PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVED
Schpuzzle of the Week:
Ranking the rank-and-file pieces
1. Knight and Bishop (tied for 1st)
2. Queen (2nd)
4. Pawn (4th)
5. King (5th)
What ranking system am I using?
Appetizer Menu
Friendly Yet Fiendish Appetizer:
Math, Music, Meds and More
(Note: The five appetizing puzzles below were composed by an irregular contributor to Puzzleria!”)
1. 🦶✋Take a word for a human body part. Then take a word for certain fractions.
Put those words together in that order to form a compound word for a general location.
What is the general location?
Music Genres & Geometry
Rearrange these letters to name a term for
certain music genres.
What are those terms?
Medicine & Geometry
Take the remaining letters and rearrange them to get a term for professionals who dealt in medicines and drugs.
What is the term?
Controversy & Advocacy
4. 📰Name a controversial subject, often in the news, in two words and a total of thirteen letters.
Remove the first letter of the second word, then remove the space between the remaining letters.
The resulting string of letters, in order from left to right, spells an adjective which advocates on either side of the controversy might use to describe the position of the advocates on the other side.
What is the adjective?
Hint: The first letter of the second word can also be the symbol of an element on the periodic table.
Tools, Tints & Potables
5. 🛠🍹Take the word for certain historical reaping tools. Change the second letter to the one following it in the alphabet.
The first and last letter are the same. The resulting string of 14 letters can be divided into three words to make a three-word historical term for “keep calm.” The term is a caution not unfamiliar to many an English soldier.
What are the tools and the term?
MENU
Anthology & Atlas Hors d’Oeuvre:
Two habitats for tabby cats
Remove an interior letter from a word in a world atlas.
What are these two places?
What is the word in the atlas?
Side-By-Side Slice:
Peppy auto-parts professionals?
The result is a three-syllable term for the nimblest of clerical professionals.
What is the noun?
What is this term?
Riffing Off Shortz And Bergmann Slices:
Telemachus’ Mentor... or Tormentor?
Will Shortz’s January 14th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Warren Bergmann of Neenah, Wisconsin, reads:
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Bergmann Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Take the name of a city that is the residence of a puzzle-maker whose name is an anagram of the three nouns in the sentence: “The wren ate from a manger in the barn.”
That city is in a state where the deer and some antelope play, some buffalo roam, where seldom a herd of moose can be heard but moos can be heard there all day. Replace the third letter of the city with a duplicate of the last letter, then copy the last three letters and repeat them at the front.
Who is this puzzle-maker and what is his residence?
What is the title of a 1990 song?
Note: Entrees #2, #3 and #4 were composed by Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is a regular feature on Puzzleria!
ENTREE #2
Take a word for a person who benefits you.
What are these two words?
Take a word for a person who can help you succeed at something.
Copy the last letter and insert the copied letter immediately after the first letter of the word. Add one additional letter to the end of the word and you’ll get a word that names something a person may engage in to try to keep you from succeeding.
What are these two words?
ENTREE #4
Take a word for a person who helps you acquire knowledge.
the fifth letter. You’ll name a person who may make you smart.
What are these two words?
Note: Entree #5 was composed by Plantsmith, author of the “Garden of the Puzzley Delights” feature on Puzzleria!
Take a word for someone who could help you. Replace the conjunction at the end with a three-letter chemistry term. Place a two-letter life-saving hospital space at the end. The result is someone who could hurt you.
Who could help you, and who could hurt you?
Think of an eight-letter verb whose last three letters and first three letters are the same, and in the same order.
What is this verb?
Hint: The verb’s middle two letters spell a number associated with “Middlemarch.”
Think of two words, six letters total, that stand for “nearly forty inches.” Copy the last three letters of this two-word phrase and repeat them at the front, remove the space, and you’ll get one new, longer word that is a trillion times as long as the “nearly forty inches” that the two words stand for.
What two words are these?
What is the longer word?
ENTREE #8
What is this “branched candlestick or lamp?”
Who is the athlete named Dawson?
What are the decopod crustacean and the Nabokov title?
What is the “magical charm or incantation?”
Note: The letters of the first name of the past professional athlete surnamed Dawson appear in reverse order (but not 100% consecutively) within the “branched candlestick or lamp with several lights.”
ENTREE #9
“What exactly __ _______ under my insurance policy?”
complete a pass.”
“Each roof in the village __ _______ with icy snow, making deliveries difficult for Santa and his reindeer.”
Place the two words missing from any one of the three sentences above next to each other with no space between them. Copy the last three letters (which spell a color) and repeat them at the front, and you’ll get a word that means “found or realized again.”
What words are in the blanks?
What is the word that means “found or realized again?”
ENTREE #10
What are the unit of work and the shape of a circle?
What is the word that can precede “Railroad” or follow “Velvet”?
ENTREE #11
Copy the last three letters of this word and repeat them at
the front, and you’ll get a new, three-letter-longer term for a fast freight train, like the Wabash Cannonball.
What is the word for the “mini-cannonball?”
What is the longer term for a fast freight train, like the Wabash Cannonball?
During the morning session of a 1976 weekend seminar training session at the Jack Tar Hotel in San Francisco, Beatrice listened to Werner Erhard himself expound on how the situations holding her back in life were working themselves out within the process of life itself.
Copy the last three letters of the six-letter word in the first blank and repeat them at the front, and you’ll get the nine-letter word that belongs in the second blank. What words are these?
Dessert Menu
Lip-Smack-Snack-Pack Dessert:
Budget + Judge = Bugles?
The surname of a past director of the Office of Management and Budget and the first name of a retired judge, both U.S. citizens, are the same.
The result sounds like a popular snack.
Who are this director and judge?
What is the snack?
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Slice is funny since our Apartment is about a block from a Pep Boys auto place here in GA. They are always so busy and have a two week wait to get an oil change. My wife says-"How can you take your car to a place called "Pep Boys.?" Where does this name come from? Pepperoni.? I will try and go by there and ask.
ReplyDeleteHere is the whole story, PLantie...you don't need to go ask them!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.pepboys.com/pep-boys-story
Did you see my homophone ditty on previous week? About a guy who got slapped in the lunch line?
DeleteTks. Manny, Moe and Jack. Sounds like the stooges. Here they mostly have service centers- not parts.
DeleteHaving finally made my way to the bottom after nearly 2.5 hours, I can report being stuck on: the first FOUR appetizers (at least I got #5), the Hors D'O, the Slice, and Entrees 5 and 6. (I'm not absolutely sure about #2, though, since my answer starts with a word I actually never knew WAS a word.)
ReplyDeleteI spent a LONG time on those first four appetizers, and thought I was getting close on #2, but....alas....
At least the Schpuzzle was easy this week (I do hope.)
The App 1 answer ends in a word for kinds of money.
DeleteThe fourth, fifth and sixth letters of the verb, in reverse order, in Entree 6 are an abbreviation.
I don't have the others you're missing yet.
I'm glad to read your last sentence, Nodd, because you ALWAYS seem to have everything solved before any of the rest of us! Thanks....will tackle after I get some sleep, not that there is any guarantee that App #1 and Ent 6 will work out for me, even with your hints.
DeleteThanks, but I actually think Tortie usually finishes before I do, and more often gets everything right than I do.
DeleteAw, thanks! I'm slower to get started, though, that's for sure!
DeleteTortieWhoIsPuttingThe"SlowButSure"PartOfThePuzzleColumnToGoodUse
I'm not 100% sure of the answer I got for App #2, but if you put an element in between the two words, you'll get a three-word phrase that is often used for a certain radio format.
DeleteFor App #4, the last two letters of the first word of the controversial subject spell the first name of a former politician associated with the subject.
VT, I have Entree 5 now. Hint for the first word: "Where there's a will there's a way."
DeleteTortie, thanks for the hint for App 4 -- I now have that too.
DeleteYes Nodd- and E5 is kind of a "killer" entree.
DeleteI "get" all the above comments, now. ; o )
DeleteNodd, not sure if you will see this comment in the long list of posts (that we always end up having), but my 'problem' with App #2 had been that I was using TOO COMPLICATED a word, and thus while I got the resultant correct answer, I had leftover letters that I couldn't make into anything. Will so indicate in my answer on Wed.
DeleteHappy("Happy"?)Winter to all upon this blog!
ReplyDeleteMom and I are fine, though it's still very cold here in AL. The ice finally melted, so we were able to eat out earlier this evening. We went with Bryan and Mia Kate to Sakura, a restaurant here in town specializing in Asian cuisine. Mia Kate was wanting to go to Rock 'n' Roll Sushi downtown, but Mom was worried about the parking situation over there. Oddly enough, Mia Kate said she doesn't even really like Chinese food, even though she was born in Beijing. She says a lot of it is too greasy for her taste, but both Sakura and the other place are fine. I had the chicken/steak/shrimp combination with the udon(wider)noodles. The thinner noodles are called "soba". Mom had the N.Y. strip steak hibachi, but she didn't finish it, as well as fried rice and two small salads(she didn't want the soup). Bryan had the chicken with what looked like the udon and some fried rice, and Mia Kate had Crab Rangoon and fried rice. Very good food over there. Bryan did sort of tease Mom about the way she was "playing" with her food, which she denied even though she couldn't help notice how everyone else had practically eaten all of ours and she was still eating! Lot of good conversation tonight. Bryan also revealed that there is a health inspector in Jasper who rarely ever gives any restaurant a 90% rating or more. We don't really know his reasons for doing so, but we usually have no problem understanding if it says 85%(like Sakura), it's still a clean enough place to eat. Apparently if you're not from here, and therefore not used to it, you probably think it's a very bad(or at least subpar)rating, so you just don't eat there. But just about every place gets a rating like that around here, so if you do come down here to stay for any reason, and you want to go out to eat, don't say I didn't warn you! Bryan also pointed out that, at any Asian restaurants down here, they may have dogs or cats as pets and keep them on the premises, and some folks may think they would actually cook and serve them, because some people would in certain Asian countries! Of course, most of us know better than that, but still it can be a little strange to be in the restaurant and all of a sudden you hear, plain as day, a cat meowing(he says it actually happened, too!). If you're not originally from here, then you would think the worst, naturally, but luckily there'd be someone there to let you know there's really nothing to worry about. Mia Kate mentioned she had a strange running with a "disheveled", as she put it, man who first asked her if she spoke English, and then asked her about Lin Gardens, another Asian restaurant here, and then said something about them not serving "real chicken", and then somebody else in the place piped up and said Lin Gardens has good food, and Mia Kate just left those two weirdos together to have their conversation(sounded better how she told it), as well as another time when she and Maddy were still in school(not home-schooled), and some other kid called Maddy a Mexican, and Mia Kate had to butt right in and set the girl straight, tell her they're both Chinese, and pretty much explain "if you're going to say something racist, you should get your facts straight!"(again, I'm not doing it justice, because it was much funnier when she told it.)
Let's just move on from there. I've done my other puzzles, I'm here, I basically just got Appetizers #1 and #5, and Entrees #1, #5, #6, #8, #9, #10, and #12, and nothing else so far. Looking forward, as usual, to any and every hint from Lego and whoever else came up with the Appetizers.
Good luck in solving to all, and please stay safe, and they say the weather is supposed to get better around here next week(but we still have to endure this weekend, so please pray for us!). Cranberry out!
pjbThinksMiaKateDidUseTheWord"Disheveled"Correctly,EvenThoughBryanThoughtItNecessaryToCorrectHerAboutIt
You ever consider being a food critic? You are really good at it.
ReplyDeleteIf you every watched Anthony Bourdain's travel show you might have seen him trying barbecued guinea pig in Brazil on an open barbecue-outdoors. That was enough to turn me toward the veggies. We all need protein to some extent. My DIL in NYC is vegan so when i cook for her it is usually vegan and i make my " Portabella Risotto, which is not bad.
Cats in the kitchen? It is a good luck thing? Come to think of it -i have seen this a couple of times.
I am vegan too. Low grocery bills and no grease in your kitchen, no blood on your cutting board or in your fridge, etc. You do need to take B12, though, or so the authorities say. Weird how people in this country are appalled at the idea of anyone eating a guinea pig, or horse, or dog, but not a cow, pig, or bird.
DeleteBeans and rice for protein right?
DeleteNo, too much gas along with the broccoli and stuff. I use tofu, a more complete protein than other beans but very easy to digest.
DeleteHi, everyone. Got most of the puzzles this week so far, but am still missing App #3, Hors d'Oeuvre, and the Slice. I'm also not so sure about Entrees #2 (first word is kind of hard to find in dictionary) and #4 (a different kind of "smart").
ReplyDeleteI kept trying to get parents to work for your riff on Blaines. Mentors to monsters-well. It happens right? As in "Whiplash."
DeleteTortie, the Cambridge Dictionary has an entry for the first word of Entree 2, if that helps. It sounds to me like you have Entree 4 figured out, at least the most difficult part.
DeleteHint for A5---Sarah Michelle Gellar.
ReplyDeleteIt has been determined that A5 and E5 have a number of circuitous cinematic-literary links. It appears that A3, on the other hand, is literally fiendish.
DeleteThere is also a literary connection between them.
DeleteA1-- is dirty money--hot or cold?? Kind of money.
Could you, Cloak'n Dagger, possibly be the mysterious AUTHOR of the Appetizers?
DeleteCongrats to Lego on another NPR puzzle selection!
ReplyDeleteHe is on the heels of Steve Baggish. It's neck and neck. He may catch him this year. I don't know. I hope so.
DeleteWhat are the numbers? Since I've been participating, it seems like Lego has had more successes than Steve.
DeleteNot really sure as i lost Will's email. I had Lego at 13 on the previous count.
DeleteHello, all.
ReplyDeleteHave solved everything except App #3, Hors d'Oeuvre, Slice, and the infamous Entrée #2.
Geo, see additional hint below.
DeleteSunday hints for Entrees 2, 3, and 4:
ReplyDelete2. The second word is a member of a certain football team.
3. Rearranging the letters of the first word spells a person who might try to take something from you unfairly.
4. The first three letters of the first word spell a kind of football player.
Tons of rain not far from you? 6 inches in San Diego area. Here is it is warming up a little -up to 40 degrees this A.M.
DeleteSunday PM Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Ranking rank-and-file pieces
Here is how I rank the six chess pieces:
1. Knight and Bishop (tied for 1st with a factor of 23)
2. Queen (2nd with a factor of 31)...
Friendly Yet Fiendish Appetizer:
1. "Certain fractions" are also "certain coins."
2. A three dimensional geometric figure is neither a gas nor water in a glass.
3. Pharmacists of yesteryear...
4. The "adjective which advocates on either side of the controversy might use to describe the position of the advocates on the other side" is a kind of a "wake-up call," albeit not a ticking time bomb.
5. The "Vampire Slayer" now has boyfriend that doesn't tremble with fear every time they go out on a date!
Anthology & Atlas Hors d’Oeuvre
The word on the world atlas is a nation.
The popular anthology begins with an "In" and ends with an "n".
Side-By-Side Slice:
Professionals who are "clerical"... not in the "clerky" sense but in the "clergy" sense.
Riffing Off Shortz And Bergmann Slices:
ENTREE #1
The Belgian band is Vaya Con Dios.
ENTREE #2
Did Paul Revere (and Mark Lindsay) and Ralph Nader's minions try to take benefits from us?!
ENTREE #3
Did that British fishmonger Arthur try to keep us from succeeding?!
ENTREE #4
Sure, this person may help us acquire knowledge... but he tends to be a tad absent-minded.
ENTREE #5
If you have an encounter with the "someone who could hurt you" your next of kin may hire the "someone who helps them (but, alas, can no longer help you!
ENTREE #6
The number associated with “Middlemarch” is not rational.
ENTREE #7
“Nearly forty inches” cannot be measured with a yardstick... you'll need a different kind of stick.
ENTREE #8
Liberace
ENTREE #9
"Due to the Shramanic influence, the _____ culture turned unfriendly toward ____.
The nine letters in each of the three two-blank sets can be rearrange to form the 5 an 4 letters in the blanks above.
ENTREE #10
Uncle Tom; Lou Reed
ENTREE #11
Al Oerter
ENTREE #12
Emily Littela: "What's all this I hear about Extra Sensory Terception?..."
Lip-Smack-Snack-Pack Dessert:
Budget + Judge = Bugles?
The Management & Budget Director, associated with J.C.
The retired judge, associated with O.J.
LegoClerihewicallyClerical:
Our Packer QB Jordan Love
When playoff push did'st come to shove
Ate up them Cowboys like Nabisco...
But then got nipped by San Francisco!
Got Entrees #3 and #4 and the Dessert for sure, but have my doubts about #11. Also, haven't solved your latest Sunday Puzzle idea chosen by the PuzzleMaster himself.
DeletepjbCannot,Unfortunately,ProcessSuchObviouslyUnusualPuzzles
For Entree #11, the word used for the train is usually used in another way. If you look at this word in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, you'll see that the train definition is the third definition.
DeleteThanks, Tortie! I wasn't getting anywhere with "cusdiscus"(if that's TMI, Lego, just remove this post).
DeletepjbHasOneMorePertainingToTheSundayPuzzle:"Can'tAlwaysNeedleBlaine---EveryoneEnjoysRhetoric."
I figured clerical would not be a typist- as i also surmise a container is not a cup or an object -but something else? Hot or cold? Getting warmer?
ReplyDeletePS, are you referring to the current NPR puzzle?
DeleteI Think so.
DeleteBut i could be wrong. Have not cracked the case. It's the kind of puzzle i like as i don't get them right away-like 8:05 and then spend the week playing solitaire.
DeleteThe container used in the puzzle is a typical container. Don't think I'm saying too much by revealing that. If so, Lego, please delete this comment. (I know it would be deleted on Blaine's blog.)
DeleteThanks for the hints. I now have the Hors d'Oeuvre and the Slice, and I've verified that my questionable answers are right.
ReplyDeleteStill struggling with App #3. The hint does narrow it down somewhat. I've tried three different words, both in their singular and plural forms, with no luck.
Ooh, finally solved App #3. One of my initial words was correct.
DeleteE5. Also reminds me of recent events in Alabama- in the news.
ReplyDeleteSCHPUZZLE – The pieces are ranked by adding up the alphanumeric values of their letters: KNIGHT = 69; BISHOP = 69; QUEEN = 62; PAWN = 54; KING = 41
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS
1. HEADQUARTERS
2. SOLID; OLDIES
3. ?? (I thought of “apothecaries” but couldn’t think of a geometric shape.)
4. GLOBAL WARMING; ALARMING
5. SCYTHES SDYTHES STEADY THE BUFFS
HORS D’OEUVRE – DEN, ARK; DENMARK
SLICE – ??
ENTREES
1. Warren Bergmann of Neenah, Wisconsin
2. AIDER; RAIDER
3. TEACHER; TREACHERY.
4. OPPRESSOR
5. EXECUTOR; EXECUTIONER
6. RESPIRES; R.I.P.; HINT – PI
7. A METER; TERAMETER
8. CANDELABRA; LEN; CADABRA; CRAB, ADA; ABRACADABRA
9. IS COVERED; REDISCOVERED
10. ERG, ROUND; UNDERGROUND
11. SHOT; HOTSHOT
12. ESTING; INGESTING
DESSERT – BERT LANCE; LANCE ITO; BURRITO
Schpuzzle: Chess pieces ranked by sum of indices of their letters (A = 1, B = 2, ...)
ReplyDeleteBISHOP, KNIGHT = 69; QUEEN = 62; CASTLE = 60 (ROOK = 59); PAWN = 54; KING = 41
Appetizers:
#1: HEAD + QUARTERS = HEADQUARTERS
#2: DISC + O = DISCO; (alt.:) SPHERE + T → HEPSTER
#3: PARALLELOGRAM – L – MG – O → PARALEGAL (?)
#4: GLOBAL WARMING – GLOB (blog) = ALWARMING – W = ALARMING
#5: SCYTHES + TEA, BUFF → STEADY THE BUFFS
Hors d'Oeuvre: DENMARK – M = DEN, ARK (where lions are found in the Bible) [post-Sun-hint]
Slice: PRIEST PRIEST + S → SPRIEST PRIEST [post-Sun-hint]
Entrées:
#1: NAH + NEENAH, chg E to H → NAH NEH NAH (never heard of it)
#2: EJECTER, REJECTER; E-SELLER, RESELLER
#3: TEACHER + R,Y → TREACHERY
#4: PROFESSOR → PPROFESSOR → OPPRFESSOR – F → OPPRESSOR
#5: EXECUTOR – OR + ION, ER → EXECUTIONER
#6: RESPIRES, RIP, PI
#7: A METER + TER → TERAMETER
#8: CANDELABRA – LEN Dawson → ADA, CRAB → ABACADABRA
#9: IS COVERED + RED → REDISCOVERED
#10: ERG + ROUND + UND → UNDERGROUND
#11: SHOT + HOT → HOTSHOT
#12: ESTing → INGESTING
Dessert: BERT Lance – T, Lance ITO → BERITO → BURRITO
Nice job on App 3. I must learn to read more literally.
ReplyDeleteOhhhh, it's that old trick of literally using the words in the puzzle itself, i.e. "geometric shape" for App 3, instead of it being something in the geometry vocabulary....how did you think of that, Tortie?
ReplyDeleteSomebody please explain to me why the Hors D'O hint said that anthology "Begins with IN... and ends with "N"" when it turns out to be the Bible?
ReplyDeleteThe bible begins with "In the beginning" and ends with "Amen.
DeleteLeGenesis...
That never, ever would have occurred to me, Lego.
DeletePuzzeleria 1-24--24” (42 degrees this AM in GA.)
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Ranking rank-and-file pieces by adding values of letters
1. Knight and Bishop =69
2. Queen 62
3. Pawn 54
4.King -41 (Also a prime number.? Worth more)
Friendly Yet Fiendish Appetizer:
1.Head, Quarters - (Alt** Could work with a language in front as recent trip to NOLA illustrates-French quarter as a particular locatlion..
2. Solid, Oldies
3. Druggist- as in Rexall Drugs.?? Dodecahedron- D.
4. Scythes, Tea,Buff–Steady the Buffs,
Anthology & Atlas Hors d’Oeuvre
Side-By-Side Slice:
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Riffing Off Shortz And Bergmann Slices:
ENTREE Walter Bergman –,New Nah-Wisconsin–Nah-neh-nah
ENTREE #2
Aiders– Raiders
ENTREE #3
Teacher- treachery
ENTREE #4 Professor- oppressor
ENTREE #5
Executor–Executioner
Entree #6 Respires, -PI—R.I.P.
Lip-Smack-Snack-Pack Dessert:
Dore ? and judge Lance Ito- Doritos
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteIt has to do with the alphanumerical value of each letter in the words.
Appetizer Menu
1. HEAD+QUARTERS=HEADQUARTERS
2. SOLID+E=OLDIES
3. "A GEOMETRIC SHAPE"-E and MG(milligram)=APOTHECARIES
4. GLOBAL WARMING-BLOG and W=ALARMING
5. SCYTHES-C+TEA+D+BUFF=STEADY THE BUFFS
Menu
Anthology & Atlas Hors d'Oeuvre
DENMARK, DEN, ARK
Side-By-Side Slice
PRIEST, SPRIEST PRIEST
Entrees
1. WARREN BERGMANN=WREN+MANGER+BARN; NEENAH(WI), "NAH NEH NAH"(Vaya Con Dios in 1990, then Keimzeit in 1996, Rico Bernasconi in 2010, and Milk & Sugar in 2011)
2. AIDER, RAIDER
3. TEACHER, TREACHERY
4. PROFESSOR, OPPRESSOR
5. MENTOR, MENTIONER(ION and ER[emergency room])
6. RESPIRES, RIP(Rest In Peace), PI(associated with Middlemarch)
7. A METER, TERAMETER
8. CANDELABRA-LEN(Dawson)=CADABRA(CRAB, ADA), ABRACADABRA
9. IS COVERED, REDISCOVERED
10. ERG, ROUND, UNDERGROUND
11. SHOT, HOTSHOT
12. "EST"ING, INGESTING
Dessert Menu
Lip-Smack-Snack-Pack
BERT LANCE, LANCE ITO(BERT-T=BER+ITO=BURRITO)
Went to a sleep center in Birmingham Monday morning. Effective April 10th through the 12th, I have to actually sleep with a CPAP on. Happy early birthday to me!-pjb
Happy Birthday, Patrick!
DeleteLegoWhoBelievesPatrickToBeForeverYoung
Felice Cumpleanos Patrick.
DeleteHappy Birthday!
DeleteThis week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Ranking rank-and-file pieces
Here is how I rank the six chess pieces:
1. Knight and Bishop (tied for 1st)
2. Queen (2nd)
3. Castle, also known as a Rook (3rd)
4 . Pawn (4th)
5. King (5th)
What ranking system am I using?
Answer:
I rank the pieces by calculating the sum of their alphabetical-rank letter-values. (A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.). So:
1. Knight (69=11+14+9+7+8+20); Bishop (69=2+9+19+8+15+16)... tied for first
2. Queen (62=17+21+5+5+14)
3. Castle (60=3+1+19+20+12+5); also known as a Rook (59=18+15+15+11)
4. Pawn (54=16+1+23+14)
5. King (41=11+9+14+7)
Appetizer Menu
Friendly Yet Fiendish Appetizer:
Math, Music, Meds and More
(Note: The five appetizing puzzles below were composed by an irregular contributor to Puzzleria!”)
Body Parts & Other Fractions
1. Take a word for a human body part. Then take a word for certain fractions. Put those words together in that order to form a compound word for a general location. What is the general location?
Answer:
Headquarters (which is also a general staff location, a general aide location, a colonel location, and so forth)
Music Genres & Geometry
2. Take a term for a three dimensional geometric figure. Add a letter. Rearrange the letters to name a term for certain music genres. What are those terms?
Answer:
Solid (+ e & rearranged =) Oldies
Medicine & Geometry
3. Take a geometric shape. Remove one of the three letters that appears thrice, then remove two letters that can be used together to form an abbreviation for a unit of measure often used for medicines. Take the remaining letters and rearrange them to get a term for professionals who dealt in medicines and drugs. What is the term?
Answer:
Apothecaries [Explanation: "a geometric shape" - e - mg (milligram) & rearranged = apothecaries, now called pharmacists. Note the past tense "dealt".]
Hint: The letters which can be a unit of measure can also be the symbol of an element on the periodic table; and Booker T is associated with more than one.
Controversy & Advocacy
4. Name a controversial subject, often in the news, in two words and a total of thirteen letters.
Remove a number of consecutive letters from the beginning of the first word – letters that can be rearranged to describe what you are now reading.
Remove the first letter of the second word, then remove the space between the remaining letters.
The resulting string of letters, in order from left to right, spells an adjective which advocates on either side of the controversy might use to describe the position of the advocates on the other side.
What is the adjective?
Answer: Alarming (Global Warming - glob [a rearrangement of blog, which you are now reading] - W - the space)
Hint: The first letter of the second word can also be the symbol of an element on the periodic table.
Tools,Tints & Potables
5. Take the word for certain historical reaping tools. Change the second letter to the one following it in the alphabet. Then insert the name of a beverage after the first letter. Then insert the name of a color before the last letter. The first and last letter are the same. The resulting string of 14 letters can be divided into three words to make a three-word historical term for "keep calm". The term is a caution not unfamiliar to many an English soldier. What are the tools and the term?
Answer:
Scythes & Steady the Buffs [Explanation: Scythes, change c to d, + tea + buff = Steady the Buffs]
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Nice ones I.C. Fooled me again. Drats. Have you tried Mucinex?
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Anthology & Atlas Hors d’Oeuvre
Two habitats for tabby cats
Remove an interior letter from a word in a world atlas.
The result, according to a popular anthology, is a pair of places where certain felines can be found.
What are these two places?
What is the word in the altas?
Answer:
Den, Ark (places, according to the Bible, where many lions and Daniel coexisted, and where two lions and Noah coexisted); Denmark
Side-By-Side Slice:
Peppy auto-parts professional?
Write a noun down twice, side-by-side, divided by a space.
Add a consonant someplace.
The result is a two-word, three-syllable term for the nimblest of clerical professionals.
What is the noun?
What is this term?
Answer:
Spriest priest
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Telemachus’ Mentor... or Tormentor?
ENTREE #1
Take the name of a city that is the residence of a puzzle-maker whose name is an anagram of the three nouns in the sentence: “The WREN ate from a MANGER in a BARN.”
Name a city in a state where the deer and some antelope play, some buffalo roam, where seldom a herd of moose can be heard but moos can be heard there all day. Replace the third letter with a duplicate of the last letter, then copy the last three letters and repeat them at the front.
Divide the result into three equal parts, separated by two wide open spaces. The result is the title of a 1990 song by a Belgian band that was covered in 1996 by a German band and in 2011 by a German house duo.
Who is this puzzle-maker and what is his residence?
What is the title of a 1990 song?
Answer:
Warren Bergmann, Neenah, (Wisconsin); “Nah Neh Nah” (by Vaya Con Dios in 1990, covered by Keimzeit in 1996, and by Milk & Sugar in 2011)
Note: Entrees #2, #3 and #4 were composed by Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is a regular feature on Puzzleria!
ENTREE #2
Take a word for a person who benefits you.
Copy the last letter and repeat it at the front of the word and you’ll get a word that names a person who may try to take benefits from you.
What are these two words?
Answer:
AIDER; RAIDER
ENTREE #3
Take a word for a person who can help you succeed at something.
Copy the last letter and insert the copied letter immediately after the first letter of the word. Add one additional letter to the end of the word and you’ll get a word that names something a person may engage in to try to keep you from succeeding.
What are these two words?
Answer:
TEACHER; TREACHERY.
ENTREE #4
Take a word for a person who helps you acquire knowledge.
Double the first letter. Move what is now the fourth letter to the front, and delete what is now the fifth letter. You’ll name a person who may make you smart.
What are these two words?
Answer:
PROFESSOR; OPPRESSOR
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ENTREE #5
Take a word for someone who could help you. Replace the conjunction at the end with a three-letter chemistry term. Place a two-letter life-saving hospital space at the end. The result is someone who could hurt you.
Executor - or + ion = Execution + ER (Emergency Room)= Executioner.
ion is a charged group of ions. Cations have a positive charge and anions a negative charge.
Take a word for someone who could help you. Replace last two letters with a chemistry term. Add a suffix to the end to get someone who could hurt you.
Answer:
Executor - -or +ion = Execution + ER= Executioner.
ion is a charged group of ions. Cations have a positive charge and anions a negative charge
ENTREE #6
Think of an eight-letter verb whose last three letters and first three letters are the same, and in the same order. If a creature does this verb, it is alive. The fourth, fifth and sixth letters of the verb, in reverse order, are associated with a creature that no longer does this verb.
What is this verb?
Hint: The verb middle two letters spell a number associated with “Middlemarch.”
Answer:
Respires; (PIR becomes R.I.P, or Rest In Peace)
ENTREE #7
Think of two words, six letters total, that stand for “nearly forty inches.” Copy the last three letters of this two-word phrase and repeat them at the front, remove the space, and you’ll get one new, longer word that is a trillion times as long as the “nearly forty inches” that the two words stand for.
What two words are these?
What is the longer word?
Answer:
"A meter"; Terameter
ENTREE #8
Think of a word for “a branched candlestick or lamp with several lights.” Remove from it the letters of the first name of a past professional athlete surnamed Dawson, leaving a seven-letter result that can be rearranged to spell a decapod crustacean and a Nabokov novel title. Copy the last four letters of this seven-letter result and repeat them at the front, and you’ll get a new, longer word for “a magical charm or incantation.”
What is this “branched candlestick or lamp?”
Who is the athlete named Dawson, the decopod crustacean?
What is the “a magical charm or incantation?”
Answer:
Candelabra; Len (Dawson, quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs), Crab, "Ada"; Abracadabra
(CANDELABRA - LEN = CADABRA = CRAB + ADA)
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“What exactly __ _______ under my insurance policy?”
“When his wide out or flanker __ _______ tightly by the free safety or cornerback it is nigh impossible for the quarterback to complete a pass.”
“Each roof in the village __ _______ with icy snow, making deliveries difficult for Santa and his reindeer.”
Place the two words missing from any one of the three sentences above next to each other with no space between them. Copy the last three letters (which spell a color) and repeat them at the front, and you’ll get a word that means “found or realized again.”
What words are in the blanks?
What is the word that means “found or realized again?”
Answer:
is covered; Rediscovered
ENTREE #10
Place, without a space, a unit of work to the left of the shape of a circle. Copy the last three of these letters and repeat them at the front, and you’ll get a new, longer word that can precede “Railroad” or follow “Velvet.”
What are the unit of work and the shape of a circle?
What is the word that can precede “Railroad” or follow “Velvet”?
Answer:
Erg, Round; Underground
ENTREE #11
Think of a four-letter word for an iron or brass “mini-cannon-ball” that is heaved on the field (but not the track). Copy the last three letters and repeat them at the front, and you’ll get a new, longer seven-letter term for a fast freight train, like the Wabash Cannonball.
What is the four-letter word for the “mini-cannon-ball?”
What is the seven-letter term for a fast freight train, like the Wabash Cannonball?
Answer:
Shot (which is heaved, or "put" in the shot put field event); Hotshot
ENTREE #12
During the morning session of a 1976 weekend seminar training session at the Jack Tar Hotel in San Francisco, Beatrice listened to Werner Erhard himself expound on how the situations holding her back in life were working themselves out within the process of life itself. After this morning of “______,” Beatrice and many of her fellow seminar-goers spent their two-hour break-period _________ Bacon-Wrapped Scallops, Stone Harbor Nachos and Oysters Rockefeller at the hotel buffet.
Copy the last three letters of the six-letter word in the first blank and repeat them at the front, and you’ll get the nine-letter word that belongs in the second blank. What words are these?
Answer:
"esting"; ingesting
Dessert Menu
Lip-Smack-Snack-Pack Dessert:
Budget + Judge = Bugles?
The surname of an Office of a past Budget and Management Director and the first name of a retired judge, both U.S. citizens, are the same.
Place the director’s first name to the left of the judge’s surname. Remove the middle letter.
The result sounds like a popular snack. Who are this director and judge.
What is the snack?
Answer:
Bert Lance, Lance Ito; Burrito (Ber+Ito)
Lego!
It was kind of a last ditch attempt since none of the "normal" shapes were working. Looking back on the puzzle after I solved it, I noticed it only asked for the pharmacy term. That might be a hint to us in the future that we're looking for something tricky!
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