“The boy and the 7-letter word” Nouns & names... not the same; “The Puzzle-Solver’s Motto?” "Quick-as-whip-up-a-quiche!" Disaster: name, rescue, cause! Small & wingless, large & winged

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Nouns & names... not the same

Take a proper noun that has been changed to a new noun – like Bombay to Mumbai, Datsun to Nissan, Constantinople to Istanbul, Saul to Paul, Siam to Thailand, or Persia to Iran. Four letters in the original noun are duplicated in the new noun. 

Remove four letters, just the duplicates. Rearrange the combined remaining letters of both nouns to form a possible new common name for venues in Orlando or Anaheim – a name that might replace the present names.

What are the original noun and new noun?

What is the new two-word name for venues in Orlando, Florida or in Anaheim, California?

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A “Stylish” And “Eventful” Appetizer:

“The boy and the 7-letter word”

“Playing Hangman, Stylishly”

1. 🤵👰Take a seven-letter word where the sixth letter is K. Change the K to an H and reverse the fourth and fifth letters to get the style in which you might make the original word. 

What is the original seven-letter word with a K as its sixth letter?

What is the style in which you might make that original word?

Does “Bobby” eventually become “an Event?”

2. 👦🕺Take a six-letter boy’s name. 

The first three letters followed by SE spell the first word in the name of a two-word event. The last four letters of the boy’s name are the second word in the event. What is the boy’s name? What is the two-word event? 

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Jumbo Jet Hors d’Oeuvre:

Small & wingless, large & winged

Remove the first and final letters from a small wingless creature to spell a large winged creature. What are these creatures

Newsworthy Slice:

Disaster: name, rescue, cause!

Name a two-word term, often abbreviated, that has lately been in the news. Rearrange the letters of its non-abbreviated form to spell:

* a name associated with a disaster,

* What might have rescued some people from the disaster, and 

* what originally produced the cause of the disaster.

What are the two-word term in the news, the name associated with a disaster, what might have rescued people, and what originally produced the cause of the disaster?

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Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:

“Quick-as-whip-up-a-quiche!”

Will Shortz’s August 11th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Greg VanMechelen of Berkeley, California, reads:

Think of a popular food item in six letters. Change the last two letters to a K to make a common five-letter word in which none of the letters are pronounced the same as in the six-letter food. What food is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a popular puzzle-maker in fifteen letters. Rearrange them to name:

* A city by the sea a two-hours’-drive south from his hometown, 

* the three-letter abbreviation of a neighboring state, and

* a creature and what the creature produces.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the city by the sea, the neighboring state, the creature and what it produces?

Note: The following puzzle-riff Entree was created and contributed by the author of the current National Public Radio Puzzle Challenge, Greg VanMechelen (aka “Ecoarchitect”). It is a riff on the theme of Will Shortz’s August 11th NPR on-air puzzle segment. 

ENTREE #2

The August 11th NPR on-air puzzle  (with Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Weekend Edition Sunday host Ayesha Rascoe) consisted of six-letter words with one letter used once, another twice, and a third used three times. Name a common ten-letter word that contains a certain letter once, another letter twice, a third letter three times, and a fourth letter four times. There are two answers that might be appropriate for summer. Can you find them?

Note: Entrees #3 through #8 are riffs created and contributed by Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” has become a popular Puzzlerian staple.  

ENTREE #3

Think of a popular food item in five letters. Change the last two letters to a two-letter state postal abbreviation. 

The result will be a common five-letter word in which only one of the letters is pronounced the same as in the food item. 

What are the food item and the common word?

ENTREE #4

Think of a word in six letters that describes certain kinds of food items. 

Insert a T between the fifth and sixth letters to make a word meaning brave. 

Although the two words have the same first five letters, only one of those letters is pronounced the same in both words. 

What are the two words?

ENTREE #5

Think of a common food item. 

The item is pronounced as if it has a U, a Y,
and another U, in that order. 

However, it does not contain any of those letters. 

What is the item?

ENTREE #6

Think of a two-syllable food item in five letters. Change the fourth letter to a G and add a T at the end. 

The result will be a word of only one syllable. 

Although the two words have four letters in common, only one of those letters is pronounced the same in both words. 

What are the food item and the one-syllable word?

ENTREE #7

Think of a popular food item in five letters. Replace the last letter with the name of a popular magazine. 

The result will be a second food item. The two food items have the same first four letters but only one of those letters is pronounced the same in both items. 

What are these two food items?

ENTREE #8

Think of a five-letter word that describes a kind of cooking. It is pronounced the same as a
three-letter food item, but the two words have only one letter in common. What are these two words? 

(Hint: The three-letter item would not normally be considered an example of the kind of cooking.)

ENTREE #9

Think of a popular food item in seven letters. Change the last three letters to a K to make a common five-letter word in which none of the
letters are pronounced the same as in the seven-letter food. 

What food is this?

What is the five-letter word?

Hint: Were it beheaded, the food item would be a palindrome.

ENTREE #10

Take two three-letter words that share the same first letter and the same last letter. 

The first word is associated with “hot under the collar.” The second word is associated with “cold within the cooler.”

Place, without a space, the common surname of American comedians named Margaret and Henry in front of each word. Add a “d” to the end of the “hot under the collar” word. The result is a synonym of “sang.” Add nothing at all to the end of the “cold within the cooler” word. The result is a synonym of “option.”

These two results share no vowel or consonant sounds in common (the same as PUZZLE and ENIGMA, for example).

What are these two three-letter words?

Who are these two comedians?

What are the synonyms of “sang” and “option?”

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Dendrological Dessert:

“The Puzzle-Solver’s Motto?”

Take two three-letter trees. Write one of them twice. Place the other tree between the original tree and its copy. 

Replace the copy on the right with a one of its possible homophones. (You can add an “r” to the end of this homophone to form an object oft seen in still-life paintings.)

The result, read aloud, sounds like two words that precede the words “...it out” in what might be a puzzle solver’s motto. What is this motto?

What are the two three-letter trees?

What is the homophone of one of them?

Hint: The motto is something the puzzle-solver might say to himself as a kind of an encouragement. 

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

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

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