Friday, August 7, 2026

Mathew Huffman’s “Great British Bakeoff” Order An Ordinary Nth Ordinal Number; Reduce NO letters in “bicycle” to get “bicycle!”; “Trout, Stout, LOUD!”; “Fight erupts at Puzzle’s end!” Poems & Recreation


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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Order An Ordinary Nth Ordinal Number

Name a Hyphenated Ordinal Number that consists of a Second Ordinal Number and a anagram of slang term for “sailor.

Delete that slang term from your original ordinal number.

The result is a different ordinal number.

What are these two ordinal numbers? 

What is the slang term for sailor” and the anagram that helped you get you to your correct answer?

Appetizer Menu

Double-Sweet Parabodiddley Appetizer:

Two 4x4 mini crosswords: Great British Bakeoff

(Note: The following two-part Appetizer comes courtesy of a brilliant young multitalented master-puzzle-maker named Mathew Huffman.
 Mathew has contributed literally hundreds of puzzles to Puzzleria! over our 16-plus years... and counting. Enjoy these fruits of his genius!

You can always count on Mathew to come up with challenging, entertaining and fresh challenges. This time, he has composed a pair of mini-crosswords. Enjoy his gems” and his genius


MENU:
“Donny Broke His Nose!” Hors d’Oeuvre
“Fight erupts at Puzzle’s end!”
 Name an eight-letter term or a rapid, continuous plummeting.
Insert a conjunction between the fifth and sixth letters, followed by a hyphen.
The result is a synonym of “donnybrook.”
What are the term for rapid continuous plummeting and the synonym of “donnybrook?”

“Fishy” Slice:
“Trout, Stout, LOUD!”
Name a “fishy” opportunist who seeks quick profit at the expense of others. 
Delete first names from the middle of each word, leaving letters that can spell a beverage and a radio setting.
What are this opportunist, first names, beverage and setting?

NOTE:
My sincere apologies to all of  you for this blog-incompleteness!
As soon as I can on Friday, will upload all the Riff-offs of Michael Schwartz's NPR puzzle (including Nodd's excellent riffs), as well as the missing Dessert and scores of missing images.
Thank you for your patience.
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