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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
A wedding of romance languages
Selena from Barcelona and Marcel from Marseille marry and build a bistro in Bayonne.
An English adjective pertaining to marriage, when you spell it backward, describes and explains – in a two-word phrase, the first in French and the second in English – the clever French/Spanish name Selena and Marcel chose for their bistro: “Café Olé.”
What is this English adjective that pertains to marriage?
What is the two-word phrase that describes and explains their bistro’s two-word French/Spanish name?
Tough To Beat Conundrums Appetizer:
Home for the Hollandaise?
🥁1. Think of a five letter word. Shift each letter seven places later in the alphabet to get a synonym. The words are often used to describe feelings around the holiday season.
🥁2. Think of a religious holiday. Drop the last letter to name a hotel chain.
🥁3. Name a fictional holiday character in seven letters. Rearrange to name what many retailers engage in just prior to this holiday.
🥁4. Name a spice in eight letters, in which the last three letters are a type of relative and the first four letters are something one might give to this relative on a special occasion.
🥁5. Name a fictional location featured in a recent movie in seven letters.
Change one letter and rearrange to name a holiday culturally related to the fictional location.
Not Ready For Prime Time On-Air-Challenge Appetizer:
ShortZ but not SweeT
Every Sunday morning on his NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle segment, puzzlemaster Will Shortz plays an original “on-air challenge” with a lucky listener chosen at random from a pool of NPR Puzzle aficionados who have correctly answered the previous Sunday’s “end-of-the-segment” challenge.
The puzzle below is Puzzleria!s attempt to emulate this weekly NPR ritual. You might call it a “pseudo-on-air challenge,” or “on-blogosphair challenge.”
So, here is is. Enjoy!
Every answer is a word, name or phrase that begins with the letter S and ends with the letter Z.
Example: Puzzlemaster Will --> SHORTZ
1. A nose, especially a prominent one
2. A canal
3. Hulu or Netflix competitor
4. Russian spacecraft
5. A red wine
6. Peanuts producer Charles
7. Corny sentimentality
8. Non-standard word preceding “who?” or “me!” in a cartoon bubble
9. Medal-winning Mark eclipsed by Olympian Michael Phelps
10. To spray in quick short bursts
11. Common Spanish surname that rhymes with an English word for “large cattle farms”
12. Poet Delmore
13. Malcolm X’s activist wife Betty
14. Plum brandy
NOTE: The following answers contain two words:
15. Defensive tactic that may lead to a sack or bad pass
16. Short, quick physics or chemistry exam
17. Two-time Swiss Olympic host
18. California city that means “Holy Cross”
19. Kind of kids in a Steely Dan title
20. Title of a classical music piece often heard at ice shows
21. Title and surname of a recent Beto beater
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Numbers lying doormant
Will Shortz’s November 18th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
In my trip to Europe two weeks ago I visited a friend in Amsterdam, Peter Ritmeester, who literally has a puzzle on his doormat.
Before you walk into his apartment, there’s an original puzzle for you to solve.
I was able to do it.
See if you can.
What number comes next in this series: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 23, 28?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz slices read:
ENTREE #1:
In my trip to Europe 30 years ago I visited a friend in Switzerland, who literally (and numerically) had a puzzle on her doormat. Before you walked into her apartment, there was an original puzzle for you to solve.
I was able to do it. See if you can. What number comes next in this series: 1, 4, 13, 15, 15, 18?
ENTREE #2:
In a trip to California 30 years ago I visited a friend stationed at Fort Ord, a United States Army post on Monterey Bay, who literally (and numerically) had a puzzle on his doormat. Before you walked into his barracks, there was an original puzzle for you to solve. I was able to do it. See if you can.
What number comes next in this series: 6, 5, 9, 18?
ENTREE #3:
In my trip to Mexico two years ago I visited a friend in Chihuahua, a “purse-dog aficionado” who literally has a puzzle (and a pooch named Pepe) on his doormat.
Before you walk into his casa, there’s an original puzzle for you to solve (and a pooch for you to pet).
I was able to do both – solve the puzzle and pet the pooch.
See if you can solve the puzzle (and at least pretend to pet the pet pooch Pepe).
What number comes next in this series: 16, 5, 18, 18?
ENTREE #4:
During my trip to London two weeks ago I visited Sherlock, a deerstalker, case-cracker and puzzle-solver, and his flatmate, John. I buzzed their bell but there was no response, so I lifted the corner of their doormat and found the key to the door. The doormat, curiously, had a series of fifteen blue numbers printed upon it.
Besides the key to the door, also under the mat was a scrap of paper on which was scribbled a one-word key to unlocking the significance of the “doormatted” blue numerical sequence – a word that Sherlock was wont to employ whilst discussing murder cases with John.
Using this key as a clue, I was able to solve the puzzle. See if you can deduce the clue and solve the puzzle too:
What number comes next in this series: 10, 13, 18, 20, 21, 25, 27, 31, 42, 49, 57, 60, 91, 101, 109?
What is the one-word key scribbled on the scrap of paper under the doormat?
Hint: Were I not a citizen of the good old United States I may not have been able to crack this Merrie Olde English case.
ENTREE #5:
a decade from now the Summer Olympics will be hosted by Los Angeles. In a trip I made to Los Angeles two weeks ago I visited Stijn, a friend of mine from Amsterdam, who has been hired by the Los Angeles Olympic Committee as a consultant in the creation of bicycling event venues for the 2028 Olympic Games.
At Stijn’s urging, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has allowed Los Angeles to build an open-air velodrome with a banked two-kilometer-long oval asphalt track that is, in effect, a circular suburban residential “loop” thoroughfare in Pasadena’s Los Angeles County.
The track is roughly the length of a Kentucky Derby lap at Churchill Downs. Spectators at this venue will sit not outside of the oval course but on the infield in specially designed seats that swivel 360 degrees and come equipped with binoculars so that bicyclists can be tracked at every instant as they pedal their merry way around the perimeter of the asphalt oval. Indeed, Stijn has proposed that the track be named “Perimeter Street.”
A trial-run race at the new venue (after a false start by a too-eager cylist necessitated a timer-reset and restart) went off without a hitch or glitch, much to Stijn’s delight.
Rearrange the letters in “timer-reset” to form the last name of a puzzle-making friend of Stijn back in Amsterdam, a friend who apparently also knows Will Shortz.
Rearrange the letters in “Perimeter Street” to form the full name of Stijn’s friend.
Who is Stijn’s (and Will Shortz’s) friend?
Candy Shoppe Lollipop Gumdrop Dessert:
Synonym flavored candies
Name a popular generic candy in two words.
Rearrange the combined letters to form two synonyms containing five total syllables.
What is this candy?
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.
Schpuzzle Of The Week:
A wedding of romance languages
Selena from Barcelona and Marcel from Marseille marry and build a bistro in Bayonne.
An English adjective pertaining to marriage, when you spell it backward, describes and explains – in a two-word phrase, the first in French and the second in English – the clever French/Spanish name Selena and Marcel chose for their bistro: “Café Olé.” What is this English adjective that pertains to marriage?
What is the two-word phrase that describes and explains their bistro’s two-word French/Spanish name?
Appetizer Menu
Tough To Beat Conundrums Appetizer:
Home for the Hollandaise?
🥁1. Think of a five letter word. Shift each letter seven places later in the alphabet to get a synonym. The words are often used to describe feelings around the holiday season.🥁2. Think of a religious holiday. Drop the last letter to name a hotel chain.
🥁3. Name a fictional holiday character in seven letters. Rearrange to name what many retailers engage in just prior to this holiday.🥁4. Name a spice in eight letters, in which the last three letters are a type of relative and the first four letters are something one might give to this relative on a special occasion.
🥁5. Name a fictional location featured in a recent movie in seven letters.
Change one letter and rearrange to name a holiday culturally related to the fictional location.
Not Ready For Prime Time On-Air-Challenge Appetizer:
ShortZ but not SweeT
Every Sunday morning on his NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle segment, puzzlemaster Will Shortz plays an original “on-air challenge” with a lucky listener chosen at random from a pool of NPR Puzzle aficionados who have correctly answered the previous Sunday’s “end-of-the-segment” challenge.
The puzzle below is Puzzleria!s attempt to emulate this weekly NPR ritual. You might call it a “pseudo-on-air challenge,” or “on-blogosphair challenge.”So, here is is. Enjoy!
Every answer is a word, name or phrase that begins with the letter S and ends with the letter Z.
Example: Puzzlemaster Will --> SHORTZ
1. A nose, especially a prominent one
2. A canal
3. Hulu or Netflix competitor
4. Russian spacecraft5. A red wine
6. Peanuts producer Charles
7. Corny sentimentality
8. Non-standard word preceding “who?” or “me!” in a cartoon bubble
9. Medal-winning Mark eclipsed by Olympian Michael Phelps10. To spray in quick short bursts
11. Common Spanish surname that rhymes with an English word for “large cattle farms”
12. Poet Delmore
13. Malcolm X’s activist wife Betty
14. Plum brandy
NOTE: The following answers contain two words:
15. Defensive tactic that may lead to a sack or bad pass16. Short, quick physics or chemistry exam
17. Two-time Swiss Olympic host
18. California city that means “Holy Cross”
19. Kind of kids in a Steely Dan title
20. Title of a classical music piece often heard at ice shows
21. Title and surname of a recent Beto beater
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Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Numbers lying doormant
Will Shortz’s November 18th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
In my trip to Europe two weeks ago I visited a friend in Amsterdam, Peter Ritmeester, who literally has a puzzle on his doormat.
Before you walk into his apartment, there’s an original puzzle for you to solve. I was able to do it.
See if you can.
What number comes next in this series: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 23, 28?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz slices read:
ENTREE #1:In my trip to Europe 30 years ago I visited a friend in Switzerland, who literally (and numerically) had a puzzle on her doormat. Before you walked into her apartment, there was an original puzzle for you to solve.
I was able to do it. See if you can. What number comes next in this series: 1, 4, 13, 15, 15, 18?
ENTREE #2:
In a trip to California 30 years ago I visited a friend stationed at Fort Ord, a United States Army post on Monterey Bay, who literally (and numerically) had a puzzle on his doormat. Before you walked into his barracks, there was an original puzzle for you to solve. I was able to do it. See if you can. What number comes next in this series: 6, 5, 9, 18?
ENTREE #3:
In my trip to Mexico two years ago I visited a friend in Chihuahua, a “purse-dog aficionado” who literally has a puzzle (and a pooch named Pepe) on his doormat.
Before you walk into his casa, there’s an original puzzle for you to solve (and a pooch for you to pet). I was able to do both – solve the puzzle and pet the pooch.
See if you can solve the puzzle (and at least pretend to pet the pet pooch Pepe).
What number comes next in this series: 16, 5, 18, 18?
ENTREE #4:
During my trip to London two weeks ago I visited Sherlock, a deerstalker, case-cracker and puzzle-solver, and his flatmate, John. I buzzed their bell but there was no response, so I lifted the corner of their doormat and found the key to the door. The doormat, curiously, had a series of fifteen blue numbers printed upon it.
Besides the key to the door, also under the mat was a scrap of paper on which was scribbled a one-word key to unlocking the significance of the “doormatted” blue numerical sequence – a word that Sherlock was wont to employ whilst discussing murder cases with John. Using this key as a clue, I was able to solve the puzzle. See if you can deduce the clue and solve the puzzle too:
What number comes next in this series: 10, 13, 18, 20, 21, 25, 27, 31, 42, 49, 57, 60, 91, 101, 109?
What is the one-word key scribbled on the scrap of paper under the doormat?
Hint: Were I not a citizen of the good old United States I may not have been able to crack this Merrie Olde English case.
ENTREE #5:
a decade from now the Summer Olympics will be hosted by Los Angeles. In a trip I made to Los Angeles two weeks ago I visited Stijn, a friend of mine from Amsterdam, who has been hired by the Los Angeles Olympic Committee as a consultant in the creation of bicycling event venues for the 2028 Olympic Games.At Stijn’s urging, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has allowed Los Angeles to build an open-air velodrome with a banked two-kilometer-long oval asphalt track that is, in effect, a circular suburban residential “loop” thoroughfare in Pasadena’s Los Angeles County.
The track is roughly the length of a Kentucky Derby lap at Churchill Downs. Spectators at this venue will sit not outside of the oval course but on the infield in specially designed seats that swivel 360 degrees and come equipped with binoculars so that bicyclists can be tracked at every instant as they pedal their merry way around the perimeter of the asphalt oval. Indeed, Stijn has proposed that the track be named “Perimeter Street.” 
A trial-run race at the new venue (after a false start by a too-eager cylist necessitated a timer-reset and restart) went off without a hitch or glitch, much to Stijn’s delight.Rearrange the letters in “timer-reset” to form the last name of a puzzle-making friend of Stijn back in Amsterdam, a friend who apparently also knows Will Shortz.
Rearrange the letters in “Perimeter Street” to form the full name of Stijn’s friend.
Who is Stijn’s (and Will Shortz’s) friend?
Dessert Menu
Candy Shoppe Lollipop Gumdrop Dessert:
Synonym flavored candies
Name a popular generic candy in two words.
Rearrange the combined letters to form two synonyms containing five total syllables.
What is this candy?
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.
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DeleteLegoRespectfullyRequestsThatAllRorschachRaptorsRooksAndRiverbatsBeRippedFromHisPsyche
Happy post-Thanksgiving Day to all! I had a nice holiday, as I'm sure you all had. Nothing out of the ordinary for us. I did try a few dishes I don't normally eat, but otherwise nothing out of the ordinary. Late last night I checked Puzzleria! for the first time, and solved two conundrums and most of the S-Z answers. Tonight I figured out the Schpuzzle and a few more of the aforementioned puzzles. Currently I have the Schpuzzle, all Conundrums except #3 and #5, all S-Z's except #3, #15, #16, #17, and #20, and the final Entree(for obvious reasons). Don't expect me to really get the other Entrees. I stumbled onto the answer to last Sunday's puzzle, and I still don't understand it. I'm much better with letters than with numbers. Any hints for the unsolved ones will be appreciated, but as I said, don't expect me to solve the Entrees that easily.
ReplyDeleteEARLY HINTS:
Deletecranberry,
Will Shortz's puzzle this past week was purely numerical. My Riffing-Off-Shortz-Slices, however, are not. But Entrees 1 through 4 are very challenging. (I will be very impressed if anyone solves ENTREE #2.) ENTREE #5 involves no math whatsoever and, like many of the "last entree of the weekly Riffing Off Shortz entries" that involves a person's name, it is a piece of cake. But I will give hints four all five Riff-Offs, below:
CONUNDRUMS:
#3: The fictional holiday character? "Bad Santa" to the power of infinity!
What many retailers engage in just prior to this holiday is just the opposite of what many retailers engage in during the in-the-black days imediately following Thanksgiving.
#5: The recent movie? The title character "lacks antlers."
The holiday? Not a menorah... but seven candles just the same.
ShortZ But Not SweeT:
3. Not Sunz
15. Men without helmets?
16. The exam is sometimes "popped" (by professorial guys like Bill Nye, perhaps)
17. The host has a halo
20. Walt's idea was to put Mickey and Minnie "On Ice."
ROSS:
1. To solve this Slice, some alphabetizing is in order
2. Ord? Ordinals!
3. This Slice requires no alphabetizing, but does require some translation
4. "Going postal," alas, occurs peodically.
5. You've gotta name Mr. P.R.? Well, we gotta puzzle about it.
LegoWondersIfWaldenPondEverFrozeOver...AndIfTwoFellIfWalt'sMiceSkatedOnIt
I can't believe I forgot to mention I haven't solved the Dessert! I need a hint for that one too.
ReplyDeleteThe first word in the popular generic candy is a 3-letter adjective, and the second is an 8-letter noun.
DeleteThe synonyms are adjectives (both ending in the same two letters in the same order) that describe candies (including the generic candy in this puzzle, as I understand it) after they are stored in a particular place by certain candy-lovers before they consume said candies.
LegoAddsThatTheFinalThreeLettersInTheEightLetterNounFormAWordThatMightHelpYouFindTheSynonyms
I now have everything before the Entrees(except #5). Will require more help on the other Entrees and the Dessert. BTW I dread however you intend to "riff-off" this week's Sunday Puzzle, as I see no possibility of solving it(see my various posts on Blaine's Blog). Now, if you could maybe help me with THAT one...
DeleteI now have all the conundrums and S-Z #16, #17, and #20. The only reason I could get Entree #5 is the reason you described.
ReplyDeleteWell, I suppose it's past time for me to check in here. On Friday, I chugged along nicely on the Conundrums, until I hit the infamous #5. The hint above caused me to know the holiday, but I'm still nowhere on the fictional location.
ReplyDeleteI then had plowed through the Not Ready for Prime Time appetizer, solving all EXCEPT #5 [again] and #8. There were no hints above for those, as I suppose pjb had gotten them already?
I also answered Entree #5 (those have become easy), and I THINK the 'word' in Entree #4, but it didn't help me with the sequence.
I had also gotten AN answer for Entree #1, but given the hint above, I do not think it is your intended answer. Entrees #2 and #3 remain a mystery.
The Schpuzzle still eludes me also [I had guessed an answer, but I'm sure it's wrong, as it doesn't even make any sense to me], but the Dessert hint was the very help needed to solve IT....I had had all the WRONG candies written down.
Hints:
DeleteSchpuzzle:
The adjective pertaining to marriage is often misspelled. The French word in the a two-word phrase is a homophone of one of the syllables in the name of the bistro. The English word in the a two-word phrase is a kind of wordplay
Conundrum #5:
I alluded to the title of the movie in a Puzzleria! puzzle from around St. Paddy's Day last
ShortZ but not SweeT:
#5: The name of the wine, which is also the name of its grape, is also the name of a pretty large city in Iran
#8: The non-standard word preceding “who?” or “me!” is a homophone of a synonym of "states."
ROSS:
#1: The 1 alludes to the sixth letter in a certain word. The 15 and 15 allude to the second and third letters in that word.
#2: It is a puzzle based on (Fort) Ordinal numbers, and their spellings. The seventh and final number in the series would be 8. There would not be a sixth number in the series... nor would there be an eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth...
#3: The answer involves Pepe, and the Spanish word for what kind of creature he is.
#4: The word scribbled on the scrap of paper has five syllables, which should lead you to a table without chairs, which should lead you to a place where there are letters upon letters, some of them in code. Quite a mysterious case!
LegoAlsoKnownAsPepeLePeuzzler
I can certainly understand that, if the seventh number in the series is the last number in the series, there would be no eighth or greater number in the series; I think that's sort of tautological. But no sixth? How am I supposed to get there from here? I mean, there can't be a seventh without a sixth, can there?
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DeleteThanks only to the above hints, I've managed to work out Entree #1, although the "mixed up logic" of that one still confuses, me, #3 (which makes sense), and #4, which took quite a while to deal with, even after understanding the 'code.'
That #2, however, is a complete mystery...like Paul, I have gotten nowhere.
ViolinTeddy and Paul,
DeleteYou both make excellent points about ROSS ENTREE #2.
The short answer, Paul, is that the "sixth number in the series" is a kind of "ghost number" -- sure, it ought to be there but it just does not cut the mustard!
As you both have discovered, unlike in Will's doormat puzzle -- where the (n+1st) element of the series depends on the nth -- in all my ROSS Riff-Off ENTREES that is not the case. But in Ross #2, there really should be a sixth element in the series. Honest! Alas, what should be there just does not qualify. The "seventh" element (quotes added for Paul's benefit) does qualify. But nothing above seventh qualifies. This bit of info actually may be a hint to helping you solve #2. (In the puzzle-making biz, we call that "spin.")
Here are two similar series, a Solar System Series (SSS), and a Rainbow Spectrum Series (RSS).
In both series, the letter "X" indicates an element that should be there but does not qualify. You must solve for "?". If you try to solve for "X" you shall be frustrated.
(Note: As you solve the SSS. consider what the the "first S" stands for as a part of the "second S," and consider Pluto "planet-worthy."):
SSS: 19, 5, 14, 20, X, ?, X, X, X, X
RSS: 18, 18, 12, 5, X, ?, X
LegoJustAEarthboundPuzzleMakerSpinningJustificationsForHisSenselessPuzzlesFasterThanKellyanneConwaySpinsTheTweetyWordsOfHerBoss
So if I knew how 18 pertains to red and orange, and 12 and 15 correspond to yellow and green, respectively, then I'd know what number pertains to indigo and why no numbers correspond to either blue or violet?
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DeleteI have been noticing with interest (neither here nor there), that the number 18 appears in ALL the entrees this week (except the last one.) Is 18 special somehow?
DeleteIt is a special number in Judaism >>>
Delete“ According to the Gematria, a Jewish mystical tradition that assigns a numerological value to Hebrew letters, the Chet has a value of 8 and the Yud has a value of 10, adding up to the number 18 (Hebrew is read from right to left). Because of this, the number 18 represents good luck and gifts are often given in multiples of Chai, or 18. It symbolizes giving the recipient the gift of "life" or luck.“
L'chaim!
ViolinTeddy and Paul,
DeleteI admire your stick-to-it-tiveness in solving this realy tricky puzzle.
And thank you, Word Woman, for that illumination about the number 18 from the perspective of Judaism. I always learn something when you share your writing -- either on Puzzleria!, Blainesville, or on your own great blog, Partial Ellipsis Of The Sun (PEOTS). Thank you.
ViolinTeddy, the number 18 is indeed ubiquitous not only in Jewish mystical tradition but also in these ROSS (not RACHEL!) puzzle entrees. So, great observation on your part.
Is 18 special? The 18th letter of our alphabet is R, a pretty common letter...
On a related note, Paul, the answer to your question:
"So if I knew how 18 pertains to red and orange, and 12 and 15 correspond to yellow and green, respectively, then I'd know what number pertains to indigo and why no numbers correspond to either blue or violet?"
is a resounding YES!
Both 18 (R) and 5 (E, the fifth letter of the alphabet) pertain to both REd and oRangE.
Your are making progress toward solving these puzzles with flying colors.
LegoWhoBelievesThatViolinTeddyAndPaulAndAllPuzzleriansAreOutOFThisWorldWhenItComesToExcellenceInPuzzleSolving!
Well, all righty, then:
Delete10, 5, 18, 9, X, X, X, X, ?, X, X, X.
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19, 15, 5, 14, 19, 25, ?
Oh, thank you so much, Lego. I've now managed to work out the Schpuzzle (I had been thinking that the French word would actually make a sensible phrase if translated into English, to go with the second English word, and then on top of that wrong assumption, I'd been thinking of the WRONG French word, that sounds just like the real French word that IS your answer.
ReplyDeleteI never would have solved the Not Ready Appetizer #5 and 8 without your hints, either. Both things were just too far out of my own experience.
Likewise with that fictional location for the movie in Con #5....which I never saw and would never have stumbled upon without the hint above. Thank you.
On to see if i can get anywhere with the remaining entrees.
Hey, Lego, all this ROSS this and ROSS that; when will you feature a RACHEL?
ReplyDeleteHappy Tuesday!
Lego ranks the six "Friends" first names:
Delete1. JOEY: (Joseph Young's Puzzleria! (nuff said)
2. PHOEBE: the name of both a moon goddess and a bird!
3. ROSS: Riffing-Off-Shortz-Slices are a longtime P! feature
4. MONICA: I had a wonderful aunt named Monica
5. CHANDLER: Gotta kinda like the creator of "The Big Sleep," "The Long Goodbye" and Philip Marlowe
6. My friend's middle name is Rachael, but she spells it differently... and, besides, 'tis merely her middle name
LegoWrites:JoeyIsABabyRooWhilePhoebeIsABird...AFlycathcerLikeBabyRuthAndHeBeBest,Concurred?
Nice, Lego, but RACHEL/RACHAEL still has her nose out of joint. No CAPITALIZING her name, like all the others?! The HORROR. . .
DeleteMy insincere apologies to rachel Green, she of the disjointed nose. Kind of hypocritical, however, of rachel to be critical of those who CAPITALIZE her name while she thinks nothing of capitalizing ON her name!
DeleteLegoWhoNotesThatTheBabe(NotRachelButRuth)WasNotAFlycathcerButAFlycatcher!
VERY funny, WW!!! : o )
ReplyDeleteThanks, ViolinTeddy. I spent Thanksgiving with my neighbors and their friends so folks have been saying “Oh, you had a Friendsgiving!” Um, okay. . .
DeleteThankful for two employed adult children, as of last week! One on the east coast, one on the west coast.
Oh, your daughter is back from Africa? That is wonderful all the way around. Which 'coast' is she on?
DeleteYes, she is just back this month. She will be on the west coast! Very exciting for her. Thanks for asking.
DeleteStill don't have the Entrees or the Dessert. Any other hints, Lego?(Bear in mind I'll probably never get the Entrees because I hate these number order puzzles in the first place, no offense.) Also, I hate to say it, but the Dessert appears to be going the way of this week's Sunday Puzzle. I have neither, with no hope of getting either.
ReplyDeleteThe popular generic candy in two words is 4 syllables long. The first 3 of those syllables sound like a simple description of a Bloody Mary cocktail, in two words -- an adjective and noun of 3 and 6 letters.
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As for the ENTREES, check out my comments to ViolinTeddy and Paul, above.
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Well, I got the Dessert finally, but I still don't think I can figure out the Entrees. I think I'm good with what I got. See y'all later today!
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ReplyDeleteCHEER > JOLLY
RAMADAN > RAMADA
KRAMPUS > MARKUPS
CARDAMOM
WAKANDA > KWANZAA
SchnozZ
SueZ
StarZ
SoyuZ
ShiraZ
SchulZ
SchmaltZ
SeZ
SpitZ
SpritZ
Sanchez*
SchwartZ
ShabazZ
SlivovitZ
Safety blitZ
Snap quiZ
St. MoritZ*
Santa CruZ
ShowbiZ
Skater's WaltZ
Senator CruZ
*Louisa Moritz played Nurse Sanchez in this episode of M*A*S*H.
1=A, 4=D, 13=M, 15=O, 18=R, 20=T, rearrange to get DOORMAT
FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH, SEVENTH > 6, 5, 9, 18, 8, (), 8
16=P, 5=E, 18=R, 15=O to get PERRO
10, 13, 18, 20, 21, 25, 27, 31, 42, 49, 57, 60, 91, 101, 109 >
NeAlArCaScMnCoGaMoInLaNdPaMdMt > NE AL AR CA SC MN CO GA MO IN LA ND PA MD MT so it's 114=Fl=FL; ELEMENTARY
Peter Ritmeester
RED LICORICE > COLDER ICIER
You had a great week, puzzler-solver Paul.
DeleteMy answer to "ShortZ but not SweeT" #16 was "Science quiZ" But your "Snap quiZ" is much better. I didn't think of "Snap quiZ" because we used to call them "Pop quizzes..." Probably a regional thing.
LegoNursingHisPuzzleWoundsWithTheAidOfNurseSanchez
I have just returned from a city 45 miles south, where I had a LASER shot into my left eye (long story...sigh), that is why I'm late. Also why I had no time to try further with the now infamous Entree #2.
ReplyDeleteSCHPUZZLE: NUPTIAL => LAIT PUN; Here's another idea: SPOUSAL => LA SOUPS;
CONUNDRUMS:
1. CHEER => JOLLY [Though one is a noun and the other an adjective]
2. RAMADAN => RAMADA
3. KRAMPUS => MARKUPS
4. CARDAMOM => CARD / MOM
5. BLACK PANTHER; WAKANDA => KWANZAA
NOT READY APPETIZER:
1. SCHNOZ
2. SUEZ
3. STARZ
4. SOYUZ
5. SHIRAZ [post-hint]
6. SCHULZ
7. SCHMALTZ
8. SAYZ? [post hint]
9. SPITZ
10. SPRITZ
11. SANCHEZ
12. SHWARTZ
13. SHABAZZ
14. SLIVOVITZ
15. SLOT BLITZ
16. SCIENCE QUIZ
17. SAINT MORITZ [I've actually been there, long ago!]
18. SANTA CRUZ
19. SHOW BIZ
20. SKATERS' WALTZ
ENTREES:
1. A math solution: 1 +3=4, 4 +9=13, 13 +2=15, 15 +0=15, [Now repeat] 15 +3=18, so 18 +9 = 27;
Per the hint, though: 1, 4, 13, 15, 15, 18 = DOORMA? => ANAGRAM OF "DOORMAT" => ANSWER IS "20" FOR "T"
2. sixth fifth ninth eighteenth ? ? EIGHTH
3. PERRO (dog) => 16, 5, 18, 18 (P = 18, 5 = E, 18 = R, 18 = R, 15 = O), SO THE ANSWER IS " 15."
4. "ELEMENTARY" => PERIODIC TABLE => NE, AL, AR, CA, SC, MN, C0, GA, M0, IN, LA, ND, PA, MD, MT, and finally NH (NIHONIUM) with atomic number 113, followed by FL (FIEROVIUM), atomic number 114
5. PETER RITMEESTER
DESSERT: RED LICORICE => ICIER & COLDER
WHere and when did #21 come from in the S-Z puzzles? I surely never saw it.
ReplyDeleteI added it Friday late. Sorry, should have siad something about it in comments.
DeleteBy the way, "SPOUSAL" --> LA SOUPS is clever.
LegoBeto
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteNUPTIAL, "LAIT PUN"
Appetizer Part 1
Conundrums
1. CHEER, JOLLY
2. RAMADAN, RAMADA(Inn)
3. KRAMPUS, MARKUPS
4. CARDAMOM(CARD, MOM)
5. WAKANDA(from "Black Panther"), KWANZAA
Appetizer Part 2
1. SCHNOZZ
2. SUEZ
3. STARZ
4. SOYUZ
5. SHIRAZ
6. (Charles)SCHULZ
7. SCHMALTZ
8. SEZ
9. SPITZ
10. SPRITZ
11. SANCHEZ
12. SCHWARTZ
13. SHABAZZ
14. SLIVOVITZ
15. SAFETY BLITZ
16. SCIENCE QUIZ
17. ST. MORITZ
18. SANTA CRUZ
19. SHOW BIZ
20. SKATER'S WALTZ
21. SEN.(Ted)CRUZ
Menu
Entree #5. PETER RITMEESTER
Dessert
RED LICORICE(COLDER, ICIER)
"While the poor people sleepin' with the shade on the light/While the poor people sleepin', all the stars come out at night..."-pjb(We still miss you, Walter!)
Thanks for those lyrics, cranberry. The entire album is underrated, IMHO.
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This week's answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
A wedding of romance languages
Selena from Barcelona and Marcel from Marseille marry and build a bistro in Bayonne.
An English adjective pertaining to marriage, when you spell it backward, describes and explains – in two words, one French, the other English – the clever name they chose for their bistro: “Café Olé”
What is this adjective pertaining to marriage? What is the two-word description/explanation?
Answer:
nuptial (which spelled backward is "lait pun"... "Olé" is a homophone of "au lait," as in "Café au lait")
Appetizer Menu
Tough To Beat Conundrums Appetizer:
Home for the Hollandaise?
1. Think of a five letter word. Shift each letter seven places later in the alphabet to get a synonym. The words are often used to describe feelings around the holiday season.
Answer:
CHEER, JOLLY
2. Think of a religious holiday. Drop the last letter to name a hotel chain.
Answer:
RAMADAN, RAMADA
3. Name a fictional holiday character in seven letters. Rearrange to name what many retailers engage in just prior to this holiday.
Answer:
KRAMPUS, MARKUPS
4. Name a spice in eight letters, in which the last three letters are a type of relative and the first four letters are something one might give to this relative on a special occasion.
Answer:
CARDAMOM, MOM, CARD
5. Name a fictional location featured in a recent movie in seven letters. Change one letter and rearrange to name a holiday culturally related to the fictional location.
Answer:
WAKANDA, KWANZAA
Not Ready For Prime Time On-Air-Challenge Appetizer:
ShortZ but not SweeT
Every Sunday morning on his NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle segment, puzzlemaster Will Shortz plays an “on-air challenge” he has created with a listener chosen at random from a pool of listeners who answer Will's weekly challenge correctly. The puzzle below is my attempt to emulate this weekly NPR feature by creating an “on-air challenge” of my own:
On-air challenge: Every answer this week is a word, name or phrase that begins with the letter S and ends with the letter Z.
Example: Puzzlemaster Will --> SHORTZ
Answers:
1. A nose, especially a prominent one --> SCHNOZZ
2. A canal --> SUEZ
3. Hulu or Netflix competitor --> STARZ
4. Russian spacecraft --> SOYUZ
5. A red wine --> SHIRAZ
6. Peanuts producer Charles --> SCHULZ
7. Corny sentimentality --> SCHMALTZ
8. Non-standard word preceding "Who?" in a cartoon bubble --> SEZ
9. Medal-winning Mark eclipsed by Olympian Michael Phelps --> SPITZ
10. To spray in quick short bursts --> SPRITZ
11. Common Spanish surname that rhymes with an English word for "large cattle farms" --> SANCHEZ
12. Poet Delmore --> SCHWARTZ
13. Malcolm X's wife Betty --> SHABAZZ
14. Plum brandy --> SLIVOVITZ
NOTE: The following answers contain two words:
15. Defensive tactic that may lead to a sack or bad pass --> SAFETY BLITZ
16. Short, quick physics or chemistry exam --> SCIENCE QUIZ
17. Two-time Swiss Olympic host --> ST. MORITZ
18. California city that means "Holy Cross" --> SANTA CRUZ
19. Kind of kids in a Steely Dan title --> SHOW BIZ
20. Title of a classical music piece often heard at ice shows --> SKATERS' WALTZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB-ZfwJutjU
21. Title and surname of a recent Beto beater --> SENATOR (Ted) CRUZ
Lego...
This week's answers for the record, part 2:
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Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Numbers lying doormant
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz slices read:
ENTREE #1:
In my trip to Europe 30 years ago I visited a friend in Switzerland, who literally (and numerically) had a puzzle on her doormat. Before you walked into her apartment, there was an original puzzle for you to solve. I was able to do it. See if you can. What number comes next in this series: 1, 4, 13, 15, 15, 18?
Answer:
20; The 20th letter in the alphabet is T, which is a letter in the word "DOORMAT." The other six letters in "DOORMAT" and their alphabetical rankings are A = 1, D = 4, M = 13, O = 15, O = 15, and R = 18, which form the series: 1, 4, 13, 15, 15, 18, 20.
ENTREE #2:
In a trip to California 30 years ago I visited a friend stationed at Fort Ord, a United States Army post on Monterey Bay, who literally (and numerically) had a puzzle on his doormat. Before you walked into his barracks, there was an original puzzle for you to solve. I was able to do it. See if you can. What number comes next in this series: 6, 5, 9, 18?
Answer:
8; The fifth letter in the "Ord"inal number FIFTH is H which is the eighth letter in the alphabet. The first, second, third and fourth letters, respectively, in the ordinal numbers FIRST, SECOND, THIRD and FOURTH are F, E, I and R, which are the sixth (6), fifth (5), ninth (9), and eighteenth (18) letters of the alpahbet.
ENTREE #3:
In my trip to Mexico two years ago I visited a friend in Chihuahua, a “purse-dog aficionado” who literally has a puzzle (and a pooch named Pepe) on his doormat. Before you walk into his CASA, there’s an original puzzle for you to solve (and a pooch to pet). I was able to do it. See if you can. What number comes next in this series: 16, 5, 18, 18?
Answer:
15; O is the fifteenth letter in the alphabet. The Spanish word for "pooch" is PERRO. P, E, R and R are, respectively, the sixteenth, fifth, eighteenth and eighteenth letters of the alphabet.
Lego...
This week's answers for the record, part 3:
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ENTREE #4:
During my trip to London two weeks ago I visited Sherlock, a deerstalker and puzzle-solver, and his flatmate, John. I buzzed their bell but there was no response, so I lifted the corner of their doormat and found the key to the door. The doormat, curiously, had a series of fifteen blue numbers printed upon it.
Besides the key to the door, also under the mat was a scrap of paper on which was scribbled a one-word key to unlocking the significance of the number sequence – a word that Sherlock was wont to employ whilst discussing murder cases with John.
Using this key as a clue, I was able to solve the puzzle. See if you can deduce the clue and solve the puzzle too:
What number comes next in this series: 10, 13, 18, 20, 21, 25, 27, 31, 42, 49, 57, 60, 91, 101, 109?
What is the one-word key scribbled on the scrap of paper under the doormat?
Answer:
114;
The one-word key scribbled on the scrap of paper under the doormat is "Elementary" ("Elementary, my dear Watson," as Sherlock Holmes said) which is a clue to the "elements" in the Periodic Table.
Thus, the next number in the series is 114; The numbers correspond to the numbered elements on the Periodic Table whose abbreviations are also two-letter United States Postal Code abbreviations. (Fl, the postal code of Florida, is element #114, Flerovium, the sixteenth and last number in the series.)
The first fifteen numbers are:
(Ne, the postal code of Nebraska; element #10, Neon)
(Al, the postal code of Alabama; element #13, Aluminum)
(Ar, the postal code of Arkansas; element #18, Argon)
(Ca, the postal code of California; element #20, Calcium)
(Sc, the postal code of South Carolina; element #21, Scandium)
(Mn, the postal code of Minnesota; element #25, Manganese)
(Co, the postal code of Colorado; element #27, Cobalt)
(Ga, the postal code of Georgia; element #31, Gallium)
(Mo, the postal code of Missouri; element #42, Molybdenum)
(In, the postal code of Indiana; element #49, Indium)
(La, the postal code of Louisiana; element #57, Lanthanum)
(Nd, the postal code of North Dakota; element #60, Neodymium)
(Pa, the postal code of Pennsylvania; element #91, Protactinium)
(Md, the postal code of Maryland; element #101, Mendelevium)
(Mt, the postal code of Montana; element #109, Meiternium)
Lego...
This week's answers for the record, part 4:
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ENTREE #5:
a decade from now the Summer Olympics will be hosted by Los Angeles. In a trip I made to Los Angeles two weeks ago I visited Stijn, a friend of mine from Amsterdam, who has been hired by the Los Angeles Olympic Committee as a consultant in the creation of bicycling event venues for the 2028 Olympic Games.
At Stijn’s urging, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has allowed Los Angeles to build an open-air velodrome with a banked two-kilometer-long oval asphalt track that is, in effect, a circular suburban residential “loop” thoroughfare in Pasadena’s Los Angeles County. The track is roughly the length of a Kentucky Derby lap at Churchill Downs. Spectators at this venue sit not outside of the oval course but on the infield in specially designed seats that swivel 360 degrees and come equipped with binoculars so that bicyclists can be tracked at every instant as they pedal their merry way around the perimeter of the asphalt oval. Indeed, Stijn has proposed that the track be named “Perimeter Street.” A trial-run race at the new venue (after a false start by a too-eager cylist necessitated a timer-reset and restart) went off without a hitch or glitch, much to Stijn’s delight.
Rearrange the letters in “timer-reset” to form the last name of a puzzle-making friend of Stijn back in Amsterdam, a friend who apparently also knows Will Shortz. Rearrange the letters in “Perimeter Street” to form the full name of Stijn’s friend. Who is Stijn’s (and Will Shortz’s) friend?
Answer:
Peter Ritmeester
Dessert Menu
Candy Shoppe Lollipop Gumdrop Dessert:
Synonym flavored candies
Name a popular generic candy in two words. Rearrange the combined letters to form two synonyms containing five total syllables. What is this candy?
Answer:
Red licorice (colder, icier)
Lego!