“Improbable bobbable Egg... nog?” Food Fight at the Golden Corral? Travel ’Zine? Cars & Carnations; “Heaps-o’-hops hoppin’ mad!” Making essential scriptural scents; “Payrolling” along on ergocycles; “Schussing down Pikachu Avenue” Opposites attract apposites are apt

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe² SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Making essential scriptural scents

Name a fragrance found in the Bible.

Replace its first word with an anagram that is the surname of a poet. This poet used a pseudonym that is an anagram of four consecutive interior letters in the fragrance’s last word. Replace those four letters with an “o”. 

The result is a Christian title that appears in the Bible. 

Name this fragrance, poet, pseudonym, and title.

Appetizer Menu

Delightfully Puzzley Appetizer:

“Improbable bobbable Egg... nog?” Food fight, Cars & Carnations, Travel Mag; 

“Food Fight at the Golden Corral?”

1.♕♖♗♘Picture this: 

A semi-empty plate at the “Golden Corral Buffet – the vestiges of a sumptuous feast... or
perhaps a food fight?” 

Describe what is on this plate using a two-word phrase of 5 and 6 letters and of 2 and 1 syllables.

Double the third letter of both words. “Spoonerize” the result by interchanging the first letter of the first word with the first three letters of the altered second word.

The final result is two-word ploy executed in a variant form of a classic family board game.

What is the two-word description of what is on the buffet table plate?

What is the two-word ploy in the variant form of the classic board game? 

Cars and Carnations

2. 🚌✈🚲🎕⚘Take a popular method of transportation, in eight letters. Drop two letters, in order, that together represent a common acronym in texting. 

Mix the remaining letters to “grow” a  flower.

What are this method of transportation and name of the flower?

Travel ’zine?  

3. 🎜🎝Take the second word in the name of a magazine. 

Add a vowel to this word so that it is no longer a “Cyclops,” but then delete from it the letters in one of the seven solfège syllables: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti. 

Mix the result gently (do not shake!) to spell a name of a vehicle historically associated with the name of the magazine. 

What are this magazine and the name of the vehicle?    

The “Improbable bobbable Egg... nog?”

4. ☕🧃Change the first letter in a two-word high-protein beverage to get something
improbable.

What is the beverage?

What is improbable?

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Foaming At The Mouth Of A Beer Mug Hors d’Oeuvre:

“Heaps-o’-hops hoppin’ mad!”

Name a beverage and a synonym of “steaming mad.” 

Rearrange their combined letters to spell an ingredient often used to make the beverage. 

What are this beverage, synonym and ingredient?

Work Like An Ox Slice:

“Payrolling” along on ergocycles

In a calendar year, there are 26 pay periods, which could also be described as “14-day pay cycles.”

Workers who receive 26 paychecks per year are paid fortnightly, on BLANK BLANK. 

Rearrange the 13 total letters in those blanks to spell a pair of ox-like creatures. 

What are the words in the blanks and the ox-like creatures?

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Riffing Off Shortz And Kalish Entrees:

“Schussing down Pikachu Avenue”

Will Shortz’s June 15th Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Evan Kalish of Bayside, New York, reads:

Take a child’s  game, in eight letters. Change the sixth letter to “ch”  and, phonetically, you’ll
have a popular animated children’s character. What are the game and the character?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Kalish Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Take a puzzle-maker’s surname, in six letters. 

Change the sixth letter to “ch” and, phonetically, you’ll have 

1.) a popular kind of cabbage that one might be allergic to, and

2.) an irritating skin sensation induced by that allergy that may tempt one to scratch.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the kind of cabbage and irritating skin condition?

Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are the playful handiwork of our friend Nodd.

ENTREE #2

Name a two-word children’s toy used in numerous games. 

The second word, spelled backwards, names a popular children’s character from books and animated films. 

What are the toy and the character?

ENTREE #3

Name a two-word children’s game. The first word is also the name of a popular animated children’s animal character. 

What are the game and the character?

ENTREE #4

Name a three-word children’s game. 

Change the last letter of the third word to a P. Follow the third word, as modified, with the second word spelled backwards. 

You’ll name an animated children’s animal character originated for TV in the 1960s. 

What are the game and the character?

ENTREE #5

Think of a children’s game that is named for the items used to play it. Replace the first letter with a copy of the fourth letter. 

Change the fifth letter to the letter three places before it in the alphabet. 

You’ll name characters featured in numerous children’s films and TV shows. 

What are the game and the characters?  

ENTREE #6

Name a popular children’s toy game, in three words. 

Replace the third letter with the letter two places after it in the alphabet. 

Follow it with a two-letter state postal abbreviation, and delete the second word. You’ll name a popular animated children’s character. 

What are the game and the character?  

ENTREE #7

Name a two-word game often played by children. 

Double the second letter, and replace the last three letters with a Y. 

Delete the space to name a popular animated children’s character. 

What are the game and the character?

ENTREE #8

Take a two-word child’s game. Spell the second word in reverse order to get an object that ought never be considered “child’s play.” 

The first word is one a police officer might shout at a perpetrator of a crime. What are this child’s game and shout.

What are this game and object?

ENTREE #9

Remove two consecutive letters from a two-word 13-letter child’s game that is sometimes often enjoyed by adults. 

The result is choral music melodies one might hear at a concert or on a recording.

What is this game and what are the melodies?

ENTREE #10

Take a child’s game, in eight letters. 

Anagram these letters to spell a game people of all ages play and a role  often assumed by charades game participants.

What are this child’s game, game played by all ages, and role charades players assume?

Dessert Menu

“Pleated” Skirt Dessert:

Opposites attract, apposites are apt

Name an attractive article of clothing and a slang term for the body part it encloses. 

Spell the slang term in reverse, followed by an adjective modifying one type of this particular clothing (like “pleated” modifies skirt, for example) to spell something else that is “attractive.” 

What are this clothing, body part and other “attractive” thing?

Every Thursday 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 Thursday.