Demonymomania! Pondering wrinkles in a septuagenarian game; “Don’t obey the Golden Rule!” Giving thanks for addictive lipsmack! “He be GB, the crafty Baffler”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Let’s give thanks for addictive lipsmack!

It’s Friday, the day after Thankgiving. Thankfully, there are usually enough cold turkey leftovers in the fridge so that one need not go “cold turkey” on Thursday’s “addictive lipsmack”...

Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day: plates heaping with piping-hot, aromatic, savory, succulent turkey thighs and cauliflower, ripe pineapple and Little Debbie pumpkin spice rolls...

What do the five words “thighs, ripe pineapple, cauliflower” and “Debbie” have in common?

Hint: Speaking of “addictive lipsmack,” the tryptophan in turkey just may be an antidepressant.  

Appetizer Menu

ganGBusters! Appetizers:

“He be GB, the crafty Baffler”

Beginning at the end

1. 🌍Consider the following grouping: 

📌Hemingway, to his pals; 

📌Garb for a soldier, but not a tinker, tailor or
spy; 

📌South Africa Provincial Pair; 

📌“Bean Capital of the world”; 

📌Sound copy; 

📌“Alpha” male Shakespearean title
character; 

📌“Inky” Asian Peninsula nation; 

📌Beginning!

What is significant about this grouping?

A country “conumberum”

2. 🗺Name a country that has numbers embedded in its name. 

Remove the numbers from the name.
The remaining letters, in order from left to right, spell the name of another country. 

What are the countries and the numbers? 

“I’ll alter a name to get an isle” 

3. 🏝 Name a country. Remove the first letter. 

Replace one of the remaining consonants with another consonant to get an island. 

What is it? 

Fixing freedom

4. 🩰💃Name a word in eight letters that indicates freedom of movement. 

Switch the first and second letters, then advance the new second letter eight places in the alphabet. 

The resulting word indicates a fixed position. 

What are these words? 

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Triple Word Score Slice:

Pondering wrinkles in a septuagenarian game

How are the following quotation and attribution related to the number 120?

“A ‘no tie’ rule does seem wise, albeit curious.” 

— Gaming mavens together pondering Scrabble “wrinkles”

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:

Demonymomania!

Will Shortz’s November 21st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:

Name a country of six or more letters. Change two letters in it to name the resident of another country’s capital.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take a puzzle-maker’s last name, in six or more letters. 

Change the first letter to the next letter in the alphabet. Change the last two letters to the state postal code abbreviation of the state where the puzzle-maker resides.

The result is an adjective that might describe many of the fiendish puzzles this puzzle-maker creates.

Who is this puzzle-maker and what is the adjective? 

ENTREE #2

Name a past ballplayer whose surname is a synonym of “butchery” or “bloodbath.”

Take a six-letter word for his Major League status in 1938. 

Anagram the combined letters of this word and the letters in his first name to spell two different names for a resident of a particular U.S. state (that is, two demonyms).

Who is this ballplayer?

What are the two demonyms?

Hint: The state where the ballplayer played the majority of his career borders the state associated with the two demonyms.   

ENTREE #3

Name a country of five or fewer letters. Add one letter to the front of it to name the resident of another country’s capital.

What are this country and resident of another country’s capital?

Extra credit: How is this puzzle related to Entree #2?

ENTREE #4

Name an empire of six or more letters. 

Change two consecutive letters in it to name a resident of a country’s capital.

What are this empire and resident?

ENTREE #5

Take a word that means consticting, contracting or binding. It begins with “con” and ends with “ent,” with a string of six letters in the middle.

Replace the “con” with a “ham” and the “ent” with an “ing” to get a word that means “making ineffective or powerless.”

What is the “string of six letters?

What are the words beginning with “con” and with “ham”?

ENTREE #6

Name an Asian country of six or more letters.

Within the name appears the “present tense third-person singular” of “be.” Replace it with the first two-thirds of the “present tense second-person singular and present tense plural” of “be.”  

Oh, and then change the first letter of this result.

The final result is the name of any resident of another Asian country’s capital.

What is this country? 

What is the name for a resident of the other country’s capital?  

ENTREE #7

Name a resident of a European country of six or more letters. (The country is not Italy, but knowlege of things Roman may help you solve this puzzle.) 

Divide the first letter by X to get a new letter. Replace the first letter with that new letter.

Multiply a pair of interior letters by XVI, then add III. The result is a pair of letters that, one might argue, may be a less cumbersome alternative to that product. Replace those interior letters with that less cumbersome alternative.

The result of all this computation is the first word in another European county.

What are these two European countries?

What is the less cumbersome pair of letters?

ENTREE #8

Name a resident of an Asian country of six or more letters. Change each of its first two vowels to an “o” and remove its third vowel. 

The result is the name of a resident of a European country.

What are the names of these residents?

ENTREE #9

Divide the name of any resident of a certain European city into three parts. 

The first part is a tide and the third part is
a tint. The second part can be rearranged to spell a tint in a tube.

What is the name of this resident?

What are the tide, tint and tint in a tube?

Hint: Somthing edible that has the same as the name of the resident has white, pink and brown tints.

Dessert Menu

Do Unto Others Dessert:

“Don’t obey the Golden Rule!”

Name a word for people that we don’t want following the Golden Rule: 

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

Hint: The word anagrams into two groups of
people – the majority of whom likely do indeed follow the Golden Rule.

Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego
Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.

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