Thursday, October 31, 2024

Plantsmith's Hal: “Oh! Wendy!” “Heavenly Evenrude!” “Hens in a tent?” and “Economy of letters” Shifting an "artifactual" synonym; Four such newsy surnames! Lyricists Lewis and D____; November: ‘Tis nearly time to vote; Hounds bay, does Hudson bay?

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Four such newsy surnames!

Change a letter of a surname in the news.

Insert a letter within a second such surname. 

In a third such surname, replace two letters with one. 

In a fourth such surname, delete the last letter, delete either the third or fourth letter and change two vowel sounds. 

The result is a category and three nouns that fit it. 

What are the surnames, category and three nouns?

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Delightfully Puzzley Appetizer:

Hal: “Oh! Wendy!” “Heavenly Evenrude!” “Economy of letters,” “Hens in a tent?

Hal: “Oh! Wendy!

1. 👻Young Hal and his siter Wendy have snuck up into the scare-worthy attic of their house to feast on their fresh “Halloween Haul” of Trick-or-Treat candy. In the midst of their munching and crunching, they hear an eerie creaking. It is a creaking they have heard up here before...

“Oh, Wendy, who made that sound?”  Hal asks Wendy. “Is it our ________ ________?”

Take a word for a trouble-making rowdy young ruffian who might steal all your candy on Halloween! That is the word in the first blank.

Change one letter in that word by rotating it
one place back in the alphabet stream (A=>Z,
B=>A, C=>B, etc.) to form the word in the second blank. The result is two rhyming words. The first word appears in dictionaries, but not the second word.

The second word, however, is a homophone of a two-word phrase – a five-letter noun and a five-letter adverb.

What are the dictionary word and the non-dictionary word in the two blanks? 

What are the five-letter noun and five-letter adverb?

Heavenly Evenrude! 

2. 🛥Think of a three-word,12-letter caption for this picture. It  contains a preposition, article and a noun that is a compound word.

Mix up the letters in this caption to get a five-word phrase related to “test criteria.” 

Economy of letters

3. 🏖The name of a famous U.S. beach spot contains seven letters. 

But it contains only three different letters of the alphabet – one consonant and two different vowels.

What is this beach spot?

Hint: It is a favorite of an ex-president. 

Hens in a tent?

4. 🐔🐔🐔Take a seven-letter camping item. Change its first letter to the letter five places later in the alphabet.

Change its last letter to the letter one place earlier in the alphabet.

The result is other camping items.

What are these two camping items?

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Suffragator Cave Hors d’Oeuvre:

November: ‘Tis nearly time to vote

Translate parts of the following free verse into a three-words-shorter free verse :

‘Tis nearly November, time to vote... 

Your decision is aye, nay.

Vote “either or yea” or “neither or nay”.

(In the second line, focus on sound rather than spelling.)

The following refresher course may help:

A PIG LATIN REFRESHER COURSE:

For Words Beginning With Vowels:

If you want to create a Pig Latin word from an English word starting with a vowel, add the suffix  “-way”, “-aye” “-yay” or “-yea” at the end of the original word. 
For instance:

Oval becomes ovalyea

Ultimate become ultimateyea

Odd becomes oddyea

If you want to translate a Pig Latin word into English, subtract the suffix  “-way”, “-aye” “-yay” or “-yea” from the end of the Pig Latin word. 

For instance:

Ovalyea becomes oval

Ultimateyea become ultimate

Oddyea becomes odd

Instrumental Slice:

Lyricists Lewis and D____

Name musical instruments, in three syllables. 

Change the third letter to one of the two next to it in the alphabet. 

Before the last letter, insert the first name that lyricists surnamed Lewis and D____ share in common. 

Divide the result into three equal parts to get what sounds like a collection of music publishers and songwriters, including two who are surnamed Lewis and D____.

What are these instruments and the collection of music publishers and songwriters?

What are the names of the lyricists?

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:

Hounds bay, but does Hudson bay?

Will Shortz’s October 27th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:

Name a place somewhere on the globe – in two words. Rearrange the letters of the first word to name some animals. The second word in the place name is something those animals sometimes do. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker – first and last names. Rearrange the first five letters of the last name to form a apostrophized possessive proper noun. 

Place the first name after this proper noun. 

The result is a two word phrase that, according to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is defined by “to protect his people, the Asgardians, and relocate them to Earth.”

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What is the two-word phrase?

Note: Entree #2 was submitted by a fan of Puzzleria!... as well as a fan of ghosts, goblins, and werewolves.

ENTREE #2

There are valedictions in tongues from Arabic to Zuni. Working in the lab late one night, Mad Scientist beheld that carbolic acid can mean “goodbye” in any language. 

Take the letters of carbolic acid, liquidate one of them, and arrange the undead letters to formulate a two-word description of a Stephen King novel title character. 

The letter that was “taken for a ride” is the same letter that begins the title of the novel and the name of the title character. 

What is the name of the title character? 

What is the two-word description? 

Note: Entrees #3 through #8 were submitted by Nodd, author of “Nodd ready for prime time” on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #3

Name a historically important place in the Eastern U.S., in two words. 

The first word names an animal. 

The second word is something those animals sometimes do. 

What place is it?

ENTREE #4

Name a place in the Western U.S., in two words. 

The first word describes dogs who often accompany humans out in the country. 

The second word is something the dogs sometimes do. 

What place is it?

ENTREE #5

Name a place somewhere in South America, in two words. 

The first word names an animal. 

Rearrange its letters to name something these animals usually do. 

Then take the name of the country in which the place is located and advance its first letter two places forward in the alphabet. 

Read the result backward and you will name an animal in the same classification as the one named by the first word. 

What place is this? 

What does the first animal usually do, and what is the related animal?

ENTREE #6

Name an oft-visited place in Europe, in two
words. 

The first word names some animals.  

The second word is something these animals usually do. 

What place is it?

ENTREE #7

A mountain range in Australia and a tavern in the Eastern U.S that is known for its beer selection have the same eight-letter name. 

The first four letters name some animals. 

The first three letters name something these animals often do. 

The last four letters name something the animal uses when it does this. 

What is the place name? 

Hint: The third and eighth letters spell the postal abbreviation of the state in which the tavern is located.

ENTREE #8

Two places in the same U.S. state name some animals. 

One of the animals, and the female of the other one, are parts of a well-known idiom describing a situation in which someone is put  in charge of something he or she cannot be trusted to do. 

What are the two places, and what is the idiom?

ENTREE #9

Name a place somewhere on the globe – in two words. 

Rearrange the letters of the first word to spell a term for “a cell of indoctrinated leaders active in promoting the interests of a revolutionary party.” 

The new two-word result is what happens
when such a “revolutionary indoctrinated leader cell” suffers ruin, defeat or failure and loses its power.

What is this place on the globe?

What happens when the “revolutionary indoctrinated leader cell” loses its power.   

ENTREE #10

Name a place somewhere on the globe – in two words. 

Replace the fourth letter of the first word with a “u” to name some game. 

Add two consecutive letters of the alphabet to the end of the second word to name some that pursue this game. 

What is the place on the globe?

What are “some game” and “some that pursue this game?”

ENTREE #11

Name a place somewhere on the globe – in two words.

Rearrange the letters of the first word to name a mythological monster associated with a peacock. 



That same rearrangement of letters also precedes the word “pheasant” to name a large, brilliantly patterned bird native to East
India.

The second word in the place name is something that peacocks and pheasants sometimes do.

What is this place on the globe?

Who is the mythological monster?

What is the word that precedes “pheasant”?

What do peacocks and pheasants sometimes do?

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“Not-This-Sentence” Dessert:

Shifting an artifactual synonym

What do you get if you change the first letter in a synonym of “artifacts” to an “o”, move letters 3 and 4 to the end, then move letters 1 and 2 to the end? 

Well, what you get is not this sentence. 

What is the synonym of “artifacts”? 

What is the word it becomes?

Every Thursday 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.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you. 

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Money Made of Many Miscellaneou$ Metal$; Tracking down a wintry Wiceconsin where? The good the bad & the middling; Casper the friendly Ghost town;“ I’ll have a Big Mac... hold the paper, hold the plate!” Appliance from the past


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Schpuzzle of the Week: 

Tracking down a wintry Wiceconsin “where?”

Describe present-day Wisconsin in two words, 17 letters total. 

Rearrange the letters to spell three nouns:

A Frozen place in Wisconsin (6 letters),

 Eight ways to gain entry into this place (5 letters), and

 Something you can’t bring inside this place (6 letters).

What is the two-word description of present-day Wisconsin?

What are the three nouns?

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Numismatically Monetary Appetizer:

Money Made of Many Miscellaneou$ Metal$

Monetary Manipulation

1. Take a verb for something you can do to money. 

Insert a type of  money payment. You will get another type of money payment.

What is the verb?

What are the two types of money payment?

The Sound(s) of Science

2. What eight-letter word is used in the names of two different concepts in chemistry, but it is pronounced differently in each case?

Anagrammatic Adjectival Hors d’Oeuvre:

The good the bad & the middling

Name a one-syllable adjective that, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, can mean either excellent, or average, or inferior.

Hint: This adjective is rather anagrammatic.

Scrunchy Slice:

I’ll have a Big Mac... hold the paper, hold the plate!”

Scrunch together two consecutive letters of a paper-holder to spell a plate-holder. 

The sum of the alphanumeric values of those scrunched  letters is the alphanumeric value of the letter that replaces them. 

What are this paper-holder and plate-holder?

Riffing Off Shortz And Dickerson Slices:

Casper the friendly Ghost town

Will Shortz’s October 20th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by David Dickerson of Tucson, Arizona, reads:

The city UTICA, NEW YORK, when spelled out, contains 12 letters, all of them different. Think of a well-known U.S. city, that when its name is spelled out, contains 13 letters, all of them different. Your answer doesn’t have to match David/Will’s.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Dickerson Slices read:

ENTREE #1

The surname of the Republican candidate for president (TRUMP) and the name of his vice-presidential candidate (J.D. VANCE)  contain 12 letters, all of them different.

Take: 

* The surname of a puzzle-maker (9 letters);

* A portmanteau word, a verb created by an author whose real surname is an anagram of

DOGS NOD; (7 letters); 

* Maker of a Golf, Polo and Beetle (2 letters);

* a synonym of “babe” that sounds like two letters of the alphabet (2 letters);

* a preposition often seen on book covers (2 letters).

These 22 total letters are all different. No repeats.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the portmanteau word, Maker of a Golf, synonym of “babe,” and preposition?

Entrees #2 through #7 were created by Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Think of a well-known Western U.S. city that,
when its name is spelled out (including the state), contains nine letters, all of them different. 

What city is it? 

ENTREE #3

Think of a Western U.S. city that, when its name is spelled out (including the state), contains 11 letters, all of them different. The name of the city is also the  name of an unincorporated area in an adjoining state that, when its name is spelled out (including the state), contains 16 letters, all of them different. What are the city and the unincorporated area? 

ENTREE #4

Think of four towns in an Eastern U.S. state. In each town’s name, the letters are all different.
None of the towns’ names has any letters in common with the name of the state. 

What are the four towns? 

ENTREE #5

A four-letter town in a Western U.S. state has no letters in common with the name of the state in which it is located. 

What town is it?

ENTREE #6

A four-letter town in an Eastern U.S. state has no letters in common with the name of the state in which it is located. 

What town is it?  

ENTREE #7

A six-letter city in a Western U.S. state has no letters in common with the name of the state in which it is located. 

What city is it? 

ENTREE #8

Centuries ago, a future Benedictine abbot was born in a very small village, population 236, in the county Worcestershire, England. 

Take a four-letter noun for this abbot and a ten-letter noun he might have used to describe this small village. Rearrange these 14 different letters to spell the name of the village.

What are the two nouns and the name of this village?

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Domestic Dessert:

Appliance from the past

Name a two-word domestic appliance invented many years ago. 

The last four letters of the first word can be rearranged to spell a synonym of the second word. 

The first four letters of the first word, if you remove the second letter, spell a second smaller appliance sometimes coupled with the first to provide convection heat.

What are this appliance and the synonym of its second word?

Every Thursday 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.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

Thursday, October 17, 2024

“Off by just one Letter, Man!” Small-yet-tall-caliber literature; Suckers & leeches & shrimp, Oh my! Driving screws and river crews; If only works of art had words... Swearing in the swelter?

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Leeches & suckers & shrimp, Oh my!

“Shrimp” and “crab” are insulting when applied to people but are delicious when ordered off a menu. 

Take a third word you might see near them on a menu and spell it backwards. Replace two adjacent vowels with a new vowel to spell a third insulting word. 

What is this third word?

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TV Guise Appetizer:

“Off by just one Letter, Man!”

Through an unfortunate miscommunication in outsourcing, the titles of a series of television programs accidentally had one (and only one) letter changed. 

Due to imperfect artificial intelligence, the guide automatically generated descriptions of the shows that are just not quite right.  

Can you name the mistaken and the original titles of these shows? All shows are well known, either having run for at least five years or having a lasting impact on popular culture.  

Note that while only one letter is changed, occasionally punctuation, capitalization and spacing between letters are changed to create
new words.

Here is an example in which all that changes is just one letter:

Madcap misadventures of one’s sister working in a greasy spoon.  

“You’ll flip!”  

Answer: “The Frying Nun”

Here is this week’s TV GUISE line-up... Enjoy!:


Misadventures of two New York City cops as they search out over four dozen watering holes.  
“This vehicle will make you L-I-V-I-D!”

Using his extraordinary abilities, a government agent in Austin makes an outrageous number of arrests.

Four aging fish live together in Miami, sharing their lunging for life.

“This show made us blanch!”

Travel shows with each episode focusing on such spots as San Francisco, Manila, Bengal, Tampa, Fundy, Guantanamo, and Chesapeake.  
“Soak in the entertainment!”

Reality show hosted by Cheech and Chong presenting token stories of people not yet taken from across the nation
Humorous nightly commentary about the support for the Tea Party and the interlacing of politics.  
“It’s paper thin!”  
“You’ll laugh all the way to the bathroom!”

Reality show look at the lives of east coast sex workers at the beach, including Madison, Elizabeth, Leonia, Beverly, Florence, and “Cherry Hill.”
A courtroom reality show featuring an irascible former New York politician who never seems to get anything right. 
“Hundreds of millions went into this production!”

Weekly news program where a former "head" of the country faces off with his internal impulses, with potentially explosive results to the fabric of the nation.
“Feeling the blues!”

Two hunky California motorcycle patrolmen showcase the best in leggings.  
“These bears be smokin’!”
A cold war team has no success creating nuclear reaction.  
“They weren’t using cruise control!

Hesitant islander questions entering his sixth decade.  
“Oh Lord, it’s not funny, more like a low HA!”
 Ex-FBI agent files mystery tales of her
former partner, who was obsessed with the occult.  
“Skullduggery on Fox!”

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Artsy-Craftsy Hors  d’Oeuvre:

If only works of art had words...

Imagine what either of the items pictured here might say if they could talk. 

If your guess is a three-word statement consisting of a contraction, article and noun, then you may have a shot at solving this puzzle.

Replace the antepenultimate letter in the statement with the only letter in the alphabet that it rhymes with.

The letters in the result – in reverse order, with the apostrophe and spaces removed – spell the artsy craft that was employed to create the items.

What might the two items say?

What is the artsy craft?

Hint: The noun in the three-word statement is an abbreviated form of a three-syllable word. The third syllable in that word is and anagram of a city on a panhandle.

Summer’s Day Slice:

Swearing in the swelter?

Rearrange the letters of a three-word exclamation you might hear on a sweltering
summer’s day to get where, in two words, you would likely not hear it. 

What are this complaint?

Where would you be likely not to hear it?

Riffing Off Shortz And Selinker Slices:

Driving screws and river crews

Will Shortz’s October 13th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mike Selinker of Renton, Washington, reads:

Think of something to drink whose name is a compound word. Delete the first letter of the first part and you’ll get some athletes. Delete the first letter of the second part and you’ll get where these athletes compete. What words are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Selinker Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Remove the two initial letters from the name of a puzzler-maker. The result is 1) the nickname of a U.S. president and 2) one who uses a
certain tool that helps users save and edit material from the web to create content like email newsletters, website content, and social media bios.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the nickname and user of this tool?

(Note: Entree #2 was penned by a good friend of and faithful contributor to Puzzleria!)

ENTREE #2

Take a venue where some Olympic athletes compete. Add a letter at the front to get a color.  

Take another venue where some Olympic athletes compete, Add two letters to the front
to get a slang term for “influence.”

The two new words, when placed in this order (“color followed by “slang term”) name something to drink. But when they are placed in reverse order, they name the source from which the drink is produced.  

What are the these four words?

(Note: Entrees #3 through #8 were composed by Nodd, of “Nodd ready for prime time” fame.)

ENTREE #3

Think of a nine-letter drink name that consists of three three-letter words strung together. 

Six of the letters can be arranged to spell the last name of a famous NFL athlete. 

The athlete once lived in a location that has the same name as the drink. His nickname came from a particular part of the location. 

What is the drink and who is the athlete?

ENTREE #4

Think of the name of a drink consisting of two
words. Five of the letters can be arranged to spell the name of an NFL team. All of the letters, plus an “I” and an “S,” can be arranged to spell a two-word phrase that undoubtedly applies to the place where the team plays. What are the drink, the team, and the two-word phrase?

ENTREE #5 

Think of the brand name of a non-alcoholic beverage you might buy at the supermarket. The first four letters of the name, read backward, spell a kind of alcoholic beverage. 

All of the letters of the name can be arranged to spell two words, one of which describes what occurs on an athletic playing field, and the other of which is a term for something that is important to PGA athletes. Five of the letters of the name, plus an “E,” can be rearranged to name a member of a certain MLB team. 

What are the brand name, the alcoholic beverage, the two words that can be formed from the brand name’s letters, and the MLB team member?

ENTREE #6 

Think of the brand name of a non-alcoholic
beverage you might buy at the supermarket. 

The brand name’s letters can be rearranged to spell a word for some athletes. 

A French word for something you might add to the beverage, plus an “O,” can be arranged to spell the place where the athletes compete. What are the beverage, the athletes, and the place they compete?

ENTREE #7 

Think of a two-word term for a place where certain athletes compete. Remove four letters that can be arranged to spell a a singular pronoun and a west-of-the-Mississippi U.S. state abbreviation. 

Arrange the remaining letters to form a common misspelling of the last name of a person who enjoyed great success in the sport that is played at the place where the athletes compete. 

What are the two-word place, the singular pronoun, the state abbreviation, and the correct and the incorrect spellings of the competitor’s last name?

ENTREE #8

Think of the first word in the two-word name of an alcoholic beverage. This word’s letters can be arranged to spell a monetary unit and an animal name that is also a word for a member of a certain NFL team. 

What are the beverage, the monetary unit, and the NFL team member?

ENTREE #9

Think of things to drink, a compound plural word. 

Delete the first letter of the first part and you’ll get any athlete on an American Football League Team that once played in Houston, Texas. Delete the first letter of the second part and you’ll get the surname of a football coach who once led the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.

What is this compound plural word?

What are the names of the athlete and surname of the football coach?

ENTREE #10

Think of something to eat whose name is a compound word. Delete the first letter of the first part and the first letter of the second part to form two new words – the fourth and first
words, respectively, in a hyphenated phrase associated with buffet restaurants. 

What is this compound word? 

What is the hyphenated phrase associated with buffet restaurants?

ENTREE #11

Think of any beverage, in two words, that may contain cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, anise, nutmeg or black pepper. Delete the first letter of both parts and you’ll get a place where athletes practice and compete. 

What is this beverage?

Where do athletes practice and compete?

ENTREE #12

Think of a four-syllable compound noun for Aesop, Homer, Jane Austen, Dr. Seuss, Madeleine L’Engle, Stephen King or Garrison
Keillor. 

Delete the first letter of the first part and you’ll get what sounds like the first name of a five-time All-Star Minnesota Twin. 

Delete the first letter of the second part and you’ll get the surname of five-time All-Pro Minnesota Viking.

What four-syllable noun is this? Who are the Twin and Viking?

ENTREE #13

Think of a compound word for a chap who is sometimes “____-donned.” 

Delete the first letter of the first part and you’ll 

get an interjection used especially to express sudden pain.

Delete the first letter of the second part and you’ll get Yiddish expression of exasperation or dismay.

Who is this sometimes ____-donned chap?

What is the word in the blank?

What are the interjection of pain and expression of dismay?

ENTREE #14

Think of a two-syllable compound word for a portable container, like “suitcase,” for example.

Replace the fourth letter with a hyphen. Delete the first letter.

The result is an antiaircraft gun.

What are this portable container and antiaircraft gun?

ENTREE #15

Think of a two-syllable compound word for queues of famished people during the Great Depression. Remove the initial letter of each compound part of the word. The result is what actors and voice-over announcers do.

What are these queues of famished people?

What do actors and voice-over announcers do? 

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A “Piece” Of Dessert:

Small-yet-tall-caliber literature

Name a small-caliber gun manufacturing company and a slang term for “handguns.” 

The slang term is the first syllable of the surname of a novel’s title character. 

The gun manufacturer is the first name of the title character’s love interest. 

What are this gun manufacturer, slang term and novel’s title?

Every Thursday 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.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.