PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED
“...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!
Mr. Berry will have little trouble with this App.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I've gotten only Entree #1so far (among just the entrees, that is), I believe there is a math mistake in #3. My 'research' (and indeed, vague memory from my math days) proves that (n-1) is NOT a factor of the sum; instead it's (n+1) that is a factor.
ReplyDeleteGreetings to all on another OK Friday evening!(It came a flood here a short while ago!)
ReplyDeleteMom and I are fine. We just had some kind of pork mango salsa dish with rice for supper. It was good. I've already done my other puzzles. Paul submitted another Prize Crossword, and he actually used phrases like WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE and WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER as answers! Here are the clues, respectively:
ACROSS
28, 20, 9 Forgotten now, carrier of pooh sticks?(5,5,3,6)
DOWN
8, 6, 22(Across)No chance the Prince of Darkness will slip up then?(4,4,7,4)
The last one suggests if Hell did freeze over, it would be quite slippery for the Devil to get around, you see. As for "pooh sticks", I don't quite understand that, but it sure sounds disgusting, so we'll just leave it at that. Now for this week's conundrums:
Plantsmith is correct about the App. Got that, didn't get the Schpuzzle. "No research was necessary" for the Literate Critters Slice, I can tell you that. I definitely know my Pig Latin. Entrees were hit-or-miss as usual, with #1, #4, #5, #7(I think), #9, #10, and #11(deja vu of #4)my only successes. And I solved the Dessert. As always, any hints for the unsolved will be greatly appreciated. And Lego, I think you did forget to do so last week, so PLEASE DO NOT FORGET THIS WEEK!
Good luck in solving to all, please stay safe, and here's a final tidbit from Paul's crossword: He also clued HARPO MARX, in part, as a "silent film star". I'm sure many of you here know why he worded it as such. LOL Cranberry out!
pjbWouldLoveToHavePaul'sSenseOfHumorToUtilizeInHisOwnCrypticsSeenHereOnThisSite!
Unfortunately my wife has developed an allergy to mango so i rarely -if ever-get to have it, but it sounds very good,
ReplyDeleteAre "pooh sticks" what Dogs make in the yard.? When i lived one summer in NYC there were pooh sticks" almost everywhere: sidewalk-street- stairs and you had to very diligent in walking. You could also get a ticket if y ou let your dog leave a "pooh stick."
I think your comment on The Blaine Blog w as one of -or the first to make the presidential connection between a certain actor and his cousins.
Now for a presidential joke. When president- George W. Bush got to heaven the first person he sought out was Moses. One day he saw Moses in his garden and approached him at which- Moses on seeing him quickly turned and ran the other direction. This happened three times until one evening at dinner George cornered him in the dining hall. "Why do you keep avoiding me Moses" ? said George
Well , ----- "the last time i saw a Bush i ended up being stuck in a dessert for over 40 years. "
He was stuck in a DESSERT? How sweet!
DeletepjbBelievesItWasATastyJoke,ButIt'sJustNotHisTypo
LOL
DeleteUpon return to what we laughingly call civilization, it appears I've missed some first rate puzzling and record breaking repartee. And then to walk into a "sounds like/suggests" week. . . . Well, not too bad so far. I think I have wild guesses for everything except a couple of Entrees. One of my wild guesses is a reverse alternate at best and will likely remain so until Wednesday. P'Smith - Really clever, but I think I finally unraveled the Appetizer. Some excellent poet-izing there. To tackle the remaining "sounds/suggests" Entrees, I may have to review the Fargo tape. Now to return the Hawaiian shirt, Panama hat, and Winchester to storage.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, GB.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, I so far have a mixed record this week. Solved P'Smith's lovely Appetizer, most of the Entrees, and Dessert. I have a guess for the Slice that I'm not happy with, as well as a few others I'm not sure about. The "sounds like" puzzles are tricky. I haven't solved Entree #2 at all.
TortieWhoIsOffToPlayAGameOfPoohSticksWithWinnieThePoohAndFriends
DeleteI heartily agree with Tortitude, GB. We welcome you home with open arms. I also agree with her that Plantsmith's Appetizer is a premium piece of puzzle-making.
Enjoy your game of Pooh Sticks withPoohPigletEeyoreAndTheGang!
LegoNotesThatTortitude'sDebutAsAPuzzleria!PuzzleMakerHappensThisComingFriday August5
OMG. what hath Paul and PJB wrought? " Attack of the killer Pooh Sticks." See the sequel.
DeleteI can take no credit for any poetic turns in my app. - in fact the original puzzle was pretty "bareboned."
I was going to inform PJB that Pooh Sticks is the lovely, innocent game in the 100 Acre Woods of dropping sticks into a stream on one side of an arched bridge, then everyone running to the other side of said bridge to see whose stick makes it first (not that I know how they tell their sticks apart.)
DeleteI didn't realize that GB had left us for a spell. Where did you go, GB? Sounds like somewhere hot.
Tortie, I too am stuck on Entree #2, as well as #8, and the Schpuzzle. [I went through literally 152 webpages of idioms, and did NOT find one that would work. Woe is me.]
And, Pl'th, I'm still trying to figure out why you knew that PJB would have no trouble with your Appetizer? (It was fun, btw.) Also, how did mangoes get into the conversation?
Never mind the 'mango' question, Pl'th....I just used the finder function and it popped up at the start of PJB's post, where I had failed to look.
DeleteWelcome back GB. VT it was a comment that PJB made on Blaines during the president puzzle two weeks ago??- where he made the connections.
Delete152 pages of idioms? It sounds familiar. What was that song from Rent-" 900,630 thousands seconds------- in a year."
Only thing i came up with is the song--"Anything you can do -I can do better." Sound of music??
Sorry, VT. I had no idea "pooh sticks" was an innocent game. But if I know Paul, he probably wanted the solver to think of the disgusting connotation on first read. That's on him, not me.
Deletepjb,WhoHasHeardOfTheArtHouseFilm"CrouchingTigger,HiddenPooh"
"Anything you can do, I can do better" is from ANNIE GET YOUR GUN. I am thrilled to say that once upon a time, I actually saw that on Broadway with Ethel Merman!
DeleteNote:
DeleteThe "Paul" to whom cranberry refers is the author of this week's "Prize Crossword" puzzle (that cranberry faithfully completes each Friday). It is not our own Puzzleria! poster Paul. Our Paul would, I am sure, pooh-pooh any "disgusting connotations" regarding pooh-stickery!
LegoWhoFinds"WinnieThePooh"ToBeWholesomeChildren'sLiteratureAnd"AnnieGetYourGun"ToBeWholesomeMusicalTheater
I had wondered about that, Lego (if it was a different "Paul")
DeleteSorry if I confused anyone here about "Paul". This is just one of the myriad of one-word pseudonyms that cryptic setters, most notably those at the Guardian, use. I think his real name might be John Halpern, but I'm not quite sure. I know I don't know any reasons why they choose the names they do in the first place. At the most, there's another one who occasionally goes by the name Brummie, and that's a term for a person from Birmingham(in England, not Alabama). Other than that, if I have ever read any origin stories of other pseudonyms, I've certainly forgotten them by now. But that Paul is not our Paul. BTW, where is our Paul?
DeletepjbDoesThinkItWouldBeInterestingIfItWereTheSamePaul,Though
I think sometimes British humor is a different cup of tea? Monty Python--etcetera..
DeleteYes i wondered that too about Paul.. Secret identity? A double life?
Somewhat unrelated, this week's Sunday Puzzle winner is named Ryan Berry, not to be confused with my brother, Bryan Berry. I just had to mention it on Blaine's Blog a few minutes ago, and now I'm saying it here. Bryan's been taking a cruise this whole time, or coming back from one, something like that. I suppose Mom and I could've gone too, but she's got all her dialysis equipment to contend with, so...at least we have taken one cruise with the rest of the family. I'd be happy if we never have to go through with it again, but I just hate to travel, so that's just me. Congratulations Bryan(and Ryan, too)!
DeletepjbMissedHisMilestoneBirthdayDueToThePandemic,OfCourse,ButHe'sGladHisBrotherGotToGoSomewhereForHisOnThe26th
Travel? Bah! Humbug! I just got through with a commentary on the subject. It's time for teleportation devices. You know what flying is? Well, I'll tell you. It's being treated like a sardine hurtling along at Mach .75 33,000 feet above the ground in a composite tube made up of thousands of parts each provided by the lowest bidder - and trusting that the pilot's number isn't up. Whew!
DeleteAgree. The last flight we took there was a couple in front of us- dressed in camouflage gear on way to Alaska- maskless- who coughed the whole way. I could see the Covid cloud descending towards me.
DeleteI was thinking there was an actor Wallace Berry= but it is Beery.
DeleteOne of the most hilarious movies of all time: "Big Jack" starring Wallace Beery, Richard Conte and Marjorie Main. Band of brigands and a grave robbing doctor.
DeleteI will look for that. He also played some gangster types i think??
DeleteMaybe in addition to P! logo hats, Lego could develop a cranbeer-y IPA?
DeleteGreat idea, GB. But I would have to give cranberry all the "cranbeer-y IPA" royalties and profits!
DeleteLegoAddsThatThe"IPA"In"cranbeer-yIPA"WouldStandForIngeniousPuzzleArtist!
Too bad I don't drink alcoholic beverages. Better make it Cranberry juice!
DeletepjbShouldStandFor "PrefersJuice,Basically"
GB is your commentary on line yet?
DeleteMy observations were in a message and are essentially what I noted above. What once was an adventure has now devolved into something else, alas.
DeleteThe Westport winery close to our cabin -where they actually grow cranberries and they have a Ocean Spray juice plant factory- has a Cranberry west coast Bog Wine that is very good. You can visit the bogs there and see how they are grown.
ReplyDeleteThere must be a puzzle in there somewhere? Beer- Berry- Beery-Beer Battered?
ReplyDeleteSo all square numbers are not primes?Hello Bobby??
Well, Plantsmith, I do NOT possess a fraction of Bobby's Mathematical expertise, but, according to the following websites on SQUARE NUMBERS and PRIME NUMBERS, it seems as if all:
DeleteSquare Numbers: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100...
are not:
Prime Numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31...
Although it would seem that 1 coulda/shoulda been classified as a "prime number."
(Perhaps Bobby could weigh in on that, or perhaps Violineddy, whom I also consider to be "math-whizzical."
LegoWhoFindsThe ConceptOf"SquaringDecimalNumbers"(andByExtension"SquaringFractions")ThatWasMentionedInTheFirstSQUARENUMBERSLinkToBeAnInterestingConceptToExplore
I take no credit for the following, which I merely am copying and pasting:
Delete1 can only be divided by one number, 1 itself, so with this definition 1 is not a prime number. It is important to remember that mathematical definitions develop and evolve. Throughout history, many mathematicians considered 1 to be a prime number although that is not now a commonly held view.
Thanks, VT. That is helpful. I would have put money on 1 being a prime number... before I researched it online, that is. That part about "mathematical definitions developing and evolving..." (or perhaps "eveloping and devolving") is a bit troubling... Will 1+1=3 in the future?
DeleteLegoWhoSaysThatOneMayBeTheLonliestNumberAsWellAsThe"OnliestNumber"ThatIsNotPrime(EvenThoughItSeemsAsIfIt Should Be!)
Personally, Lego, I always used to find the definitions of what numbers fit what categories terribly CONFUSING back in my math class-taking days. Somehow I just couldn't keep them straight, and perhaps the fact that, as that blurb says, definitions can change over time has something to do with it., i.e. loosey goosey.
DeleteYes. No square numbers are primes. 1=1*1 is not prime because it is the unit. For all n>1, n^2=n*n is not prime because it is divisible by n.
DeleteTuesday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
The advice to fledgling farmers:
something you do to the field and something, eventually, you do to the crops.
“Old Faithful Geisel” Appetizer
Here are a pair of hints, courtesy of Plantsmith:
Hint #1: Both Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi have recently used the four-word title of the novel and movie to characterize, respectively, a global danger and a president.
Hint #2: Likely, this four-word novel and movie title was first used more than a century ago by a Supreme Court Justice as a rationale for the limitation of free speech.
Literate Critters Slice:
The stereotypical exclamation kind of echoes two consecutive syllables of an exclamation Archimedes once made.
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
ENTREE #1
The word "double" is involved.
ENTREE #2
Is "Terje" Norwegian for "under the weather?"
ENTREE #3
"Attention, Orthodontia needed in Aisle 4... or 5!"
ENTREE #4
It's like getting "deep-sixed...." seven times!
ENTREE #5
The "expressions of joy or excitement commonly associated with cowboys" is an approximate rhyme of certain pieces of playground equipment.
ENTREE #6
The digits in the sum of the two numbers that differ by 35 themselves have a sum of 9.
ENTREE #7
The three missing 4-letter words in this sentence:
"Thus Duffy sits at (after putting and chipping capably, and driving well off the first ___ ___ ) ___-par as he approaches the fifth hole of play..."
are a number, a letter spelled-out (like "aitch"), and a word that can precede "-keeled."
ENTREE #8
The common three-letter verb and its past-tense form are anagrams.
The generic but logical four-letter direct object rhymes with a synonym of naked.
ENTREE #9
The “80-something!” in the “80-somethingP!” the caller shouts out is a prime number.
ENTREE #10
"80", of course, is either Anne Tyler or Alberto Tomba. The two digits that replace the zero in 80 are homophones of a verb and an adverb.
ENTREE #11
The “sound of 500” is not the sound of the "Brickyard at Indy..." where race cars must adhere to the oval track's repetitive course, with no roamin' allowed. But our “sound of 500” is all about Roamin'!
Prate & Potpourri Dessert:
The two-word term for "potpourri" contains seven letters, three which appear twice.
LeggsOhSoGreenAndLhamBeDaColorOfMintJam!
Well, the only leeway I've made after those hints appears to be with Entree #2. Though I've figured out the verb and its past tense form in Entree #8, I'm still not sure about the direct object(or I'd be able to remove the seventh and tenth letters, of course). As for the more math-related stuff, I may just have to wait until tomorrow to find out.
ReplyDeletepjbReallyHatesThatHeCan'tGetTheSchpuzzle,NotBeingAFarmerOrMuchOfAGloater(WouldRatherHaveAHintMoreGearedTowardsTheGloaterPhrase,Though,BecauseThatMayHelpALittleMore)
cranberry,
DeleteIn Entree #8, the generic but logical four-letter direct object rhymes with a synonym of naked... but also with synonyms of "watched," "cagey" and "pasted."
In the Schpuzzle, the "gloater phrase" my be heard when a suspected bluffer displays his winning hand as he rakes in the pot, or when an underachiever shoves his surprising straight-A report card under the nose of his studious and nerdy big brother!
LegoWhoIsAnUnderachieverWhoAlasIsAlsoA"Blunderachiever!"
I swear, I think there must be an error in the directions for Entree #8....or else, I simply can't read anymore! I found I could solve it IF the past tense of the verb was placed FIRST, followed by the present tense, and then do all the rest of the directions.
DeleteDefinitely got the Schpuzzle! Why didn't I think of it before?
DeletepjbKnowsWhatTheRhymeIs,ButStillIsn'tSureAboutTheDirectObjectItself(HeAlsoHasPastTenseFirst,JustLikeVT)
Yes, ViolinTeddy and cranberry. You both are correct. I just flat-out goofed. The past-tense verb should precede the present-tense verb.
DeleteI apologize profusely to all!
LegoWhoAdmitsHeMessedUpHisPastAndPresentTensesIntenselyAndWhoMakesNoPresenseOfGuiltlessness!
Huzzah! You turned my reverse alternate into something of a legitimate wild guess.
DeleteI guess when "Puzzleria! gives GB lemons, he makes lemonade!"
DeleteLegoWhoLooksForwardToSeeingGB's"ReverseAlternate(Turned)IntoSomethingOfAWildGuess"
Thanks to the hints, I believe I've solved all of the puzzles this week. I had not solved the Schpuzzle and Entree #2.
DeleteWhen in your week you only solve the schpuzzle- slice and dessert that is called a "three of a kind " hand.
ReplyDeleteStill, Plantsmith, three-of-a-kind beats a pair.
DeleteLegoWhoAdds"AndWhoWantsA"RoyalFlush"AnywayWhichSoundsDisgustinglyLikeSomethingGuysNamedRoyAndAlAreConstantlyDoingAtTheApartmentTheyShare!
Is that what Prince Harry does on occasion? Pooh sticks and Royal flushes-what next?
DeleteI just doodoon't know, Plantsmith, but I sh***er to speculate...
DeleteLegoWhoFearsThatSuchScatalogicalPunneryMayBeAHumanWasteOfOurTime!
Maybe he's playing Bingop?
DeleteI guess at some point us aging folks try to return to junior high with it's corresponding bathroom humor. Of course there is that ad now -"enjoy the go." Maybe it's cultural?
DeleteHere goes nothing:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: Read 'em and weep. & Weed 'em and reap.
Appetizer: ". . .green pan send, Dear [CARL]. . ." verse 5, line 3; "Clear and Present Danger"
LC Slice: Greek; Eek; Gray; Mouse
Entrees:
1. Double, U & S; Will Shortz
2. Thirty-Six
3. Thirty-Six; Dunno about this pronunciation stuff - The Teeth Sticks, or something like that; 8
4. Fortitude; Forty-Two
5. Seventh Heaven; Seventy-Seven
6. Fourteen; Thirty-Five; Forty-Nine
7. Four; Tee & Even; Forty-Seven
8. Ate Eat Food; Eight-Two [I thought I had this one backwards, ergo a reverse alternate, until the tense correction.]
9. Eighty-Three P (Ate, Teeth, Reap)
10. Eighty-One & Eighty-Two
11. Forty-Two; Fortitude; "Tea for Two"
Dessert: Gab & Brag; Grab Bag
I nominate P'Smith as P! Poet Laureate of the week. Good ones all round; but, remember, Lego, some of us don't speak/pronounce Frozen Tundra.
Well ---That award goes to the editor in chief. I could not put two rhymes together if my. I am going to post my original.
DeleteSchpuzzle: ???
ReplyDeleteAppetizer: HARRISON FORD, + T → CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
DEAR, snEER – could not figure out the other 4 words.
Slice: GREEK → EEK-GRAY
Entrées
#1: DOUBLE U.S. → W. S.
#2: 12^2 = 144 → ONE FOR FOUR (their won-lost record was 1-3)
post-hint: SICK STEEN (Terje Steen – never heard of him, nor that he was sick)
#3: 45 → FALSE TEETH I'VE, N = 9 (I've / I have false teeth.)
#4: FORTITUDE – D → 42
#5: SEVENTH HEAVEN – HHEA (HE-HA) + YES (Y-SE) → SEVENTY-SEVEN = 77 = 7 × 11
#6: 14, 49, FOURTEEN-EINS
#7: FOUR TEE-S EVEN → 47
#8: ATE, EAT, FOOD – F,D → ATEEAT-OO → 82
#9: 83P = ATE TEETH REAP
#10: 13 moons > 50 km. 1^2 + 3^2 = 10 = 1^2 + 0^2 = 1 → happy
#11: FORTITUDE – D → FORTITU (42); TIFORTU → TEA FOR TWO
Dessert: GRAB BAG → GAB, BRAG
Good catches on E2 & E3, geo. I was completely out to lunch on those.
DeleteSchpuzzle: READ ‘EM AND WEEP -> WEED ‘EM AND REAP (post hint). Alternative answers: D’OH! YOU’RE HURT -> HOE YOUR DIRT; HEY, I TOLD YOU SO -> SAY, I TOLD YOU… “HOE”! Perhaps demonstrating a lack of knowledge of both idioms and farming
ReplyDeleteAppetizer: GREEN PAN SEND DEAR + CARL + T -> CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
Slice: GREEK; EEK; GRAY; MOUSE
Entrees:
1. W.S.; WILL SHORTZ; DOUBLE; U.S.
2. 16 (post hint) (SICK STEEN; Terje Steen was a team member. There was another Terje on both teams: Terje Thoen) It could also be argued that they lost in 1968 because one of their players was Odd (Odd Syversen). Somewhere in my brain I forgot what kind of number we were looking for, and was thinking prime numbers instead. I came up with “East Germany 1321 = East Germany won 3 to 1” and “Finland 11321 = Finland won 13 to 1”)
3. 325; “Threetwofive = Threet Toof I’ve = Sweet Tooth I’ve; N=25 (note: puzzle is based on the concept of triangular numbers)
4. FORTITUDE; 42 (Douglas Adams; “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”)
5. SEVENTH HEAVEN -> remove HHEA -> replace with YSE (anagram YES) -> SEVENTY-SEVEN (alternative spelling of cowboy term: YEEHAHS (YEEHAWS))
6. 14, 35, 49 (all multiples of 7; 49 is square) (FOURTEEN -> add EINS (1 in German) to the end -> FORTYNINES)
7. FOUR TEES EVEN; 47
8. ATE, EAT, FOOD (- F and D); 82 (41+41)
9. 83P (ATE + TEETH + REAP (REAPY?))
10. Square number: 81, happy number: 82 (“A.T., too”);
11. 42; FORTITUDE ( - D (Roman numeral for 500)); TEA FOR TWO (Second puzzle with FORTITUDE as an answer, which rhymes with TORTITUDE!)
Dessert: GAB, BRAG ; GRABBAG
Yeah, I bet you got #11 immediately!! : O )
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ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: Read it and weep– Weed and Reap
App. “Clear and present danger”
“Green pan Send Dear Carl -T)
Thankyou Nancy Pelosi.
Original wording.
Think of a phrase often heard in January 2021. Drop a consonant and mix to get a request to a friend from a friend doing a Dr. Zeus themed kitchen remodel.”
“A clear and present danger”// Dear Carl send a green pan.
Wala!!! What a good editor can do.
P Slice: Greek – eek/ Gray. A gray mouse
E.1. Double U.S population./ –WS
2. Two–
3.
4. Eighty three.
5. Seventh Heaven– Hee haw. HW +yes Seventy Seven
7.Nine-tees- even - **ninety-seven”
8.Ate???
10. Eighty one, Eighty two, A. T. Too. Does anyone remember A.T. gogling over Katrina Witt at the Olympics.?
Dessert: ". Grab Bag// Brag and gab.
SCHPUZZLE: => PLOW, PLANT, SEED, TILL? REAP, HARVEST, GATHER? “NOW….PL???" No luck for me this week!
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER: CARL , SNARL; the 5 words: 'GREEN PAN SEND, DEAR CARL’ + ’T” => "CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER,” starring HARRISON FORD.
SLICE: GREEK => EEK-GRAY => MOUSE
ENTREES:
1. DOUBLE U.S. => W. S. => Will Shortz
2. SICK = 6; 256? [25 on an Olympic ice hockey team, i.e. 25 were sick?]
3. SUM ∑ = n(n+1)/2; thus, if N = 9, then ∑ = 45 => "FOUR TEETH I’VE"; " FOUR TEAF I’VE."
4. FORTITUDE => 42; LEWIS CARROLL
5. SEVENTH HEAVEN => SEVENTY-SEVEN [YEEHAHS]
6. 14 and 49 => FOURTEEN-EINS => FORTY-NINEs
7. FOUR TEES EVEN => FORTY-SEVEN
8. ATEEATFOOD => ATEEA-TOO => 82 [The double of 41]
9. EIGHTY-THREE P => ATE, TEETH, REAP
10. A.T.WON => 81; Alberto Tomba TOO => 82
11. FORTITUDE (again) => minus “D” => FORTY-TWO => TYFORTWO => TEA FOR TWO
DESSERT: GRAB BAG => GAB & BRAG
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteREAD 'EM AND WEEP, WEED 'EM AND REAP
Appetizer Menu
GREEN, PAN, SEND, DEAR, CARL+T=A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER starring HARRISON FORD
Menu
GREEK, EEKGRAY(EEK, GRAY); The critter would be a mouse.
Entrees
1. DOUBLE, U.S., WS(Will Shortz, of course!)
2. 16(SICK STEEN, though I found nothing about Terje Steen being sick both times.)
3. 45("FOUR TEEF I'VE." The person saying it cannot pronounce the TH in "teeth", for obvious reasons.)
4. FORTITUDE, 42(Lewis Carroll was fascinated by this number.)
5. SEVENTH HEAVEN, YES, 77, YEEHAHS
6. FOURTEEN-EINS, 49s(Ein is German for one.)
7. FOUR TEES EVEN, 47
8. ATE, EAT, FOOD, 82(41 twice)
9. ATE, TEETH, REAP, 83P
10. ANNE TYLER WON, A.T. WON(81), so ALBERTO TOMBA TOO(82).
11. FORTITUDE-D(Roman numeral for 500)=42(again), TEA FOR TWO
Dessert
GRAB BAG, GAB, BRAG
I'm not too crazy about math-related puzzles, but I think now I'm even less fond of puzzles using math as well as phonetics. No offense.-pjb
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
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“...And on this farm he had a gloat!”
Name an idiom a gloater might use.
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?
Answer:
"Read it and weep!"; "Weed it and reap!; or "Read 'em and weep!"; "Weed 'em and reap!
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“Old Faithful Geisel” Appetizer
A Green Plate Special Sequel
Find five consecutive words, 20 letters total, that appear in the peotic sequel below.
Add a “t” to the mix and rearrange these 21 letters to spell the four-word title of a late-20-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 these five consecutive words that appear in the sequel below?
What is the title of this novel and movie?
Hint: Every “?” in the text of the poem stands for a letter. Discovering the words in which they occur will be helpful. (You would discern, for example the first name of Mr. Darling.)
Green Eggs and Ham (A Green Plate 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, 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!”
The 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 feasts on GREEN eggs and ham
Now snug in his green breakfast nook...
A happy ending – storybook!
Answer:
The five consecutive words in the text are: "...green pan send, Dear Carl..."
"Clear and Present Danger" (a novel by Tom Clancy; a movie starring Harrison Ford)
Lego...
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Literate Critters Slice:
Porcus, porca, porculus, porcula...
Name a well-known language. Translate it into Pig Latin.
The first syllable of this translation spells a stereotypical exclamation one may make upon encountering a particular critter.
The second syllable spells a common color of this critter.
What are this language, exclamation, color and critter?
Answer:
Greek (eekgray); Eek!, Gray, Mouse
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
“Just you 80&T(2.71828...){ } to solve these NPR puzzle riff-offs!”
ENTREE #1
This week’s first Entree will require a little research.
According to the 2019 World Census, the combined populations of Brazil, Nigeria, Russia and Egypt are just slightly more than ______ the _._. population.
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 twice in the text of this puzzle.
Answer:
Double (the) U.S.; W.S., Will Shortz
ENTREE #2
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 and Gold in those two Winter Olympic years. What number is it?
Answer:
Sixteen; "Sick Steen" (Terje Steen was a Norwegian ice hockey player who played for the Norwegian national ice hockey team, and participated at the Winter Olympics in 1968 and 1972. Perhaps he became sick during those Olympiads and, if so, perhaps that is why Norway didn't medal.
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 (or 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 as contraction, adjective and 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-1) as a factor.
Answer:
45; "Four 'teef', I've!" (or "I've four 'teef'!"); 10
"Teef" is how a person with only four teeth, especially if they are not upper incisors, might pronounce "Teeth."
If you add up the first 10 digits in the decimal number system (0+1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9) you get 45.
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ENTREE #4
This week’s fourth Entree will not require much research. One of the seven heavenly virtues in the Christian tradition, if you remove its final consonant, suggests, phonetically, a number that fascinated an author who was also a mathemetician.
What is this virtue?
What is this number?
Answer:
Fortitude; 42; Lewis Carroll referenced the number 42 throughout his "Alice in Wonderland" series, like when Alice attempts multiplication or in relation to the Red Queen's age, for example. It's also referenced in Carroll's other texts, such as "The Hunting of the Snark."
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.
Answer:
seventh heaven, 77 (its factors, 7 and 11, rhyme.)
seventh heaven=>sevent ven=>sevent+y-es+ven=>sevent+y-se+ven=seventy-seven
Hint: H, H, E and A plus Y, E and S can be anagrammed to spell "Yeehahs," an alternative spelling of "Yeehaws."
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.
Say aloud the smallest of the three numbers 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.
Answer:
14, 35, 49; ("forty-nine" sounds like "fourteen, eins")
ENTREE #7
This week’s seventh Entree will require scant research (but a plethora of patience!).
Duffy, a golfer with a scratch golfer (https://jimfuryk.com/scratch-golfer/#:~:text=A%20scratch%20golfer%20is%20a%20player%20with%20a,player%E2%80%99s%20ability%20to%20score%20around%20a%20golf%20course.) 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 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?
Answer:
"four tees, even; 47
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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 any 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?
Answer:
Ate, eat, (f)oo(d); 82 (41+41)
ENTREE #9
This week’s ninth Entree will require a no research (for 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 “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, 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?
Answer:
"83P!" ("eighty-threeP"=>"eight+tyth+reeP," or, "ate, teeth, reap")
ENTREE #10
This 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”
Answer:
81, 82; A.T won (Anne Tyler won), A.T. too (Alberto Tomba too)
ENTREE #11
This week’s (last) 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?
Answer:
42, fortitude (for tea two); "Tea for Two"
Dessert Menu
Prate & Potpourri Dessert:
Pouring prattle out of a pot
USED 7/29/22
1.
Take a two-word term for potpourri.
Remove the second letter in one word and insert it into the other word.
The two new words are both synonyms of “prate.”
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.
Answer:
Gab, Brag; Grab bag (a "potpourri" is a "Grab bag")
GRAB BAG=>GAB+BRAG
Prate, according to Merriam-webster
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P'Smith - & VT - I just saw something in the grocery store I hadn't seen before. Tillamook ice cream sandwiches. Several flavors. Must be health food?
ReplyDeleteYea, kind of like Hagen Daazs.
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