“Powderpuff MiddLe-Lineback(Lett)er-shift!”; “Beheading” + “Befooting” Becomes “Big-Brotherly?;” “Name-Tagalong Triple Roulette!”; “Boy Meets Girl”; “Bide my time... I’ll get to Phonics!”; A Two-Couplet-Four-Car Hellbound Quatrain; “Picking-up After a Piggy Neighbor”; Subtract letters, add syllable; “Library-Book ‘Em Danno!”

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe² SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Subtract letters, add syllable

Delete adjacent letters from a novel title. 

The one-syllable-longer result is a name that appears on world maps followed by an adjective describing what is named. 

What are this novel title, name on the map and adjective?

 Appetizer Menu

Bobby’s 33rd “Puzzle Fun” On His 33rd Birthday Appetizer:

“Powderpuff MiddLe-Lineback(Lett)er-shift!”; “Boy Meets Girl”; Beheading” + “Befooting” Becomes “Big-Brotherly?”

“Name-Tagalong Triple Roulette!”

Note: Break out the bubbly (or beverage of your choice)! Thanks to our great friend Bobby, we at Puzzleria! are observing a “Doubly Signifcant Celebration”:

~ The 33rd edition of the ever-popular-and-always-challenging “Puzzle Fun by Bobby Jacobs,” and...

~ Bobby’s 33rd Birthday!

We all wish this talented young man the happiest of birthdays and gifts galore.... In the meantime Bobby has showered us with gifts!... a foursome of his always-fantastically-fun puzzles! Enjoy!

“Powderpuff MiddLe-Lineback(Lett)er-shift!”

1. 🏌🏃Take the name of a famous athlete. Change the first letter of the last name to L. 

Rearrange the letters to get the name of another famous athlete. Who is it?

“Boy Meets Girl” 

2. ⚤Take a 5-letter boy's name.  Move the middle 3 letters 4 places back in the alphabet.  You will get a girl's name. 

What are these two names?

“Beheading” Plus “Befooting” Becomes “Big-Brotherly?”

3.👦Take a 6-letter boy’s name. Remove the first and last letters to get a shortened form of a department of the United States Government. 

What is it?

“Name-Tagalong Triple Roulette!”

4. 📛The name Patrick consists of two nicknames put together (Pat, Rick). 

What are three nicknames such that the first and second nicknames put together are a full first name, the second and third names put together are a first name, and the third and first names put together are a first name?

Here are Links to Bobby’s previous 32 “Puzzle Fun...” appearances on Puzzleria!:

1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10   11   12  13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20    21   22  23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32

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Overdue Hors d’Oeuvre:

“Library-Book ‘Em Danno!”

If there were such a profession as “library policeman” (or “library policewoman”), talking ___ ____ would be ________! And, _____ would be _____ to those who commit this breach of library etiquette by engaging in such inappropriate, insensitive and disruptive __________!

The word in the third blank echoes the words in the first two blanks. The words in the fourth and fifth blanks are an anagram of the word in the sixth blank.

What are these six missing words?

“Clumpy” Slice:

“Picking-up After a Piggy Neighbor”

Name a two-word term for an ugly clump of garbage in your yard.

Translate the first word into Pig Latin to name a relatively small garbage receptacle.

Translate the second word into Pig Latin to name what your generous and neighborly
next-door neighbor may say to you regarding the removal of the ugly clump of garbage in your backyard across the fence from him.

What is this ugly clump of garbage?

What is the relatively small garbage receptacle?

What may the next-door neighbor say?

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Riffing Off Shortz And Bass Slices:

“Bide my time... I’ll get to Phonics!”

Will Shortz’s August 30th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Ben Bass of Chicago, Illinois, reads:

Think of a state capital and say it out loud.
Change one vowel sound in it to name something many schoolkids study. What things are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Bass Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Battery Energy Storage Systems face primary risks centered around thermal runaway, where damaged or overheated lithium-ion cells spark hard-to-extinguish fires, release toxic gases like hydrogen fluoride, and carry a potential for delayed reignition. As a result, a number of environmentalists seek to  _ _ _  _ _ _ _.

Transpose the two vowels in the words in the blanks to name a puzzle-maker.

What are the words in the blanks?

Who is the puzzle-maker?

(Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are clever creations created by our friend Nodd, composer of “Nodd ready for prime time” on Puzzleria!)

ENTREE #2

Anagram a state capital to spell a word for something kids may be provided with at school.

What is this state capital? With what may kids be provided?

ENTREE #3

Name a state capital. The name contains two letters that are consecutive in the alphabet, though not in the name. 

Replace those with two other consecutive letters of the alphabet. 

Rearrange to spell a subject kids typically study in school.

ENTREE #4

Think of a state capital that ends in the two-letter abbreviation for a different state.  

Replace the abbreviation with a single letter.

Insert a space somewhere to name what a kid at an exclusive prep school might have.

ENTREE #5

Think of a state capital and move one letter
one place earlier in the alphabet. 

Rearrange to spell something that may interfere with kids’ learning in school. 

ENTREE #6

The name of a state capital contains five consecutive letters that can be rearranged to spell a word for something used extensively
for teaching in schools. 

What are the capital and word?

ENTREE #7

Remove one letter from a state capital to spell a subject that may be studied in school, but
usually only in very advanced science classes. 

What are the capital and subject?

(Note: Entree #8 is is the brainchild of our friend Nodd, composer of “Garden of Puzzley Delights” on Puzzleria!)

ENTREE #8:

Take a U.S. state name. Oregon

Replace its last letter with the postal abbreviation of a second state.

Replace a perfectly symmetrical lowercase letter with an “a”. Replace the third letter with a “tittled” letter. The result spells an art form.

What are this state, second state, perfectly symmetrical lowercase letter, “tittled” letter and art form?

ENTREE #9

Think of a state capital and say it aloud. Change one vowel sound in it to name a subject that prospective physicians study as post-graduates.

What is this state capital?

What do prospective physicians study?

Dessert Menu

Befuddlingly Muddled “Blank-Verse” Dessert:

A Two-Couplet-Four-Car Hellbound Quatrain

A poem I composed about clear and clean _ _ _ _

From ethereal heights fell to depths more _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

There, it mingled with me, where its sense I could _ _ _ _ _ _

And render its ending profound as a _ _ _ _ _ _!

Fill in the blanks with whatever words seem to work for you.

The words that seemed to work for me contain
4,7,6 and 6 letters. If you find them, fine...

But I would prefer to see your words. They need not rhyme.

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 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.