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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Ordering at Planet Hollywood
Put the two actresses and two fictional characters listed below in the proper order, from 1 to 4.
The proper order is neither alphabetical nor chronological.
Explain your reasoning.
Solomon Lane
Donna Reed
Tiffany Doggett
Mia Farrow
1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?
Quantum Conundrums
Let’s get biophysical
🥁1. In addition to being related to the human body, what do the following items have in common?
Toenail, tongue, finger, butt, lap.
🥁2. Think of a celebrity physicist, five and six letters, whose last name contains a color.
His first name can be rearranged into a word related to intelligence. ROT13 his first name and rearrange to get the plural form of an astronomical object.
🥁3. Name a unit of measure.
Exchange the first half of the letters with the second half.
The result will be a body part.
🥁4. Think of a natural disaster in seven letters.
Drop one letter and rearrange to name an elementary physics particle.
Drop a different letter from the natural disaster and rearrange to name a programming language.
🥁5. Think of a physical gesture in five letters.
Drop the first and third letters to name another physical gesture.
Vulpine Slice:
There’s no crying in foxholes!
Name a two-word phrase perhaps heard in a foxhole, the makeshift bunker that insulates soldiers from enemy gunfire.
Homonyms (see definition 1c) of the two words in that phrase, taken together, name the natural insulation of a creature that is not a fox.
What are these two words?
Hint: The two words (and their homonyms, of course) are alliterative.
Riffing Off Shortz And Strong Slices:
To whom it may concern...
Will Shortz’s October 27th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mike Strong of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, reads:
Think of a familiar two-word phrase – 5 letters in each word – that might be something you’d write in a letter. The first and last letters are the same. The 3rd and 8th letters are the same. The 4th and 7th letters are the same. And the middle two letters are consecutive in the alphabet. What phrase is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Strong Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of an not-really-familiar two-word phrase – 4 letters in each word – that might be something you’d write in a letter to a not-really-so-noble nobleman. The first and 7th letters are the same. The 2nd and last letters are the same. The 3rd and 6th letters are the same. And the middle two letters are consecutive in the alphabet. What phrase is it?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a two-word phrase – 6 letters in each word – that might describe a mother, father or older sibling of a child who has just made a humongous Halloween candy haul. The first, 5th, 7th and 10th letters are the same. The 2nd and last letters are the same. The 3rd and 11th letters are the same. The 4th and 8th letters are the same. And the 6th and 9th letters are the same. What phrase is it?
ENTREE #3:
Think of a professional person and something the person makes – 5 letters in each word. The first and 6th letters are the same. The 2nd and 9th letters are the same. The 4th and 8th letters are the same. And the 5th and 7th letters are the same. What are these words?
Hint: The last and 3rd letters are the initials of an sit-com actor who was in 1979 ranked in about the middle of the 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list, according to TV Guide.
ENTREE #4:
Think of a pair of synonyms in 5 and 6 letters. The first and 9th letters are the same. The 2nd and 7th letters are the same. The 3rd and 10th letters are the same. The 4th, 6th and last letters are the same. And the 5th and 8th letters are the same. What are these synonyms?
ENTREE #5:
Think of a U.S. capital city and its state, west of the Mississippi. The 8th letter and first letter are consecutive in the alphabet. The 9th letter and 6th letter are consecutive in the alphabet. The 6th letter and 3rd letter are the same. The 7th letter and 5th letter are consecutive in the alphabet.
The 2nd and last letters are the same. What are this capital city and state?
ENTREE #6:
Think of a U.S. city and its state, west of the Mississippi. The first, 4th, 6th and 9th letters are the same. The 3rd and 10th letters are the same. The 5th and last letters are the same. The 7th and 11th letters are the same. And the 8th and 2nd letters sound like the first two words in the three-word 1960’s-era album title of what is widely regarded as one of the greatest debuts in the history of rock music.
What city and state are these?
ENTREE #7:
Think of a a name of a puzzle-maker in 10 letters.
Those letters include (if you assign a number to each letter of the alphabet from A=1, B=2, C=3... Z=26), in alphabetical order:
* a string of five consecutive odd-numbered letters,
* a pair of consecutive letters, even-odd, and
* a trio of consecutive letters, even-odd-even.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
Call Me Indispensable Dessert:
From a woman of letters to a Letterman
Use seven different letters of the alphabet to spell an indispensable tool of the novelist’s trade, in eight letters.
Use only these seven letters (most of them more than once) to spell three words:
* the first two of the three words in the title of a novel, and
* the last name of the woman of letters who wrote that novel.
What are this tool and novel?
Who is the novelist?
Hint: The combined letters in the third word in the novel’s title and in the novelist’s first name can be rearranged to spell a two-word description of David Letterman, formerly.
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:
Ordering at Planet Hollywood
Put the two actresses and two fictional characters listed below in the proper order, from 1 to 4.
The proper order is neither alphabetical nor chronological. Explain your reasoning.
Solomon Lane
Donna Reed
Tiffany Doggett
Mia Farrow
1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?
Appetizer Menu
Quantum ConundrumsLet’s get biophysical
🥁1. In addition to being related to the human body, what do the following items have in common?
Toenail, tongue, finger, butt, lap.
🥁2. Think of a celebrity physicist, five and six letters, whose last name contains a color.
His first name can be rearranged into a word related to intelligence. ROT13 his first name and rearrange to get the plural form of an astronomical object.🥁3. Name a unit of measure.
Exchange the first half of the letters with the second half.
The result will be a body part.
🥁4. Think of a natural disaster in seven letters. Drop one letter and rearrange to name an elementary physics particle.
Drop a different letter from the natural disaster and rearrange to name a programming language.
🥁5. Think of a physical gesture in five letters. Drop the first and third letters to name another physical gesture.
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Vulpine Slice:There’s no crying in foxholes!
Name a two-word phrase perhaps heard in a foxhole, the makeshift bunker that insulates soldiers from enemy gunfire.
Homonyms (see definition 1c) of the two words in that phrase, taken together, name the natural insulation of a creature that is not a fox.
What are these two words?Hint: The two words (and their homonyms, of course) are alliterative.
Riffing Off Shortz And Strong Slices:
To whom it may concern...
Will Shortz’s October 27th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mike Strong of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, reads:
Think of a familiar two-word phrase – 5 letters in each word – that might be something you’d write in a letter. The first and last letters are the same. The 3rd and 8th letters are the same. The 4th and 7th letters are the same. And the middle two letters are consecutive in the alphabet. What phrase is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Strong Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of an not-really-familiar two-word phrase – 4 letters in each word – that might be something you’d write in a letter to a not-really-so-noble nobleman. The first and 7th letters are the same. The 2nd and last letters are the same. The 3rd and 6th letters are the same. And the middle two letters are consecutive in the alphabet. What phrase is it?ENTREE #2:
Think of a two-word phrase – 6 letters in each word – that might describe a mother, father or older sibling of a child who has just made a humongous Halloween candy haul. The first, 5th, 7th and 10th letters are the same. The 2nd and last letters are the same. The 3rd and 11th letters are the same. The 4th and 8th letters are the same. And the 6th and 9th letters are the same. What phrase is it?ENTREE #3:
Think of a professional person and something the person makes – 5 letters in each word. The first and 6th letters are the same. The 2nd and 9th letters are the same. The 4th and 8th letters are the same. And the 5th and 7th letters are the same. What are these words?Hint: The last and 3rd letters are the initials of an sit-com actor who was in 1979 ranked in about the middle of the 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list, according to TV Guide.
ENTREE #4:
Think of a pair of synonyms in 5 and 6 letters. The first and 9th letters are the same. The 2nd and 7th letters are the same. The 3rd and 10th letters are the same. The 4th, 6th and last letters are the same. And the 5th and 8th letters are the same. What are these synonyms?ENTREE #5:
Think of a U.S. capital city and its state, west of the Mississippi. The 8th letter and first letter are consecutive in the alphabet. The 9th letter and 6th letter are consecutive in the alphabet. The 6th letter and 3rd letter are the same. The 7th letter and 5th letter are consecutive in the alphabet.
The 2nd and last letters are the same. What are this capital city and state?ENTREE #6:
Think of a U.S. city and its state, west of the Mississippi. The first, 4th, 6th and 9th letters are the same. The 3rd and 10th letters are the same. The 5th and last letters are the same. The 7th and 11th letters are the same. And the 8th and 2nd letters sound like the first two words in the three-word 1960’s-era album title of what is widely regarded as one of the greatest debuts in the history of rock music.
What city and state are these?
ENTREE #7:
Think of a a name of a puzzle-maker in 10 letters.
Those letters include (if you assign a number to each letter of the alphabet from A=1, B=2, C=3... Z=26), in alphabetical order: * a string of five consecutive odd-numbered letters,
* a pair of consecutive letters, even-odd, and
* a trio of consecutive letters, even-odd-even.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
Call Me Indispensable Dessert:
From a woman of letters to a Letterman
Use seven different letters of the alphabet to spell an indispensable tool of the novelist’s trade, in eight letters. Use only these seven letters (most of them more than once) to spell three words:
* the first two of the three words in the title of a novel, and
* the last name of the woman of letters who wrote that novel.
What are this tool and novel?
Who is the novelist?Hint: The combined letters in the third word in the novel’s title and in the novelist’s first name can be rearranged to spell a two-word description of David Letterman, formerly.
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.
I believe that in the last Entree puzzle, the final trio of letters should be 'odd-even-odd', not the reverse as was stated?
ReplyDeleteThanks, VT. That final trio of letters, which are consecutive in the second half of the alphabet, form the first three letters of the puzzle-maker's surname. Are we on the same page? But that is an even-odd-even trio, n'est-ce pas?
DeleteLegoWhoIsAnOddPegInAHoleSurroundedByEvenlyYokedOxen
I guess it depends on where one starts. I had understood(?) to take your first instruction (now in green font) about the five letters, to start at the beginning of the puzzle maker's first name , and then just follow on through with the second and third green instruction, all in order. I guess perhaps that is NOT what you meant?
DeleteThus, MY third instruction applied to the LAST three letters of the last name, not the first three letters of the last name. Are we lost now?
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteI believe this is simply an instance of me, LegoLambda, using confusing wording in his puzzle. I am sure you have discovered my intended answer (Natch!) but you managed to get there in spite of instead of thanks to my text.
In retrospect, I ought to have instead written something like:
Put the combined 10 letters in a puzzle-maker's first and last names into alphabetical order.
Replace each letter with a number using the familiar alphanumeric correspondence: A=1, B=2, C=3... Z=26.
The result will be:
* a string of five consecutive odd-numbers,
* a pair of consecutive numbers, even and odd, and
* a trio of consecutive numbers, even, odd and even.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
LegoWhoNeedsToDoSomeTinkeringOnTheMechanicsOfHisPuzzleProse
Happy beginning of November to all!
ReplyDeleteI hope everyone had a great Halloween yesterday, and I hope you all provided well for the trick-or-treaters coming to your doors! I know we did, and we have a few fun-size Snickers left as well.
Not eating out tonight, so Mom will be getting Lee's chicken a little later. Checked P! late last night, and all I could get were the Conundrums. Tough ones this week! Hints please, Lego! BTW re the Sunday Puzzle off which you riffed(?): I only solved it because "yours truly" was the first thing that came to mind before I saw the part about which letters are the same, or consecutive in the alphabet, or whatever. But those Entrees are DIFFICULT. Not even the state/capital ones jumped out at me when I looked them up. But I hope to eventually tackle them by Wednesday. Still feeling dizzy from being sick earlier last month. Half-felt like a zombie handing out candy last night, but I enjoyed it! Good solving to all in Puzzlerialand!
Finally found the celebrity physicist. It wasn't easy.
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ReplyDeleteGood set of puzzles this week. Up to now, have solved all except the Schpuzzle and the Dessert.
ReplyDeleteConundrum #5 and Entrée #4 were particularly difficult but yielded to an online cryptogram solver and combing through the resulting list for each. For Con #5 there are several possibilities, but one stands out as better than the others. I had never heard of the physicist either but made a lucky guess on his 1st name.
Owing to Lego's precedents, Entrée #7 is a giveaway. It could be abbreviated to "Think of a name of a puzzle-maker in 10 letters." and one would get the same answer with no work at all.
Just got the Schpuzzle! Clever.
Congratulations on getting the Schpuzzle, geofan. And, thanks for your encouraging comments on this week's puzzles. There remains a decent (indecent?) modicum of "pop culture" in the mix, however.
DeleteRight you are about the final Entrée more-often-than-not being a "giveaway." I laughed out loud when I read your suggested "abbreviated version." (Perhaps I should insert such "softball puzzle-maker puzzles" always in the Entrée #1 position, thereby having them function as a kind of "warm-up" to the tougher sledding that inevitably follows.)
LegoWhoIsNeedingToBePullingThreadsOfHisPuzzlesMoreTightlyTogetherSoThatTheWholeDarnFabricOfThe"Abracadabric"DoesNotCompletelyBeginUnraveling!
It has taken me all evening to work out the rest of the Entrees (I already had #5, fairly quickly at first try, and #7 of course....abbreviated or not...ha ha....) #2 was the hardest for me. Lots and lots of guessing with a bit of logic thrown in, until I finally hit on it.
ReplyDeleteBut no matter what I have tried, I can't get the Fox Slice, or Con #1, or the Schpuzzle (I am BAD BAD BAD at the "what do these words have in common" type puzzles, because I never know HOW to approach them), or the Dessert.
Unlike Paul and geo, though, I knew the Con #2 physicist right away...loving Big Bang Theory pays off, sometimes!
ViolinTeddy:
DeleteYou should have a leg up on the Schpuzzle over the rest of us.
The other creature in the Fox Slice (at least a baby one) could be eaten by a quick fox (who may or may not jump over a lazy dog). After I was stuck for a while on whale blubber, I hit onto the answer.
In contrast to real life, the soldier in the foxhole does not use profanity.
I got Con #1 rather quickly, as my father used these in a hobby.
The first sentence in your comment to ViolinTeddy, immediately above, is an excellent hint to the Schpuzzle, geofan.
DeleteAnd I like the menagerie you present in your second paragraph: fox, dog, whale -- almost all creatures great and small, except of course for my intended answer.
LegoNotesThatRegardingConundrum#1Lego'sFather(Likegeofan'sFather)AlsoUsedTheseInAHobby
Ah, ok, I have Con #1 now, thanks to the above. It's clear that you guys had an advantage on that puzzle, over me...as opposed to this Schpuzzle that I*M supposed to 'have a leg up on.' I have yet to regard it with that 'knowledge.' We shall see....
DeleteFurther hint to Schpuzzle: the von Trapp family
DeleteOOoh, love it, even though I, as yet, still have no idea......
DeleteGOT IT!!!!
DeleteThank you, geo...
DeleteMonday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle:
I cannot top geofan's "von Trapp family" hint.
Dropping a golden hint like that is like a ray of sunshine!
Quantum Conundrums
1. Even more "in common" if the "human" body is that of a boy named Pinocchio.
2. Not much rearranging necessary to change the physicist's first name into a word related to intelligence. The singular form of the astronomical object was a PBS series.
3. Unless you're Jay Leno, your body part can can probably be measured using just units of this measure.
4. The programming language was part of last week's Schpuzzle answer.
5. "I don't care" becomes "I really care lots!"
VP:
The two-word phrase also may pop up in games of hide-and-seek.
(There is a two-word antonym of this two-word phrase in this very hint."
ROSASS:
ENTREE #1:
Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan. "You've Got Mail"... all up in lights above the movie theatre. Pretty sleazy stuff!
ENTREE #2:
Jimmy Kimmel schtick
ENTREE #3:
What the professional does rhymes with "makes."
ENTREE #4:
I can see how not solving this puzzle could peeve some people off.
ENTREE #5:
Is Florida hot? Well, this state is much colder.
Read not between the state lines but between the stated words.
ENTREE #6:
A lexicographer tells me that you'll solve this one sometime after pumpkin day... when pushkin comes to shovelin' candy down your gullet.
ENTREE #7:
A strong hint here would be superfluous; a weak hint, insulting. You all know the drill... just drop the mike.
Tools Of The Trade Dessert:
The indispensible tool of the novelist’s trade is more like drill bits than the drill itself. The novelist's spouse was a great writer in his own right. But he was also much too soon a widower.
The lower of the two photos is a hint to solving the hint.
LenoLambdaJawingAndBurblingLikeTheJabberwok
Well, without the hint, would never have even come close to the Dessert, but at least now (having gone through two other male, erroneous, writers, due to the sign-off above) have found the correct female novelist, and the title of her book. It works out to describe David Letterman, as well, BUT I've been through the entire alphabet for the eighth letter, and I MIGHT have missed something, but I can't come up with the word the novelist's tool of the trade. Frustrating!
DeleteThe Fox slice finally just hit me, too. I'd been focusing on 'close/clothes', having NOt gone to read definition 1c.
DeleteWould also like another hint to the Dessert. A problem is that the Letterman angle and the writer's tool angle lead to totally discrete parts of the answer.
DeleteAs I read the Dessert, the "tool" has 7 distinct letters, with one repeated, making 8 letters total. A example of a qualifying word would be "dreading" but it is not a writer's tool.
DeleteYes, I agree, geo, re the 7 distinct and one repeat letter in the 'tool'....I had come up with 'practice", but I feel safe in disclosing that, since my novelist/novel can't yield possibly that "tool of the trade."
Deletegeofan's comment @1:45PM is correct, VT, as is your reply. "Practice" is an excellent candidate for the intended tool but, as you have concluded, it is not what we are looking for.
DeleteOn the bright side, if you have found the correct female novelist and the title of her book (and I will wager you have), which also works out to describe David Letterman... then you are just one small step away from a total solve. I suggest writing your seven letters in alphabetical order and playing around with just the five interior letters.
LegoSaysThat'sOneSmallStepForViolinTeddyAndOneGiantLeapForPuzzlerians!
BUT I've been through the entire alphabet for the eighth letter, and I MIGHT have missed something, but I can't come up with the word the novelist's tool of the trade. Frustrating!
OK, got the Dessert (and found the concealed hint after solving it).
DeleteViolinTeddy, maybe you have been reading it wrong. If you have the correct female author's last name and the first 2 words of her novel, then you will have 7 discrete letters. To make the 8-letter "tool" name, one of these 7 letters will have to be repeated once. You should not look through the other 19 letters of the alphabet, or your search will be in vain.
DeleteExactly, geofan. You have just stated the situation perfectly.
DeleteLegoGrateful
Egads, you are so right. My brain is clearly on 'dim'....due to stress. Thanks, geo....duh....
DeleteTHAT WAS QUICK...have it now. Can't believe I made that idiotic mistake in sleuthing!
DeleteIn earlier attempts I had tried "linotype" (8 different letters) and "monotype" (7 letters). Curiously, "linotype" anagrams to "Pity Leno".
DeleteBut no cigar.
The couple + widower hint with a relevant Google search and several hours elimination of yielded the entire solution. IMHO, without the hint the puzzle was nearly impossible.
^^^ Searching in vein is what the phlebotomist spent time doing.
DeleteOr the hard rock geologist, for that matter. . .
Thanks for dropping by, Word Woman. Your comments are invariably "veinglorious"!
DeleteLegoWhoNotesThatTheReignInSpainStaysVainlyWithTheReina
Got the foxhole puzzle and Entrees #3 and #7, but the rest of the hints aren't helping. Also, though I get the idea of Entree #2, I've never found Kimmel's bit funny. Never. Just cruel. BTW apologies to Matt Damon for Kimmel's very existence on this earth.
ReplyDeleteI have always thought, too, that Kimmel's 'kids and candy' thing was extremely mean. It surely doesn't speak well of the parents who engage in it, just to get their upset child on TV.
DeleteI'm glad for once somebody agrees with me about something like that. Thank you, VT.
DeleteYou're welcome, pjb/cb!
DeleteRuby Tuesday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle:
The only reward for solving this puzzle is the personal satisfaction you will gain. There is no dough-re-mi involved... wait a minuet, perhapsody there is!
Quantum Conundrums
1. This puzzle is a piece of cake for Bob Villa and Norm Abram.
2. The plural form of an astronomical object = small Chevys, circa 1969-79?
3. A Riff-off Puzzle:
Name a unit of measure. Exchange no letters in it all. The result will be a body part.
(The unit of measure in Mathew's conundrum is eighty-three-hundredths the size of the unit of measue in my riff-off.)
4. I'm positive you can figure out what the elementary physics particle is.
5. The original 5-letter physical gesture has become a ubiquitous emoji.
VP:
Maybe there is a way to "duckduckgoogle" this solution.
ROSASS:
ENTREE #1:
The two-word phrase also might be something a smooth operator might write in a letter to a singer.
ENTREE #2:
The second word in the two-word phrase is someone who has a choice... at least when it comes to coffee.
ENTREE #3:
The professional person makes no candles, and cuts no meat.
ENTREE #4:
The 5-letter synonym is a word in titles of an Osborne novel or Bowie song.
ENTREE #5
Replacing the first letter in the capital could result either in tranquil equilibrium or quite a racket!
ENTREE #6:
The U.S. city is also a name that might be followed by "Debs" or "Levy."
ENTREE #7:
If a public speaker has a weak voice an AMPLIFICATION DEVICE might make his voice more ROBUST.
Tools Of The Trade Dessert:
The novelist was a great fan of Dylan Thomas. She died about 10 months before JFK died. Remove the second letter in her surname to get what a Nissan SUV reputedly seeks out.
LegoWhoObservesThatDr.Hook&TheMedicineShowMightHaveSungASongAboutTheNovelist'sMother
Got Entrees #1, #5, and #6 and the Dessert, but I still don't understand the Schpuzzle. Any more hints before tomorrow?
ReplyDeleteObservations on the last hints:
ReplyDeleteThere are at least two answers to the riffoff to Con #3. One is used generally in the USA and is 30.48 cm; the other is used in horsemanship.
The hint to Con #4 is incorrect. Its charge is zero.
And I believe Lego meant that Mathew's riff unit is 83 THOUSANDTHS the size of his Riff measurement....or one could say 8.3%
ReplyDeleteFor the Schpuzzle concentrate on the four-times-two names... the western portions.
ReplyDeleteLela
Thanks to geofan and VT for correcting my errant hints. I guess it takes a village... especially if the "mayor" is the village idiot!
ReplyDeleteLegoWhoMayOrMayNotRunAgainForMayor
Aw, we love ya anyway, LegoMayor!
DeleteDonna Reed, Mia Farrow, Solomon Lane, Tiffany Doggett DOREMIFASOLLATIDO
ReplyDeleteThey're all terms used in joinery.
BRIAN/BRAIN/NOVAE came to me pretty easily, but when I searched for "celebrity physicist Brian" I kept running into Brian Cox. It wasn't that easy finding Greene (but I wasn't a great TBBT fan).
INCH > CHIN
TYPHOON > PHOTON > PYTHON
SHRUG > HUG
DUCK DOWN
DEAR SADE
TREATS TASTER
BAKER & BREAD (but I have no idea who D.K. might be)
WXYZ? ZX?WYZ
BOISE, IDAHO
EUGENE, OREGON (R U Experienced)
I'm pretty sure the puzzlemaker is Mike Strong. I'll take lego's word for the letter configurations.
ALPHABET > THE BELL, PLATH / JAR, SYLVIA > JAY'S RIVAL
SCHPUZZLE:b DO/nna RE/ed; MI/a FA/rrow; SO/lomon LA/ne; TI/ffany DO/ggett.......DOe, a deer, a female deer, etc....
ReplyDeleteCONUNDRUMS:
1. They are all JOINTS IN WOODWORKING.
2. BRIAN GREENE => BRAIN; OEVNA => NOVAE
3. INCH => CHIN ; Riff: FOOT
4. TYPHOON => PHOTON
5. SHRUG => HUG
FOX SLICE: DUCK DOWN
ENTREES:
1. DEAR SADE
2. TREATS TASTER [1 = T, 2 = R, 3 = E, 4 = A, 6 = S]
3. BAKER BREAD; D. K. = DON KNOTTS
4. ANGER ENRAGE
5. BOISE, IDAHO
6. EUGENE, OREGON
7. MIKE STRONG = 13 9 11 5 19; 20 18; 15 14 7
DESSERT: ALPHABET!!!; SYLVIA PLATH ; THE BELL JAR; JAR & SYLVIA => JAY'S RIVAL
Same as ViolinTeddy, with following notes/additions:
ReplyDeleteCon #1: All relate to carpentry, specifically terminology in joinery (as Paul noted).
Con #3 (hint): 1 foot = 30.48 cm. The alternate "body unit" is HAND, used in measuring/assessing height of horses.
Con #4 (hints): a PHOTON has no charge, while a PROTON has a +1 charge. Congrats to ViolinTeddy on finding the hundredths-thousandths error for 1/12, which I missed!
Dessert: I original had RIVALS JAY but JAY'S RIVAL is better.
WHY do so many of the hints relate to comedians and (particularly 1960s/70s) sitcoms??? :-(
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteDONNA REED
MIA FARROW
SOLOMON LANE
TIFFANY DOGGETT
All the names begin with the musical notes.
DOnna REed
MIa FArrow
SOLomon LAne
TIffany DOggett
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Conundrums
1. They are all carpentry terms.
2. BRIAN GREENE, GREEN, BRAIN
3. INCH, CHIN, FOOT
4. TYPHOON, PYTHON
5. SHRUG, HUG
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DUCK DOWN!
Entrees
1. DEAR SADE
2. TREATS TASTER
3. BAKER, BREAD, D. K.(DON KNOTTS)
4. ANGER, ENRAGE
5. BOISE, IDAHO
6. EUGENE, OREGON
7. MIKE STRONG(13, 9, 11, 5, 19; 20, 18; 15, 14, 7)
Dessert
ALPHABET, SYLVIA PLATH, THE BELL JAR
Had a dental appointment earlier this afternoon, and they found one of my fillings was loose. So I have to go back tomorrow to get it replaced. Wish me luck!-pjb
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Ordering at Planet Hollywood
Put the two actresses and two fictional characters listed below in the correct order, from 1 to 4.
The correct order is not alphabetical.
Explain your reasoning.
Solomon Lane
Donna Reed
Tiffany Doggett
Mia Farrow
Hint: None of the four actresses and characters will remain in their present position.
Answer:
1. DOnna REed (actress)
2. MIa FArrow (actress)
3. SOLomon LAne ("Mission: Impossible" film series character)
4. TIffany DOggett ("Orange Is the New Black" character)
The first two (or three) letters in each name spell the notes of the musical scale: Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do.
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Quantum Conundrums
Let’s get biophysical
1. In addition to being related to the human body, what do the following items have in common? Toenail, tongue, finger, butt, lap.
Answer:
They are also types of carpentry joints.
2. Think of a celebrity physicist, five and six letters, whose last name contains a color. His first name can be rearranged into a word related to intelligence. ROT13 his first name and rearrange to get the plural form of an astronomical object.
Answer:
BRIAN (Greene), BRAIN, NOVAE
3. Name a unit of measure. Exchange the first half of the letters with the second half. The result will be a body part.
INCH, CHIN
4. Think of a natural disaster in seven letters. Drop one letter and rearrange to name an elementary physics particle. Drop a different letter from the natural disaster and rearrange to name a programming language.
Answer:
TYPHOON, PROTON, PYTHON
5. Think of a physical gesture in five letters. Drop the first and third letters to name another physical gesture.
Answer:
SHRUG, HUG
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There’s no crying in foxholes!
Name a two-word phrase perhaps heard in a foxhole.
Homonyms https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homonym (see definition 1c.) of those two words, taken together, name the natural insulation of a creature that is not a fox.
What are these two words?
Hint: The two words (and their homonyms, of course) are all alliterative.
Answer
Duck down
Lego...
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Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Strong Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of an not-really-familiar two-word phrase – 4 letters in each word – that might be something you’d write in a letter to a not-really-so-noble nobleman. The first and 7th letters are the same. The 2nd and last letters are the same. The 3rd and 6th letters are the same. And the middle two letters are consecutive in the alphabet. What phrase is it?
Answer:
Dear Sade, (Marquis de Sade)
ENTREE #2:
Think of a two-word phrase – 6 letters in each word – that might describe a mother, father or older sibling of a child who just made a humongous Halloween candy haul. The first, 5th, 7th and 10th letters are the same. The 2nd and last letters are the same. The 4th and 11th letters are the same. The 4th and 8th letters are the same. And the 6th and 9th letters are the same. What phrase is it?
Answer:
Treats taster
ENTREE #3:
Think of a professional person and something the person makes – 5 letters in each word. The first and 6th letters are the same. The 2nd and 9th letters are the same. The 4th and 8th letters are the same. And the 5th and 7th letters are the same. What are these words?
Hint: The last and 3rd letters are the initials of an sit-com actor who was in 1979 ranked in the middle of the 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list, according to TV Guide.
Answer:
Baker, bread
Hint: Don Knotts
ENTREE #4:
Think of a pair of synonyms in 5 and 6 letters. The first and 9th letters are the same. The 2nd and 7th letters are the same. The 3rd and 10th letters are the same. The 4th, 6th and last letters are the same. The 5th and 8th letters are the same. What are these synonyms?
Answer:
Anger; enrage
ENTREE #5:
Think of a U.S. capital city and its state, west of the Mississippi. The 8th letter and first letter are consecutive in the alphabet. The 9th letter and 6th letter are consecutive in the alphabet. The 7th letter and 6th letter are consecutive in the alphabet. The 2nd and last letters are the same. The 4th and 6th letters spell a non-English word for “yes.” What are this capital city and state?
Answer:
Boise, Idaho
ENTREE #6:
Think of a U.S. city and its state, west of the Mississippi. The first, 4th, 6th and 9th letters are the same. The 3rd and 10th letters are the same. The 5th and last letters are the same. The 7th and 11th letters are the same. And the 8th and 2nd letters sound like the first two words in the three-word title of what is widely regarded as one of the greatest debuts in the history of rock music.
What city and state are these?
Answer:
Eugene, Oregon ("Are You Experienced," by the Jimi Hendrix Experience)
ENTREE #7:
Think of a a name of a puzzle-maker in 10 letters.
Those letters include (if you assign a number to each letter of the alphabet from A=1, B=2, C=3... Z=26), in alphabetical order:
* a string of five consecutive odd-numbered letters,
* a pair of consecutive letters, even-odd, and
* a trio of consecutive letters, even-odd-even.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
Answer:
Mike Strong; (E G I K M +N O + R S T)
Tools Of The Trade Dessert:
A woman of letters and a Letterman
Use seven different letters of the alphabet to spell an indispensible tool of the novelist’s trade, in eight letters. Use only these seven letters (most of them more than once) to spell the first two of the three words in the title of a novel and the last name of the woman of letters who wrote it.
What are this tool and novel? Who is the novelist?
Hint: The letters in the third word in the novel title and in the novelist’s first name can be rearranged to spell a two-word description of David Letterman, formerly.
Answer:
Alphabet; "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath;
Hint: SYLVIA + JAR = JAY'S RIVAL
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