PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED
Schpuzzle of the Week:
Love U make = Love U take?
Something you make may be perceived as weakness. Something you take may be perceived as strength.
Together, these things name a two-word place where you make purchases, then take them elsewhere for consumption.
What is this place?
Appetizer Menu
“Does it cost 50¢ or does it cost 50¢?”
1.😏There was once a boy who liked to ask redundant questions.
What was the boy’s name?
2. 🍎🍐🟠At the fruit store, there is a rule for the price of fruit.
An apple costs 50¢, a pear costs 40¢, and an orange costs 60¢.
How much does a lemon cost?
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“Why so blue, Babe?” Slice:
Fellers... like Paul Bunyan
If you remove one letter you’ll get the color of some logs.
But if you instead add a letter someplace to the original word you’ll get a word associated with sawing logs.
What are these three words?
Riffing Off Shortz And Penn Slices:
COpeNHagen & MAdRID
Name two countries, with a total of 12 letters, that when spelled one after the other form six
consecutive state postal abbreviations.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Penn Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Name a puzzle-maker. The third letter in his surname plus the third letter in his first name form the state postal abbreviation of his home state.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
Name an American, first and last names, who shares a distinction similar to distinctions shared by George Washington, Kamala Harris, Barrack Obama, Roger Bannister and Charles Lindburgh.
Delete the last letter of the name and
rearrange the last three letters of this truncated name. The result is an “postal-abbreviation odyssey” with an itinerary that wends its way from Grand Island to Elgin to Fort Smith to Tupelo to Murfreesboro to Bend.
Who is this American?
ENTREE #3
Name a U.S. federal holiday, in eleven letters. Replace the ninth letter with a different letter that, when spelled-out, begins with that ninth letter. Switch the positions of this new ninth letter and the tenth letter.
Name the states with postal abbreviations formed by the following letters of the result:
1st & 2nd,
4th & 5th,
5th & 6th,
6th & 7th,
7th & 8th,
8th & 9th, and
10th & 11th.
The final result is a “postal-abbreviation odyssey” with an itinerary that wends its way from Portland to Kansas City to Corvallis to Pawtucket to Waterloo to Jasper to Bayou Cane to Green River.
What is this federal holiday?
ENTREE #4
Take the surname of a U.S. president. The first two letters spell his age in Roman numerals when he was first elected president.
The third and fourth letters spell the postal abbreviation of a state that has a city with a population of 11,000 that begins with the president’s surname.
The fourth and fifth letters spell the postal abbreviation of a state that has a city with a population of more than 1,000 that begins with the president’s surname.
Who is this president?
What is the state bordering the state he represented and the state where he was born?
What are the two cities that begin with the president’s surname?
ENTREE #5
Three of the states are coastal; two are landlocked.
What is this six-letter word?
What are these five states?
Dividing the postal abbreviation of the president’s residence by the U.S. Postal Service’s two-letter abbreviation for a certain U.S. territory will make the first letter of the postal abbreviation of the president’s residence disappear!
What are these two postal abbreviations?
Name three U.S. states what are not located in the American heartland geographically but that are located, “postal-abbreviationally,” in the heart of “American.”
What states are these?
ENTREE #8
What is this soft drink?
What are the three states?
Place the U.S. Postal Service’s two-letter abbreviations for a pair of U.S. territories side-by-side to spell the surname of a fictional character associated with chocolate.
What are these two territories?
Who is the fictional character?
If Colorado, Alabama, Michigan, Indiana and Nebraska consolidated into one state, what might their state bird be?
Dessert Menu
Dermatological Dessert:
“How much skin do you have in ‘the old ball game’?”
Divide the altered last name into two words:
😧 a skin irritation, and
😢 what such irritations might do.
The altered first name sounds like word that often describes such irritations.
Who is this Hall-of-Famer?
What are these three dermatological words?
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Hi Lego,
ReplyDeleteGoing through the Entrées -- so far, they are rather easy. But in #3, I get what I believe is the intended holiday with the itinerary:
Portland to K.C. to Pawtucket to Jasper to Bayou Cane to Green River. The stops in Corvallis and Waterloo are "spurious". The map has the corresponding errors, as well.
I solved it immediately from the starting postal abbreviations, dropping the unneeded ones. It helps that, excepting Jasper but including the "spurious" Waterloo and Corvallis, I have been to or through all these points - on public transportation.
Also, the order of letters of the revised postal abbreviations is: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12. Drop Letter 11. Then substitute (in place of Letter 9) a letter that starts the dropped Letter 11, if this Letter 11 is "spelled out".
DeleteNote that the original "interleaving" of the letters of the postal abbreviations is absent in the above revision, i.e. they are in consecutive, un-interleaved order 1 to 12.
There may be an easier way to express these operations than what is stated above.
Entrée 5, "String together five consecutive overlapping state postal abbreviations to spell a six-letter word": It sounds like a Federal budget bill.
ReplyDeleteI get the intended "cindery" word in either of two ways:
(1), drop letters 2, 4, 7 and 9;
(2), drop letters 2, 4, 8 and 9
In scheme (1), either of 2 states could work as the 4th state abbreviation. In scheme (2), any of 3 states could work as the 4th state abbreviation. The other states (1,2,3,5) are unique in both schemes.
Correction: in both schemes (1) and (2), the 5th (last) state has three possibilities (in addition to the noted options for the 4th state). States 1,2,3 are unique.
DeleteGeo i still do not follow the DNA story line last week-a sequence about in -vivo process in Ireland. A reference to whiskey? Test tube faith? Intelligent design? I also have strong Catholic roots though now non-practicing. CTGA- Ribo-nucleic Acids? Unicorns? The Rovers?
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DeleteP'sth et al.
DeleteThe "bases" of DNA are the four components that form the genetic code of the DNA. They are the "rungs" of the double helix "ladder". A = adenine, C = cytosine, G = guanine, T = thymine. The order of the A,C,G,T bases are specific to each individual and determine that person's genetic identity.
[Aside: Why are they called "bases"? Because they contain nitrogen atom(s) and are thus weakly basic in their chemistry (like ammonia and amines). Think of bases that react with acids (note: this meaning of "bases" is not essential to understanding my analogy in the puzzle). End of aside.]
Now to the puzzle analogy and the ship of Theseus. All the bases that form an organism's DNA are bio-synthesized by that organism, including you and Lego's ancestors. Where do their component atoms come from? From the food one eats. Where did this food come from? From the country that grew the food -- in this case, Ireland (neglecting imported food). So these bases, and thus the DNA of Lego's ancestor, derived from Ireland and was thus, in a biological sense, a "piece of Ireland."
As a person (e.g. Lego's Irish ancestor) goes through life, this DNA replicates in the course of cell division. The "new" DNA so formed derives its 4 bases (as well as the helices of the ladder) from subsequently-eaten food that Lego's ancestor ate. However, the composition (the order of the A C G T bases) of the DNA remains the same. Hence, Lego's Irish ancestor remained him- or herself even after he or she emigrated to the USA. But as soon this Lego-ancestor emigrated to the USA, in subsequent cell divisions, the DNA of Lego's immigrant ancestor gradually, in the course of subsequent cell divisions, slowly became American. It is just like the piecewise replacement of the planks of the ship of Theseus.
The puzzle's cultural analogy is entirely separate from the above biological analogy. The cultural analogy is that Lego's ancestor retained his/her Irish cultural identity (including Catholic religion, which is an integral part of Irish culture) even after emigration from Ireland. There was no direct analogy to the ship of Theseus in the cultural Irish part of the puzzle.
I hope that the above makes sense. I am not a biologist nor a biochemist, but assumed that the above was general knowledge. Just as most Puzzlerian!s assume that Seinfeld and Cheers are general knowledge. The problem on my side is that I have never seen an episode of either of these sitcoms (nor more obscure ones), so do not have a clue of Puzzlerian! hints that derive from these or most other sitcoms. Personally, I abhor sitcoms and never watched them. Dramas and documentaries I liked.
Also, I never often go/went to movies and never pay/paid attention to who is acting in a film. I always select a film to watch based on its plot -- what it is about. The actors are immaterial to me.
People are different.
A basic assumption for the puzzle was that Lego had Irish ancestors. This assumption was based on Lego's English-language family name (Young). As the state church of the UK is mostly Anglican and Lego is Catholic, I made the assumption that Lego has at least one Irish ancestor. Of course, Young could possibly derive, e.g., from an Anglicized Jung (jung = young in German) or Lejeune (jeune = young in French). Such possibilities were covered by my use of "possibly" in the riffoff puzzle.
DeleteI found Entree 5 much easier to do as Lego stated it, rather than Geo's (to me, confusing) directions above.
ReplyDeleteThe Schpuzzle, Entrees and Dessert were surprisingly, pleasantly easy this week (a nice relief of late!), although I have yet to work out #9. The obvious chocolate characters don't seem to be form-able (is that a word?) from the only available postal codes.
I've no clue on the two Appetizers.
Forget what I wrote about #9....it just hit me.
DeleteVT, Entrées #3 and #5 were confusing to me for two different reasons. They are discussed separately below.
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Entrée #3: The originally-posted puzzle was confusing because the original (now deleted) order was not possible.
Based on my comment, Lego subsequently revised #3 to retain his original intent. My original rewording, that I wrote before Lego revised his text, dropped "Corvallis" from the set of locations and consequently from the map. But this abrogates Lego's intent to include the residences of those Puzzlerian!s to whom he is closest, i.e., Jasper and Corvallis. Of course, Lego had to add "unaffiliated" locations to flesh out his puzzle.
The revised text to #3 retains both "favored" locations, along with the "neutral" ones.
With the revised Entrée #3, my original posting no longer applies.
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What was confusing in Entrée #5 was the phrase "String together five consecutive overlapping state postal abbreviations to spell a six-letter word".
Five consecutive US postal abbreviations will have 2 × 5 = 10 total characters. What confused me was "five consecutive overlapping state postal abbreviations," which connoted to me 5 overlaps, leaving 5 characters. But the answer is stated to have 6 characters. Hence the confusion.
I appreciate your efforts to explain about 3 and 5, geo. (I also appreciate the LINK below, since i never would have FOUND your post above, and in fact, LOST it again, when I went to post (and it now forces us to 'sign in' even if we already ARE signed in, thus losing one's place).
DeleteI will go re-read Lego's edits to the entree that had Corvallis (which I had appreciated!!), and as for 5, since I had done the puzzle backwards (as is so often the case), I had immediately 'seen ' the overlapping postal codes thing, without any confusion on my part.
Am I on Puzzleria or am I on Puzzleria?
ReplyDeleteYou are on Puzzleria! and you are on Puzzleria!
DeleteLegoWhoIsGratefulToBobbyForProvidingUsWithThisWeek'sTwoMostChallengingPuzzlesOrLegoWhoIsGratefulToBobbyForProvidingUsWithThisWeek'sTwoMostChallengingPuzzles
I fear that lemons have been hit with an inflationary trend similar eggs now up 38% since July.
ReplyDeleteThat helpful nugget of consumer-economics-info, Plantsmith, may or may not help us solve Bobby's Appetizer #2...
DeleteLegoWhoAdvisesThat"WhenLifeGivesYouLemonsDon'tMakeLemonadeButInsteadTakeThoseLemonsToALocalFarmer'sMarketAndSellThemAtAnObscenelyInflatedMarkedUpPricePoint!
I am waiting for the BOGO sale next week.
DeleteHi, everyone! I think I've solved everything but the Schpuzzle. I'm not entirely sure about Appetizer #1, but I at least have a good alternative answer.
ReplyDeleteI was taking a walk yesterday when I heard some chattering. I thought it was some kind of bird, but it turned out to be a squirrel! I didn't realize squirrels made sounds. When I was at Panera today, I heard some country song come over the air. It turns out that the lyrics were all meows! If you're curious (purr-ious?), check out Old Dominion Meow Mix. Finally, I saw today that some guy is buying frozen pizzas at Walmart, and selling them at a huge markup.
TortieWhoOnlyMeowsToMusicInThePrivacyOfHomeOrTheCar
Well, squirrels are also great mimics similar to Mockingbirds- which can mimic almost every other bird except ?? Pterodactyls.
DeleteHappy one-more-hour-before-it's-no-longer-Friday-night to all(your time zones may vary)!
ReplyDeleteMom and I are fine. Last night she didn't feel like cooking one of our box meals, so we got some food out(I can't really say it was "from a drive-thru" because this place has NO drive-thru!). We rarely have Chinese without Bryan, Renae and the kids placing the order, but this time we were like "why not?", so we had some from China Gourmet here in town. You order first, then within the hour you go pick it up, and just park the car, get out, go in to get it, pay for it, and leave. Drive-thru would've been easier, but Mom didn't want to just have a sandwich and fries, so we decided to do something different. We got an order called "Happy Family"(which may be a common name for "the works" at most Chinese restaurants, I'm no expert), some orange chicken(we had to substitute for lemon chicken, which Mom was almost certain Renae had ordered before, but I guess not), some chicken lo mein, and some white rice. Needless to say, we had some leftovers, and I had some for lunch today. Mom wasn't too crazy about the food, though. I loved it myself. So now tonight, again she didn't want to cook one of those box meals. This time she suggested Lee's Chicken, but I didn't really want to eat as much two nights in a row(I had seconds on the Chinese!). So I had her get their country-fried steak and gravy for me, with green beans and potato wedges and a biscuit, and a Diet Pepsi. She got her favorite, their chicken livers(yuk!). I know mine was good at least. I also did the other puzzles before checking in here. Surprisingly, they did actually have one some time last week, but I must've missed it because they had one of Maskarade's jumbo PDF-only, answers-in-alphabetical-order, jigsaw-instead-of-a-normal-cryptic puzzles the week before that(some kind of "Bank Holiday" thing in the UK, I don't know, but it was there two weeks straight). So tonight I ended up doing two Prize Crosswords: One from Paul, the other from Picaroon. Took a while to solve, but I did them both! Then I had to wait for my Kindle to recharge, so if I'm a little late checking in here, that's why.
Now for this week's selection:
Somehow I managed to get everything from the Slice down. All the Entrees, the Dessert, everything. That leaves only the Schpuzzle and both of Bobby's stumpers. Guess what, Bobby! For maybe the first time ever, YOU get to provide hints later for your own puzzles! Hope they're good ones! Of course, I also look forward to seeing Lego's Schpuzzle hint(s)as well. BTW geofan, I find your earlier explanation of whatever errors you found in the Entrees far more confusing than the puzzles themselves. But if you would like to come on by Jasper should you ever have the chance, feel free! We have a lot of great restaurants to choose from, so you'll definitely not be leaving hungry(I recommend Lee's Chicken especially. Franchise-wise, they're few and far between in this country, so if you do have the chance to try it, you will not be disappointed whatsoever!)! Also, thanks Lego for mentioning my hometown in a puzzle! I've got to get another of my cryptic crosswords ready to run here later in the month, so don't let me forget!
Good luck in solving to all, please stay safe, and Bobby, I'm counting on you with those hints. DON'T LET ME DOWN!!!! Cranberry Out!
pjbCan'tHelpButNoticeByTheTimeThisPostHasEnded,It'sAlreadySaturdayMorning(UnlikeWhatItSaidAtTheVeryBeginning...?Strange!)
Well, Lee's chicken is on my bucket list. Heading to Destin in a couple of weeks hope to make it to the Back Porch.
DeleteLee's Chicken on a bucket list? Does Lee's Chicken come in a bucket... like what used to be called "Kentucky Fried Chicken"?
DeleteLegoWhoWhenHeOrdersABucketOfPopcornAtTheMovieTheaterAlwaysIsLeftWithAHandfulOfUnpoppedColonelsAtTheBottom!
Great question. PJB?? True story: In Seattle a famous chicken place called Ezell's. Only two locations i know of. One not far from me in south Seattle. Obama would fly it on weekends sometimes weekly. PJB is there one near Destin? We are driving back through Montgomery area.
DeleteA bucket of Lee's please. Winner-winner,chicken dinner.
DeleteSorry, you'll have to kick the bucket. Lee's Chicken comes in a box(as do the country-fried steak and the potato wedges), the biscuits in a bag, the green beans in their own container. I may have seen an Ezell's somewhere between here and Destin, but I can't be sure. If you're driving back through Montgomery, a good way to pass the time would be to count the number of Alexander Shunnarah billboards you see. He's one of our(too)many attorneys in the state who feel it necessary to advertise. I swear there's at least eleven(some with one on top of the other, which is overkill, if you ask me)as you drive through the city. Drive safely, PS.
DeletepjbDidn'tKnowObamaLikedFriedChickenDuringHisAdministratio n(MichelleProbablyDidn'tLikeItAsMuch,Though)
I now have solved the Schpuzzle. Wasn't even close with my original thinking! In any case, I believe I've now solved all of the puzzles for the week. It's possible my solution for App #1 is wrong.
ReplyDeleteNice.
DeleteTortitude,
DeleteWhat Plantsmith said.
I believe you have the correct answer for Bobby's App #1.
LegoWhoRealizesThatDuncanHinesPurveysCakeMixNotCondimentsButDoTheyAlsoHaveADefiniteNumberOfVarieties?
Hints:
ReplyDelete1. The boy's name is in the name of somebody who rose to power this week.
2. A mango costs 50¢ and a papaya costs 60¢, but a coconut does not cost 70¢.
Thanks, Bobby! Now I know I'm right for App 1. (There is also someone with that first name who's moved up in the ranks, so to speak.)
DeleteThere is also an old joke that is kind of similar to your puzzle. One of the names in that joke was in a band with someone whose name is the solution to App #1.
TortieWhoThinksIt'sBestNotToSayWhatThatBandIs
I'm still not getting them. Did the person rise to power because of someone else's death? If so, I can't figure out what name may be hiding in that name. Also, the way I see it, you haven't really told us anything different from the original App #2 puzzle.
DeletepjbThinksBobbyMayHaveToWorkOnHisHintingSkills,Too
A peach costs less than a pear, and there's at least one other fruit that costs the same as a lemon. A date costs an amount ending in 0, but it's not 40 ¢.
DeleteTorTWhoSeesPatternsInBobby'sAppetizers
Sometimes it is harder to clue than to puzzle. IMHO.
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DeleteAH, the lemon appetizer makes sense now...thanks.
ReplyDeleteHowever, if the male name is the 'obvious' one from the clue mentioned, I still don't see what that has to do with the puzzle info itself. I will wait curiously till next Wed to find out.
Sunday Late Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
It's a "place where you make purchases and then take eats to go..." back to your bleacher seats, for example.
“Do you or do you?” Appetizer
(See Bobby's Hints in his September 11, 2022 at 8:48 AM Comment.)
“Why so blue, Babe?” Slice:
The initial letters of the three words, rearranged somewhat, might recall the Tigers of the Bayou State.
Riffing Off Shortz And Penn Slices:
ENTREE #1
Knit any Lions? Wolverines? (After all, the collegiate football season has begun!)
ENTREE #2
ALan shePARd just didn't make the cut.
ENTREE #3
This "Portland" ain't in Oregon.
ENTREE #4
The U.S. president was thrice XVII when he was first elected president.
ENTREE #5
This puzzle echoes, in a way, Bobby's Appetizers this week:
"Is it a Gamecock State or is it a Hawkeye State?"
ENTREE #6
...VIDI, VICI!
ENTREE #7
Is the "heart of American" simply a "mixed-up Crimea?"
ENTREE #8
...Couldn't make "Pepsi" work!
ENTREE #9
'Tis a fictional character associated with chocolate, but also with shrimp.
ENTREE #10
"The Police"
Dermatological Dessert:
The Hall-of-Famer is one of the most beloved sports figures in Philadelphia history.
LegoWhoAdds"AndWhoKnows...HeMightHaveBeenA'Scratch'Golfer!"
Got the Schpuzzle, but Bobby's hints have stymied me. Also, I was thinking of the exact same hint for Entree #10. Call it "Synchronicity"?(No, not quite. We'd have to wait a few years.)
ReplyDeletepjbWondersIfY'allHaveReadAnyGoodBooksByNabokovLately?
I think i started to read Lolita one time. I read like 50 pages which is kind of a record for me.
DeleteBobby's App #1: Most people have one of something. Some have none. A few others have two or more. The person who rose to power has three. (It's not a car, house, or corgi.) Fun random fact: If you take the initials of these three things, you'll get a place mentioned in last week's puzzles.
DeleteApp #2 is hard to clue. A French banana costs 4 cents more than an English one. And I'll say at this point that a melon costs exactly the same as a lemon.
I don't know that Police song. I thought of a Lee Dorsey song that was covered by Devo, although that didn't include a bird.
App2 -Can i or should i buy a vowell?
DeleteDirect connection for App2 and E 10.
DeleteThanks to Tortie for her helpful hints on Bobby's posers.
DeleteI'll add a few too:
1. The name of the somebody who rose to power this week who has the boy's name also shares something in common with the boy that relates to "flames flickering o 'er frosting."
2. A mango costs 50¢ and a papaya costs 60¢, but a coconut does not cost 70¢...
A pea is not a fruit, but if it were you could buy one for less than 2 bits!
LegoWhoAddsThatYouCouldBuyAnAcaiWithA NickelAndDimeAndStillGetChange!
Still don't understand App #2. I've told you before, math is not my thing. As for #1, does it have anything to do with King(what's-his-name)or not? I certainly don't want to ruin it by saying his name if he is involved, but I'm not seeing any connection with any of these hints, no matter who's provided them! Simplification please!!!!!
DeletepjbWon'tFeelDownIfYouHaveToDumbItDown
pjb, it's not very complicated math, but it's up to you if you want to try and solve it or not.
DeleteAs for App #1, yes, it is related to what's-his-name. I have to admit that I'm confused by Lego's hint, however. Read the first paragraph about what's-his-name in Wikipedia.
I think I've got App #1, if anything. I can see the trick to it anyway. Wasn't sure at first, though.
DeletepjbWasn'tGoingToTakeThisLyingDown(UnlikeKimmelAtTheEmmys---WTF?!)
What Phillie baseball hall of famer reminds you of an AM television personality?
ReplyDeleteHad to look up Phillies players. Got it now, although I have no idea what the TV personality wore yesterday. I looked up her birthday, but I don't understand the significance of it.
DeleteAlso what were they wearing yesterday- on 9/11. ? Also what is their birthday.?
ReplyDeleteAM TV personality.
And a lemon is less than an orange??
ReplyDeleteYes, by a small amount.
DeleteOK that works for me.
DeleteViolinTeddy and Plantsmith, see my above replies to your comments here (VT) and here (P'sth.
ReplyDeleteOthers (especially Lego) please feel free to read/comment also.
DeleteThanks, geofan.
DeleteIn an attempt to clear up someof the confusion I spawned in Entree #5, the way I reasoned it was that:
2 consecutive overlapping state postal abbreviations will have 3 total characters.
for example, CA overlaps with AR to produce CAR;
3 consecutive overlapping state postal abbreviations will have 4 total characters.
for example, CA overlaps with AR overlaps with RI to produce CARI
4 consecutive overlapping state postal abbreviations will have 5 total characters.
for example, CA overlaps with AR overlaps with RI overlaps with ID to produce CARID.
Thus, n consecutive overlapping state postal abbreviations will have (n+1) total characters.
As for your brilliant riffs and fascinatingly "professorial" posts from September 9, 2022 at 1:19 AM and September 12, 2022 at 4:30 PM:
My mother's birth name was Zadaslava Sadowski! My Father's family tree, alas, is more like a "family twig."
But you likely hit a lot of my ancestral nails on the head, nevertheless.
I always learn something new when I read your comments, geofan, although I know if I were more educated, much more of what you write would sink into my noggin!
But I always appreciate what you write. Thank you.
LegoWho(WhoKnows?!)MightBeRelatedToCarlJung...OrPerhapsCharlesLamb...da!
Thankyou Geo. I think i understand most of it now. I had some Biology class in undergrad. Very interesting.
DeleteGeo, I agree with Lego. I enjoy your writings, even when I don't understand all of it. Yes, we're all different. I actually enjoy sitcoms, at least the older ones, but I fail miserably when it comes to sports, geography, newer pop culture, as well as some other subjects.
DeleteTortieWhoActuallyDoesn'tMindMathPuzzlesAsLongAsTheyAreRelativelySimple
The one i could never get into is the "Office" but my son just loves it.
DeleteI liked the handful of episodes I've seen of "The Office" but for some reason, I never really went back to it. It reminded me a bit of the Dilbert cartoon series, which I thought was very funny but didn't last long.
DeleteI was just looking at what's available on Peacock. We should have get Peacock shows for free because we have Comcast. (Probably the only time anyone's been happy to have Comcast!) "The Office" is listed under "T" for "The".😂
More hints:
ReplyDelete1. The boy's name is the first name of multiple Presidents of the United States.
2. This puzzle adds up.
1. George Washington, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush are all presidents.
Delete2. The puzzle involves adding up positions of letters in the alphabet.
SCHPUZZLE: MAKE A “CONCESSION"; TAKE A “STAND” => CONCESSION STAND
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS:
1. WILLIAM WALES [Double YOU, Double YOU = W. W.] [Tortie’s hint about middle name initials being a place from last week would => P.A.G., i.e.. the middle names for Charles, not William, tho …."Philip Arthur George”. William’s are Arthur Philip Louis]
2. LEMON = 12 + 5 + 13 + 15 + 14 => 59 CENTS
Arthur
SLICE: LUMBER => UMBER & SLUMBER
ENTREES:
1. MICHAEL PENN => NC, PENN, MICH
2. NEIL ARMSTRON/G => NE IL AR MS TN OR
3. MEMORIAL DAY => MEMORIAL AWY => ME MO OR RI IA AL LA WY
4. LINCOLN => LI (51), IN [BORN IN IL], NC [LINCOLNTON], CO [LINCOLN PARK]
5. SCORIA => SC, CO, OR, RI, IA
6. DC/ VI => 600 / 6 => 100 => C
7. ME, RI, CA
8. COCA COLA [CO, CA, LA]
9. GU & MP => GUMP
10. COAL MIINNE => CANARY
DESSERT: RICHIE ASHBURN => RASH & BURN; ITCHY
Schpuzzle: CONCESSION STAND [post-hints]. Clever puzzle.
ReplyDeleteAppetizers:
1. LITTLE CAESAR (because he says “Pizza, pizza!”)
2. The fruits each cost the sum of their letters (A = 1; B = 2; …, Z = 26)
Slice: LUMBER – L → UMBER; + S → SLUMBER (sleep/snore = sawing logs)
Entrées
#1: MICHAEL PENN → NC; Mich., Penn.
#2: NEIL ARMSTRONG – G, rearr NOR → NE IL AR MS TN OR (the men are all “firsts”)
#3: MEMORIAL DAY → MEMORIAL AWY → ME MO OR RI IA AL LA WY
#4: LINCOLN → LI (51); IN (borders KY, IL); NC, CO (both have “Lincolns”)
#5 see below
scheme (1): PA, UT, MI, (NC or SC), (DE or NE)→ PUMICE
scheme (2): PA, UT, MI, (CA, CO or CT), (DE or NE) → PUMICE
#6: DC / VI = 600 / 6 = 100 = C
#7: ME, RI, CA inside American
#8: CO, CA, LA → COCA-COLA
#9: GU MP → (Forrest) Gump
#10: CO, AL, MI, NE → in [a] coal mine → CANARY
Dessert: RICHIE ASHBURN → ICHIE RASHBURN → ITCHY, RASH BURN
Puzzle answers:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: CONCESSION STAND (was totally off on this one at first. Kept trying to get TEAR in there. Thought that STORE might be part of an anagram, and then though of TEA ROOM, which makes no sense. Riff-off: change one letter in the first word to something you definitely don’t want to have. If you do get the modified first word, you may not be able to do the second word. (CONCESSION -> CONCUSSION)
Appetizers:
1. GEORGE (GE OR GE); I first thought of the old “PETE/REPEAT” joke, hence my clue of PETE Best/GEORGE (Harrison). Also thought of AXIOM, which vaguely sounds like “ASK HIM” but there’s an extra “E” sound in AXIOM. Rose to power: CHARLES PHILIP ARTHUR GEORGE, whose three middle initials spell PAG, an island from last week.
2. 59 cents (add up the alphabetical position of each letter: L = 12, E = 5, M = 13, O = 15, N = 14)
Slice: LUMBER; UMBER; SLUMBER
Entrees:
1. MICHAEL PENN (NC; PENN (PENNSYLVANIA); MICH (MICHIGAN)
2. NEIL ARMSTRONG - drop G - rearrange RON - (NE + IL + AR + MI + TN + OR)
3. MEMORIAL DAY (Note: Will Shortz had a puzzle like this with just MEMORIAL, which made this an easy puzzle for me)
4. ABRAHAM LINCOLN; INDIANA (Illinois, Kentucky); LINCOLNTON, NC; LINCOLN PARK, CO
5. SCORIA; SOUTH CAROLINA, COLORADO; OREGON; RHODE ISLAND: IOWA
6. DC; VI (Roman numerals: DC/VI = 600/6 = 100 = C)
7. MAINE (ME); RHADE ISLAND (RI); CALIFORNIA (CA)
8. COCA-COLA (COLORADO, CALIFORNIA, LOUISIANA)
9. GUAM & NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS; GUMP
10. CANARY (CO+AL+MI+IN+NE = COALMINE)
Dessert: RICHIE ASHBURN; ITCHY, RASH, BURN (needless to say, had to look this up)
Can you refresh me on the Pete/repeat joke?
DeleteWell, "joke" may not be quite accurate, as it's more of a silly thing kids tell each other, at least a long time ago, but it goes like this:
Delete"Pete and Repeat were sitting on a fence. Pete fell off. Who was left?"
"Repeat"
"Pete and Repeat were sitting on a fence. Pete fell off. Who was left?"
etc. etc.
Nice riff on Schpuzzle,
ReplyDelete9/14/22/ 79 degrees
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Make a Concession/ take a stand- Concession stand
App1. King-charles-Arthur -George , * -Echo- as i thought it was an or Eco forshort.
App2. Correlation to letter value -A=1, B=2,...., lemon =59, orange =60
Proverbial Slice:
Riffing Off Shortz
ENTREE # 1 Michael Penn, NC, Mich, Penn
ENTREE #2
Ne, Il, Ar, Mi, Tn Or. Neil Armstrong,
ENTREE # 3 Veterans Day Ve, Te.
ENTREE #4 Lincoln, Illinois, North Carolina, Lincoln, Illinois, Lincoln, Nebraska
E8- Coca Cola- Co, Ca, Al
E9 Gu-Guam, Mp Marital Islands- Gump
E10 CO,Al,Mi,In, Ne– Coal Mine- “Song-”Canary in a Coal Mine.” the Police. Never knew this one.
Dessert:
Rick Ashburn– Rash, Burn– Phillie hall of famer.
T.V. Land– Robin Roberts. Wearing a yellow silk puffy shirt and American Flag pin on 9/11, Phillie Hall of famer by same name. First inductee into Phillie Hall of Fame.
Birthday-11,23,60” Day of first T.V. run of “Dr.No.” , Also birthday of Miley Cyrus.
I don't get the Ge or ge. What have I missed? How does 'Do you or do you' turn into 'Ge or ge'?
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ReplyDeleteCONCESSION STAND(make a concession, take a stand)
Appetizer Menu
1. GEORGE(GE or GE?)
2. 59¢(L+E+M+O+N=12+5+13+15+14)
Menu
"Why so blue, Babe?" Slice
LUMBER, UMBER, SLUMBER
Entrees
1. MICHAEL PENN(NC), PENN(Pennsylvania), MICH(Michigan)
2. NEIL ARMSTRONG(first man on the moon, 1969), NEILARMSTNOR(Nebraska, Illinois, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Oregon)
3. MEMORIAL DAY, MEMORIALAWY(Maine, Missouri, Oregon, Rhode Island, Iowa, Alabama, Louisiana, Wyoming)
4. (Abraham)LINCOLN(LI=51), INDIANA(bordering Kentucky and Illinois), LINCOLNTON(NC), LINCOLN PARK(CO)
5. SCORIA(South Carolina, Colorado, Oregon, Rhode Island, Iowa)
6. (Washington)DC, Virgin Islands(VI); DC(600)÷VI(6)=C(100)
7. MAINE, RHODE ISLAND, and CALIFORNIA(the ME, RI, CA inside AMERICAN)
8. COCA-COLA(Colorado, California, and Louisiana)
9. (Forrest)GUMP(Guam and Northern Mariana Islands)
10. A canary, because their postal abbreviations, in that order, spell COALMINE(Colorado, Alabama, Michigan, Indiana, Nebraska).
Dessert
RICHIE ASHBURN, RASH, BURN, ITCHY
Mom and I had quite a day today. We thought I had a doctor's appointment in Birmingham this afternoon at 3:40pm, but we almost got lost getting there, and when we did we couldn't find the man's office(it was somewhere in the Neurology Dept.), and when we finally did, they told us he was working in the Kirklin Building, not the one we were in right then. Also, we were a day early by their records. So, as we were coming home, Mom kept saying she wrote down "Wednesday" for the appointment, and when we finally got home, she checked again, and sure enough, she wrote down "Thursday". But she was so tired from the long walk between where we had to park and the building itself, that she decided to cancel the appointment altogether! So I think we'll most likely go back later in the year(or early next year, whatever). And how was YOUR day?-pjb
It is a Boolean? math operation. And, or, not, both etc. In this case or. My theory.
ReplyDeleteI would have thought the hospital might have been a bit more accomodatling. Especially with your mom dealing with all her dialysis needs. Perhaps you could do a virtual appointment with the doc. I did one last month with my spouse. It was like a Skype appointment on the phone.
ReplyDeleteI looked up the menu at the Backporch. It looks like the prices have almost doubled since our visit a year ago. Not sure i can make it. May have to go to Fatburger-instead-never been there.
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Make up? Or take down?
Love U make = Love U take?
Something you make may be perceived as weakness. Something you take may be perceived as strength. Together, these things name a two-word place where you make purchases, then take them elsewhere for consumption. What is this place?
Answer:
Concession stand;
Appetizer Menu
“Do you or do you?” Appetizer
“Does it cost 50¢ or does it cost 50¢?”
1. There was once a boy that liked to ask redundant questions.
He would ask questions like “Do you or do you?”
What was the boy’s name?
Answer:
George. (Ge or ge?)
2. At the fruit store, there is a rule for the price of fruit. An apple costs 50¢, a pear costs 40¢, and an orange costs 60¢.
It might seem like the rule is 10¢ per letter, but a lemon does NOT cost 50¢. How much does a lemon cost?
Answer:
59¢
The sums of the alphanumeric values in the fruits are:
A+P+P+L+E=1+16+16+12+5=50
P+E+A+R=16+5+1+18=40
O+R+A+N+G+E=15+18+1+14+7+5=60
L+E+M+O+N=12+5+13+15+14=59
Therefore, a lemon costs 59 cents.
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“Why so blue, Babe?” Slice:
Fellers... like Paul Bunyan
Take a word associated with Paul Bunyan and other such fellers.
If you remove one letter you’ll get the color of some logs.
But if you instead add to the word a letter someplace you’ll get a word associated with sawing logs.
What are these three words?
Answer
Lumber, umber, slumber
Lego...
ReplyDeleteThis week's official answers for the record, part 2:
Riffing Off Shortz And Penn Slices:
COpeNHagen & MAdRID
Will Shortz’s September 4th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Michael Penn of Durham, North Carolina, reads:
Name two countries, with a total of 12 letters, that when spelled one after the other form six consecutive state postal abbreviations.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Penn Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Name a puzzle-maker. The third letter in his surname plus the third letter in his first name form the state postal abbreviation of his home state.
The four letters of his surname form a common state abbreviation. The FIRST four letters of his first name form a second common state abbreviation. Both states rank in the top-ten, population-wise.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
Answer:
Michael Penn; North Carolina (peNn, miChael); Mich.(igan), Penn.(sylvania)
ENTREE #2
Name an American, first and last names, who shares a distinction similar to distinctions shared by George Washington, Kamala Harris, Barrack Obama, Roger Bannister and Charles Lindburgh.
Delete the last letter of the name and rearrange the last three letters of this truncated name. The result is an “postal-abbreviation odyssey” with an itinerary that wends its way from Grand Island to Elgin to Fort Smith to Tupelo to Murfreesboro to Bend.
Who is this American?
Answer:
Neil Armstrong; Itinerary: NE=>IL=>AR=>MS=>TN=>OR
ENTREE #3
Name a U.S. federal holiday, in eleven letters. Replace the ninth letter with a different letter that, when spelled-out, begins with that ninth letter. Switch the positions of this new ninth letter and the tenth letter.
Name the states with postal abbreviations formed by the following letters of the result:
1st & 2nd,
3rd & 4th,
4th & 5th,
5th & 6th,
6th & 7th,
7th & 8th,
8th & 9th, and
10th & 11th.
The final result is a “postal-abbreviation odyssey” with an itinerary that wends its way from Portland to Kansas City to Corvallis to Pawtucket to Waterloo to Jasper to Bayou Cane to Green River.
What is this federal holiday?
Answer:
Memorial Day;
MemorialDay=>MemorialWay=>MemorialaWy;
Itinerary: ME=>MO=>OR=>RI=>IA=>AL=>LA=>WY
...from Portland, ME to Kansas City MO to Corvallis OR to Pawtucket RI to Waterloo IA to Jasper AL to Bayou Cane LA to Green River WY.
ENTREE #4
Take the surname of a U.S. president. The first two letters spell his age in Roman numerals when he was first elected president.
The second and third letters spell the postal abbreviation of a state that borders both the state in which he was born and the state he represented in Congress.
The third and fourth letters spell the postal abbreviation of a state that has a city with a population of 11,000 that begins with the president’s surname.
The fourth and fifth letters spell the postal abbreviation of a state that has a city with a population of more than 1,000 that begins with the president’s surname.
Who is this president?
What is the state bordering the state he represented and the state where he was born?
What are the two cities that begin with the president’s surname?
Answer:
Abraham Lincoln (LINCO+ln)
Indiana borders Illinois and Kentucky
Lincolnton, North Carolina; Lincoln Park, Colorado
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Penn Slices, continued:
ENTREE #5
String together five consecutive overlapping state postal abbreviations to spell a six-letter word that means “cindery lava or slag.”
Three of the states are coastal; two are landlocked.
What is this six-letter word?
What are these five states?
Answer:
Scoria;
SC+CO+OR+RI+IA
South Carolina, Colorado, Oregon, Rhode Island, Iowa
ENTREE #6
Dividing the postal abbreviation of the president’s residence by the U.S. Postal Service’s two-letter abbreviation for a certain U.S. territory will make the first letter of the postal abbreviation of the president’s residence disappear!
What are these two postal abbreviations?
Answer:
District of Columbia = DC; U.S. Virgin Islands = VI
In Roman numerals, DC = 600 and VI = 6; 600 divided by 6 = 100, or C, in Roman numerals.
ENTREE #7
Name three U.S. states what ARE NOT located in the American heartland geographically but that ARE located, “postal-abbreviationally,” in the heart of “American.”
What states are these?
Answer:
Maine, Rhode Island, California (all coastal states), but with postal abbreviations ME, RI and CA; a+ME+RI+CA+n
ENTREE #8
Use the state postal abbreviations of only three states to spell the brand name of a soft drink.
What is this soft drink?
What are the three states?
Answer:
Coca-Cola; CO (Colorado), CA (California), LA (Louisiana)
ENTREE #9
Place the U.S. Postal Service’s two-letter abbreviations for a pair of U.S. territories side-by-side to spell the surname of a fictional character associated with chocolate.
What are these two territories?
Who is the fictional character?
Answer:
Guam (GU), Northern Mariana Islands (MP); (Forrest) Gump
ENTREE #10
If Colorado, Alabama, Michigan, Indiana and Nebraska consolidated into one state, what would their state bird be?
Answer:
Canary (in a coal mine); COlorado, ALabama, MIchigan, INdiana, NEbraska
Dessert Menu
Dermatological Dessert:
“How much skin do you have in ‘the ol’ ballgame’?”
Take the first and last names of a baseball Hall-of-Famer. Move the first letter of the first name to the beginning of the last name. Divide the altered last name into two words: a skin irritation and what such irritations might do. The altered first name sounds like word describing such irritations.
Who is this Hall-of-Famer?
What are these three dermatological words?
Answer:
Richie Ashburn; itchy, rash, burn
Lego!
George has "or" in the middle and the same letters on both sides of the "or".
ReplyDeleteThanks, but sadly, I still don't see how having "do you" on either side of 'or' was supposed to lead to George?
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