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Schpuzzle of the Week:
“One cheeseburger, media rare”
Name a current restaurant chain and an informal moniker of a past communications conglomerate.
Both contain two words.
Their second words are the same.
Their first words – taken in order, one after the other without a space – spell a large city west of the Mississippi River.
What city is it?
Appetizer Menu
Original Integer Digital Journey Alphanumeric Appetizer:
Word numbers and number words
Note: Here is a brief belated introductory "autobio" of our friend Bobby Jacobs, master puzzle-maker:
I have been solving Will Shortz's National Public Radio puzzles since 2018.
The crossword puzzle in my logo (above) has 96 words. That is the most words possible in a 15-by-15 crossword that is symmetrical, connected, and every word has at least 3 letters. It is very fun.
Here are my three latest puzzles. Enjoy!
🍎📖🐈1. What is a three-letter word such that if you move each letter halfway through the alphabet, then you will get a synonym of the original word?
🖐3. What are three digits such that all six 3-digit numbers that use each digit have English names that are anagrams of each other?
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Leader Of The Pack Slice:
Hope & Crosby, Bonnie & Clyde, Butch & Sundance, Pete & ...
screen-time.
The result sounds like a two-word term for a “dominant male” or “leader of the pack.”
What is this two-word term?
Who is the movie character?
What is the word for “Pete?”
Riffing Off Shortz And Gori Slices:
ABBA Adds Al “I hate poi!” Yankovic
Name a famous city in 10 letters that contains an “S”. Drop the “S”. Then assign the remaining nine letters their standard value in the alphabet — A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. The total value of the nine letters is only 25. What city is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Gori Slices read:
A puzzle-maker’s name, first and last, is very close being the name of a person who was very close to being “Number 43.”
Rearrange the letters in the name to spell the one-word title of hymns composed by Handel, Jenkins, Poulenc and Vivaldi (which is also the title of a garage-rock staple recorded by an Irish band whose name is the objective case of a plural pronoun).
You can also rearrange the letters in this puzzle-maker’s name to spell something mechanics use when checking automotive fluids, in two words.
What is the hymn (and garage-rock) title?
What do mechanics use?
Who is the puzzle-maker?
ENTREE #2
Remove these three letters.
Then assign the remaining letters their standard value in the alphabet – A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. The total value of the seven letters is only 12.
What movie is it?
What is the movie camera part?
ENTREE #3
Name a non-English word that is translated as “union” or “alliance.” The word is familiar to most English speakers.
etc.
The average value of each of the letters is 21.2; in other words, the typical letter in the word is between U (21) and V (22).
What is this non-English word?
ENTREE #4
Eco-farmer Bessie Brown thought it prudent to put some leafy greens into Ol’ Dobbin’s diet, so she mixed in a handful of ________ along with the “old-school” oats in his _______.
Assign the letters in second word their standard value in the alphabet — A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. The total value is 30.
Assign the letters in first word their standard value in the alphabet. The total value is 21.
What are the words in the blanks?
ENTREE #5
Name an article of clothing that enjoyed some measure of popularity in the mid-Twentieth Century, in two words containing eight letters total.
alphabet — A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.
The total value of the letters is 145, which works out to an average of about 18.1 per letter, between an R and S.
A jazz bandleader helped popularize the style frequently wearing the outfit on stage, dubbing it “the ultimate in clothes.”
Assign the 11 letters of his two-word name their standard value in the alphabet — A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.
The total value of the first five letters is 10. The total value of three of the last four letters is 64.
What is the article of clothing?
Who is the bandleader?
ENTREE #6
Assign the five letters their standard value in the alphabet — A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. The total value of the five letters is 107.
What informal word is it?
ENTREE #7
Note: The following Entree was inspired by GB, whose “GB’s Bafflers” appears regularly on Puzzleria!
Name a city that ain’t so famous, in two words of five letters letters each, in which an equally “ain’t so famous” puzzle-maker is based.
alphabet — A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. The sum of those nine letter-values is a number whose two digits are the same, like, for example, “double-nickels” or “55”.
The sum of these particular nine letter-values is greater than “double-nickels” (55) but less than the product of “double-dimes” (10x10).
Take just one of the identical digits in the sum; it represents the number of letters in the state in which the puzzle-maker is based.
Who is this “ain’t so famous” puzzle-maker?
What are the city and state?
Hint #1: If you divide the name of the state in two unequal parts, the numerical sum of the letters in the first part is “double-nickels,” as is the numerical sum of the letters in the second part!
Hint #2: Invert the two-digit number that is sum of the nine letter-values. The result will be the number of the “Mother Road” or the number on the jersey worn by Mario Lemieux, Yasiel Puig, Ray Nitschke... and, perhaps, The Beast!
ENTREE #8
Note: The following riff-off appeared earlier this week in a comment posted by our friend jan on Blaine’s Puzzle Blog, where he comments regularly (and brilliantly!).
Add the next item in the following series: ST, ND, RD...
Then add the letter with the alphanumeric value of “Lucky 13.”
You will get, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, “a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem...” kind of like the text of this puzzle!
Who is the puzzle-maker?
What is the “step-by-step procedure for solving a problem”?
In the Riffing-Off-Shortz image that illustrates ABBA adds Al “I hate
poi!” Yankovic, what is the significance of Al Yankovic saying “I hate poi!” in his cartoon bubble?
Dessert Menu
“Make Mine a Cosmopolitan Please” Dessert:
Enforcing a three-drink minimum
The result is three different beverages.
Translated into English, what are these three beverages?
Hint: The initial letters of the three beverages that you translated into English, in order, form a three-letter word that has a peculiarity that makes it interesting to lovers of wordplay.
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Just solved the Schpuzzle...hoorah! Am always so excited when that happens, I just had to post. It was one of those 'light goes on" moments that eco, I believe it was, talked about.
ReplyDeleteCongrats, ViolinTeddy.
DeleteIn the "Puzzleria! Olympiad," you take home a Gold Medal!
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The Appetizers and Slice, however, have earned me the Booby prize (do they have that at the Olympics?)
DeleteTedditor time: In Entree #4, you seem to have the wrong century for the piece of clothing.
ReplyDeleteOOps, I meant in Entree #5.
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DeleteThanks, VT. Wonderful "ViolinTedditing!" Fixed it.
DeleteAs a lad I recall watching "The Twentieth Century," with moderator Walter Cronkite. I was always confused by the title, because we were in the 1950s (or perhaps early-1960s) at the time... "Should this be the Nineteenth Century?!
I must have asked my parents about this discrepency. I wish I could remember how they explained it to me.
LegoWhoAsALadAtTheTimeMayHaveBeenOnlySevenYearsOldYetWasInHisEighthYearOfLIfe!
"And that is how it is, today January 7th 1965." ???
DeleteNOt sure if you're serious about not remembering how your parents explained the 1900s being the 20th century, but all you have to do is think about the first century, which was 0 to 100. Thus, 101 to 200 was the second century, meaning the digit in the hundreds place is always one LESS than the ordinal number indicated for the century itself.
DeleteI am on Puzzleria! There is an intro about me in this set of puzzles.
ReplyDeleteHi Bobby.
ReplyDeleteAnother great set of puzzles, Bobby. Thank you for sharing them with us!
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Anyone watching Friday night smackdown??
ReplyDeleteHello again everyone on the blog!
ReplyDeleteI got a hair(and beard)cut earlier today because tomorrow Mia Kate is celebrating her 14th birthday(they do grow up so fast, don't they?), and we're invited to the party! I'm sure it will be fun, even though this week Renae has had to go in for some kind of bowel surgery. I don't envy Bryan for still going ahead with the party under the circumstances. We had lunch rather late, and Mom said I'm pretty much on my own for supper. She's not hungry right now, and neither am I. I've listened to "Says You"(half-hour version, 6:30PM), "Ask Me Another" is a rerun, the fortnightly Private Eye Crossword is in its second week and I already solved it last week, so all I really have left here are the Prize Crossword(by the setter Crucible this week, which I've already solved)and of course this blog. Luckily another GAMES/World of Puzzles magazine came in today's mail, so I'll spend most of the evening actually putting pen to paper, instead of typing answers or trying to just do the puzzles which aren't interactive in my head. BTW Lego, I haven't checked my email yet today, in case you've received my latest cryptic crossword for use on the site(hopefully next week). I will get to that as soon as I finish up here.
Now for my progress on this week's offerings.
Much like ViolinTeddy(First comment late last night, rarely anyone posts that early? Way to go, VT!), I also found the Schpuzzle very easy, and I don't think I even got through reading it before the answer popped in my head. I also got the Leader of the Pack Slice, most of the Entrees(except #3, #6, and #7), and the Dessert. Apologies to Bobby and GB, but I have yet to figure out their alphanumerical contributions. There may be too much math involved to suit me. It was never my best subject anyway. BTW jan, I already saw your puzzle on Blaine's Blog, so I already knew where you were going with it. No real trouble there. I also figured the name of the puzzlemaker in Entree #1 could easily be turned into the song title before I even started looking at the Entrees. I would mention another artist associated with the song title whose name was omitted in #1, but use of their name would've been a dead giveaway, obviously. Finally, on our way home from my haircut(in the drive-thru at Jack's), I mentioned this week's Dessert to Mom, and how I solved it, but when I told her about the word spelled out by the initials, she did NOT believe it was a real word! She also thinks Trump was a great President, but that's neither here nor there.(LOL!)I will of course be on the lookout for any good hints Lego(and possibly Bobby and even GB)may provide for their toughies in the next few days.
As always, I wish y'all good luck in solving, please stay safe, and if you have been vaccinated, you must likely won't need to wear a mask anymore. I was able to get my beard trimmed with my haircut this time, and no one was wearing masks there, so things are definitely looking up! Cranberry out!
pjbHopingWeCanSoonGetBackTo"Normal"(ProvidedWeWereEver"Normal"ToBeginWith!)
Just another great Friday evening comment posted by cranberry. Happy birthday to Mia Kate. "They do indeed grow up so fast... but so does that darn hair and beard!"
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During the pandemic my wife has been cutting my hair--and it shows. Have not been back to an in house Barber for quite a while. GA is kind of schizoid on masks. Yesterday i went to Kroger- no one had masks on. Later that day i went to Ingles- all had masks on -clerks and several customers. Then i went to the YMCA- no masks anywhere.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Plantsmith, I guess when you are a Young Man (whether Christian or not) life seems endless, and you feel invulnerable.
DeleteLegoWhoAsAYoungerManActuallyWorkedAtAYMCAButWhoNowAsAYoungManInNameOnlyIsEndfullyWokeAsHeAwaits(WithResignationButNotWithRelish)AnInevitableWake
These guys were so underrated. One of the greatest groups of the 20th? century. Wonderful harmonies- second only to Crosby, Stills and Nash.
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DeletePlantsmith, I sincerly hope that your tongue was lodged securely in your cheek as you wrote those words!
DeleteLegoWhoseCandidateFor"SecondOnlyToCrosbyStills&Nash"IsTheseGals(WithTongueNowhereRemotelyInTheVicinityOfHisCheek!)
PS, you're comparing CSN to the Village People?! Now I've heard everything!
DeletepjbPrefersTheFormerToTheLatter(It'sLikeComparing"YMCA"To"AlmostCutMyHair"!)
I will do most anything for a laugh. Thanks for a better earworm-"All most cut my hair today."
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ReplyDelete1. The word is what this puzzle might do to you.
2. The number is a 2-digit number XY, which has a name that is an anagram of the name of the number YX.
3. Compare the English names of each digit with the names of each digit multiplied by 10.
Thanks, Bobby. Great hints.
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OOh, thanks for that hint, Bobby...I just finally solved your #1.
DeleteAnd I believe I've just solved your #, although it's possible I missed something 'lower down' in the numbers list. Still...I am hopeful.
DeleteThere was supposed to be a '2' after the number sign.
DeleteAnd just got your #3, as well. It all made sense (I'd been on the 'road' to it before the hint, but the hint clarified things.)
Delete1. This puzzle might vex and irk you.
Delete2. X=6, Y=7, XY=67, YX=76
3. 6, 7, and 9 are the only digits that add "ty" at the end of their English names when multiplied by 10 (6=six->60=sixty, 7=seven->70=seventy, 9=nine->90=ninety).
While I'm in the neighborhood, to follow-up on pjb's post: If he or anyone else really needs a hint on E7, I will confess only to incitement and collusion (whatever those are) on this one. Lego is much closer to the heart of the enigma than I. My intention was to suggest that the solution Metropolis (10 letters with and s, coincidentally) was not omitted from this natural theme in case the Editor-in-Chief was focused on the skyscrapers in The Land of the Giants and overlooked what was staring him in the face. So endeth the Book of GB.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I have lived in this 2-word city for several years, I consider the city of my birth to be my "hometown." It also has two words. My dad loved to play golf at the Ojibwa Golf Club there. I and my buddies played on these links also when were in 7th or 8th grade. I had a set of Kroydon "sticks" that my dad bought me for my birthday. My golf mates made fun of them because we assumed them to be a bargain brand. We were all mediocre golfers, but we had fun. We would meet at my house in the morning and walk two miles (mostly uphill) to Ojibwa, some of us wheeling our two-wheeled golf-bag carts bdehind us (not I, however... I slung my Kroydonful white canvas bag over my shoulder.
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Drop the "s" to get a total of 112? Wish I still had my Sam Snead Blue Ridge set. Not top of the line; but neither was I.
DeleteYou got it, GB... Home of "Leinies" and "The World's Purest Water!"
DeleteLegoWhoSuggestsThatYouCannotDoBetterThanClubsEndorsedBy"Slammin'Sammy!"
Got #7. Easier than I thought. Currently on the home front, Mom injured herself while visiting Renae at the hospital. Seems she tripped over her own foot while walking, hit the ground, and broke her shoulder and(I think she said)the top of her arm. Bryan brought her home with her arm in a cast, as well as enough Lee's chicken and fixings to last a few days until Mom might be able to fix supper again. She's basically left-handed now like I am, except in a lot of pain. Going to the bathroom may prove difficult, but putting her on dialysis almost every night definitely will. Her next trip to the condo in FL this weekend with a few of her friends has been cancelled. So far so good, but she goes to bed much earlier than I do, so I'll have to help her with her dialysis, as I said earlier. Pray for us, pray for her.
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Patrick,
DeleteSo sorry to hear about your mother's misfortune. A am sure our fellow Puzzlerian!s are similarly sympathetic. She and your entire family will be in my prayers.
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I am sorry to hear about your mom. Does she have to have surgery?
ReplyDeleteYes i will include you'all in my prayers.
So you may have to do the Uber eats thing?
I think pjb needs to learn to cook!
DeleteI can basically do pizzas and anything microwaveable. We do have a neighbor coming by tomorrow night who will bring spaghetti with Prego sauce. If it really comes down to it we may have to use Doordash. Of course, Bryan will be around, so he may bring food occasionally. My oldest niece Morgan will also be volunteering her services as needed. As for surgery, Mom will be recuperating six weeks, and then surgery if possible.
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I think " I hate Poi" was a line from his hit number "Eat it," 1988?? Or could have been. When i lived in Hawaii i actually learned to like it. Kind of an appetiser for taste buds.
ReplyDelete"Eat It", a parody of Michael Jackson's "Beat It", was recorded Dec. 13, 1983, and released Feb. 28, 1984. Not once does Al mention poi.
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I think you are right and the funny thing is you have to "beat it"- the Taro root in order to make poi- which has a very sticky- mucilagenous(sp?) texture.
DeleteJust happen to be watching a "Sanford and Son" rerun on TVONE. They're in Hawaii, and Fred doesn't seem to like the poi either.
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Any more hints at the eleventh hour(or much, much later perhaps)?
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Definitely an aquired taste, but if you grew up with like in Mexico where kids grow up eating Menudo-which i can't even imagine- a tripe soup-then it becomes a comfort food for you. All babies in Hawaii grow up on Poi. Here in the south babies grow up on?? Mac and cheese.
ReplyDeleteLike here in the south-
BTW - Is Jaeger meis ter three words?? One of my favorite foreign beverages.
ReplyDeleteThe only one I haven't been able to solve is Entree #9. I figure it must have something to do with the numerical values of the letters (given the theme this week), but I simply haven't been able to get anywhere with it.
ReplyDeleteIf you look at Blaines blog last week you can see his comment about Abba adds Al can anagram of Addis Abbaba and how the first letters correspond to first name initials of the members of Abba.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure either. I hate poi could be an anagram??
"I hate poi" IS an anagram.
DeleteOgle...
True enough. But, there is another possibility.
DeleteI'm curious to hear what that may be, GB.
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Well, it may not be much of a possibility, but when one is stymied. . . .
DeleteI meant Lego's comments. Sorry.
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ReplyDelete13th hour hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
"Take home a South-of-the-Border treat!"
Puzzle Fun Appetizer:
See Bobby's excellent hints in our "Comments Section" on June 6, 2021 at 9:23 AM
Leader Of The Pack Slice:
"Little Rascal, it's been a long, cold, lonely winter..."
Pete was a quaduped.
Riffing Off Shortz And Gori Slices:
ENTREE #1
“Number 43” was "Dubya."
ENTREE #2
There are about a dozen memorable quotations in the film.
The part of a movie camera is kinda glassy.
ENTREE #3
The non-English word is Russian. It's far out, man... I mean, "comrad!"
ENTREE #4
Bessie Brown's leafy greens are slang for Benjamins and fins. Dobbin's _______ is apparent in the accompanying image.
ENTREE #5
The article of clothing is a "hink-pink."
The band leader's first name was like an Uber or Lyft driver.
ENTREE #6
The "five-letter variant for the four-letter informal word for a weak, cowardly, or ineffectual person” rhymes with a word that often precedes "cat."
ENTREE #7
The "ain’t-so-famous" city is named after somebody who was canonized. It sound like a somewhat dreary place. Bad place to work on your tan.
ENTREE #8
The puzzle-maker sounds like #45, whose wife was likely a good tipper.
Entree #9:
"I hate poi" is and anagram for a nation's name.
“Make Mine a Cosmopolitan Please” Dessert:
The non-English-language beverage has three words of 2, 1 and 1 syllables.
Here are crosseord-type clues:
1. Bistro
2. Homophone of "Be in debt"
3. Homophone of "Hula hoop"?
LegoLastMinuteLatteHourHinter
Schpuzzle: Tacoma (Taco Bell & Ma Bell)
ReplyDeleteAppetizers:
1. Vex & Irk
2. 67 (sixty-seven & seventy-six)
3. 6, 7, & 8 (six hundred seventy-eight, etc. for all permutations)
LOTP Slice: Alpha Dog; Alfalfa (Switzer of "Our Gang"); Dog (Pete the Pup)
Entrees:
1. Gloria; Oil Rag; Al Gori
2. Casablanca: Lens
3. Soyuz
4. Cabbage & Feedbag
5. Zoot Suit; Cab Calloway
6. Wussy
7. It came to me in a vision, Sports Fans. It couldn't be left out of a "10 letter with 1 s" puzzle which might not come around again soon. So, anyone who misses this one. . . . tsk tsk.
8. Al Gori; Algorithm
9. It is difficult to read Al's mind, but the solution is crystal clear. He overshot the 122 yard, Par 3, Number 4 at Ojibwa and rued (hated) his Point Of Impact. (see 6/6/21 1:50 post above for the klew)
Dessert: Coffee, Water & Milk (Cafe au lait; au to eau; then translate French to English)
I wouldn't stake the ranch on my Appetizer 2 & 3 solutions; but another fun week. A Grape Nehi and a Leinie to Bobby and Lego.
1. Vex, irk
ReplyDelete2. 67, 76
"Sixty-seven" is an anagram of "seventy-six".
3. 6, 7, 9
679 (six hundred seventy-nine), 697 (six hundred ninety-seven), 769 (seven hundred sixty-nine), 796 (seven hundred ninety-six), 967 (nine hundred sixty-seven), 976 (nine hundred seventy-six)
Does 6, 7, 8 work as well?
DeleteNo. When you multiply 6 and 7 by 10, you add TY at the end (6=six->60=sixty, 7=seven->70=seventy). When you multiply 8 by 10, you add Y at the end (8=eight->80=eighty). Therefore, 678 (six hundred seventy-eight) has one more T than 687 (six hundred eighty-seven).
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ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: Little Rock, Ark. Little caesars/ Castle Rock communications?
Well i have some stories about Tacoma as i used to work there. But it is best well known for that northwest favorite-- Tonya Harding.
Appetizers: by Bobby
1. vex & irk
2. 67 (sixty-seven & seventy-six)
3. ???
Slice: Alpha Dog; Alfalfa
Entrees:
1. Gloria; ; Al Gori
2. Casablanca: Lens
3. ???
4. Cabbage & Feedbag
5. Zoot Suit; Cab Calloway
6. Wussy
7. Saint Cloud, 99--66., Joseph Young.
8. Al Gori; Algorithm
9. Ethiopia, , but i also had Haole in the mix who generally don’t like Poi.
Dessert: ???
Still moving in and getting stuff organized. So less time for puzzle-solving.
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: TACO BELL, MA BELL → TACOMA
Appetizers
#1: IRK, VEX [post-Sun-hint]
#2: SIXTY-SEVEN / SEVENTY-SIX [post-Sun-hint]
#3: 679 / 697 / 769 / 796 / 967 / 976 (each pronounced “six seventy nine”, etc.) [post-Sun-hint]
Leader of the Pack Slice: ???
Entrées
#1: AL GORI → GLORIA, OIL RAG
#2: CASABLANCA – LeNS → CAABACA = 12 total
#3: СОЮЗ → SOYUZ = union
#4: CABBAGE = 7; FEEDBAG = 10
#5: ZOOT SUIT, CAB CALLOWAY
#6: WUZZY
#7: SAINT CLOUD – S → AINT CLOUD = 1 + 9 + 14 + 20 + 3 + 12 + 15 + 21 + 4 = 99, MINNESOTA
#8: AL GORI + TH + M → ALGORITHM
#9: I HATE POI → ETHIOPIA (but why would Al Yankovic say that?) [post-Wed-hinr]
Dessert: CAFÉ AU LAIT → CAFE, EAU, LAIT
I'm glad to see you back, Geo!!
DeleteSchpuzzle
ReplyDeleteTACO BELL, MA BELL, TACOMA(Washington)
Appetizer Menu
1. IRK, VEX
2. SIXTY-SEVEN(SEVENTY-SIX)
3. 679, 697, 769, etc.
Menu
Leader of the Pack Slice
ALPHA DOG, ALFALFA(Switzer), PETEY(the dog in "The Little Rascals)
Entrees
1. AL GORI, "GLORIA", by Them(several other artists have had songs with GLORIA as the title, including Laura Branigan, U2, Enchantment, etc.), OIL RAG
2. "CASABLANCA", LENS
3. SOYUZ
4. CABBAGE, FEEDBAG
5. ZOOT SUIT, CAB CALLOWAY
6. WUSSY
7. SAINT CLOUD, MINNESOTA, (our own)JOSEPH YOUNG, 99 and 66
8. ALGORITHM(AL GORI+TH+M)
9. "I HATE POI!" is an anagram of ETHIOPIA, whose capital is ADDIS ABABA.(ABBA ADDS AL is supposed to be an anagram of ADDIS ABABA, but only if you have it spelled "Al", with the lower case L resembling a capital I. I pointed out Lego's creation was otherwise imperfect on Blaine's Blog as well.)
Dessert
CAFE AU(EAU)LAIT(COFFEE, WATER, MILK)
Mom is doing a little better today, and she managed to fix one of our easier box meals for supper tonight. Don't know if Weird Al actually hates poi, though.-pjb
Oh nuts, I completely utterly forgot:
ReplyDeleteSCHPUZZLE: TACO BELL &. MA BELL => TACOMA
APPETIZERS:
1. VEX => IRK
2. SIXTY-SEVEN => SEVENTY-SIX
3. 679, 697, 769, 796, 967, 976; they have the only three digits which stay exactly the same when ’TY’ is added.
SLICE: ALFALFA & PETE from Little Rascals => ALPHA DOG
ENTREES:
1. AL GORI => GLORIA; OIL RAG; “THEM"
2. CASA BLANCA minus “LNS”, for LENS => CAABACA = 3 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 3 + 1 = 12.
3. SOYUZ [19 + 15 + 25 + 21 + 26]
4. CABBAGE (21) & FEEDBAG (30)
5. ZOOT SUIT; CAB CALLOWAY
6. WUYSS [23 + 21 + 25 + 19 + 19]
7. SAINT CLOUD, MINNESOTA [LEGO HIMSELF!] SUM = 99; MN divides into: 55/55
8. AL + GORI + TH + M => ALGORITHM. [FirST, SecoND, ThiRD, FourTH]
9. ???
DESSERT: CAFE AU LAIT => CAFE EAU LAIT => CEL => COFFEE, WATER, MILK
Congrats to all for a week of good solving!
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Schpuzzle of the Week:
“One cheeseburger, media rare”
Name a current restaurant chain and an informal moniker of a past communications conglomerate.
Both contain two words. Their second words are the same.
Their first words – taken in order, one after the other – spell a large city west of the Mississippi.
What city is it?
Answer:
Tacoma; (Taco Bell; Ma Bell)
Note: The Bell System was the system of companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by AT&T, that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for 100 years from its creation in 1877 until its demise in the early 1980s. The system of companies was often colloquially called Ma Bell (as in "Mother Bell"), as it held a near-complete monopoly over telephone service in most areas of the United States and Canada. At the time of its breakup in the early 1980s, the Bell System had assets of $150 billion (equivalent to $370 billion in 2019) and employed over one million people.
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Original Integer Digital Journey Alphanumeric Appetizer:
Word numbers and number words
1. What is a three-letter word such that if you move each letter halfway through the alphabet, then you will get a synonym of the original word?
Answer:
Vex, irk
2. What is the smallest positive integer whose Engilsh name is an anagram of the name of another positive integer?
Answer:
67, 76
"Sixty-seven" is an anagram of "seventy-six".
3. What are three digits such that all six 3-digit numbers that use each digit have English names that are anagrams of each other?
Answer:
6, 7, 9
679 (six hundred seventy-nine), 697 (six hundred ninety-seven), 769 (seven hundred sixty-nine), 796 (seven hundred ninety-six), 967 (nine hundred sixty-seven), 976 (nine hundred seventy-six)
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Leader Of The Pack Slice:
Hope & Crosby, Bonnie & Clyde, Butch & Sundance, Pete & ...
Take the first four letters of the name of a movie character and a word for a character named “Pete” with whom he often shared screen-time.
The result sounds like a two-word term for a “dominant male” or “leader of the pack.”
What is this two-word term?
Who is the movie character?
What is the word for “Pete?”
Answer:
Alpha dog; Alfalfa (portrayed by Carl Switzer in the "Our Gang" short subjects), dog ("Pete" was the name of the dog in the short subjects.)
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Gori Slices:
ABBA Adds Al: “I hate poi!”
ENTREE #1
A puzzle-maker’s name, first and last, is very close being the name of a person who was very close to being “Number 43.”
Rearrange the letters in the name to spell the title of hymns composed by Handel, Jenkins, Poulenc and Vivaldi.
Rearrange the letters in this title to spell something mechanics use when checking automotive fluids, in two words.
What is the hymn title?
What do mechanics use?
Who is the puzzle-maker?
Answer:
"Gloria"; oil rag; Al Gori
ENTREE #2
Name a classic movie title in 10 letters that contains all three consonants in a word for a part of a movie camera, like the one it took to film the movie.
Remove these three letters.
Then assign the remaining seven letters their standard value in the alphabet — A = 1, B= 2, C = 3, etc. The total value of the seven letters is only 12.
What movie is it?
What is the movie camera part?
Answer:
Casablanca, lens
CASABLANCA=>CAABACA=>3+1+1+2+1+3+1=12
ENTREE #3
Name a non-English word that is translated as “union” or “alliance.” The word is familiar to most English speakers.
Assign to the letters in the word their standard value in the alphabet — A = 1, B= 2, C = 3, etc. The average value of each of the letters is 21.2; in other words, the typical letter in the word is between U (21) and V (22).
What is this non-English word?
Answer:
Soyuz
SOYUZ=>19+15+25+21+26=86; 106/5=21.2
ENTREE #4
Eco-farmer Bessie Brown thought it prudent to put some leafy greens into old Dobbin’s diet, so she mixed in a handful of ________ along with the “old-school” oats in his _______.
Each word in the blanks contains seven letters.
Assign the letters in second word their standard value in the alphabet — A = 1, B= 2, C = 3, etc. The total value is 30.
Assign the letters in first word their standard value in the alphabet. The total value is 21.
What are the words in the blanks?
Answer:
Cabbage; Feedbag
ENTREE #5
Name an article of clothing that enjoyed some measure of popularity in the mid-Nineteenth Century, in two words containing eight letters total.
Assign the letters their standard value in the alphabet — A = 1, B= 2, C = 3, etc.
The total value of the letters is 145, which works out to an average of about 18.1 per letter, between an R and S.
A jazz bandleader helped popularize the style frequently wearing the outfit on stage, dubbing it “the ultimate in clothes.”
Assign the 11 letters of his two-word name their standard value in the alphabet — A = 1, B= 2, C = 3, etc.
The total value of the first five letters is 10. The total value of threeof the last four letters is 64.
What is the article of clothing?
Who is the bandleader?
Answer:
Zoot Suit; Cab Calloway
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This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Gori Slices (continued):
ENTREE #6
Name a five-letter variant for four-letter informal word for a “weak, cowardly, or ineffectual person.”
Assign the five letters their standard value in the alphabet — A = 1, B= 2, C = 3, etc. The total value of the five letters is 107.
What informal word is it?
Answer:
Wussy
WUSSY=>23+21+19+19+25=107
ENTREE #7
Note: The following Entree was inspired by GB, whose “GB’s Bafflers” appears regularly on Puzzleria!
Name a city that ain’t so famous, in two words of five letters letters each, in which an “ain’t so famous” puzzle-maker is based.
The first word in the city contains an “S”. Remove the “S”. Then assign the remaining nine letters their standard values in the alphabet — A = 1, B= 2, C = 3, etc. The sum of those nine letter-values is a number whose two digits are the same, like, for example, “double-nickels” or “55”.
The sum of these particular nine letter-values is greater than “double-nickels” but less than “double-dimes.”
Take just one of the identical digits in the sum; it represents the number of letters in the state in which the puzzle-maker is based.
Hint #1: If you divide the state in two parts, the numerical sum of the letters in the first part is “double-nickels,” as is the numerical sum of the letters in the second part!
Who is this “ain’t so famous” puzzle-maker?
What are the city and state?
Hint #2: If you invert the two-digit number that is sum of the nine letter-values and you get the number of the “Mother Road” or the jersey number of Mario Lemieux, Yasiel Puig, Ray Nitschke... and, perhaps, The Beast!
Answer:
Joseph Young;
Saint Cloud, Minnesota (where amateur puzzle-maker Joseph Young is based)
SAINT CLOUD=>AINT CLOUD=>(1+9+14+20)+(3+12+15+21+4)=44+55=99; Minnesota is a 9-letter state.
Hint #1:
MINNE+SOTA=>(13+9+14+14+5)+(19+15+20+1)=55+55
Hint #2: Warren Sapp, George Mikan, Manny Ramirez, J.J. Watt, Wayne Gretzky and, presumably, The Beast wore jersey #99.
ENTREE #8
Note: The following riff-off appeared earlier this week in a comment posted by our friend jan on Blaine’s Puzzle Blog, where he comments regularly (and brilliantly!).
Take the first and last names of a puzzle-maker.
Add the next item in the following series: ST, ND, RD...
Then add the letter with the alphanumeric value of “Lucky 13.”
You will get, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, “a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem...” kind of like the text of this puzzle!
Who is the puzzle-maker?
What is the “step-by-step procedure for solving a problem”?
Answer:
Al Gori; Algorithm
(firST, secoND, thiRD, fourTH...; M is the 13th letter in the alphabet.)
ENTREE #9
In the Riffing-Off-Shortz image that illustrates ABBA adds Al “I hate
poi!” Yankovic, what is the significance of Al Yankovic saying “I hate poi!” in his cartoon bubble?
Answer:
“I hate poi!” is an anagram of Ethiopia, where Addis Ababa is located.
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“Make Mine a Cosmopolitan Please” Dessert:
Enforcing a three-drink minimum
Name a non-English-language beverage, in three words.
Change one of its words to a homophone in that language.
The result is three different beverages.
Translated into English, what are these three beverages?
Answer:
Coffee, water, milk (café, eau, lait; café au lait)
Name a non-English-language beverage. Change one of its words to a homophone in that language. The result is three beverages. Translated into English, what are these three beverages?
Answer:
Coffee, water, milk (cafe, eau, lait; cafe au lait)
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So my question re Dessert is: how/why do wordplay lovers find "CEL" interesting?
DeleteBesides being and anagram of "Cafe Au Lait," "cel" is crosswordese for this.
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I know what a cel is (one drawing from an animated film), but how is cel an anagram of the 10-letter "Cafe au lait"?
DeleteI actually got CWM(Coffee, Water, Milk)out of it. CWM is defined as "a steep-sided hollow at the head of a valley or on a mountainside; a cirque(especially in Wales)". Before I'd figured out the main answer, I first assumed somehow the initials might spell out "PUN". Surprisingly, they did not. As for wordplay lovers finding CWM interesting, I could only assume it has to do with having no vowels at all, which is rare for any word, common or uncommon, that should exist. To be fair, I don't see why CWM or CEL should be at all interesting to wordplay lovers(myself included), and I am only just now mentioning this because I was just reading the official answers, saw these additional comments, and realized I had forgotten to mention what the initials were supposed to spell, whether CWM or CEL or whatever. BTW CEL cannot possibly be an "anagram" of CAFE AU(or EAU)LAIT. I have no idea where Lego is going with this either. I do hope he will clarify this whole thing before the next Puzzleria! in the next few hours(featuring my new cryptic crossword!).
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Yes, glad you agree, pjb. "Cel" came from the French, Cafe, Eau and Lait, before we were to translate them to English. I, too, hope Lego explains more, but he is always very busy on Thursday evenings!!!
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