“The Regulars” and the “Ornate”; Why would Wanda want a Honda? A self-breeding bird puzzle; Who wrote the Book of Digitournalism? “We are not amused!”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

A self-breeding bird puzzle

🐟1. Name an animal breed whose first five letters spell a fish and last five letters spell a bird that might eat that fish.

What are this breed, fish and bird?

or...

🐦2. Name an animal breed whose last five letters spell a bird and first five letters spell where you might see this bird.

What are this breed, bird-location and bird?

Note: The answers to these two puzzles are identical.

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Gorgeous Global Appetizer:

“The Regulars” and the “Ornate”

A useful German word

🍻1. Americans have them, but have no word
for them. 

Germans have them, too, and do have a word for them – a 10-letter German word.

“Them” is “The Regulars,” a gathering that also involves a typically well identified place where you find “The Regulars” who “belong” there. (There is a tacit “understanding” about who belongs, and who doesn’t belong, in “The Regulars.”)

Take that 10-letter German word, remove the first and sixth letters, then rearrange the remaining eight letters to name an English word for something, generally, that doesn’t belong.  

What is this useful German word?  

What is the something that doesn’t belong?

A very verbally versatile word

🌍2. Take a nine-letter word for an ornamental frame. 

Snippets of consecutive letters in that word name:

* a three-letter mode of transport, 

* a four-letter mode of transport, 

* a four-letter interjection, 

* a six-letter interjection, 

* and the familiar name by which a revolutionary physician and author was known.

Take just the first five letters of the nine-letter word. Switch the third and fourth letters and replace a “t” with a vowel. 

The result is the name of a major world city where such ornamental frames can be seen adorning architecture. Jewelry shops in this city sell small personalized versions of the frames as souvenirs or gifts (using hieroglyphs for the recipient’s name) that can be worn as necklaces or bracelets. 

What are the nine-letter word for the ornate frame, the two modes of transport, the two interjections, the name of the physician/author, and the name of the city?

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I Wonder Wonder Who-oo Who... Slice:

Who wrote the Book of “Digitournalism?”

Take the two-word name of a journalist who expressed opinions digitally. 

Double the last letter and add an “s” at the end. 

The result, in order, spells two different words (each with an odd number of letters) that complete the phrase “Book of ______.” 

Who is this journalist?

Riffing Off Shortz And Allen Slices:

Why would Wanda want a Honda?

Will Shortz’s June 20th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Iva Allen in
Canada, reads:

Name a make of car. Write it in all capital letters. Rotate one of the letters 90 degrees and another letter 180 degrees to make a woman’s name. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Allen Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a pair of four-letter things that flow – one uncapitalized and extremely hot, the other capitalized and not quite so hot. 

Rearrange these eight letters to make a puzzle-maker’s first and last names. 

Who is it?

ENTREE #2

Name a make of car in eight letters. Write it normally, capitalizing only the first letter. 

Rotate the second and last letters 180 degrees. 

Move the new second letter to make it the fourth letter. 

Change what is now the third letter to an “o” and insert a “d” between the fifth and sixth letters.

Finally, add two spaces to form an English translation of “Eureka!”

What are this make of car and translation?

ENTREE #3

Name a make of car in six letters. 

Write it in all capital letters. 

Rotate three consecutive letters 90 degrees clockwise and replace another letter with the only letter in the alphabet with which it rhymes. 

Divide the result into “two-letter chunks,” (like “al”, “ph”,  “ab” and “et,” for example). 

The result is a series of postal codes of “Southern States.” 

What car and states are these?

ENTREE #4

Name a make of car in six letters. Write it in all capital letters. 

Rotate one of the letters 180 degrees and remove what appears to be the letter “V” from the result, leaving a letter-fragment.

Replace the first letter with with a different letter that sometimes sounds like it when pronounced in words (like G sounds like a J in “Georgia,” for example).

Rotate that replacement letter 90 degrees counterclockwise.

The final result is a driving maneuver in which a driver of a car (like the car in this puzzle, for example) performs an180-degree rotation to reverse its direction of travel. 

What make of car is this?

What is the maneuver?

ENTREE #5

Name a make of car in five letters. Write it in all capital letters. 

Rotate one of the letters 90 degrees clockwise. 

The result is a world capital city. 

What is it?

What are the names of the car and city?

ENTREE #6

Name a make of car in eight letters. 

Write it somewhat normally, capitalizing the first letter, but also the second. 

Rotate the final letter 90 degrees counterclockwise.

Form two 4-letters words using letters in positions 1, 7, 5 and 6 and  2, 8, 3 and 4. 

Say those two words to someone. 

She or he will then dial (or more likely enter into their cell phone) the digits  1-800-822-2834.

What is this make of car?

What are you telling people to do when you instruct them to dial 1-800-822-2834?

ENTREE #7

Name a make of car. Write it in all lowercase letters. 

Rotate the last letter 180 degrees. 

Spell the result backward to form a word for your physics, history or French instructor, or any other faculty member. 

What is the make of car?

What is the word for any of these faculty members?

ENTREE #8

Name a make of car in seven letters. Write it in all lowercase letters. 

Rotate the third letter 90 degrees clockwise and the fifth letter 180 degrees.

Rearrange the result to form a facial body part and a slang term for a body part just above it.

What is the make of car?

What are the two body parts?

ENTREE #9

Name a make of car in seven letters. Write it in all lowercase letters. 

Rotate the first letter 180 degrees and the fifth letter 90 degrees counterclockwise. 

Rearrange the letters to form a two-word
description of a bricklayer. 

What is the make of car?

What is the two-word description of a bricklayer?

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Tricky, Deceptive, Gimmicky Dessert:

“We are not amused!”

Remove the first letter from an amusing public event, in seven letters, to get a word that describes a not-so-amusing word puzzle. 

What words are these?

Hint: The reason a puzzle-solver might  deem
the puzzle “not-so-amusing” is that it may use a “trick,” “deception” or “gimmick” that may cause the solver to cry “Foul!”

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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