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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
What’s my board certified line?
Add the letters in the name of a board game to a name for a board certified professional.
Rearrange this result to name another board certified professional, one who may work alongside the first professional.
Who are these professionals?
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Conundrummery
Funny Bon Mots
🥁1. Think of a slang term meaning “somewhat,” in five letters. Rearrange to name a style of comedy.
🥁2. Name a specific variety of tool which sounds like the last name of two contemporary public figures — a stand-up comedian and an actress. The comedian’s first name is a genre of music. The actress’s first name is an English word meaning “frenzied.” A synonym of this word is the first name of a current political commentator.
🥁3. Think of a modern day humorist. Drop the last letter of their first name and rearrange to get a type of transformation in eight letters. Change the middle two letters to an S and reverse the first three letters to get a term closely related to the previous word.
🥁4. The first name of an entrepreneur can be rearranged into the last name of a well-known comedian, or a word that often precedes “gunman,” or a word related to the holidays.
🥁5. Think of a comedian whose first name is a color and whose last name is something you might find on a suit jacket.
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Linkin’ Logorrhea Slice:
White satin pocketfuls of peaceful gulls
Name an anagram of a country.
Link this anagram to the end of a word to name something found in the Pacific. Link it to the end of a synonym of that word to name something found in your pocket.
Link the same anagram to the beginning of a word to name something a gullible person writes. Link it to the beginning of a synonym of that word to name something worn by knights.
These two pairs of synonyms begin with four different letters that appear within a 5-letter string in the alphabet.
What is found in the Pacific?
What is found in your pocket?
What does a gullible person write?
What is worn by knights?
Riffing Off Shortz And Nathan Slices:
Neighborly global greetings
Will Shortz’s April 21st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Daniel Nathan of Washington, D.C., reads:
Think of a common greeting in another country. You can rearrange its letters to get the capital of a country that neighbors the country where this greeting is commonly spoken. What greeting is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Nathan Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a polite but not too formal greeting spoken “in the Old Country” by the immigrant parents of an entertainer named Jerry.
You can rearrange its letters to spell the collective name for Jerry and his family: Rita, Robert and Pamela.
What greeting is it?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a common greeting in a United State. Spell it backward, then remove the first letter of the result to get a common greeting in any of the states south of the United States.
What greetings are these?
ENTREE #3:
Think of a common greeting in a Southeast Asian country.
Remove two letters used as a universal expression of affection, usually in written correspondence.
Rearrange the result to spell a neighboring country.
What greeting is it?
What are the Southeast Asian country and neighboring country?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a common greeting in a European country.
You can rearrange its letters to get a common greeting spoken by the lead character in an award-winning movie released in a patriotically significant year, and a three-letter chant popularized four years later during the Olympic “Miracle on Ice.”
What are these two greetings?
What is the three-letter chant?
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Easy To Swallow Dessert:
The long and short of Capistrano
Name two things, containing nine letters total, that swallow other things up.
Two letters in the shorter word appear also in the longer word.
A homophone of a third letter in the shorter word appears in the longer word.
What are these two words?
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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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Setting a pugilistic gem in a ring
It was billed as “The Fight of the Century.” More than 20,000 watched it in person, with a worldwide audience of millions more who tuned in to take a gander on closed-circuit broadcast screens.
Each boxer was a pugilistic dynamo. Muhammad Ali had more charm and a 3-inch height advantage, and had mastered the domains of both promotion and showmanship.
But, Joe Frazier won the fight.
A trio of words in the recap above are a clue to the the setting of this epic 1971 event. What are the words and what was the three-word setting?
Note of caution: A pair of words in the recap are red herrings. Do not be fooled!
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Modes Of Movement Appetizer:
TransPortlandia
Note: This appetizing puzzle was created by Mark Scott of Seattle (screen name: skydiveboy).
Thanks, Mark.
Think of a country and replace its first vowel with a different vowel to name a mode of human transportation.
What are they?
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Trendy Slice:
Instrumental gymnastics
Remove a vowel from the name of a musical instrument.
The remaining letters, in order, are the initial letters of the words in a trendy phrase, including those in the two-word hyphenated noun that begins the phrase.
What is this phrase?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Kenny “The Snake” runs a quarterback sneak
Will Shortz’s April 14th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Think of a word for a deceitful person. Move the middle letter to the end and you’ll get another word for a deceitful person. What words are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a word for a wild beast.
Move the middle letter to the end and you’ll get a word for an implement that might precipitate the process of transforming this wild beast into a piled-high feast.
What words are these?
ENTREE #2:
Hard labor, fatigue or exhaustion might do something detrimental to your strength.
Think of a verb for what they might do to your strength and energy. Move the middle letter to the end and you’ll get a word for a place where you may renew your strength.
What verb and place are these?
ENTREE #3:
Take the first five letters of a synonym of genesis. Move the middle letter to the end and you’ll get another word for a creature from the Book of Genesis.
Now remove the third through sixth letters from the synonym of genesis. The remaining letters form the same word for a creature from the Book of Genesis.
What is this synonym of genesis? What is the word for a creature from the Book of Genesis?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a two-letter word you hear in the context of meditation and a three-letter word you hear in the context of medication.
Put these words side-by-side. Move the middle letter to the end and you’ll get the name of a city with a population of about half-a-million.
What words are these?
What is the city?
ENTREE #5:
Think of a word for what IQ testing serves as, in five letters, for measuring one’s intelligence level.
Move the middle letter of this word to the end and you’ll get a society that uses IQ as a criterion for membership.
What words are these?
ENTREE #6:
Think of a word for ancient farmers as they prepared the soil for planting.
Move the middle letter to the end and you’ll get a word for a beast of burden that less-ancient farmers hitched to a plow to till their fields.
What words are these?
ENTREE #7:
Think of the first word in the title of a Simon & Garfunkel album.
Move the middle letter to the end and you’ll get a plural synonym of the last word in the seventh track on the album.
What words are these?
ENTREE #8:
“Their,” “they’re” and “_____” are pronounced identically but are spelled in _____ different ways. Move the middle of the word that belongs in the first blank to the end to get the word that belongs in the second blank.
What words are these?
ENTREE #9:
When a group (not pictured here) known for its Gospel music roots recorded a song about a young orphan boy coming of age and being raised by a small-town madam who ran a house of ill repute, did it _______ their fan base?
No, the _______ Brothers became even more popular!
Move the middle of the word that belongs in the first blank to the end to get the word that belongs in the second blank.
What words are these?
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Cloyingly Sweet Dessert:
“What’s in your Easter basket?”
Name something you eat that sometimes is sweet, followed by a word describing an eater who refuses to eat it.
The result sounds like a palindromic treat that you eat that always is sweet, followed by what the same eater, mentioned above, might (or perhaps should) exclaim after eating it.
What are these four words?
Hint: The treat that you eat that always is sweet is sometimes found in an Easter basket.
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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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Name, rank and cereal number
Name a food and a word associated with it that begin with the same letter.
These words are the last names of two TV characters who share the same rank.
What words are these?
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A Number Of Conundrums Appetizer:
Fun, games, wordplay
🥁#1 Think of a linguistic word used by puzzle constructors in eleven letters.
Drop two vowels and rearrange the remaining vowels, leaving the consonants in the same order, to make a synonym for “unit”.
🥁#2 Think of a three word phrase used to explain a pun. Remove the spaces and shift each letter six places earlier in the alphabet. The result will be a Latin word for the smallest member of a set.
🥁#3 Think of an atomic element in seven letters, British spelling. Shift each letter three places earlier in the alphabet. The result will be a gambling card game.
🥁#4 Name a playful internet prank in eight letters. Drop the first letter and move the next three letters to the end. The result will be a synonym for playfulness.
🥁#5 Spoonerize a slangy two-word phrase for “agreement”. The result when spoken aloud will sound like a two word phrase for something a specific type of artist has done.
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Did Mr. Cub really say “Let’s kill two!”? Slice:
Rest in Peace, Izzy & Newt
During a late-season 1907 baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and Boston Doves at South End Grounds III in Boston, Izzy Hoffman was the runner on first for the Doves with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning.
The Doves were down 4 to 3.
The crowd cheered hopefully as Dove right fielder Newt Randall (who was swapped from the Cubs to the Doves earlier in the season) strode to the plate.
Hurling for the Cubs was starting pitcher and shutout specialist Orval Overall.
Randall had worked the count to two balls and one strike.
Note: Because the first radio broadcast of a baseball game did not occur until August 5, 1921 (Pittsburgh Pirates versus Philadelphia Phillies), the following is a snippet from a fictionalized local radio broadcast of what happened next at South End Grounds III:
Overall, who is known for his slow sinker ball, has been feeding Newt a steady diet of rising fastballs. Here’s Orval’s next pitch, another screaming mitt-smacker. Newt swings and misses. That evens the count at 2 and 2.
Izzy takes a short lead off of first base. Overall winds up and throws his signature change of pace pitch.
Newt swings, and...
What happened when Newt Randall swung at Orval Overall’s signature change of pace sinker ball pitch?
Who was involved in the play?
Did the game end right there, or continue on?
Hint: Slightly tweaking three words – one in each sentence of the snippet – will help you solve this puzzle.
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Would a Denmark by any other name smell as rotten?
Will Shortz’s April 7th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
This challenge might require a little research. Name a country. Remove its last letter. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a word that means “country” in that country’s main language. What country is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices (all which might require a little research) read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a natural border between two countries. The border is often called only by an 8-letter uppercase word.
A common female first name popular in the northernmore country appears in the interior of the 8-letter word. Replace it with the letter “a”. Rearrange the result to spell a word that means “country” in the main language of that northernmore country.
What country is it?
ENTREE #2:
Name a country. Remove its first letter. The remaining letters spell a word that would describe the country if the Baltic Sea were drained and dammed. What country is it?
ENTREE #3:
Name a country. Interchange its penultimate and antepenultimate letters. Capitalize the new antepenultimate letter and rotate it clockwise 90 degrees. Rearrange all but the new penultimate letter and last letter to form a proper noun.
This noun, and the remaining pair of letters form a caption for the image pictured here. What is this caption?
What is the country?
ENTREE #4:
Name a present-day unincorporated community sometimes known as “Paradise.”
You will find it on the map west of New Madrid, south of Ste. Genevieve, east of Piedmont, and northwest of Dublin.
Remove the first letter from the name of the community. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a word that means “country” in the main language of the country where the community is situated.
What country is it?
What is the name of the community?
Hint: The community that is sometimes known as “Paradise” is a single word, but it can be split into two words that could complete the following sentence: Michelangelo was able to _____ Paradise __ the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
ENTREE #5:
Remove any consecutive pair of letters from the interior of an island nation in the Pacific Ocean. Place immediately after this result the second word in a two-word island nation in the Indian Ocean.
Divide the result in half to name a singer/songwriter, first and last names.
What are these two island nations? Who is the singer/songwriter?
Hint: The letters in the first word of the two-word island nation in the Indian Ocean can be rearranged to spell the title of a second singer/songwriter who shares the first name and is about a year younger than than the first singer/songwriter.
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Phone Nym Name Dessert:
Topolo Honeymoon
A name on a topographic map is a homophone of a synonym of the word “name.”
What is this name on a map?
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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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Lasting cast-in-stone impressions
Place the second-person form of a verb in front of the third-person form of the same verb.
The result is a synonym of “fossils.”
What is this synonym?
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Metronational Appetizer:
Munici-pals & country cousins
Note: This Appetizer was created and contributed to Puzzleria! by Mark Scott of Seattle (screen name: “skydiveboy”). Thank you greatly, Mark.
Think of a major U.S. city.
Remove two adjacent consonants within to spell a well known country when the remaining letters are pushed together.
What are this city and country?
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Globe Theater Slice:
“Egad! Bard gabbed as oboe bebopped”
The following seven words share an interesting and unusual property in common — it is something that pertains to all letters in each of the seven words.
What is this property?
When you know it, think of a word from the title of a Shakespeare play that shares the unusual property.
PAGODA
BEBOP
DODGE
OBOE
EGAD
ADAGE
GABBED
Riffing Off Shortz And Krozel Slices:
Frozen foods and freeze frames
Will Shortz’s March 31st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joe Krozel of Creve Coeur, Missouri, reads:
Name something you see when going to the movies, in two words. Change the sixth letter to an R, and you’ll get something you might buy at a grocery, in three words. What things are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Krozel Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name an viewing option, in two words, available to patrons attending movies in swanky theaters with loges and balconies during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.
Place an R between the fifth and sixth letters. Remove the first two letters from each word and put them together to form the brand name of the sound system with which the theater might have been equipped.
The remaining letters will form a hyphenated word for a label attached to one Oscar-winning movie, and also to another movie with an Oscar-nominated actor and director. Both movies were shown in theaters during that era.
What is this movie-viewing option?
What is the brand name of the sound system?
What label was attached to the two movies?
ENTREE #2:
Name concessions you might see patrons carrying into the movies, in one word. Double the fifth letter and remove the first letter, and you’ll get noisy interruptions you might hear during dramatic scenes — interruptions perhaps perpetrated by patrons who may have shaken too much pepper on those concessions.
What are these concessions and noisy interruptions?
ENTREE #3:
Take the first name of the mess sergeant in an old-school comic strip followed by a single-syllable catchphrase exclaimed by a newer-school animated sitcom patriarch. The result sounds like the main ingredient in bite-sized morsels you can purchase at many movie theater concessions stands. What ingredient is this? Who are the mess sergeant and patriarch?
ENTREE #4:
Place the fifth word of an American short story title after the word “Movie” to form a synonym of “cinema.”
The final word in the title is the title of a flashlight-wielding employee who was once ubiquitous at this synonym of “cinema.”
What is this short story title?
ENTREE #5:
Name a certain preliminary bonus feature you used to sometimes see when going to the movies, in four words.
If you remove one of the double letters in the fourth word you’ll get a container you might buy at a grocery in December. It is a container that contains a six-letter beverage with three “g’s” that you might mix with rum and cognac to make a batch of the treat formed by first three words of that “certain preliminary bonus feature.”
What are these four words?
ENTREE #6:
Name something you see when going to the movies, in two words.
Rearrange the letters of the first word to get things you buy at the grocery deli.
Rearrange the letters of the second word to get a homophone of what the Hays Code was created to do.
What things do you buy at the deli?
What was the Hays Code created to do?
ENTREE #7:
Name something you see when going to the movies, in one word. Divide the word in two. Place a one-letter abbreviation for a positive response at the end of the first part to form a woman’s name.
Place a one-letter abbreviation for a negative response at the end of the second part to form a woman’s title.
Place the title before the name to form the name an ocean liner.
What is the name of this ocean liner?
ENTREE #8:
Name a puzzle maker who made a puzzle about going to the movies, in two words. Drop the last letter. Switch the third and fourth letters. Move the fifth and sixth letters to the end. Divide the result in half to form two derogatory terms that do not apply to this puzzle maker.
Who is the puzzle maker and what terms are these?
ENTREE #9:
Name something you might see (and eat) when going to the movies at a Cobb Theatres franchise, in two words.
Change the sixth letter to an R (or, if it already is an R, keep it as an R). If you now add a space you’ll get things you might buy at a grocery, in three words (of 3, 4, and 7 letters) as you prepare for a Fourth of July picnic.
What things are these?
Note: Thanks to “Ben,” a poster on the Blaine’s Puzzle Blog, for inspiring this ninth riff-off puzzle Entree.
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A Penny Earned Dessert:
Heeding sage advice from an adage
A well-known adage offers advice one ought heed when compensated by an employer for services rendered.
Rearrange the initial letters of the adage’s eight words to form two words: one a synonym of “heed,” the other a synonym of “compensated.”
What is this adage?
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.
Conundrummery
🥁3. Think of a modern day humorist. Drop the last letter of their first name and rearrange to get a type of transformation in eight letters. Change the middle two letters to an S and reverse the first three letters to get a term closely related to the previous word.
Name an anagram of a country.
These two pairs of synonyms begin with four different letters that appear within a 5-letter string in the alphabet. 
Will Shortz’s April 21st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Daniel Nathan of Washington, D.C., reads: 
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Nathan Slices read:
ENTREE #2:
Remove two letters used as a universal expression of affection, usually in written correspondence. 
You can rearrange its letters to get a common greeting spoken by the lead character in an award-winning movie released in a patriotically significant year, and a three-letter chant popularized four years later during the Olympic “Miracle on Ice.” 
Easy To Swallow Dessert:
A homophone of a third letter in the shorter word appears in the longer word. 
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.
