Friday, August 24, 2018

Hats “Hoff” to an octogenarian! Quick Draw Magritte; Golden anaGrahams for breakfast; Blanks that flank not “drank” but “8”

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 7!/3 SERVED



Schpuzzle of the Week:
Hats “Hoff” to an octogenarian!

Note: The content of the following shpuzzle is “embellished.”
April 24, 2009: Mr. Mose hops into his PT Cruiser and motors up Interstate 95 from his home in Weed, California to Tacoma, Washington. Mr. Mose had previously participated in “producers’ auditions” conducted by the reality television show “America’s Got Talent” in Sacramento, and had been chosen to advance to a live audition in Tacoma in front of celebrity judges that is taped for later broadcast over the national airwaves. 
If those judges would be wowed by his talent and his act, Mr. Mose would then advance to the quarterfinal, semifinal and final rounds held at Stage 36 of the CBS Television City studios in Los Angeles, the “City of Angels.”
During the first day of taping in Tacoma Mr. Mose, an octogenarian, did indeed wow celebrity judges David “the Hoff” Hasselhoff, Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan. 
Indeed, after Mr. Mose’s performance, “the Hoff” exclaimed effusively: 
“Gee, you are 80! You see L.A.!”
Judging by “the Hoff’s comment, what are Mr. Mose’s talent and his first name?
Hint: The combined letters in Mr. Mose’s first and last names can be rearranged to form a one-word-named notable person who shared Mr. Mose’s talent.



Appetizer Menu

Seek Whence Appetizer:
Blanks that flank not “drank” but “8” 

What are the two missing numbers in the following sequence? 
Explain your answer:
9, 9, 10, 9, 10, 9, 9, 9, _, 8, _, 10, 11, 8, 8, 8, 8,...
Hint: The answer involves an important and useful smaller number with a name that sounds like the former team nickname of a professional sports franchise.

MENU 

Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:
Golden anaGrahams for breakfast

Will Shortz’s August 19th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle was created by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota, who conducts the blog Puzzleria! It reads:
Think of a brand name you might see on your breakfast table. Change one letter to a Y and rearrange the result to get a familiar two-word phrase that names something else you might see on your breakfast table. What phrase is this?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:

(Note: ENTREES #1 and #2 were created by Mathew Huffman, a great friend of Puzzleria!)


ENTREE #1:
Name a breakfast chain. Change a vowel to a different vowel and rearrange the result to name a brand you might find on your breakfast table, in two words.

ENTREE #2:
Name a two-word phrase that describes what a waiter or spouse might do at breakfast. Change the noun in the phrase to a less common synonym, but in its plural form.
Change one letter in this altered two-word phrase to a Y and rearrange the result to name a new two-word phrase that describes a way the noun might be ordered or served. 

ENTREE #3:
Think of a hyphenated brand name you might see on your breakfast table. The hyphen is flanked by two foods, neither of which is actually contained in the product.  Duplicate one letter in this name and rearrange the result to get another brand name you might see on your breakfast table and the word for a kind of meal at which both brand names would likely not be seen. 
What are these two brand names and the word for the kind of meal at which both brand names would likely not be seen?

ENTREE #4:
Think of something you might see in a jar on your breakfast table, in two words. Rearrange the fifteen letters in these two words to get a three-word command that is a shorter way of  saying “Rearrange the letters in a two-word term for an inferior lyrical poem.”
Obeying that command would result in a two-word term for a professional person who might be hired to pose for an ad campaign promoting jewelry items – items associated with the last name of a U.S. president if your lowercase its first letter.
What is in the jar on the breakfast table? What is the three-word command? What is the term for the person who is hired to pose?

ENTREE #5:
Think of a brand name you might see on your breakfast table along with the word for the kind of food it is. Rearrange the twelve letters in these two words to form three 4-letter words for foods you are not likely to see on your breakfast table. 
Two of these words (which not brand names) might be ingredients in a sandwich. The third (which is a brand name) might be spooned into a bowl which is then placed on the floor.
What food and its brand name might you see on your breakfast table? 
What are the three 4-letter words?

ENTREE #6:
Think of the name of a puzzle-maker, first and last names, that you might hear at your breakfast table on a Sunday morning. Change one letter to a B and rearrange the result to get two familiar synonyms for “fraudulent.” What synonyms are these? 
Who is the puzzle-maker?
Note: Your answer for one of the synonyms will use a variant unamerican spelling.
Hint: I was not familiar with this puzzle-maker until about five days ago... but that might be a “fraudulent” hint. Fake news!

ENTREE #7:
Think of the name of a puzzle-maker, first and last names. Change one letter to an “i” and rearrange the result to get three words: two foods (in 6 and 3 letters) you might eat for breakfast and what you might do to both foods (in 4 letters), using a microwave or conventional oven, to enhance their flavor.
What two foods are these, and what might you do to them? Who is the puzzle-maker?



Dessert Menu

Bert Conveyance Dessert:
Quick Draw Magritte

Put two pieces of horse-drawn conveyance in alphabetical order.


Remove four letters: the first half of the second word followed by the second half of the first word. These removed letters form a new word.
Form a second new word by spelling the four remaining letters backward. 
Place the second new word in front of the first new word to spell a new 2-syllable 8-letter compound word for what type of puzzle this is. 

What are the two pieces of horse-drawn conveyance? 
What is the compound word that descibes this type of puzzle?


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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  2. Heh heh, pretty funny there on Entree #6!!!

    The only other puzzle I've been able to solve is Entree #5. (Well, I haven't read #7 yet).

    But I'm definitely stuck on everything else, although think I DO have parts of Entrees #3 and 4...but can't finish them, as everything I try refuses to work out.

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  3. P.S. Had a 'hunch' on Entree #7 just now, when I finally read it, and I was correct! Love it! ; O )

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  4. Happy Friday everyone! There are some tough ones this week! So far I've only got Entrees #2, #3, #6, and #7. The easiest of those was the one about the brand name of the breakfast product that mentions two ingredients not found in the product. I got that on the first try! Not to give anything away there, but if you've seen Seinfeld perform, you have to know the answer to that one! I don't quite understand the Schpuzzle, though. Clearly all the words sound phonetically like letters in the alphabet, but after that I'm stuck. The Dessert is just as confusing, if not more. Looking forward to any good hints you can offer, Lego. BTW next week we're all going back to the condo in FL, so I won't be able to stay up late Thursday to check next Friday's edition. But I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. Right now I'm focused on this week's puzzles.(Especially those based on last week's Sunday Puzzle, which if I remember correctly, was submitted by...oh, what was that guy's name? He's had puzzles used before. Oh well, it'll come to me.)

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    1. Yeah, I had the same thought in mind re Entree #3, but could not remember WHERE I had heard it.

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  5. HINTS:

    SOTW:
    I'm not saying that Mr. Mose's talent is dancing, but a moonwalker (like Michael Jackson was) might have an advantage in solving this Schpuzzle.

    SWA:
    The professional sports franchise is in the National Football League. The new nickname the franchise chose a few years after moving to a new state is the former nickname of one of the original American Football League's franchises.

    ROSS:
    ENTREE #1:
    The first word in the brand you might find on your breakfast table might be the first word in a 3-word request a patron might make to the waitperson while ordering.
    ENTREE #2:
    The way the noun might be ordered is another option that the patron in ENTREE #1 might make to the waitperson.
    ENTREE #3:
    The brand name you might see on your breakfast table is a compound word, usually hyphenated. The too two parts, taken individually, might be considered false advertising. A young, lucid duke with brains in his bean should have no difficulty figuring out the other brand name you might see on your breakfast table...
    or a moonwalker (but one unlike Michael Jackson) should have no difficulty figuring out the other brand name you might see on your breakfast table.
    ENTREE #4:
    What's in the jar?
    One of these (sans the sanguinity)
    "The changing of sunlight to moonlight... reflections of my life..."
    ENTREE #5:
    Sting's lyrics on Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" was a rip-off/take-off on a TV commercial touting the brand name you might see on your breakfast table.
    ENTREE #6:
    It is more likely you might hear the name this puzzle-maker at your breakfast table on a Sunday morning if you are listening in to "Weekend Edition Sunday."
    ENTREE #7:
    The 3-letter food and the 4-letter word for what you might do to both foods begin with the same letter. Replace the first letter of the 4-letter word for what you might do to both foods with the first letter of the 6-letter food to name the kind of food the 3-letter word is.

    BCD:
    Add a consonant to the beginning of the 8-letter compound word for what type of puzzle this is to get a new word associated with one of the characters John Cleese portrayed in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" which is also a word a famous fictional French trio (that seems somewhat mislabeled in a novel title) who are associated with this new word.

    LegoWhoIsAFraud!

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  6. I got everything except the Schpuzzle and the Appetizer. Got any other hints, Lego? I don't know too many "moonwalkers" who would be more like Michael Jackson than not, so I don't quite get your earlier hint.

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    1. SOTW:
      A moonwalker (like Michael Jackson was, see 4:13) does not actually move forward, but rather backward for a spell.

      SWA:
      For the professional sports franchise in the National Football League, think of a coach named "Bum" (a nickname that requires no anagramation to become a body part!) and an NHL franchise in Canada.
      Then, once you homonymize to discover the number, look closely at its digits.

      LegoWhoHasNeverBeenMoonedByABum

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  7. Still stuck on the Appetizer? Try a bit of transcendental meditation.
    (This ought to be a snap for you, cranberry... After all, exactly three weeks ago you were at the dentist's office trying to transcend dental medication!)

    LegoWhoApologizesForThatAncientPun

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    1. I think it involves an unnatural algorithm.

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    2. Yes, Paul, Al Gore rhythm is indeed quite unnatural! ("Skip ahead, Brother, to the 8:23 mark.")
      Then Skip ahead again to the 1:19 mark.

      LegoWhoApologizesForThatAncientAndEvenMoreUnforgivableAlgorithmPun

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  8. For the ``Blanks that flank ...'' puzzle, some years ago I would have thought, ``Houston, we have a problem.''

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    1. Thanks for dropping in to our blog for a bite, FloridaGuy.
      Nice hint.

      LegoWouldHaveLikedToHaveSeenBum"KickThatSumbitchIn!"

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    2. What part of Florida are you from, FG? I'm headed over to Ft. Walton Beach on Thursday.

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    3. I'm near Ft. Lauderdale. We'll be within 600 miles of each other (for the benefit of those who don't know that Florida is 300 miles wide and 300 miles high!).

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  9. Schpuzzle
    GURATUCLA backwards is AL CUT A RUG, meaning AL MOSE is a dancer. So was SALOME, who did the "Dance of the Seven Veils".
    Menu/Riff-Offs
    1. DENNY'S, SUNNY D(elight)
    2. SERVE OVA(eggs), OVER EASY
    3. GRAPE-NUTS, TANG, SUPPER
    4. ORANGE MARMALADE, ANAGRAM "LAMER ODE", EAR MODEL(piercings)
    5. MAYPO OATMEAL, MEAT, MAYO, ALPO
    6. JOSEPH YOUNG, BOGUS, PHONEY
    7. MATHEW HUFFMAN, MUFFIN, HAM, THAW
    Dessert
    DRAY, PLOW, WORDPLAY(SWORDPLAY)
    No more breakfast for me, thanks. I couldn't eat another bite.-pjb
    (See y'all in FL!)

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  10. Euler's (sounds like Oilers) number e=2.7182818284590452353602...
    2+7=9, 1+8=9, 2+8=10, 1+8=9, 2+8=10, 4+5=9, 9+0=9, 4+5=9, 2+3=5, 5+3=8, 6+0=6, ...
    Since I can't think of any practical purpose or mathematical significance for this process, I consider it an unnatural algorithm.

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  11. Making effort NOT to peak at any answers posted above; things didn't go very well for me this week:

    SCHPUZZLE: G U R A T U C L A => ART MOSE? => STROMAE OR MAESTRO ??????????????????? Or perhaps a GURU? CARL T. MOSE???

    In a completely different direction, UCLA moved to its current location in 1929, the year Mr. Mose was born. "Gee, you are at UCLA."

    APPETIZER: e [EULER's NUMBER, 2.71828...] But I don't know WHY it fits in the sequence. [PRE-second hint]


    ENTREE #1: ??

    ENTREE #2: POUR/BRING/SERVE COFFEE ?? VERY HOT ?

    ENTREE #3: GRAPE-NUTS & "P" => TANG & SUPPER

    ENTREE #4: MANDARIN ORANGES [except there's no "L" in it, needed for "Model", later] => "ANAGRAM ????? ODE" ; ?????????? MODEL

    ENTREE #5: MAYPO OATMEAL => MAYO, MEAT and ALPO

    ENTREE #6: JOSEPH YOUNG minus "J", plus "B" => BOEGUS and PHONY

    ENTREE #7: MATHEW HUFFMAN minus "W" , plus "I " => HAM and MUFFIN; HEAT


    DESSERT: DRAY & PLOW: PLAY & WORD => WORDPLAY [SWORDPLAY]

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  12. This week's answers for the record, part 1:

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Hats “Hoff” to an octogenarian!
    Note: The content of the following shpuzzle is “embellished.”
    April 24, 2009: Mr. Mose hops into his PT Cruiser and motors up Interstate 95 from his home in Weed, California to Tacoma, Washington. Mr. Mose had previously participated in “producers’ auditions” conducted by the reality television show “America’s Got Talent” in Sacramento, and had been chosen to advance to a live audition in Tacoma in front of celebrity judges that is taped for later broadcast over the national airwaves. If those judges would be wowed by his talent and his act, Mr. Mose would then advance to the quarterfinal, semifinal and final rounds held at Stage 36 of the CBS Television City studios in Los Angeles, the “City of Angels.”
    During the first day of taping in Tacoma Mr. Mose, an octogenarian, did indeed wow celebrity judges David “the Hoff” Hasselhoff, Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan. Indeed, after Mr. Mose’s performance, “the Hoff” exclaimed effusively, “Gee, you are 80! You see L.A.!”
    Judging by “the Hoff’s comment, what are Mr. Mose’s talent and his first name?
    Hint: The combined letters in Mr. Mose’s first and last names can be rearranged to form a one-word-named notable person who shared Mr. Mose’s talent.
    Answer: Dancing; Al ("Gee, you are 80! You see L.A.!" sounds like G U R A T U C L A, which if spelled backward is "Al cut a rug.")
    Hint: The letters in AL MOSE cane be rearranged to spell SALOME.

    Appetizer Menu

    Seek Whence Appetizer:
    Blanks that flank not “drank” but “8”

    What are the two missing numbers in this sequence? Explain your answer.
    9, 9, 10, 9, 10, 9, 9, 9, _, 8, _, 10, 11, 8, 8, 8, 8,...
    Hint: The answer involves an important and useful smaller number with a name that sounds like the former team nickname of a professional sports franchise.
    Answer:
    5 and 6
    The numbers in the sequence are the sums of consecutive pairs of digits of e, Euler's number:
    2.718281828459045235360287471352662...
    or
    2.7 18 28 18 28 45 90 45 (23) 53 (60) 28 74 71 35 26 62...
    Hint : The original team name of the Tennessee Titans National Football League franchise was the Houston Oilers. Oilers sounds like Euler's (number).

    Lego...

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    1. And this explains my ``Houston, we have a problem'' hint.

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  13. This week's answers for the record, part 2:

    MENU

    Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:
    Golden anaGrahams for breakfast
    (Note: ENTREES #1 and #2 were created by Mathew Huffman, a great friend of Puzzleria!)
    Will Shortz’s August 19th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle was created by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minn., who conducts the blog Puzzleria! It reads:
    Think of a brand name you might see on your breakfast table. Change one letter to a Y and rearrange the result to get a familiar two-word phrase that names something else you might see on your breakfast table. What phrase is this?
    Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:
    ENTREE #1:
    Think of a breakfast chain with two vowels in its name. Change one vowel to a different vowel and rearrange to name a brand you might find on your breakfast table in two words.
    Answer:
    Denny's; Sunny D
    ENTREE #2:
    Name a two-word phrase that describes what a waiter or spouse might do at breakfast. Change the noun to a less common plural synonym, then change one letter to a Y and rearrange to name a two-word phrase that describes a way the noun might be ordered.
    Answer:
    Serve egg; Ova; Over easy
    ENTREE #3:
    Think of a brand name you might see on your breakfast table. Duplicate one letter and rearrange the result to get another brand name you might see on your breakfast table and the word for a kind of dining table where both brand names would likely not be seen. What are these two brand names and the word for the kind of dining table where both brand names would likely not be seen?
    Answer:
    Grape-nuts; Tang; Supper (table)
    GRAPENUTS + P >> TANG + SUPPER
    ENTREE #4:
    Think of something you might see in a jar on your breakfast table, in two words. Rearrange these fifteen letters to get a three-word command that is a shorter way of saying “Rearrange the letters in a two-word term for an inferior lyrical poem.”
    Obeying that command would result in a two-word term for a professional person who might be hired to pose for an ad campaign for jewelry items associated with the last name (if uncapitalized) of a U.S. president.
    What is in the jar on the breakfast table? What is the three-word command? What is the term for the person hired to pose?
    Answer:
    Orange marmalade; "Anagram 'lamer ode.' "; Ear model (who might be hired to advertise earrings, which are often worn by people who pierce (Franklin Pierce) their ears)
    ENTREE #5:
    Think of a brand name you might see on your breakfast table along with the word for the kind of food it is. Rearrange the twelve letters in these two words to form three 4-letter words for foods you are not likely to see on your breakfast table. Two of these words, not brand names, might be ingredients in a sandwich. The third, a brand name, might be spooned into a bowl which is then placed on the floor.
    What food and its brand name might you see on your breakfast table? What are the three 4-letter words?
    Answer:
    Maypo, Oatmeal; Meat, mayo, Alpo

    Lego...

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  14. This week's answers for the record, part 3:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:
    Golden anaGrahams for breakfast
    (continued)

    ENTREE #6:
    Think of the name of a puzzle-maker that you might hear at your breakfast table on a Sunday morning. Change one letter to a B and rearrange the result to get two familiar synonyms for “fraudulent.” What synonyms are these? Who is the puzzle-maker?
    Note: Your answer for one of the synonyms will use a variant unamerican spelling.
    Hint: I was not familiar with this puzzle-maker until about five days ago... but that might be a “fraudulent” hint.
    Answer:
    Bogus; phoney; Joseph Young
    JOSEPH + YOUNG - J + B = BOGUS + PHONEY
    ENTREE #7:
    Think of the name of a puzzle-maker, first and last names. Change one letter to an I and rearrange the result to get three words: two foods (in 6 and 3 letters) you might eat for breakfast and what you might do to both foods (in 4 letters), using a microwave or conventional oven, to enhance their flavor.
    What two foods are these, and what might you do to them? Who is the puzzle-maker?
    Answer:
    ham, muffin; heat; Mathew Huffman
    MATHEW + HUFFMAN - W + I = HAM + MUFFIN + HEAT

    Dessert Menu:
    Bert Conveyance Dessert:
    Quick Draw Magritte
    Remove four letters: the first half of the second word followed by the second half of the first word. These removed letters form a new word.
    Form a second new word by spelling the four remaining letters backward.
    Place the second new word in front of the first new word to spell a new 2-syllable 8-letter compound word for what type of puzzle this is.
    What are the two pieces of horse-drawn conveyance?
    Answer:
    Dray, plow; wordplay

    Lego...

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  16. SCHPUZZLE: EDITH HEAD => THREAD & EDIT

    APPETIZER: TRIS [SPEAKER] => TRI [CEPS]

    ENTREE #1: BRITNEY SPEARS; BRIT => RIB; PINKEY

    ENTREE #2: OLIVER SWOFFORD [LIVER] Song: "EARLY MORNING RAIN"; LIQUOR

    ENTREE #3: GORDON LIGHTFOOT => GOLD & "RIGHT ON" [The Supremes and Wilson Pickett?]

    ENTREE #4: BIRD => CHARLIE PARKER => LARK, RHEA, CHIRP

    DESSERT: THE MERRY(D) WIDOW

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