PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 8!/20 SERVED
Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Is 1 the “quaranteeniest” number, or is 1/20?
Three Dog Night once recorded a hit single of a song that Harry Nilsson wrote. Its lyrics declared that “one is the loneliest number.”
But it looks like one-twentieth may be even lonelier – or at least a close second. Explain why.
Worldplay Appetizer:
Circumnavigationally lost
Lost at sea
❓1. An Indonesian ship came into distress in Polish waters but out of sight of land. The vessel’s radio was no longer working, and it had no semaphore. So the captain was forced to resort to traditional means to indicate his vessel’s distress. However, no one came to his aid, even though other vessels were within sight, and it was daytime. The ship sank with the loss of all hands. Why did this tragedy happen?
Warped literary memory
❓2. Think of a well-known novel about a circumnavigation.
What method of transportation often associated with this work was never used in its circumnavigational plot?
National Retail Slice:
A slogan that pronoun(es) “variety”
Remove a pronoun and a letter that sounds like a pronoun from the name of a national retailer.
Add a space.
The result could be a slogan touting the variety of the retailer’s products.
What retailer is this?
Riffing Off Shortz And Bass Slices:
Exclamation of American landmarks!
Will Shortz’s April 26th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Ben Bass (who creates cryptograms twice weekly for The New York Times), reads:
Name a famous American landmark in 8 letters. The first 4 letters in order are the first 4 letters of the name of a famous person associated with this landmark. Who is it? Here’s a hint: The famous person’s name also has 8 letters.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Bass Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Take the second word of a famous two-word song title that was once “the other side of ‘Donna’.” Change its second letter, a vowel, to the next vowel in the alphabet. Change its third letter, a consonant, to the next consonant in the alphabet. The result, in order, is the first 71.4 percent of the name of a puzzle-maker.
Who is it? What is the song title?
ENTREE #2
(Note: This Riff-Off Puzzle was inspired by Mark Scott of Seattle, aka skydiveboy.)
Name a famous U.S. landmark in two words, 11 letters. Remove consecutive letters from the middle that spell the name of a mythological goddess. The letters that remain contain a triple-letter, like, for example, “bee-eater,” or “bell-like” or “cross-section.” Remove two of these three consecutive identical letters. The result spells a creature one may encounter on an African safari that might weigh more than a ton. What is this landmark?
ENTREE #3
Name a famous American landmark, a compound word. Move the penultimate letter of the word to the end of the first part of the compound word and place a space after the letter you moved.
The new first part is a word for something you can see at the landmark. The new second part is a word also.
What is this landmark?
ENTREE #4
Name a famous American landmark in 3 syllables. The first 4 letters in order are the name of a human body part. In the remaining letters, replace the two non-consecutive letters of a common preposition with two letters of a common verb. Rearrange the letters of the result to form a second body part.
What is the landmark? What are the two body parts?
ENTREE #5
Change one vowel in the 9-letter name of a famous American landmark.
Rearrange the result to form two words: a plural 5-letter noun associated with the landmark, and a plural 4-letter noun (that describes Henrietta Jacobson and Julius Adler, for example, and Alton and Jimmy) associated with the landmark.
What is this landmark?
What are the two plural nouns?
ENTREE #6
Name a famous American landmark that ends in a handful of letters that spell a girl’s name. Remove the first letter of two words in the name of the landmark, then remove the last four letters from the end of the landmark’s name.
The result is the title of a jazz-standard song, and the title shared by three different films (none which was a sequel) released in 1934, 1984 and 2014.
Hint: Transpose two consecutive letters of the six letters you removed from the landmark to spell the name of a Brady Bunch member.
What is this landmark?
What is the title of the song and three films?
ENTREE #7
A French-speaking Jewish family from Tours, France is touring the United States. In Tennessee they have good times at Dollywood Splash Country in Pigeon Forge, then dine at Gus’s Good Times in nearby Knoxville. Tomorrow they will head 750 miles north-northwest to visit a landmark.
Rearrange the letters in the name this famous 2-word landmark to form three words:
1) what kind of restaurant Gus’s Good Times is,
2) a ride they enjoyed at Dollywood Splash Country, and
3) the sound made by a critter, the meat of which they ordered at Gus’s.
The first four letters of the landmark spell the word for that critter, and the next three letters spell a word the family used to refer to what they encountered at the end of their enjoyable ride at Dollywood.
What is this landmark?
What is Gus’s restaurant called?
What is the Dollywood ride?
What sound does the critter make?
What is the word for the critter?
What does the family encounter at the Dollywood ride’s end?
All-Time Timeless Dessert:
The name of a Famer with game
Add a letter to the beginning of the last name of a Hall of Famer who played a timeless game. Move the last letter of the last name to the end of the first name, forming two words.
The first word is what some substances do when exposed to conditions described by the second word.
Who is this Hall of Famer?
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:
Is 1 the “quaranteeniest” number, or is 1/20?
Three Dog Night once recorded a hit single of a song that Harry Nilsson wrote. Its lyrics declared that “one is the loneliest number.”
Appetizer Menu
Worldplay Appetizer:
Circumnavigationally lost
Lost at sea
❓1. An Indonesian ship came into distress in Polish waters but out of sight of land. The vessel’s radio was no longer working, and it had no semaphore. So the captain was forced to resort to traditional means to indicate his vessel’s distress. However, no one came to his aid, even though other vessels were within sight, and it was daytime. The ship sank with the loss of all hands. Why did this tragedy happen?
Warped literary memory
❓2. Think of a well-known novel about a circumnavigation.
What method of transportation often associated with this work was never used in its circumnavigational plot?
MENU
National Retail Slice:
A slogan that pronoun(es) “variety”
Remove a pronoun and a letter that sounds like a pronoun from the name of a national retailer.
Add a space.
The result could be a slogan touting the variety of the retailer’s products.
What retailer is this?
Riffing Off Shortz And Bass Slices:
Exclamation of American landmarks!
Will Shortz’s April 26th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Ben Bass (who creates cryptograms twice weekly for The New York Times), reads:
Name a famous American landmark in 8 letters. The first 4 letters in order are the first 4 letters of the name of a famous person associated with this landmark. Who is it? Here’s a hint: The famous person’s name also has 8 letters.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Bass Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Take the second word of a famous two-word song title that was once “the other side of ‘Donna’.” Change its second letter, a vowel, to the next vowel in the alphabet. Change its third letter, a consonant, to the next consonant in the alphabet. The result, in order, is the first 71.4 percent of the name of a puzzle-maker. Who is it? What is the song title?
ENTREE #2
(Note: This Riff-Off Puzzle was inspired by Mark Scott of Seattle, aka skydiveboy.)
Name a famous U.S. landmark in two words, 11 letters. Remove consecutive letters from the middle that spell the name of a mythological goddess. The letters that remain contain a triple-letter, like, for example, “bee-eater,” or “bell-like” or “cross-section.” Remove two of these three consecutive identical letters. The result spells a creature one may encounter on an African safari that might weigh more than a ton. What is this landmark?ENTREE #3
Name a famous American landmark, a compound word. Move the penultimate letter of the word to the end of the first part of the compound word and place a space after the letter you moved.
The new first part is a word for something you can see at the landmark. The new second part is a word also.
What is this landmark? ENTREE #4
Name a famous American landmark in 3 syllables. The first 4 letters in order are the name of a human body part. In the remaining letters, replace the two non-consecutive letters of a common preposition with two letters of a common verb. Rearrange the letters of the result to form a second body part.
What is the landmark? What are the two body parts?ENTREE #5
Change one vowel in the 9-letter name of a famous American landmark.
Rearrange the result to form two words: a plural 5-letter noun associated with the landmark, and a plural 4-letter noun (that describes Henrietta Jacobson and Julius Adler, for example, and Alton and Jimmy) associated with the landmark.What is this landmark?
What are the two plural nouns?
ENTREE #6
Name a famous American landmark that ends in a handful of letters that spell a girl’s name. Remove the first letter of two words in the name of the landmark, then remove the last four letters from the end of the landmark’s name.
The result is the title of a jazz-standard song, and the title shared by three different films (none which was a sequel) released in 1934, 1984 and 2014.Hint: Transpose two consecutive letters of the six letters you removed from the landmark to spell the name of a Brady Bunch member.
What is this landmark?
What is the title of the song and three films?
ENTREE #7
A French-speaking Jewish family from Tours, France is touring the United States. In Tennessee they have good times at Dollywood Splash Country in Pigeon Forge, then dine at Gus’s Good Times in nearby Knoxville. Tomorrow they will head 750 miles north-northwest to visit a landmark.
1) what kind of restaurant Gus’s Good Times is,
2) a ride they enjoyed at Dollywood Splash Country, and
3) the sound made by a critter, the meat of which they ordered at Gus’s.
The first four letters of the landmark spell the word for that critter, and the next three letters spell a word the family used to refer to what they encountered at the end of their enjoyable ride at Dollywood.
What is this landmark?
What is Gus’s restaurant called?
What is the Dollywood ride?
What sound does the critter make?
What is the word for the critter?
What does the family encounter at the Dollywood ride’s end?
Dessert Menu
All-Time Timeless Dessert:
The name of a Famer with game
Add a letter to the beginning of the last name of a Hall of Famer who played a timeless game. Move the last letter of the last name to the end of the first name, forming two words.
The first word is what some substances do when exposed to conditions described by the second word.
Who is this Hall of Famer?
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.
No comments yet? Where is everybody?(They can't have gone far, I know.)
ReplyDeleteHappy Mayday everyone!
I finally got through with Paul's latest Prize Crossword on the Guardian Website, and here I am! I've also taken a walk today, and I've listened to "Ask Me Another", and we've had supper. My brother also dropped by with groceries for us. Late last night I checked this week's puzzles, and so far I only have Entrees #1, #2, #6, and #7, and the Dessert. The others I can only put in the "WTF?!" file for the time being. Hints will be necessary, Lego.
With most of these, I don't even know where to look up the answer in the first place. Good luck and good solving to all, and please stay safe!
I'll stick in a comment, so pjb doesn't feel all alone!
ReplyDeleteMy tally thus far is having solved the Retail Slice, the Dessert, and Entrees #1 and 2. By then, though, I was so tired I could barely read the rest of the entrees, but what I did attempt, got me nowhere. And I WAS looking at lists of landmarks, with no luck.
BTW, the first sentence in Entree #5 needs to be fixed...something is all in the wrong order.
Thanks for the "heads-up," VT, I left out a preposition, but now fixed it.
DeleteThe first sentence in Entree #5 now reads:
Change one vowel in the 10-letter name of a famous American landmark.
LegoofMaker
Appetizer #2 is an easy one.
ReplyDeleteI think I just figured your (#2) out, sdb.
DeleteAnother question re Entree #5, that I hadn't read far enough before to see: a ten-letter landmark, but then the two nouns we are supposed to find add up to only 9 letters. Were we supposed to DROP a vowel, rather than merely 'change' it?
ReplyDeleteSorry, ViolinTeddy. It is another error in the same opening sentence, which now reads:
DeleteChange one vowel in the 9-letter name of a famous American landmark.
(I mistakenly thought it was plural.)
LegoThanksViolinTedditor
Thank you, Lego...
DeleteSaturday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
Concentrate on the phrase "it looks like..."
Worldplay Appetizer:
1. (I haven't yet solved this #1 puzzle. geofan is welcome to provide hints, if he wishes.)
2. The word for the "method of transportation often associated with this work (but) never used in its circumnavigational plot" appears only once in the novel, almost as an afterthought.
National Retail Slice:
The national retailer contains 8 letters, two of them uppercase, and no space.
Riffing Off Shortz And Bass Slices:
(The image of the map is a hint for most of these Entrees.)
ENTREE #1
"Donna" is "divinyl."
ENTREE #2
The number of letters that spell the name of a mythological goddess is 4. The remaining letters that contain a triple-letter are rather "Nashian": priest, beast, and (fire classifications).
ENTREE #3
The famous American landmark contains 8 letters, two of them uppercase, and no space.
ENTREE #4
Jack Nicholson gets a "nose job."
ENTREE #5
Olds
ENTREE #6
"Snoopy" once camped out at the landmark.
ENTREE #7
Agneaueau (Super Bowl) Champ
Dessert:
The Famer with game was a true Giant in his field (usually right).
LegoNotesThatWhenTheWindBlewTheTreesSwayed
Hurrah, after a lot of effort, I can finally report that I'd gotten all the entrees. Without the hints, and the clue to look at the MAP, this would never have happened. I didn't even know that three of them WERE landmarks, so I'd never have found/considered them.
DeleteOh, I should qualify that I still can't work out the second body part in Entree #4, no matter which preposition I replace with no matter what two-letter verb.
Otherwise, the hardest entree proved to be the infamous #5...and only by deducing which state was still left, from the image, was I ever able to finally pin down the correct landmark. It surely had NOT appeared in any general lists.
VT,
DeleteIn Entree #4, the letters of the preposition are non-consecutive. I should have included that in the text. Sorry again.
LegoApologizingWayTooMuchThisWeek
Ah, thanks....actually, I think I figured that out while falling asleep early this morning....so had worked out the body part . BUt it's good to know for sure.
DeleteOK, I think I've got Entree #4.
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DeleteI just found a very mathematical explanation for the Schpuzzle, but I am not at all sure it is correct or what you intended.
ReplyDeleteVT,
DeleteMy "mathematics"pertaining to the Schpuzzle is certainly not very advanced math. You do need to write "1/20" in a different way.
LegoAddThatTheAnswerInvolvesAFourLetterWordThatIsNot"Love"(WhichOfCourseIsZeroWhenYou'rePlayingTennis)
I believe I've just solved the Schpuzzle....but I'm going to leave on my original idea, too, just because it's so interesting. (Not that I can take credit for that.)
DeleteHint for Appetizer #1:
ReplyDeleteThink of what the "traditional means to indicate [a] vessel’s distress" is. Then consider the countries.
Got it, geofan. Great puzzle! Great hint!
DeleteLegoWhoIsHeelsOverHeadInHappinessForHaving"Fathomed"ThisWonderfulPuzzle!
Me too. Thanks, geo!
DeleteLiked sdb's Entrée #2
ReplyDeleteHave everything except the Schpuzzle.
ReplyDeleteLiked the Retailer Slice and Entrée #2 best. BTW, in the Retailer Slice, IMHO, technically two spaces must be added, as the retailer name is 1 word. Unless removing a letter "creates" a space.
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DeleteRetailer Slice, 2 alternate versions:
DeleteTake the same 1-word retailer and remove the following:
(1) a letter that sounds like a pronoun in English,
(2) a second letter that sounds like a pronoun in another language,
(3) a preposition.
Add a space to the result. The result, when read out, will sound like a common slogan.
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Or: Take the name of the retailer. Remove all the letters. You will then have nothing left. :-)
The Retailer Slice, alternate version, only works in the United States.
DeleteI like your 'Or:" version best! The ultimate puzzle!
DeleteAt least with the "Or" version you get an answer!
DeleteThe image for the Schpuzzle looks as if the singers are standing in front of some sort of giant loom. Is this a hint?
ReplyDeleteI think the singers are just practicing social distancing! Heh heh....
DeleteViolinTeddy is correct, geofan. I just did a lazy job of "altering" the image. If one of your answers (in your comment below) involves a 4-letter word, then you likely have my intended answer.
DeleteLegoLoomsLazy
Finally have two not-so-great answers to the Schpuzzle.
ReplyDeleteOne I like better than the other one. Neither is "mathematical."
I haven't understood anything said about the Schpuzzle so far. And I've got even less out of the Retailer Slice discussion.
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle:
Delete5 kinda looks like an S.
Retailer Slice:
"Where can I get some wiper blades?"
LegoNotesThat9KindaLooksLikeALowercaseG
Schpuzzle:
DeleteOne-twentieth can be written as 0.5, or as...
Retailer Slice:
"Where can I get an oil filter?"
LegoWhoIsAlwaysSeekingPartsForHisHotRodSerling
Well, now I've got the Retailer Slice. The Schpuzzle still needs work, though.
DeleteA lady with a large purse enters a convenience store and purchases a Big Gulp. She pays the cashier and takes a sip of the gulp. She cocks her head at a 45-degree angle as she inspects the sales receipt, then marches back to the cashier and demands that he give her back the sales tax she paid.
DeleteLegoWhoSaysThatWasSupposedToBeAHintToTheSchpuzzle(EspeciallyIfOneReadsBetweenTheLines...OrRatherTwoOfTheUnitsThatAreShorterThanLines)
OK, have the intended answer (already knew the intended word).
DeleteSo now have three answers: two alternates, one I like as well as the intended answer and the other is crummy. All three deal with 4-letters in their own way.
Finally, the background to the illustration looks to me like a giant LOOM (also a 4-letter word).
I'm curious to hear your alternative answers, geofan (even the "crummy" one).
DeleteHa! Loom! (Or, backward, "Moolah," which is exactly what Three Dog Night made lots of from 1969 to 1975!)
LegoOompahLoompah!
Still don't get the Schpuzzle! Or the Worldplay puzzles or Entree #5! And it's already Wednesday morning!
DeleteWhy does it say PM when it's MORNING? What's with the time on this blog?!
DeleteIt's Pacific Time, cranberry.
DeleteSchpuzzle:
...PURSE ENters...
Worldplay:
Lost At Sea:
Peruse some global vexillology
Warped Literary Memory:
The Oscar-winning movie based on the novel took liberties to great heights!
Entree #5:
Elvis, Jerry Lee, Carl and Cash
LegoLateNightHinter
I guess "5%" kinda looks like "solo"?
ReplyDeleteInverting one's flag is the traditional distress signal. The Indonesian flag inverted looks exactly like the Polish flag.
Around the World in Eighty Days / Hot air balloon
AutoZone - (u + one) = A to Z
(La) BAMBA > BEN BA, which is 5/7 of BEN BASS
ELIS ISLAND - ISIS - LL = ELAND
CHINATOWN = CHIN + ATiWs > CHIN + WAIST
SUN STUDIO > TUNES / DUOS
LAMBEAU FIELD > DELI, FLUME, BAA / LAMB, EAU
MEL OTT > MELT, HOT
Two L's in ELLIS.
DeleteSchpuzzle: Read the fraction 1/20 as ONE-IN-TWENTY. Now read “20” as TWO ZERO. The result is ONE IN TWO ZERO, which sounds like ONE INTO ZERO.
ReplyDeleteLousy alternate: Read the fraction 1/20 backwards, rotating the “2” 90° clockwise and taking the / as a lowercase L and the 1 with its “tail” as a lowercase Y. The result is “Only.” You say you don't like it? Well, I don't like it much, either.
[after sales tax hint]: 0.05 => 5 % => SOLO. Intended answer of Lego.
Appetizers
#1: Disaster signal is flag upside down. Indonesia flag upside down is flag of Poland. So Indonesian ship in distress looks like a Polish ship not in trouble.
#2: Balloon (hot air)
National Retail Slice: AUTOZONE – I – ONE => A TO Z
Alternate version: AUTOZONE –U –Z(Sie or sie) – TO => A ONE => A 1.
Note: Alternate version works only in the United States. Z is pronounced “zed” elsewhere.
Entrées
#1: LA BAMBA => BAMBA => BENBA => BEN BASS
#2: ELLIS ISLAND – ISIS =>ELLLAND – LL => ELAND
#3: SEAWORLD => SEAL, WORD
#4: CHINATOWN => CHIN, ATOWN – ON + IS => ATIWS => WAIST
#5: SUN STUDIO => DUOS, NSTUI – I + E => TUNES
#6: MALL OF AMERICA, ERICA – M – A => ALL OF ME
#7: DELI, EAU, LAMB, BAA => LAMBEAU FIELD (Green Bay, WI)
Dessert: MEL OTT => MEL HOTT => MELT HOT
I like your ONE INTO ZERO Schpuzzle solution, geofan. Zero is definitely less than 1... and even 1/20!
DeleteAnd, I think I like your ONLY better than your do. "One may be the lonliest number..." but ONLY is "onliest."
LegoWhoIsFullOfHotAir
Schpuzzle
ReplyDelete5% looks like SOLO.
Appetizer Menu
Worldplay
1. The flag of Indonesia looks like the flag of Poland upside down. So it doesn't look like the ship is in trouble.
2. "AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS", HOT AIR BALLOON
Menu
Retailer Slice
AUTOZONE-U(YOU)-ONE=A TO Z
Entrees
1. LA BAMBA, BENBA(SS)
2. ELLIS ISLAND, ISIS, ELAND
3. SEAWORLD, SEAL, WORD
4. CHINATOWN, CHIN, ATOWN-ON+IS=WAIST
5. SUN STUDIO, TUNES, DUOS
6. MALL OF AMERICA, ALL OF ME, MARCIA
7. DELI, FLUME, BAA, LAMB, EAU, LAMBEAU FIELD
Dessert
MEL OTT, MELT, HOT
Cranberry out!-pjb
SCHPUZZLE: This is NOT the answer, but I was stunned to learn this, having never encountered it before: A number 'n' is called lonely if its distance to closest prime sets a new record.
ReplyDeleteFor example, 0 is the first lonely number and has distance 2 from the first prime. The second lonely number is 23, which has a minimal distance 4, since the surrounding primes are 17 and 29.
The third is 120 which has minimal distance 7, being sandwiched between the primes 113 and 127. => 120 LOOKS almost like 1/20??
----->The answer: 5% [or 5 o/o] looks like 'Solo'
WORLDPLAY:
1. Indonesia's red and white flag looks exactly like Poland's white and red flag, when the former is turned upside down (the traditional symbol of dire distress).
2. AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (No actual balloon travel)
RETAIL SLICE: A(U)TO Z(ONE) => A TO Z
ENTREES:
1. [LA] BAMBA -> BENBA => BEN BASS
2. ELLIS ISLAND minus 'ISIS' => ElLLAND => ELAND
3. SEAWORLD => SEAL WORD
4. CHINATOWN => CHIN; Replace either ON with "IS => WAIST
5. SUN STUDIO => Change "I" to "E" => TUNES & DUOS
6. MALL OF AMERICA => Remove M, A, RICA => ALL OF ME; Hint: MARCIA
7. LAMBEAU FIELD => LAMB & EAU; 1. DELI 2. FLUME 3. BAA
DESSERT: MEL OTT => MELT & HOT
Thanks for educating me on "lonely numbers," ViolinTeddy. I have never heard of that before. I deem "120" to be a perfectly acceptable alternative answer.
DeleteAnd Harry Nilsson had it all wrong. One is not the lonliest number after all. Indeed, it's not even a lonely number!
LegoWhoNotesThat120IsAlso5!(WhichKindOfLooksLikeSol)
It was news to me, too, Lego!
DeleteThis week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
Is 1 the “quaranteeniest” number, or 1/20?
Three Dog Night once recorded a hit single of a song that Harry Nilsson wrote. Its lyrics declared that “one is the loneliest number.”
But it looks like one-twentieth may be even lonlier – at least a close second. Explain why.
Answer:
One-twentieth can be written as 5%. The 5 looks like an "S" and the % looks like "olo," which spells "Solo."
Appetizer Menu
Worldplay Appetizer:
Circumnavigationally lost
1. Lost at sea
An Indonesian ship came into distress in Polish waters but out of sight of land. The vessel’s radio was no longer working, and it had no semaphore. So the captain was forced to resort to traditional means to indicate his vessel’s distress. However, no one came to his aid, even though other vessels were within sight, and it was daytime. The ship sank with the loss of all hands. Why did this tragedy happen?
Answer:
Traditional means to indicate a vessel’s distress is to fly the vessel's national flag upside-down. An inverted Indonesian flag is identical to a right-side-up Polish flag. Thus, potential rescuers would have just assumed the Indonesian vessel was just another local Polish vessel, not in distress.
(Ironically, had the Indonesian vessel not inverted its flag, there was a better chance that they might have been rescued!)
2. Warped literary memory
Think of a well-known novel about a circumnavigation. What method of transportation often associated with this work was never used in its circumnavigational plot?
Answer:
Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days" did not include balloon travel in the narrative. Indeed the word "balloon" is mentioned only as a bad idea!
In the 1956 Best-Movie-Oscar-Winner, a balloon plays prominently in the plot!
MENU
National Retail Slice:
A slogan that pronoun(es) “variety”
Remove a pronoun and a letter that sounds like a pronoun from the name of a national retailer. Add a space. The result could be a slogan touting the variety of the retailer’s products. What retailer is this?
Answer:
AutoZone
AutoZone - u - one = A to Z
Lego...
Lego-
DeleteExcellent point wrt the Indonesian vessel's being more likely to be rescued if it had not inverted its flag!
Also note that the "flipped flag" technique does not work for countries with flags that have a horizontal plane of symmetry: symmetrical horizontal stripes (Austria, Costa Rica, Thailand,...), the many countries with flags with vertical stripes (France, Ivory Coast, Ireland, Italy, ...), or are otherwise horizontally symmetrical (Scandinavian flags, Switzerland, ...).
Tough luck for them.
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Bass Slices:
Exclamation of American landmarks!
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Bass Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Take the second word of a famous two-word song title that was once “the other side of ‘Donna’.” Change its second letter, a vowel, to the next vowel in the alphabet. Change its third letter, a consonant, to the next consonant in the alphabet. The result, in order, is the first 71.5 percent of the name of a puzzle-maker.
Who is it? What is the song title?
Answer:
Ben Bass; La Bamba
ENTREE #2
(Note: This Riff-Off Puzzle was inspired by Mark Scott of Seattle, aka skydiveboy.)
Name a famous U.S. landmark in two words, 11 letters. Remove consecutive letters from the middle that spell the name of a mythological goddess. The letters that remain contain a triple-letter, like, for example, “bee-eater,” or “bell-like” or “cross-section.” Remove two of these three consecutive identical letters. The result spells a creature one may encounter on an African safari that might weigh more than a ton. What is this landmark?
Answer:
Ellis Island
ELLIS ISLAND – ISIS (Egyptian goddess) = ELLLAND
ELLLAND – LL = ELAND
ENTREE #3
Name a famous American landmark, a compound word. Move the penultimate letter of the word to the end of the first part of the compound word and place a space after the letter you moved. The new first part is a word for something you can see at the landmark. The new second part is a word also.
What is this landmark?
Answer:
SeaWorld;
SeaWorld-->Seal Word
ENTREE #4
Name a famous American landmark in 3 syllables. The first 4 letters in order are the name of a human body part. In the remaining letters, replace the two letters of a common preposition with two letters of a common verb. Rearrange the letters of the result to form a second body part.
What is the landmark? What are the two body parts?
Answer:
Chinatown; Chin, waist
CHINATOWN=CHIN+ATOWN; ATOWN-ON+IS=ATW+IS-->WAIST
ENTREE #5
Change one vowel in the 9-letter name of a famous American landmark. Rearrange the result to form two words: a plural 5-letter noun associated with the landmark, and a plural 4-letter noun (that describes Henrietta Jacobson and Julius Adler, for example, and Alton and Jimmy) associated with the landmark.
What is this landmark?
What are the two plural nouns?
Answer:
Sun Studio; Tunes, duos
SUN STUDIO-->SUN STUDEO=TUNES+DUOS
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ENTREE #6
Name a famous American landmark that ends in a handful of letters that spell a girl’s name. Remove the first letter of two words in the name of the landmark, then remove the last four letters from the end of the landmark’s name. The result is the title of a jazz-standard song, and the title shared by three different films (none which was a sequel) released in 1934, 1984 and 2014.
Hint: Transpose two consecutive letters of the six letters you removed from the landmark to spell the name of a Brady Bunch member.
What is this landmark?
What is the title of the song and three films?
Answer:
Mall of America; "All of Me"; Hint answer: Marcia (Brady)
Mall of America – (M+A+rica) = all of me;
ENTREE #7
A French-speaking Jewish family from Tours, France is touring the United States. In Tennessee they have good times at Dollywood Splash Country in Pigeon Forge, then dine at Gus’s Good Times in nearby Knoxville. Tomorrow they will head 750 miles north-northwest to visit a landmark.
Rearrange the letters in the name this famous 2-word landmark to form three words:
1) what kind of restaurant Gus’s Good Times is,
2) a ride they enjoyed at Dollywood Splash Country, and
3) the sound made a critter, the meat of which they ordered at Gus’s.
The first four letters of the landmark spell the word for that critter, and the next three letters spell a word the family used to refer to what they encountered at the end of their enjoyable ride at Dollywood.
What is this landmark?
What is Gus’s restaurant called?
What is the Dollywood ride?
What sound does the critter make?
What is the word for the critter?
What does the family encounter at the Dollywood ride’s end?
Answer:
Lambeau Field; deli, flume, baa; lamb, eau (French for "water")
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All-Time Timeless Dessert:
The name of a Famer with game
Add a letter to the beginning of the last name of a Hall of Famer who played a timeless game. Move the last letter of the last name to the end of the first name, forming two words.
The first word is what some substances do when exposed to conditions described by the second word.
Who is this Hall of Famer?
Answer:
Mel Ott; (melt, hot)
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