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Welcome to our June 9th edition
of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
Most every week, we run a few “Ripping
Off Shortz” puzzles as an homage to puzzlemaster Will Shortz’s NPR Weekend
Edition Sunday puzzle from the previous Sunday.
This week we also pay homage to the excellent
“Ferris Wheel/Paris Deal” puzzle that appeared in last week’s Puzzleria! The
puzzle was composed and contributed by Mark Scott of Seattle (screen name: skydiveboy). You
will find our 5 “Rip-Offs” of Mark’s puzzle just below our main MENU, and just above our 4 Will Shortz Rip-Offs.
Also on our menus this week are these 3 lip-smackers:
1. An Octo-Puss Hors d’Oeuvre,
2. An Appetizer that turns the world
upside-down, and
3. A Two-Faced Fab-Four Dessert.
So, try tying together the strands of
our nine rip-offs paying homage to our favorite “Ripcorder” and to our favorite “Puzzlermaster.”
Please enjoy all 12 of this week’s puzzles.
Please enjoy all 12 of this week’s puzzles.
Hors d’Oeuvre Menu
Octo-Puss Hors d’Oeuvre:
Faces in the “Loud Family” crowd
Identify just one of the eight people
whose faces appear in this image and you will have identified all eight!
Give the name and the number of the
person you chose.
Extra Credit Bonus Points!:
Name just one of the remaining seven
people in the image. (If Lego were solving this puzzle, he would have received
no Extra Credit Bonus Points whatsoever for this question! He is not good with
placing names with faces.)
Appetizer Menu
Uppercase Place Appetizer:
Topsy-turvy global history mystery
Take a shorthand name for a historical
global event. Turn the first letter topsy-turvy, then slash it with a vertical “knife
stroke” into two equal parts. Move one of those parts to the right of the
second letter, keeping the other one where it is. Place duplicates of the final
two letters at the beginning of this result and connect them with a horizontal
line segment. Add a similar segment to each of the two “equal parts” flanking the
original second letter. The result is the name of a place that played a key role in the United States’ participation in the event.
What is this historical global event?
What is the name of the place?
Note: All letters in the name of the
place are in UPPERCASE LETTERS.
MENU
Ripping Off Mark Slices:
Cap city tourist traps
Mark Scott’s
June 2nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Name
two world capital cities. Think of two words that could describe a bargain
holiday in the first city and then find two words that rhyme with those words
and describe a well-known tourist attraction in the second city.
What
are they?
The answer: Paris deal, and “The Eye” (a
big Ferris wheel, in London)
Puzzleria’s
Riffing/Ripping Off Mark Slices read:
ONE:
Name a world capital city that is
chock-full of tourist attractions. Think of three words (of 2, 2, and1 syllables,
beginning with S, C and D) that identify the significance of the year 1512 as
it pertains to a particular tourist attraction in the city.
Now name an actress, first and last name, 3
syllables each. Remove the final vowel sound from her first name, leaving just
2 syllables.
The 5-syllable result will rhyme with the three words that identify the significance of the year 1512.
The 5-syllable result will rhyme with the three words that identify the significance of the year 1512.
What are the world capital, the actress’s
name and the 3 words that identify the significance of the year 1512?
TWO:
All four images pictured in this image
are tourist attractions associated with one world capital city, but only two
are actually situated in that city. Write a caption for the image, in 2-words
of 1 and 3 syllables beginning with T and G.
Find two words that rhyme with those
words to describe what most professional athletes earn, beginning with G and S.
Find two words that rhyme with those
words to describe what “about 23” might represent on a nutrition label,
beginning with D and C.
What is the image caption?
What is “what most pro athletes earn?”
What might “about 23” represent on a nutrition label?
What is “what most pro athletes earn?”
What might “about 23” represent on a nutrition label?
THREE:“
Name a tourist attraction in a world
capital city, in two words of 2 syllables each.
Think of two words that rhyme with those
words to name a caption for the image shown at the right.
What are this tourist attraction and
this city?
FOUR:
Name a well-known tourist attraction, in two words of 2 and 1 syllables, in
a world capital city. Find two words that
rhyme with those words to describe what some people who went to the polls last
November may now be experiencing.
What is this tourist attraction, and
what might the poll-goers be experiencing?
FIVE:
Name a well-known tourist attraction in
country whose capital city sounds as if it is experiencing exponential growth.
The attraction contains two words of 2 and 1 syllables. Write a caption for the
image pictured at the right using two words that rhyme with those words.
What are the tourist attraction and the
caption?
Ripping Off Shortz And Herbst Slices:
“Jersey’s Christie! It’s Saintly Lewis!”
(with thanks to ron and Chuck for providing “Saintly
Lewis”)
Will Shortz’s
June 4th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by David Herbst, reads:
Name a well-known U.S. city with two
words in its name. The second word sounds like the last name of a famous 20th-century
writer. The first word is something found in virtually every work by this
author. What is the city and who is the author?
Puzzleria’s
Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz Slices read:
ONE:
Name a
well-known U.S. state with two words in its name. The second word sounds like
the first name of a somewhat famous 20th-century writer. The first
word is contained in a biblical verse (a verse that also contains the word “sun”) that
some literary critics might say pertains to some of the works by this writer
that appear to be plagiaristic.
What are the state
and proverb, and who is the author?
TWO:
Name a somewhat
well-known U.S. city with two words in its name. The second word sounds like
the last name of a somewhat famous 20th-century writer.
The sixth,
fifth and first letters of the first word spell out what one title character in
a novel by the writer offered to do to the other title character’s shadow.
The fourth,
second, third and sixth letters of the first word (if you insert a “t” between
the third and sixth letters) spell out articles of apparel that a character in
a play by the writer prefers wearing – as opposed, say, to knickerbockers. (The
character is of the same nationality as the writer.)
What is the
city and who is the author?What did one title character offer to do to the other title character’s shadow?
What articles of apparel did the
character in the play prefer to knickerbockers?
THREE:
Name a well-known U.S. city with two
words in its name. The second word sounds like the last name of a reasonably famous
20th-century writer. The first word is something found in virtually
every work by this author.
What is the city and who is the author?
Note: The answer to this puzzle involves
a bit of non-English language trickery. “The first word … found in virtually
every work by this author” is an English word that (when translated into French) is
a part of a 3-word French term for a certain genre of novel.
FOUR:
Name a somewhat
well-known U.S. city with two words in its name. The second word sounds like
the last name of a reasonably famous 20th-century British writer.
The first word sounds like the last name of a somewhat famous 20th-century
French composer and pianist.
The writer
lived the final 24 years of his life just 7 miles up the road from the
birthplace of the composer.
What is this
city? Who are the writer and composer?
Extra Credit
Bonus Points!!
According to a
Puzzleria! fake news feed, the U.S. city in this puzzle has a “sister city” somewhere in the
Eastern Hemisphere, also in two words.
The first word
is formed by doubling the middle letter of the last name of a famous world
leader and adding a “g” at the end;
The second word
is a homophone of Phoebe and Holden’s late brother.
What is this “alternatively factual” city?
What is this “alternatively factual” city?
Who is the famous world leader whose surname is tweaked to form the first word of this apocryphal sister city? Who is the brother of Phoebe and Holden?
Dessert Menu
What Beatles songs title do the two faces
of these clocks remind you of?
Hint #1:
One of the clock faces involves a Beatles’ song title.
The other clock face involves a word in the lyrics of a Beatles’ song. The word in the lyrics does, however, rhyme with the title of the song.
Hint # 2: Songs on albums recorded by the Fab Four are generally classified into one of three “Beatle Eras” – Early, Middle and Late. The best of the three eras, ILUO (In Lego’s Unhumble Opinion) is the Middle Era – “Rubber Soul,” “Revolver” and “Yesterday and Today” etc.
Both answers to this puzzle are titles from the same era.
Hint #1: One of the clock faces involves a Beatles’ song title.
The other clock face involves a word in the lyrics of a Beatles’ song. The word in the lyrics does, however, rhyme with the title of the song.
Hint # 2: Songs on albums recorded by the Fab Four are generally classified into one of three “Beatle Eras” – Early, Middle and Late. The best of the three eras, ILUO (In Lego’s Unhumble Opinion) is the Middle Era – “Rubber Soul,” “Revolver” and “Yesterday and Today” etc.
Both answers to this puzzle are titles from the same era.
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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