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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Seefood you may sea on menus
Name a word for seafood you might see on a menu.
Change the first letter of this word and spell the result backward to name a different seafood you might see on the same menu.
What are these two seafoods?
Hint: The letter that is changed and the letter it is changed to are the initials of a noted filmmaker who directed a movie based on a novel by a noted author with the same initials.
Skydiverting Appetizer:
“Your sister wears eskimonos!”
⭕1. Imagine, if an Inuit/Eskimo man of North America were to travel to a distant country on the opposite side of the world, what the inhabitants of that country might call him by simply rearranging the letters of their country?
⭕2. Spoonerize a 2-word phrase describing where your sister may live to get a 2-word phrase meaning “There’s something is wrong with you!” What are they?
⭕3. Spoonerize a 2-word dwelling located in America’s heartland, someplace an adventurous person might enjoy spending the night, to phonetically describe a place where you would not enjoy spending the night because it is “Blank Blank.” What are they?
⭕4. Think of a country in eight letters. Change the first vowel to an A and then switch the positions of the third and fourth letters with each other to get the name of a well known tree. What are they?
Municipal Slice:
The answer is not Au, Ea or Ur
What large city is associated with the value of its third letter?
Hint #1: There are six figures in the city’s population, and more than six characters in its name.
(More obscure) Hint #2: Hood’s Honey.
(Perhaps more helpful) Hint # 3: There are just not that many cities that are associated with the “value of one of its letters.” In this puzzle that “value” is a number.
Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:
Thinking through puzzles thought-provoking, though not too tough
Will Shortz’s June 14th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Greg VanMechelen of Berkeley, Calif, reads:
Think of a five-letter word. Change the first letter to the next letter of the alphabet, and you’ll get a new word that doesn’t share any sounds with the first one. Then change its first letter to the next letter of the alphabet, and you’ll get a third word that doesn’t share any sounds with either of the first two. What words are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Rearrange the letters of a puzzle-maker to form three words.
Two of them (a verb and proper noun/name) are what a white plantation landlord and a mob of his neighbors and friends (in a 1935 short story published in Scribner’s Magazine) would do to a black sharecropper had they been “armed” with ropes instead of shotguns.
The third word is the landlord’s motive for assembling the mob.
What three words are these?
Who is the puzzle-maker?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a five-letter word. Move its first letter to the end.
The first three letters of this result are almost always pronounced as a long “i” as in “pi,” “pie” “pry.”
Replace those three letters with a single vowel to form a three-letter homophone of the original five-letter word.
What are these two words?
Note to Puzzlerians!: Cana-wedding-like, we are saving the best for last. The following six riff-off puzzles were created by Greg VanMechelen himself.
He is thus “riffing off” his own NPR puzzle!
ENTREE #3:
Can you name a 4-word sequence of 6-letter words in which you can change the first letter to the next in the alphabet and make the next word in the sequence?
Note: The third word is not very common.
ENTREE #4:
If you change the first two letters of the word “notion” to the next letters in the alphabet you get the word “option.”
Can you name a 9-letter word that, when you similarly change the first two letters, results in a new word?
The two words, both adjectives, are near antonyms, and describe what you wouldn’t want and would want in a product or relationship.
ENTREE #5:
Change the first letter of an 8-letter word to the letter eight places later in the alphabet (for example: a --> i).
The first five letters of the new word are pronounced completely differently.
Both are very common words. What are they?
ENTREE #6:
Can you name three rhyming words that share no letters in common?
There are at least two answers, one with a total of nine letters and the other with ten total letters.
Hint: The image at the left will be of no help at all to you in solving this puzzle.
ENTREE #7:
Can you name a common English word that contains four alphabetically consecutive letters (for example: __abcd__)?
ENTREE #8:
A word in a famous musical work by a well-known French composer contains four alphabetically consecutive letters.
Can you name it?
Hint: the piece was used in the end credits of a non-musical movie from 1981.
Consumers Of Condiments Dessert:
Time to play ketch-up?
Take a word in a condiment brand.
Switch its two syllables.
Change a letter to the one preceding it in the alphabet and add a letter to the end to spell an adjective customarily believed to characterize those who consume this brand.
What are these 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.
Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Seefood you may sea on menus
Name a word for seafood you might see on a menu.
Change the first letter of this word and spell the result backward to name a different seafood you might see on the same menu. What are these two seafoods?
Hint: The letter that is changed and the letter it is changed to are the initials of a noted filmmaker who directed a movie based on a novel by a noted author with the same initials.
Appetizer Menu
Skydiverting Appetizer:
“Your sister wears eskimonos!”
⭕1. Imagine, if an Inuit/Eskimo man of North America were to travel to a distant country on the opposite side of the world, what the inhabitants of that country might call him by simply rearranging the letters of their country?
⭕2. Spoonerize a 2-word phrase describing where your sister may live to get a 2-word phrase meaning “There’s something is wrong with you!” What are they?
⭕3. Spoonerize a 2-word dwelling located in America’s heartland, someplace an adventurous person might enjoy spending the night, to phonetically describe a place where you would not enjoy spending the night because it is “Blank Blank.” What are they?
⭕4. Think of a country in eight letters. Change the first vowel to an A and then switch the positions of the third and fourth letters with each other to get the name of a well known tree. What are they?
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Municipal Slice:
The answer is not Au, Ea or Ur
What large city is associated with the value of its third letter?
Hint #1: There are six figures in the city’s population, and more than six characters in its name.(More obscure) Hint #2: Hood’s Honey.
(Perhaps more helpful) Hint # 3: There are just not that many cities that are associated with the “value of one of its letters.” In this puzzle that “value” is a number.
Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:
Thinking through puzzles thought-provoking, though not too tough
Will Shortz’s June 14th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Greg VanMechelen of Berkeley, Calif, reads:
Think of a five-letter word. Change the first letter to the next letter of the alphabet, and you’ll get a new word that doesn’t share any sounds with the first one. Then change its first letter to the next letter of the alphabet, and you’ll get a third word that doesn’t share any sounds with either of the first two. What words are these?Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices read:
ENTREE #1:Rearrange the letters of a puzzle-maker to form three words.
Two of them (a verb and proper noun/name) are what a white plantation landlord and a mob of his neighbors and friends (in a 1935 short story published in Scribner’s Magazine) would do to a black sharecropper had they been “armed” with ropes instead of shotguns. The third word is the landlord’s motive for assembling the mob.
What three words are these?
Who is the puzzle-maker?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a five-letter word. Move its first letter to the end.
The first three letters of this result are almost always pronounced as a long “i” as in “pi,” “pie” “pry.” Replace those three letters with a single vowel to form a three-letter homophone of the original five-letter word.
What are these two words?
Note to Puzzlerians!: Cana-wedding-like, we are saving the best for last. The following six riff-off puzzles were created by Greg VanMechelen himself.
He is thus “riffing off” his own NPR puzzle!ENTREE #3:
Can you name a 4-word sequence of 6-letter words in which you can change the first letter to the next in the alphabet and make the next word in the sequence?
Note: The third word is not very common.
ENTREE #4:
If you change the first two letters of the word “notion” to the next letters in the alphabet you get the word “option.”
Can you name a 9-letter word that, when you similarly change the first two letters, results in a new word? The two words, both adjectives, are near antonyms, and describe what you wouldn’t want and would want in a product or relationship.
ENTREE #5:Change the first letter of an 8-letter word to the letter eight places later in the alphabet (for example: a --> i).
The first five letters of the new word are pronounced completely differently.
Both are very common words. What are they?
ENTREE #6:
Can you name three rhyming words that share no letters in common?
There are at least two answers, one with a total of nine letters and the other with ten total letters.
Hint: The image at the left will be of no help at all to you in solving this puzzle.
ENTREE #7:Can you name a common English word that contains four alphabetically consecutive letters (for example: __abcd__)?
ENTREE #8:A word in a famous musical work by a well-known French composer contains four alphabetically consecutive letters.
Can you name it?
Hint: the piece was used in the end credits of a non-musical movie from 1981.
Dessert Menu
Consumers Of Condiments Dessert:
Time to play ketch-up?
Take a word in a condiment brand.
Switch its two syllables. Change a letter to the one preceding it in the alphabet and add a letter to the end to spell an adjective customarily believed to characterize those who consume this brand.
What are these 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.
Notes:
ReplyDeleteI don't believe "iondic" is a word.
The movie in Entree #8 may involve a cat in a roundabout way. I'm continuing my research.
I have an answer for Skydiversion ⭕3, but it seems like a bit of a stretch.
Further note:
DeleteLamont Washington
Paul - If your Lamont, Washington is addressed to me, and is referring to that town, the answer is a huge no, as I had never heard of the town before. Also if it is in reference to ⭕3, again no as no place name is relevant to the puzzle.
DeleteHappy Juneteenth everyone!
ReplyDeleteJust got through with my other puzzles(one all the way solved, the other not so much), and now here I am. Tough ones this week! I could only get Skydiversion #4. Didn't even feel like going through with the rest of them late last night. Hints will be required, which goes without saying. Had great pasta for supper. Good luck and solving to all, and stay safe!
BTW if the image will be of no help, what good is putting it there in the first place?
So you solved the easiest one. How do you know the image will be of no help if you don't know the answer? But, far more important, my great pasta dinner of wild caught sea scallops in a cream, wine sauce over linguini done al dente was even better. So there! LOL
DeleteActually, SDB, under the circumstances though I've made the effort in the past with the puzzles, tonight I'm just not feeling it. No offense, but no banter either.
DeleteTake 2 Manhattans and call me in the (late) morning if you don't feel worse.
DeleteReporting in, I managed to get both sdb's #1 (along with a lot of less-good alternates, that I collected during my search), and #4. Made a valiant effort on the #3, to no avail. Kinda gave up on #2.
ReplyDeleteHave Entrees #1, 2, 7 and 8. [Well, 3 answers for #7.]
And I have AN answer for the Dessert, although since I can't find any ads for the product I hunted up, I can't verify the adjective...it just seems to work, however.
For the Schpuzzle, I tried EVERy kind of seafood I could find or think of, with no luck.
SDB, the cream sauce and pasta sound divine, but I'm not a seafood eater at all, so would much prefer chicken! (I know, so pedestrian...)
VT - You really don't have to be a sea food aficionado to enjoy sea scallops as long as they are of high quality, wild and "dry" and done properly. They do not have a fishy taste, but they must not be over cooked.
ReplyDeleteIf you managed to solve #1, you should be able to solve the others too. Have phun.
limnophilous...
ReplyDeleteNot sea scallops.
DeleteOh, I see, you were referring to our Racist In Chief.
DeleteNo. I was referring to a certain abnormal fear of lakes: limnophobia.
DeleteIn 1998 I took part in a conference at the Tihany Limnological Institute near Balatonfüred, Hungary, on the shore (natch) of Lake Balaton. See at https://www.blki.hu/BLRI/. My main memory is of stone-paved paths suited to the development of deep scientific thoughts (well, not too deep -- it was a limnological institute, after all...)
DeleteSo far, have solved Entrées #1, #2, #6 (a host of answers), #7 (4 answers, including the infamous limnophile), and #8.
ReplyDeleteHave not thought much yet about sdb's interesting puzzles, as I have been occupied with K+ and Cl- counterions all week. This has cut into time available for puzzle-solving.
If the mob TRACKS TOM, there is no motive. Clever.
ReplyDeleteSerendipity striKes again, GB!
DeleteMark Scott (who indeed creates skydiverting puzzles) is NOT the answer to Entree #1. Thus it is not I who am clever. 'Tis rather YOU who are clever to come up with a splendid alternative answer!
LegoSerendipityDooDah
Early Monday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of TheWeek:
I added an image that may help you with one of the seafoods.
Skydiversions:
I will allow skydiveboy to supply hints for his four puzzles if he so wishes.
Municipal Slice:
The city is in the U.S. The value of the third letter is a number with five prime factors, but only two different ones.
Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:
ENTREE #1:
I added an image that may help you.
ENTREE #2:
One of the homophones is also a cube, the other a past-tense verb.
ENTREES #3 through #8
I will allow ecoarchitect to supply hints for his six riff-off puzzles if he so wishes.
Consumers Of Condiments Dessert:
The condiment brand originated in a European country.
LegoCubicRubik
Yay, I just solved the Schpuzzle, but the added image was NO help...what threw me, though, was that I had to use an ALTERNATE spelling for the resultant seafood. I managed to find an author and director with the correct initials, which was what finally convinced me I must have your intended answer.
Delete...after I went to all the trouble of tracking down that short story...
DeletePaul, My sincere apologies! I can see how stalking the story must have been quite a challenge.
DeleteIt was frustrating for me also. Before I found the story itself, I found at least two reviews of it that referred to the sad fate of the person in the puzzle (whose name I asked for) as the gerund form of a verb that begins with an L and ends with an H... only to discover that that use of the verb was simply incorrect, unless you interpret it very broadly!
LegoLovethLoofah
Owing to several profound insights, have now solved everything except sdb's ⭕2. Good set of puzzles this week, though I miss Lego's poetry. geofan
ReplyDeletegeofan,
DeleteMy first 3 puzzles have a common thread, and the 4th is a coda. Maybe that will help.
Thank you, geofan, for your complimentary comment on my "poetry." I have other "puzzle-poems" in the Hopper.
DeleteLegoWhoNotesThatHuntingDoggerelsSometimesChaseAfterHoppers
Any more hints, Lego? I got nothin' last time out.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid serious health issues may have to keep me from pursuing this any further. Pray for me.
ReplyDeletecranberry,
DeleteI pray that you are okay.
LegoConcerned
My prayers for you, cranberry.
Deletegeofan
It's not COVID-19. It's hard to describe. My left leg keeps shaking, and my jaws keep moving. Could be palsy or Parkinson's, or most likely high blood sugar.
DeleteTuesday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of TheWeek:
Okay. We want to discover the surname of the painter of the non-menu image I added yesterday.
The first name of the painter is the stage-first-name (and actual middle name) of a singer whose real first name is Clyde.
The first name of the painter is the surname of folks named Glenda, Jesse and Reggie.
Skydiversions:
I will allow skydiveboy to supply hints for his four puzzles if he so wishes.
Municipal Slice:
The U.S. city hosts and annual event that will be helpful in solving this puzzle.
If the answer were Rome ("Rome," incidentally, is a hint), the value of its third letter would be twice the value of the third letter in my intended answer.
Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:
ENTREE #1:
The verb (four letters, beginning with h) is a synonym of film maker David or drummer Stan. The proper noun/name is the name of one of the bozos (along with Barney) on the Firesign Theatre's bus. The landlord’s motive for assembling the mob is one of the oldest, most primal motives in the history of literature, yea humanity! (Think of a Beatles' tune about Loretta and Jojo.)
ENTREE #2:
One of the homophones is the number of days in a week (according to the band in the hint above). The other is what the cat did to the canary.
ENTREES #3 through #8
I will allow ecoarchitect to supply hints for his six riff-off puzzles if he so wishes.
Consumers Of Condiments Dessert:
A Wayne's World flick parodied a TV commercail about this product.
LegoRollingDownHisWindowAndPolitelyBeggingForMustard
RE Municipal Slice: but, Lego, 13 isn't evenly divisible by 2. ???
DeleteAre we meant to "round down?"
DeleteNo, VT, do not round down...
DeleteLook again at the parenthetical phrase in the middle of the Municipal Slice hint: ("Rome," incidentally, is a hint).
But, more specifically, Roman is a hint. In particular, Roman Somethings.
50ego50ambda
Oh, I have it now. I can see why this one would NEVER have occurred to me (it's NOT something I pay any attention to.) Thanks.
DeleteIONDIC is the "word" I derived from DIJON, which I probably would have avoided mentioning if the POUPON > POMPOUS connection had dawned upon me at that point, which it hadn't.
ReplyDeleteThe CAT associated with GyMNOPedie #1 appears when Andre lets Wally get a word in edgewise and he talks about his experience playing Behemoth.
I never heard of the town of Lamont, Washington, nor did I know the name of actor/singer Lamont Washington, but my parents were in the audience one evening when Sammy Davis Jr. failed to appear.
"2-word dwelling in America's heartland" made me think of TEEPEE (or TIPI) almost immediately, and then I figured the place you would not enjoy sleeping was probably TOO CREEPY, but it would take a pretty large tipi to fit a whole crew inside, wouldn't it? But then I considered that the tipi might not be completely watertight. Final answer: SIOUX TIPI > TOO SEEPY
(But I still don't feel very confident.)
GREG VANMECHELEN > HANG CLEM, REVENGE
SCALLOP > POLLACK
(The painting did it for me. Stanley Kubrick directed The Shining, based on a Stephen King novel. I couldn't think of a clever Søren Kierkegaard hint.)
Schpuzzle: SCALLOP – S + P => POLLACK
ReplyDeleteAppetizers:
#1: IGLOO MAN => MONGOLIA
#2: Couldn't figure out where my sister might live. A convent? A whorehouse? A sorority? Depends on the sister's character, I guess...
#3: CROW TEEPEE => TOW (too) CREEPEE (creepy); SIOUX TEEPEE => TIOUX (too) SEEPEE (seepy)
#4: MAGNOLIA – A + O, exchange G,N => MONGOLIA
Municipal Slice: INDIANAPOLIS 500 (D = 500) [post-Sun-hint]
Entrées
#1: GREG VANMECHELEN => HANG, CLEM, REVENGE
#2: EIGHT => IGHTE => ATE
#3: JILTED – KILTED – LILTED – MILTED / BASTER – CASTER – DASTER – EASTER—FASTER
#4: DEFECTIVE, EFFECTIVE
#5: DAUGHTER - LAUGHTER
#6: numerous answers from 2 fundamental sets:
(a) QUAY, BEE/FEE/GEE/LEE/PEE/SEE/TEE/VEE/WEE/ZEE, MI/TI
(b) KNEW/NEW/STEW, BOO/COO/DO/GOO/IGLOO/LOO/MOO/ZOO, THRU/MUMU
#7: [RSTU]: OVERSTUFF, SUPERSTUD, UNDERSTUDY; [MNOP]: LIMNOPHILE
#8: FILM NOIR?
Dessert: POUPON => PONPOU => POMPOUS [post-Sun-hint]
14 Reasonable Guesses and 1 Wild One:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: SCALLOP & POLLACK
Appetizers:
#1 The "SETTLER" of their country. (rearranging The "letters" of their country.
#2 Her Yurt and "You're hurt!"
#3 Sioux Tepee & Too Seepy
#4 Mongolia & Magnolia
Municipal Slice: INDIANAPOLIS (D=500 in Roman Numerals and the Indy 500)
Entrees:
#1 Hang, Clem, Revenge
#2 Eight & Ate
#3 Kiters, Liters, Miters, Niters
#4 Defective & Effective
#5 Daughter & Laughter
#6 Faux, Oh (or Rho), Sew
#7 Overstuff (rstu)
#8 GYMNOPEDIE (mnop) From "My Dinner With Andre"
Dessert: Poupon and Pompous
And for Entree #1: Greg VanMechelen
ReplyDeleteSCHPUZZLE: SCALLOP => POLLACK [= alt spelling]; INITIALS: S.K. [STEPHEN KING, STANLEY KUBRICK, THE SHINING]
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS:
1. MACEDONIA: ICE NOMAD;
Other ideas: MYANMAR => ARMY MAN; ARMENIA => A MARINE; 'TURKMENISTAN => TUSK TRAINMAN; GERMANY => GREY MAN; BELARUS => SEAL RUB; PORTUGAL => POLAR GUT
2. M.....A?
3. M.....A?
4. MONGOLIA => MAGNOLIA
MUNICIPAL SLICE: M = 1000 => D = 500 => INDIANAPOLIS (INDY 500) My Original idea: CO'L'UMBUS, OH (Columbus Day is the 12th, and L is the 12th letter.)
ENTREES:
1. GREG VANMECHELEN => CLEM, HANG, REVENGE
2. EIGHT => IGHTE => ATE
7. OVE(RSTU)FF, UNDE(RSTU)DY, SUPE(RSTU)FF
8. GYMNOPEDIE BY SATIE
DESSERT: GREY POUPON => PONPOU => POMPOUS
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of TheWeek:
Seefood you may sea on menus
Name a word for seafood you might see on a menu. Change the first letter of this word and spell the result backward to name a different seafood you might see on the same menu. What are these two seafoods?
Hint: The letter that is changed and the letter it is changed to are the initials of a noted filmmaker who directed a movie based on a novel by a noted author with the same initials.
Answer:
Scallop, Pollack
Hint: Stanley Kubrick directed "The Shining," adapted from the novel of the same name by Stephen King.
Appetizer Menu
Skydiverting Appetizer:
“Your sister wears eskimonos!”
1. Imagine, if an Inuit/Eskimo man of North America were to travel to a distant country on the opposite side of the world, what the inhabitants of that country might call him by simply rearranging the letters of their country?
Answer:
Mongolia > Igloo Man
2. Spoonerise a 2-word phrase describing where your sister may live to get a 2-word phrase meaning “There’s something is wrong with you!” What are they?
Answer:
Her yurt & You’re hurt!
3. Spoonerise a 2-word dwelling located in America’s heartland, someplace an adventurous person might enjoy spending the night, to phonetically describe a place where you would not enjoy spending the night because it is “Blank Blank.” What are they?
Answer:
A Sioux Teepee & a place that is Too Seepy.
4. Think of a country in eight letters. Change the first vowel to an A and then switch the positions of the third and fourth letters with each other to get the name of a well known tree. What are they?
Answer:
Mongolia to Magnolia
MENU
Municipal Slice:
The answer is not Au, Ea or Ur
What large city is associated with the value of its third letter?
Hint #1: There are six figures in the city’s population, and more than six characters in its name.
Hint #2: Hood’s Honey.
Hint # 3: There are just not that many cities that are associated with the “value of one of its letters.” In this puzzle that “value” is a number.
Answer:
Indianapolis (D is the Roman numeral for 500; The annual Indianapolis 500 race is a famous tradition.)
Hint #1: Indianapolis has a population of 876,384 which ranks 17th in the United States.
Hint #2: Maid Marian (or Marion) is the love interest of the legendary outlaw Robin Hood in English folklore. Indianapolis is situated in Marion County, smack-dab in the middle of Indiana.
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:
Thinking through puzzles thought-provoking, though not too tough
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Rearrange the letters of a puzzle-maker to form three words. Two of them (a verb and proper noun/name) are what a white plantation landlord and a mob of his neighbors and friends (in a 1935 short story published in Scribner’s Magazine) would do to a black sharecropper had they been “armed” with ropes instead of shotguns. The third word is the landlord’s motive for assembling the mob.
What three words are these? Who is the puzzle-maker?
Answer:
Hang Clem, revenge; Greg VanMechelen
In "Kneel to the Rising Sun," landlord Arch Gunnard and his mob track down and “lynch” black sharecropper Clem Henry using bullets instead of a noose.
ENTREE #2:
Think of a five-letter word. Move its first letter to the end. The first three letters of this result are almost always pronounced as a long “i” as in “pi,” “pie” “pry.” Replace those three letters with a single vowel to form a three-letter homophone of the original five-letter word.
What are these two words?
Answer:
Eight, ate
EIGHT-->IGHTE-->ATE
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices (continued):
Greg VanMechelen “riffing off” his own NPR puzzle!
ENTREE #3:
Can you name a 4-word sequence of 6-letter words in which you can change the first letter to the next in the alphabet and make the next word in the sequence?
Note: The third word is not very common.
Answer:
aerate, berate, cerate, and derate
ENTREE #4:
If you change the first two letters of the word “notion” to the next letters in the alphabet you get the word “option.” Can you name a 9-letter word that, when you similarly change the first two letters, results in a new word? The two words, both adjectives, are near antonyms, and describe what you wouldn’t want and would want in a product or relationship.
Answer:
DEfective --> EFfective
ENTREE #5:
Change the first letter of an 8-letter word to the letter eight places later in the alphabet (e.g. A --> I) the first five letters of the new word are pronounced completely differently. Both are very common words. What are they?
Answer:
daughter --> laughter.
ENTREE #6:
Can you name three rhyming words that share no letters in common? There are at least two answers, one with nine total letters and the other with ten total letters.
Answer:
flu, screw, to OR faux, go, sew.
Note: There are numerous sub-variants, especially for screw (brew, chew, dew, drew, hew, knew, new, pew, stew, view etc), to (do, who) and go (no, lo, tho)
ENTREE #7:
Can you name a common English word that contains four alphabetically consecutive letters (e.g. __abcd__)?
Answer:
overstuff(ed)
ENTREE #8:
A word in a famous musical work by a well-known French composer contains four alphabetically consecutive letters. Can you name it?
Hint: the piece was used in the end credits of a non-musical movie from 1981.
Answer:
Trois Gymnopedies, by Erik Satie, which is a favorite of mine since high school. It played over the closing credits to "My Dinner With Andre."
Dessert Menu
Consumers Of Condiments Dessert:
Time to play ketch-up?
Take a word in a condiment brand. Switch its syllables. Change a letter to the one preceding it in the alphabet and add a letter to the end to spell an adjective customarily believed to characterize those who consume this brand. What are these words?
Answer:
Poupon (Grey Poupon Dijon mustard); Pompous
POUPON--> PONPOU--> POMPOUS
Lego!
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