country singer whose surname is a word for waterways the vessel might navigate.

What landmark and element are these?

What is the vessel and what are the names of the fictional friends?

ENTREE #6

Name a three-word national landmark in 15 letters. 

Add the name of a six-letter chemical element of which the landmark is constructed. 

Rearrange these 21 letters to spell a slogan you might see on a protest sign in Canada in
four words of 7, 3, 4, and 7 letters beginning with P, F, S and B.

What landmark and element are these?

What is the slogan?

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Instrument Of Astrology Dessert:

Signs of the “Kazoodiac?”

Take the final five letters of a plural musical instrument. 

Move the fifth of these five letters to the beginning to spell the name of a fictional character that is a zodiac-sign creature.

Spell the remaining letters of the plural
instrument backward to spell a second zodiac-sign creature.

What are these two creatures?

What is the plural musical instrument?

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.)

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