Cold Turkey Sandwich; "Luv" is just a three-letter word; Mr. Ill

Welcome to Joseph Young’s Puzzle –ria! (The picture above pertains to the bonus [bone-us?] guest puzzle that appears about seven paragraphs down the page.)

Well, it began Thanksgiving Day evening at about sundown and will continue throughout most of Friday, until everything has been picked over and the best stuff is pretty much all gone from the shelves.

Black Friday? That annual bullheaded buyers’ bacchanalia with its deliria of door-busting deals?

Nope. Cold turkey! I’m talkin’ ‘bout the Thanksgiving turkey carcass and carved leftovers -- prime fodder for cold turkey sandwiches -- crammed into the fridge (along with stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes and other microwaveable turkey-day bounty).

Of course, a bit more than a month from now, a different breed of cold turkey will gobble and wobble its way into our holidays. To wit, many of us will make promises to ourselves to “go cold turkey” on Marboros, Big Macs, Michelobs and other perceived vices on New Year’s (Resolution) Day.

 

Speaking of perceived vices, in their quest to achieve a clean 2015 slate, some may resolve to discard “playing stud poker” (along with “whiskers on kittens,” of course) from their “few-of-my-favorite-things” list... 

But probably not the six poker-playing guys described in the bonus puzzle below.

The puzzle was created by our “guest gourment French chef,” Monsieur Garcon du Parachutisme (aka “skydiveboy” on the Blainesville blog) He should be familiar to Puzzleria patrons, as we have posted his excellent puzzles in the past. This one is a kind of “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Poker Game.”

Bonus French Chef Slice:

52-Card Poker Pick-up

In a private gaming room at a posh Las Vegas casino six men are playing poker. Going around the table clockwise, Carl is a lawyer who enjoys fine wine. Dan is a banker and loves a dry martini. Ed is a pilot and likes his Jack Daniels neat. Frank is an accountant who prefers Scotch. George is an architect and insists his Manhattans are stirred—not shaken, and Jack is a dentist with a taste for fine cognac.

 

Each of these gentlemen take turns shuffling the cards, which of course are Bicycle, Rider Back, Poker 808, Standard Face alternating between Red and Blue backs. A fresh deck of opposing color is put into play at the end of six rounds, or upon request.

 

After several rounds, when it was his turn to shuffle again, one of these players managed to drop all of the cards face up on the floor. From this information can you determine who is all thumbs and why?

We give thanks to Monsieur Garcon du Parachutisme, our guest French puzzle chef. 

Here is our menu of this week’s Puzzleria! house slices:

Menu

Ripping Off Shortz Slice…
(aka: Easy As Day-Old Pumpkin Pie Slice):

Cold Turkey Sandwich

That post-Thanksgiving Day favorite, the “COLD TURKEY SANDWICH,” possesses a special alphabetic distinction. What is…

Wait, wait! Will Shortz already broadcast, in essence,  this same puzzle  last April on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday! We’d be ripping him off were we to continue with it…

So, we will challenge you instead with:

Explain how the following three sets relate to “COLD TURKEY SANDWICH”: {450, 650} { } {401, 601} 

What three sets be would you associate with “HOT TOFURKEY BURGER”?

Willy-Nilly Slice

Mr. Ill

Name a seven-letter synonym of one or more hyphenated words that begin with “ill-...” 

Reverse its third and fourth letters and change its fifth letter from a vowel to a consonant to form a word that sometimes modifies the word “bill.” 

What are these two words?

“Let’s Get Series” Slice

“Luv” is just a three-letter word

Consider the series of letters below:

E T E O V I E T N N ? ? ?

It begins with the three-letter French word for “summer,” then an O, a “competitive and contentious” three-letter English verb,  and a former American country music-oriented cable television network. 

The next three letters also spell out a word. What is it?

(Hint: It is not “LUV.”)

Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzle -ria! 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 Tuesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.

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