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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Games people & musicians play
Name a word for things musicians play.
Five interior letters spell how some musicians play.
The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell one of the games people play.
What do musicians play? How do some musicians play? What is one of the games people play?
Hint: Take the first five letters and the last letter of the things musicians play. Add a “g”. Rearrange these seven letters to spell a plural word for parts of what “some musicians play” that are also parts of the equipment used in the “game people play.”
Appetizer Menu
A “Quizzical Quintet” Appetizer:
Kitchen kaboodle, Home & dental plates; “Word-Rebusiness,” Singularity Singularly, A soldier actually
Note: the five puzzles in this week’s Appetizer were submitted by a gifted Puzzleria! Contributor.
1. 🥣🍴Name a feature, in eight letters, of a common kitchen appliance. Switch the first and fifth letters. The result, reading backwards, sounds like a choice of kitchen utensils.
What is the kitchen appliance feature?
Singularity Singularly
2. 💵
The result is a word associated with something singularly hard to locate. What are these two words?
3. 🪖Puzzleria!ns may recall that Suriname and U.S. Marine are anagrams of one another.
What country name can become an actual soldier?
“Word-Rebusiness”
“Marine Builder Marks The Spot That Is Fifty
Plus”
What music style does this “Word-Rebus” describe?
Home & dental plates
5. 🎥⚾🦷
Take the adjective which describes a group of title characters in a highly acclaimed motion picture. The eight letters total can be combined and arranged to spell the well-known middle and last name of a minor league baseball player and dentist who became famous in another endeavor.
Who is that person?
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Spy-Spoof Hors d’Oeuvre:
Lowbrow flicks, highbrow lit
Take a five-letter word for the setting of some of the scenes in a series of four rather lowbrow, spoof-of-the-spy-genre 1960s movies that starred a member of a group of entertainers who were “addicted to nonconformity, staying up late, drinking, laughing, and not caring what anyone thought or said about them.”
Rearrange the combined letters of those three words to spell the titles of two works of highbrow classic literature.
What are the setting and the name of the character?
What are the two titles?
Scandalous Slice:
“ROTting” a rotten criminal
A predatory man who has been committing a series of violent crimes against women across the southern United States for the past 30-plus years is now in prison for the remainder of his life. He is no common criminal; he is an uncommonly cruel one.
His middle name is a word for a college or high school administrator in charge of counseling and disciplining students.
His surname is a word for the frame or body of a ship or boat exclusive of masts, yards, sails, and rigging.
His first name has six letters. Change the fourth letter to the letter to the left of it in the alphabet.
ROT15 the result (that is, move each letter 15 places later in the circular alphabet... A becomes P, B becomes Q, etc.)
The result is a noun that describes the man – a noun that, in his case, is preceded by an adjective that is an anagram of a nation lately much in the news.
What is this criminal’s name?
What are the adjective and noun that describe him?
Riffing Off Shortz And DeViller Slices:
“On-line service...15 Love”
Think of a popular online service. Change the
first letter to a Y and rearrange the result to get what this service provides. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And DeViller Slices read:
An overweight person goes on a diet and begins doing daily calesthenics, peppily, nimbly and friskily, and thus becomes a ______ _______.
Every pitch a “headhunting beanball” pitcher flings is a _____ ________.
The name of an adult education school in Tucson, Arizona, begins with the adjectival form of a geometry pioneer named ______ and ends with _______, a synonym of celebration and festivity.
Now take the name of a puzzle-maker. Change the first letter to a Y and rearrange that result thrice to spell each of the pairs of words in the three sentences above.
Who is the puzzle-maker and what are the six missing words?
Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are the brainchildren of our friend Nodd, whose
ENTREE #2
Think of a popular online networking site.
Remove the last two letters and rearrange the result to get the name of another popular online service by a different provider.
What are these two services?
Take the name of a popular online service, including its three-letter domain extension but without the “dot.” Change an M to an N, and
remove one C. Rearrange the result to get a word that describes what occurs when you place an order with the provider of the service. What are the online service and the word?
ENTREE #4
entertainment company abbreviation. (The entertainment company’s stock is publicly traded on the stock market.)
What are the online company and the entertainment company abbreviation?
Think of a popular online site focused on news and contemporary culture. Rearrange to get an adjective this site would definitely not want to have applied to the news it reports.
Think of a popular online site focused on emerging technologies.
Rearrange to get an adjective often used to
describe those who become obsessed with these technologies.
Think of a popular online site focused on science and technology. Rearrange its letters
to get an online communication service, plus a slang term for understanding or approval. What are the site, the service, and the term?
ENTREE #8
Think of a popular online service.
What is this online service?
What is read and what is the word for the reading desk?
Think of a popular online service. Change the first letter to an S and rearrange the result to get a world religion. If you instead change the
first letter to an C and rearrange the result you can spell a word for “something you can stake.”
What is this online service?
What are the religion and “something you can stake?”
ENTREE #10
Think of a popular online service. Change the first letter to a Q and rearrange the result to get a word familiar to enologists and florists.
consonant sounds, sounds like two words for what a horse sometimes does.
What is this online service?
What is the word familiar to enologists and florists, and the synonym of that word?
ENTREE #11
Change the first letter to a P and rearrange the result to get a caption for the image on the left, in seven and eight letters.
If you instead change the first letter to a U and
rearrange you will get the three missing words
in the following caption for the image on the right, in three, six and six letters:
“___ ______ in Blue ______ in Bora Bora, Tahiti”
What is this online service?
What are the two captions?
Note: Entree #12 is the brainchild of our friend Plantsmith whose "Garden of Puzzley Delights" is featured regularly on P!
ENTREE #12
What is this device?
What is the poetic form?
Dessert Menu
Spoonable Dessert:
“Rhyme and Punishment”
Take the first and third words of a kind of punishment.
The first result is a word for where you won’t go if you are attached to the word that sounds like the second “string-of-letters-result.”
What is this punishment?
Where won’t you go if you are attached to the homophone of the second result?
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QUESTIONS:
ReplyDeleteA3- Is Rambo a real soldier?
DeleteIn a singular, hard to locate, sort of way. Revolutionary, as it were. Parlez vous?
DeleteHINTS:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle hint movie "Deliverance" 5:28.
DeleteE12. The April rains never came,
DeleteSome called it climate change,
Who really knows?
Sunday Hints for Entrees 2-7:
Delete2. The Doors sang a refrain that suggests the word for the second online service.
3. If you guessed a photo and video sharing app, you’d be on the right track.
4. Delete the last letter of the company name to get a word for the first and last vowel sounds of America.
5. Locke’s term for how people begin.
6. Not very narrow.
7. The communication service sounds pretty fast.
Very Early Monday Hints:
DeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Games people & musicians play
How some musicians play? Take your pick!
A “Quizzical Quintet” Appetizer:
Kitchen kaboodle, Singularity Singularly, A soldier actually, “Word-Rebusiness,” Home & dental plates
Note: The five puzzle hints below were generously provided by the Puzzleria! Contributor who composed the puzzles.
1. Such choice doesn't have to be made on a particular day these days.
2. Having a backyard tennis court v. the likelihood of a visitor winning a match there.
3. Tee up on The Rock. Aim straight for the marker that contains a fish. Catch the area right on that line.
4. Jack Webb movie title roll initially; familiar base number; initials; 5x that base number; too
5. The group is not The Dirty Dozen or The Lusty Men.
Spy-Spoof Hors d’Oeuvre:
Lowbrow flicks, highbrow lit
The actor who portrayed the character in the four rather lowbrow, spoof-of-the-spy-genre 1960s movies was not Davis, Sinatra, Lawford or Bishop. As for the highbrow lit: "Globard!"
Scandalous Slice:
“ROTting” a rotten criminal”
The surname of the uncommon criminal rhymes with the first syllable of a Delorean door.
Riffing Off Shortz And DeViller Slices:
“On-line service...15 Love”
ENTREE #1
The six blanks begin with; L, R, C, D, E and R.
Just above this post, Nodd already provided hints for his Entrees #2 through #7, and Plantsmith provided a hint for his Entree #12.
ENTREE #11
puzzle, rompecabezas, énigme, Rätsel...
Spoonable Dessert:
“Rhyme and Punishment”
The second word in the kind of punishment is "and". The first word is an anagram of a synonym of a rodent. The third word is an anagram of the letters in the missing words in "Don't ____ ___ Reaper."
LegoHintingEarlyMondayMorn
Dessert was certainly easy enough after that hint. Thanks, Lego!
DeletepjbAdmitsThatHintDefinitelyRangACowbell!
Got Entree #4 as well! Thanks, Nodd!
DeletepjbGotItFromThe"Sound(s)OfAmerica"
PUZZLE RIFFS:
ReplyDeleteName a edible botanical. Double one letter and mix to get a soldier.
DeleteLove the Schpuzzle, and solved it immediately. Onward....
ReplyDeleteThe Schpuzzle is quite intuitive.
ReplyDeleteGood Friday one and all here at P!
ReplyDeleteJust got through watching the Billy Joel rebroadcast, and they finally let it end! Mia Kate and Maddy had a prom to attend in Cullman tonight, so we couldn't eat out. But Mom was craving ribs, so she got us both food from Full Moon BBQ. She had her ribs and things, but didn't finish them, so she'll eat the rest tomorrow. I had half a chicken, Brunswick stew, onion rings, mac'n'cheese, buttered bread, and crackers(with the stew), a Diet Dr. Pepper, and a slice of key lime pie for dessert. And I'm quite full, and done for the night! BTW Mr. Joel had a great concert, and Mom can't believe he's in his 70s and can still perform like that, harmonica and all! But CBS shouldn't have made their little mistake Sunday night. Reminded Mom and others of the NBC "Heidi Bowl" incident of 1968! Anyone else here remember that one?
Not much progress so far for me with the puzzles. Two easy Schpuzzles in a row, though. I also got Appetizer #4, the rebus puzzle.
Is there a good website to find a list of online services for the Entrees? I'd love to know where to look for it. Looking forward to seeing hints from Lego, Nodd, and whoever did this week's Appetizers, gifted and unknown though he/she may be.
Good luck in solving to all, and please stay safe, and good night to the Piano Man himself, wherever he is right now. Cranberry out!
pjbAlsoFailedToGetThisPastWeek's[VENMO/MONEY]Challenge(ButItWasStillGoodToHearFromWillShortzAgain!)
1968 was quite a year wasn't it? Year of my H.S. graduation.Not to date myself. But i don't remember the Heidi bowl incident. So many tears shed that year--Bobby Kennedy and M'.L. King to name a couple.- to put a damper on the," summer of love."Is the Heidi Bowl incident somehow related to the Tidy Bowl one?
ReplyDeleteHi, everyone. Currently have solved the Schpuzzle, Hors d'Oeuvre, Slice, Dessert, Apps 4 & 5, and most of the Entrees. I'm still missing Apps 1-3, Entrees 3-5, and the caption for the leftmost picture on Entree #11.
ReplyDeleteDoes anybody else enjoy the puzzles on the Puzzability Facebook page? All of them tend to be entertaining, but some are just spectacular, IMHO! I usually forget to check it out, but I looked at the page two days ago, and I saw a puzzle that was amazing, along the lines of "add the name of this musical artist who had a #1 hit to another one, and get another musical artist who had a #1 hit." And there are more in the comments! There's also a Puzzability site, but there are only a few puzzles listed at a time. The FB page has more.
Have not heard of that one. Is it British?
ReplyDeleteI think they're from NYC. In any case, their puzzles tend to be slightly easier than NPR's. For example, for the music puzzle, they give the year and name of the songs. Would have been more of a challenge if they just gave the year or some other limited information. But I still enjoy the wordplay.
ReplyDeleteNo, apparently they had a football game on, but the guy at master control at NBC was supposed to switch over to the "Heidi" movie, starring Shirley Temple, and he just cut off the game before it was over, angering many fans. Since then, all the major networks just let the game end first, and everything else is a little late coming on. It's understood by all viewers, one would assume.
ReplyDeletepjbWouldLikeToPointOutIt'sNotToBeConfusedWithThe"HeidiBreak",WhichHappenedOn[SNL]LastWeekInTheBeavisAndButtheadSketch!
it wasn't the Shirley Temple "Heidi" that they cut away for...it was a re-make starring someone else. I THINK I barely recall that having happened, i.e. *I* was waiting to see Heidi and was glad the football was over! Of course, that is an extremely minority opinion!!!
DeleteYes- Oakland scored two touchdowns in the final minute for a historic comeback to defeat the Jets.
ReplyDeleteI forgot I did get Entree #9. Easiest of the bunch.
ReplyDeletepjbMustHaveStillHadKeyLimePieOrThePianoManOnHisMindAtTheTimeHeLastPosted
SCHPUZZLE – INSTRUMENTS; STRUM; TENNIS
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS
1. ?
2. ?
3. MYANMAR; ARMY MAN
4. DIXIELAND
5. ?
HORS D’OEUVRE – BEACH, MATT HELM; HAMLET, MACBETH
SLICE – CLAUDE DEAN HULL; SERIAL RAPIST
ENTREES
1. BRUCE DEVILLER; LIVELY REDUCER; CRUEL DELIVERY; EUCLID REVELRY
2. LINKEDIN; KINDLE
3. INSTACART[.]COM; TRANSACTION
4. SCHWAB; CASH, W.B. (Warner Bros.)
5. SLATE; STALE
6. WIRED; WEIRD
7. GIZMODO; ZOOM, DIG
8. ?
9. GMAIL; ISLAM, CLAIM
10. YOUTUBE; BOUQUET, NOSEGAY (“GOES NEIGH”)
11. GOOGLE TRANSLATE; “ETERNAL GOALPOST” (no idea if this is an actual thing, but it was the only thing that fit); “SEA TURTLE [IN BLUE] LAGOON [IN BORA BORA, TAHITI”
12. ?; HAIKU
DESSERT – TAR AND FEATHER; FAR, TETHER
Looks like we got hung up in many of the same spots, including "ETERNAL GOALPOST." I was confused by your hint for #3, as I was looking for photo/video apps.
DeleteI get it now" Come on baby -light my fire." R.I.P. Jim Morrison.
DeleteTennis and violin strings > catgut > gut instinct (intuition)
ReplyDeleteExcellente.
DeleteSchpuzzle: INSTRUMENTS; STRUM; TENNIS (Hint: INSTRSG -> STRINGS)
ReplyDeleteApp:
1. ???? Based on the hint, I think the utensils have to do with frying (Fry-day) but no utensils I found worked (POT OR PAN, WOK) ; maybe soundalike term is something like SETORDAY for SATURDAY; pre-hint: tried ICEMAKER -> ACEMIKER -> REKIMECA; didn’t work)
2. EXCLUSIVE (-XC), ELUSIVE
3. ???? Based on the hint, I think it may be a country in direct line from Gibraltar (“The Rock”) but no countries I found worked (Malta was one). Fish = Sardinia??? French Revolution? Napoleon? (Alt: YEMEN, ENEMY; ARMENIA, A MARINE; MYANMAR, ARMY MAN)
4. DIXIELAND (DI + X + IE + L + AND
5. ZANE GREY (ZEE, ANGRY)
Hors d’Oeuvre: BEACH, MATT HELM; HAMLET, MACBETH
Slice: CLAUDE DEAN HULL; SERIAL RAPIST
Entrees:
1. BRUCE DEVILLER; LIVELY, REDUCER, CRUEL, DELIVERY, EUCLID, REVELRY
2. LINKEDIN, KINDLE
3. ??? tried a bunch of photo/video sharing sites; nothing worked
4. (Post hint: ) (CHARLES) SCHWAB, CASH, WB
5. (Post hint: ) SLATE, STALE
6. WIRED, WEIRD
7. GIZMODO; ZOOM, DIG
8. GOOGLE MAPS; GOSPEL, AMBO
9. GMAIL; ISLAM, CLAIM
10. YOUTUBE; BOUQUET, NOSEGAY (“goes neigh”)
11. GOOGLE TRANSLATE; ETERNAL GOALPOST (???), SEA TURTLE LAGOON
12. ROKU; HAIKU
Dessert: TAR AND FEATHER; FAR, TETHER
PS Riff: ????? Found a list of botanical edibles, but nothing led to the answer. Didn’t spend much time on this since I struggled so much with the core puzzles this week.
Puzzleria.4/23//24/ Spring is here or is it summer?
ReplyDelete‘- –Schpuzzle of the Week
Instrument- Strum –tennis another game
Appetizer Menu-
1.Barbecue-Ear bbcue– Eucbbrae. = Fry in Klingon.
2.
3. Armenia- _-A- mix= Air men
4. Remix- mash up..
5.Sal Eades- Sea- leads
Hor Dourves
Mike Myers- Austin Powers
“Mower to the Glow worm” - remix
E1. Bruce Deviller
E2. I got hung up on the Doors “Riders in the storm” Riders==uber? No
ENTREE #3
ENTREE 4
ENTREE #5 slate, stale
ENTREE #6
ENTREE #7
ENTREE#8.
ENTREE #9 Gmail- Islam/ Claim
ENTREE #10
Entree #12. Roku- Hi ku. - sounds like- Haiku
Dessert Menu
Tar and feather- far and Tether (to tie up)
My riff. Morel (a mushroom +m) mix = Rommel (the dessert fox)
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteINSTRUMENTS, STRUM, TENNIS, STRINGS
Appetizer Menu
2. EXCLUSIVE-XC(90)=ELUSIVE
3. ARMENIA(A MARINE)or MYANMAR(ARMY MAN)
4. D.I.(Drill Instructor)+X+I.E.(id est)+L(50)+AND=DIXIELAND
5. ZANE GREY, ZEE(Dutch for "sea"), ANGRY("12 ANGRY MEN")
Menu
Spy-Spoof Hors d'Oeuvre
BEACH+MATT HELM=HAMLET, MACBETH
Scandalous Slice
CLAUDE DEAN HULL, SERIAL RAPIST
Entrees
1. BRUCE DEVILLER, LIVELY REDUCER, CRUEL DELIVERY, EUCLID, REVELRY
2. LINKEDIN, KINDLE
3. INSTACART(.COM), TRANSACTION
4. SCHWAB, CASH, WB(Warner Bros.)
5. SLATE, STALE
6. WIRED, WEIRD
7. GIZMODO, ZOOM, DIG
8. GOOGLE MAPS, GOSPEL, AMBO
9. EMAIL, ISLAM, CLAIM
10. YOUTUBE, BOUQUET, NOSEGAY(goes "neigh")
11. GOOGLE TRANSLATE, ETERNAL GOALPOST, SEA TURTLE, LAGOON
12. ROKU, HAIKU(low and high)
Spoonable Dessert
TAR AND FEATHER, FAR, TETHER
MASKED SINGER RESULTS:
QUEEN CLEOCATRA=JENIFER LEWIS("Black-ish", "Dreamgirls", etc.)
Ken Jeong correctly guessed her(maybe twice in a row for him this season). The "Wild Card", SEAL, will go on to next week's show. I've heard of Ms. Lewis, but Mom didn't say if she'd ever heard of her.-pjb
Not much for me this week:
ReplyDeleteSCHPUZZLE: INSTRUMENTS => STRUM; TENNIS [Hint: STRINGS]
APPETIZERS:
1. STOVETOP => ETOVSTOP => POTS VOTE?
2. CURIOSITY => CURIO?
Yea- me either- but you got the killer A1.
DeleteHey, Plantie, thanks for noticing that! As I had scrolled haphazardly thru everyone else's answers, it did start looking to me like nobody else had gotten that answer. Then I checked below to see Lego's official answers, and was amazed that I had come up with it after all. (It had mostly been a Hail Mary guess.)
DeleteI surely wish we KNEW who this mystery puzzle maker is!
DeleteThis week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Games people & musicians play
Name things musicians play.
Five interior letters spell how some musicians play.
The remaining letters are an anagram of one of the games people play.
What do musicians play? How do some musicians play? What is one of the games people play?
Hint: Take the first five letters and the last letter of the things musicians play. Add a g. Rearrange these seven letters to spell a plural word for parts of what "some musicians play" and for parts of the equipment used in the "game people play."
Answer:
Instruments; Strum; Tennis
Hint: Guitar, banjo, oud and mandolin players strum strings. Strings are also parts of tennis rackets.
Appetizer Menu
A “Quizzical Quintet” Appetizer:
Kitchen kaboodle, Singularity Singularly, A soldier actually, “Word-Rebusiness,” Home & dental plates
Note: the five puzzles in the weeks Appetizer were submitted by a Puzzleria! Contributor.
1. Kitchen kaboodle
Name a feature, in eight letters, of a common kitchen appliance. Switch the first and fifth letters. The result, reading backwards, sounds like a choice of kitchen utensils. What is the kitchen appliance feature?
Answer;
STOVETOP (reverse S & E, read backwards sounds like) POTS VOTE
2. Singularity Singularly
Take a word in nine letters associated with singularity. Remove a number divisible by nine. The result is a word associated with something singularly hard to locate. What are these two words?
Answer:
EXCLUSIVE (remove XC, Roman Numeral for 90, resulting with) ELUSIVE
3. A soldier actually
Puzzleria!ns may recall that Suriname and U.S. Marine are anagrams of one another. What country name can become an actual soldier?
Answer:
ALGERIA, which anagrams to A REAL G.I.
4. “Word-Rebusiness”
Speaking of Marines, consider the following “Word-Rebus”:
“Marine Builder Marks The Spot That Is Fifty Plus”
What music style does this “Word-Rebus” describe?
Answer:
DIXIELAND
[EXPLANATION: Marine Builder is a "DI"; "X" Marks the Spot; "i.e." means "That is"; "L" is the Roman Numeral for Fifty; "And" is a synonym of Plus. . . DIXieLand]
5. Home & dental plates
Take the spelling of a letter, which spelling can also be that of a body of water. Take the adjective which describes a group of title characters in a highly acclaimed motion picture. The eight letters total can be combined and arranged to spell the well-known middle and last name of a minor league baseball player and dentist who became famous in another endeavor. Who is that person?
Answer:
ZANE GREY
[EXPLANATION: The letter is "zee" which is also the spelling of "sea" in Dutch. The film is "12 Angry Men". Zee + Angry, combined and arranged = (Pearl) Zane Grey.]
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteMENU
Spy-Spoof Hors d’Oeuvre:
Lowbrow flicks, highbrow lit
Take a five-letter word for the setting of some of the scenes in a series of four rather lowbrow, spoof-of-the-spy-genre 1960s movies that starred a member of a group of entertainers who were “addicted to nonconformity, staying up late, drinking, laughing, and not caring what anyone thought or said about them.” Also take the first and last names of the the character played by that member.
Rearrange the combined letters of those three words to spell the titles of two works of highbrow classic literature.
What are the setting and the name of the character?
What are the two titles?
Beach, Matt Helm; Hamlet, MacBeth
Scandalous Slice:
“ROTting” a rotten criminal”
A man who has been committing a series of violent crimes against women in the southern United States for the past 30-plus years is now in prison for the remainder of his life. He is no common criminal; he is an uncommonly cruel one.
His middle name is a word for a a college administrator in charge of counseling and disciplining students.
His surname is a word for the frame or body of a ship or boat exclusive of masts, yards, sails, and rigging.
His first name has six letters. Change the fourth letter to the letter to the left of it in the alphabet.
ROT 15 the result (that is, move each letter 15 places later in the alphabet... A becomes P, B becomes Q, etc.)
The result is a noun that describes the man – a noun that is often preceded by an adjective that is an anagram of a nation lately much in the news.
What is this criminal’s name?
What are the adjective and noun that describe him?
Answer:
Claude Dean Hull II; serial rapist; CLATDE (ROT 15)=>RAPIST
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And DeViller Slices:
“On-line service...15 Love”
Will Shortz’s April 12th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday challenge, created by Bruce DeViller of Brookfield, Illinois, reads:
Think of a popular online service. Change the first letter to a Y and rearrange the result to get what this service provides. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And DeViller Slices read:
ENTREE #1
An overweight person goes on a diet and begins doing daily calesthenics, peppily, nimbly and friskily. He becomes a ______ _______.
Every pitch a “headhunting beanball” pitcher flings is a _____ ________.
The name of an adult education school Tucson, Arizona, begins with the adjectival form of a geometry pioneer named ______ and ends with _______, a synonym of celebration and festivity.
Rearrange the combined letters in each pair of missing words in the three sentences above to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.
Who is the puzzle-maker and what are the six missing words?
Answer:
Bruce DeViller; lively reducer; cruel delivery; Euclid, revelry
Note: Entrees #2-through-#7 were created by our friend Nodd whose "Nodd ready for prime time" is featured regularly on P!
ENTREE #2
Think of a popular online networking site. Remove the last two letters and rearrange the result to get the name of another popular online service by a different provider. What are these two services?
Answer:
LINKEDIN minus IN = KINDLE
ENTREE #3
Take the name of a popular online service, including its three-letter domain extension but without the “dot.” Change an M to an N, and remove one C. Rearrange the result to get a word that describes what occurs when you place an order with the provider of the service. What are the online service and the word?
Answer:
INSTACART.COM; TRANSACTION
ENTREE #4
Think of a popular online company having to do with the stock market. Rearrange the letters to get a word for what users of this service want to obtain from it, plus a two-letter entertainment company abbreviation. (The entertainment company’s stock is publicly traded on the stock market.) What are the online company and the entertainment company abbreviation?
Answer:
SCHWAB; CASH; WB (Warner Bros.)
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 4:
ReplyDeleteENTREE #5
Think of a popular online site focused on news and contemporary culture. Rearrange to get an adjective this site would definitely not want to have applied to the news it reports.
Answer:
SLATE; STALE
ENTREE #6
Think of a popular online site focused on emerging technologies. Rearrange to get an adjective often used to describe those who become obsessed with these technologies.
Answer:
WIRED; WEIRD
ENTREE #7
Think of a popular online site focused on science and technology. Rearrange its letters to get an online communication service, plus a slang term for understanding or approval. What are the site, the service, and the term?
Answer:
GIZMODO; ZOOM; DIG
ENTREE #8
Think of a popular online service. Change the first letter to a B and rearrange the result to get something that is read during a church service and the word for reading desk in early churches from which it is read.
What is this online service?
What is read and what is the word for the reading desk?
Answer:
Google Maps (Boogle Maps); Gospel, Ambo
ENTREE #9
Think of a popular online service. Change the first letter to an S and rearrange the result to get a world religion. If you instead change the first letter to an C and rearrange the result you can spell a word for “something you can stake.”
What is this online service?
What are the religion and “something you can stake?”
Answer:
Gmail; Islam; Claim
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This week's official answers for the record, part 5:
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Think of a popular online service. Change the first letter to a Q and rearrange the result to get a word familiar to enologists and florists.
A synonym of this word sounds like a two-syllable word that, if you interchange its initial consonant sounds, sounds like two words for what a horse sometimes does.
What is this online service?
What is the word familiar to enologists and florists, and the synonym of that word?
Answer:
youtube; bouquet, nosegay (A horse sometimes "goes neigh.")
ENTREE #11
Think of a popular online service.
Change the first letter to a P and rearrange the result to get a caption for the image on the left, in seven and eight letters.
If you instead change the first letter to a U and rearrange you will get the three missing words in the following caption for the image on the right, in three, six and six letters:
“___ ______ in Blue ______ in Bora Bora, Tahiti”
What is it the online service?
What are the two captions?
Answer:
Google Translate;
“Eternal Goalpost”
“Sea Turtle in Blue Lagoon in Bora Bora, Tahiti”
ENTREE #12
Think of a device associated with online services. Replace its first syllable, which rhymes with “low,” with a syllable that sounds like an antonym of “low” to get a poetic form.
What is this device?
What is the poetic form?
Answer"
Roku; Haiku; ("low" rhymes with "Ro". "Hai" sounds like "high".)
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Spoonable Dessert:
“Rhyme and Punishment”
Take the first and third words of a kind of punishment.
Spoonerizing them yields two results – a word, and a string of letters that sounds like a word.
The first result is a word for where you won’t go if you are attached to the word that sounds like the second result.
What is this punishment?
Where won’t you go if you are are attached to the homophone of the second result?
Answer:
Tar and feather; Far, tether (teather)
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Intriguing post! Loved how you blended wordplay with varied topics. Clever and engaging!
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