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Welcome to our February 10th edition
Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
We offer seven puzzles on our menus this
week, including three that Rip Off Shortz.
Please enjoy.
Hors d’Oeuvre Menu
Subgrouped Hors d’Oeuvre:
I-24, G-46, O-61… “I go!”
An exclusive
group of U.S. citizens, numbering fewer than 25, can be divided into three
subgroups:
One-sixth of them
are associated with the number 61;
One-third of them
are associated with the number 24;
One-half of them
are associated with the number 46.
Name the members
of this group, and explain how each is associated with either 61, 24 or 46?
Morsel Menu
Aladdin Memorial Morsel:
The rise and fall of syzygy dust…
Take one word
that can follow either “rising” or “falling” to form a two-word phrase.
Find a
synonym for each phrase. These two synonyms are spelled identically except for
the final letter of each.
What are these
two phrases and their synonyms?
Note: The synonym of the “falling ____” is not an “exact synonym” but is often confused with an exact synonym whose first three letters are the final three letters of the “inexact synonym” that is our answer. Our answer does, however,often play a role in the generation of a “falling ____.”
Note: The synonym of the “falling ____” is not an “exact synonym” but is often confused with an exact synonym whose first three letters are the final three letters of the “inexact synonym” that is our answer. Our answer does, however,often play a role in the generation of a “falling ____.”
Appetizer Menu
“Sit, Com!” Appetizer:
Fabric + Fiber = Funny
Name a one-syllable fabric, a
one-syllable synonym for fiber or thread, and another one-syllable fabric.
When
you say the result aloud the three syllables will rhyme with the title of a
popular and critically acclaimed situation comedy.
What are these two fabrics and the
synonym? What is the sitcom title?
Hint: The acronym of the sitcom’s title
spells out something dogs sometimes do. One of the words in the title, however, must be converted from a punctuation mark to the word for which the punctuation mark stands.
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Ripping Off Shortz And Collins Slices:
Fractured fairy tale refugis
Will Shortz’s
February 5th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Peter
Collins, reads:
Name a prominent figure in a fairy tale.
Write this in all capital letters. Add a stroke to one letter and rearrange the
result. You’ll name another prominent figure in a fairy tale. What two fairy
tale figures are these?
Puzzleria’s Riffing Off Shortz And
Collins Slices read:
ONE:
Name a prominent figure in a fairy tale.
Write this in all CAPITAL LETTERS.
Add two straight-line strokes to one letter.
You’ll name a mythological creature.
Add one curved stroke to one letter of
this creature. You’ll name a different creature, from children’s literature.
What fairy tale figure, mythological
creature and children’s literature creature are these?
TWO:
Name a prominent figure in a fairy tale.
Move the last letter to the fourth-last position and change it to the following
letter in the alphabet.
(See Puzzleria’s Closed-Loop Circular Seamless Alphabet if the last letter you move to the fourth-last position happens to be a Z.)
Change the first letter, which sounds like a large
quantity of liquid, to a a letter that sounds like a liquid usually poured in much smaller quantities.
Change the fourth letter, which sounds like the last name of a Sandra, to a
letter that sounds like the last name of a Danny.
You’ll name another prominent figure in
a fairy tale.
What two fairy tale figures are these?
THREE:
Name a prominent figure from a whimsical
tale, in two words. Write this in all
Add two straight-line strokes to one
letter. Change two letters of a monogram (belonging to a daughter of a president
who has served almost one month) to two letters of a different monogram (belonging to a son
of a president who served exactly one month).
Rearrange the result. You’ll name another prominent figure, also in two words, in the same whimsical tale. What
two whimsical tale figures are these?
Dessert Menu
Brandy Name With A Beer Chaser Dessert:
Is Bunyan Beer a lager?
Name a two-syllable brand of beer, a
lager with a healthy (or perhaps, rather, “unhealthy”) alcohol content. Place a
clone of its fourth letter at the beginning of the name.
Divide the result into two parts:
One: the clone of the letter followed by the brand
name’s original first letter, and…
Two: the remainder of the brand name, after removing the letter that you made a clone of.
Pronounce each part aloud as a single syllable.
The first part sounds like an adjective
for what a person might become who occasionally overindulges in the lager.
The second part sounds like a noun for
what a person might become who habitually overindulges in the lager.
What is this brand name lager? What are
the adjective and noun?
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.)
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.
