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“...and on this farm he had a gloat!”
Swap the initial sounds of the first and last words to get what sounds like advice to
fledgling farmers.
What is this idiom?
What is the advice?
Appetizer Menu
“Old Faithful Geisel” Appetizer
A Green Plate Special Sequel
In the beginning of the book “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr. Seuss (the pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel), protagonist Sam-I-am is not a fan of green eggs and ham. But, by book’s end, he likes green eggs and ham – he likes them a lot!
In the “unauthorized sequel” below, Sam-I-am performs a Dr. Seuss-themed remodel of his kitchen – at the urging, and with the help, of his friend, a certain Mr. Darling who is a salesman at the local Hardware-O-Rama store.
The Puzzle:
Find five consecutive words, 20 letters total, that appear in the sequel below.
Add a “t” to the mix and rearrange these 21 letters to spell the four-word title of a late-20th-Century novel that was made into a movie starring an actor whose two-word name consists of three presidents’ surnames (two of them the same).
What are the five consecutive words that appear in the sequel below, and that can be anagrammed to spell the title?
Hint: Every “?” that appears in the text of the poem below stands for a letter (there are 23 of
them). Discerning the six words in which these question marks occur will be helpful to the solver. (You may discover, for example, the first name of Mr. Darling.)
them). Discerning the six words in which these question marks occur will be helpful to the solver. (You may discover, for example, the first name of Mr. Darling.)
Green Eggs and Ham in Sam’s Green Pan
(A Green Plate Special Sequel)
“I did not like green eggs and ham,
Until I tried them, now I am
The biggest fan,” said Sam-I-am,
“Of ‘oeufs si verts’ and ‘bone-of-jam’!”
“So now I’m happy as a clam!
I do so like green eggs and ham!”
Said Sam-I-am to his pal ????,
Without a scowl, without a sn???.
???? Darling, pal of Sam-I-am, a
Salesman at “Hardware-O-Rama,”
Told Sam, “to eat green ham in style
Upgrade your kitchen... you will smile!”
“I’m craving eggs and ham and itchin’
To do a redo of my kitchen.”
“I’ll pay a greenback, fin or clam,
You name your fee,” said Sam-I-am.
“Dear ????, send a green pan too,”
Said Sam-I-am, “not red or blue!...
A green pan send, Dear ????,” said Sam,
“So I can fry green eggs and ham...
Indeed I want the whole room green,
The greenest green you’ve ever seen!
The stove, the fridge and kitchen sink...
I want them green, not puce or pink!
The pots, the pans, the breakfast nook,
They all must have that greenish look!”
This greening of Sam’s home began
When ???? sent Sam his greenest pan,
The greenest green Sam’s ever seen
To match his decor and cuisine.
Red, white and blue? That’s Uncle Sam!
This Sam salutes green eggs and ham
Now snug in his green breakfast nook –
A happy ending... Storybook!
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Literate Critters Slice:
Porcus, porca, porculus, porcula...
Name a well-known language. Translate it into Pig Latin.
encountering a particular critter.
The second syllable spells a common color of this critter.
What are this language, exclamation, color and critter?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
“Just you 80&T(2.71828...){ } to solve these NPR puzzle riff-offs!”
This week’s challenge will require a little
research. The 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1992 Olympic gold medal in giant slalom both suggest, phonetically, a certain square number. What is it?
research. The 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1992 Olympic gold medal in giant slalom both suggest, phonetically, a certain square number. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1
This week’s first Entree will require a little research.
Filling in those three blanks, in order, will suggest, phonetically, the initials of a certain puzzle-maker.
What will fill in the three blanks?
What are the initials, and who is the puzzle-maker?
Hint: The first name of the puzzle-maker appears thrice in the text of this puzzle.
This week’s second Entree will require a little research. The Norwegian national ice hockey team participated at the Winter Olympics in 1968 and 1972. But, alas, the team did not medal. A certain square number, phonetically, suggests possible reason for this lack of Norwegian Bronze, Silver or Gold in those two Winter Olympic years.
What number is it?
ENTREE #3
This week’s third Entree may or may not require a smidgen of research. Take a number that is the sum of the first N digits (non-negative whole numbers) in the decimal number system... (You must detemine the value of N.)
This number you have taken sounds like a sentence consisting of an adjective, direct object and a contraction containing a subject and predicate. (This sentence is usually written in the following order: 1. contraction, 2. adjective and 3. direct object... but not in this puzzle!)
A person mouthing this sentence aloud would pronounce the direct object unorthodoxly due a physical challenge he faces – a challenge that he tries to describe, and indeed demonstrates, by mouthing the sentence aloud.
What number have you taken?
What sentence does the person with the physical challenge mouth?
What is the value of N?
Hint: The number that is the sum of the first N digits has N as a factor.
ENTREE #4
This week’s fourth Entree will not require much research.
What is this virtue?
What is this number?
ENTREE #5
This week’s fifth Entree will require some “familiarity with cowpokes.” Take a two-word term for “a state of extreme joy.” Remove four consecutive letters, including the space, from the interior of this term. Replace them with three letters of an affirmative reply (but in a slightly different order) including a hyphen.
The result spells a two-digit number with rhyming factors. 
What is this two-word term for “a state of extreme joy?”
What is the two-digit number.
Hint: The four letters you removed plus the three letters with which you replaced them can be anagrammed to spell an alternative spelling of expressions of joy or excitement commonly associated with cowboys.
ENTREE #6
This week’s sixth Entree will require no “familiarity with cowpokes.” Name two numbers that differ by 35. The two numbers, and 35, all share one factor in common.
followed by the German word for its first digit. The result sounds like the plural form of the largest of the three numbers.
What are these three numbers?
Hint: One of the three numbers is a square.
ENTREE #7
This week’s seventh Entree will require scant research (but a plethora of patience!).
Duffy, a scratch golfer with a zero handicap, approaches the fifth grassy driving area from which a golf ball is struck at the beginning of play on a hole. On the previous grassy areas on the course during this round, Duffy has hit excellent drives, and so has made par on each hole.
Thus Duffy sits at (after putting and chipping capably, and driving well off the first ___ ___ ) ___-par as he approaches the fifth hole of play.
In other words, he is, so far,
playing par golf.
Each blank above represents a four-letter word. Put those 12 letters in a row, and place a hyphen between the seventh and eighth letters. The result spells, what phonetically suggests a certain prime number.
What are the three four-letter words that belong in the blanks?
What is the prime number?
ENTREE #8
This week’s eighth Entree will require no research.
Take a common three-letter past-tense verb that contains more vowels than consonants. Place after it, sans space, its three-letter present-tense form. 
After this result place, sans space, a generic but logical four-letter direct object.
Place, spacelessly, these three words one after the other. Remove the seventh and tenth letters, and place a hyphen between the fifth and sixth letters of the result to spell what phonetically suggests a number that is the sum of two identical prime numbers.
What are the two verbs and four-letter object?
What is the sum of the two identical prime numbers?
ENTREE #9
This week’s ninth Entree will require no research. (That’s because no “Bingop research” exists!) In the game of “BINGOP” the numbers under “P” can range from 76 to 90. The custom for callers in a Bingop game is to shout out the number first, then the letter – thus, the caller will shout not “B4!” and “P78!” but will instead shout “4B!” and “78P!”
On occasion, a number in the 80s will emerge from the “Patent-Pending Bingop Randomizer,” and the caller will shout out “80-somethingP!” 
But when one particular number in the 80s comes up, the caller’s shout, when spelled out and spoken aloud, results in 1.) a synonym of“snarfed-down,” 2.) body parts that facilitate this snarfing-down process, 3.) what farmers had to do to make this snarfing-down process possible in the first place.
What does the Bingop caller shout out?
ENTREE #10This week’s tenth Entree will require a little research (that might smack of deja vu). The 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction suggests, phonetically, a certain square number. And, given that context, the 1992 Olympic gold medal in giant slalom suggests, phonetically, a “happy number” that is also the sum of Saturn’s moons.
What are this square number and this “happy number”
ENTREE #11
This week’s eleventh Entree will require little research. Take a synonym of “courage in pain or adversity.” Remove the “sound of 500” from the end of this synonym, leaving what sounds like a three-syllable two-digit number.
Place the first syllable between the second and third syllables to form, phonetically, the title of a 1924 song that was also the title of a 1950 musical comedy film.
What are this number, synonym, and song and movie title?
Dessert Menu
Prate & Potpourri Dessert:
Pouring prattle out of a pot
Take a two-word term for potpourri.
Remove the second letter in one word and insert it into the other word.
What are these synonyms?
What is the two-word term for potpourri?
Hint: the first and last letters of either of the words are the last and first letters of the other word.
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Appetizer Menu
“Old Faithful Geisel” Appetizer
A Green Plate Special Sequel
In the beginning of the book “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr. Seuss (the pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel), protagonist Sam-I-am is not a fan of green eggs and ham. But, by book’s end, he likes green eggs and ham – he likes them a lot!
In the “unauthorized sequel” below, Sam-I-am performs a Dr. Seuss-themed remodel of his kitchen – at the urging, and with the help, of his friend, a certain Mr. Darling who is a salesman at the local Hardware-O-Rama store.
The Puzzle:
Find five consecutive words, 20 letters total, that appear in the sequel below.
Add a “t” to the mix and rearrange these 21 letters to spell the four-word title of a late-20th-Century novel that was made into a movie starring an actor whose two-word name consists of three presidents’ surnames (two of them the same).
What are the five consecutive words that appear in the sequel below, and that can be anagrammed to spell the title?
Hint: The 23 “question marks” that appeared in the original text of the poem below stood for a 23 missing letters, which have now been filled in. Those question marks served to hide the first name of the mysterious “Mr. Carl Darling,” and the verb “snarl,” (which rhymed with with “Carl.”
Green Eggs and Ham in Sam’s Green Pan
(A Green Plate Special Sequel)
“I did not like green eggs and ham,
Until I tried them, now I am
The biggest fan,” said Sam-I-am,
“Of ‘oeufs si verts’ and ‘bone-of-jam’!”
“So now I’m happy as a clam!
I do so like green eggs and ham!”
Said Sam-I-am to his pal Carl,
Without a scowl, without a snarl.
Carl Darling, pal of Sam-I-am, a
Salesman at “Hardware-O-Rama,”
Told Sam, “to eat green ham in style
Upgrade your kitchen... you will smile!”
“I’m craving eggs and ham and itchin’
To do a redo of my kitchen.”
“I’ll pay a greenback, fin or clam,
You name your fee,” said Sam-I-am.
“Dear Carl, please send a green pan too,”
Said Sam-I-am, “not red or blue!...
A green pan send, Dear Carl,” said Sam,
“So I can fry green eggs and ham...
Indeed I want the whole room green,
The greenest green you’ve ever seen!
The stove, the fridge and kitchen sink...
I want them green, not puce or pink!
The pots, the pans, the breakfast nook,
They all must have that greenish look!”
This greening of Sam’s home began
When Carl sent Sam his greenest pan,
The greenest green Sam’s ever seen
To match his decor and cuisine.
Red, white and blue? That’s Uncle Sam!
This Sam salutes green eggs and ham
Now snug in his green breakfast nook –
A happy ending... Storybook!
