TV Guise: Comedies of Error! Stoneware bowls and rolling balls; Great Scott! A “Skydiversion!” Telecommunication & Mini-critters; Percuss, paradiddle, pick, pluck, plink (or otherwise play)

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Stoneware bowls and rolling balls

Name something you may see at a ceramics shop, in two words. 

Spoonerize these words to name something you may see if the numbers on your ticket match those on the rolling balls. 

What two things may you see?

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Misguided Appetizer:

TV Guise: Comedies of Error!

TV GUISE

Through an unfortunate miscommunication in outsourcing, the titles of a series of television programs accidentally had one (and only one) letter changed. 

Due to imperfect artificial intelligence, the guide automatically generated descriptions of the shows that are just not quite right.  

Below are thirteen generated descriptions, sometimes with an (artificial) acclamation.  

Can you name the mistaken and the original titles of these shows? All shows are well known, either having run for at least five years or having a lasting impact on popular culture.  

Note that while only one letter is changed,
occasionally punctuation, capitalization and spacing between letters are changed to create new words.

Here is an example in which all that changes is just one letter:

A wise and mild-mannered patriarch strings his family along.  

“A prelude to Family Ties?”  

Answer: Father Knots Best (Father Knows Best).

Comedies:

 The conservative patriarch of a working class family finds conflict when a stuffy alien moves in.  

“That ain’t meat in your head!”

An oddball group of city detectives attempt to make a cloying dinosaur go extinct.  

“You’ll sing NY isn’t the only thing to love!”

 A daughter in a newly formed large family displays her lesbianism by taking on her brothers.

The crew and five passengers on a 3 hour bus tour are stranded in Bakersfield.

Blue collar worker tries to have a winning streak with a flashy new scheme each week. 

“It’s a real crack up when you get to the bottom of things, so don’t be left behind!”

Lothario American leader in a German POW camp combats the SS and the STD’s.

“I feel something! Could put you in the Klink.”

A Cuban-American entertainer washes his wife.  

“It’s a real ball!”

A boy in the 1950’s decides to have gender reassignment surgery.  

“Don't use a cleaver to chop that wood!”

With three different stories and adventures, each week presents tales of amour on Noah’s Ark.  

“They’re really cruising!”  [Three answers]

Presents the work of the most popular economists offering an alternative to capitalism.  Case studies include Richard Wolff, Rosa Luxembourg, Vladimir Lenin, and Friedrich Engels.  

“An out of this world concept!”

As told by their father, the grifting adventures of of Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka.  

“There’s more than one hoax!”

Comedy ensues when Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are forced to live together.  

“Two versus verses!”

A musical family is sometimes on the fly after an experiment in teleportation has an unfortunate mishap.  

“What a combo band! They’ll make you happy...”

Sheepish Editor’s note from LegoLambda:

The parenthetical note, “(Alice didn’t go through the looking glass, more like a telescope)” (that appeared as a part of TV Guise description #6) was actually a hint to one of the other twelve TV Guise comedy descriptions. 

It was my mistake.

But, can you figure out which of the twelve other comedies that parenthetical note is a hint for?

My apologies to Ecoarchitect and to all Puzzlerian!s for my blunder.

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Verbal Vibrato At A Venue Slice:

Percuss, paradiddle, pick, pluck, plink (or otherwise play)

Name a verb for what some performers at a famous music venue do to their instruments. 

Rearrange the letters of this verb to spell a German word you might know.

Rearrange the letters of the first word in the name of the venue to spell a German word associated with the first German word. 

What are this verb, venue and two associated German words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Scott Slices:

Great Scott! A “Skydiversion!”

Will Shortz’s March 7th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mark Scott, of Seattle, Washington, reads:

Think of a country with a one-word name. You can rearrange its letters to identify a member of one of our country’s armed forces. Who is that, and what’s the country?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Scott Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the first name of an actor surnamed Williams and the surname of a singer named Kitty. 

Rearrange these ten combined letters to spell one of our country’s famous thoroughfares. 

Now take a two-word term for an “aggregation of buyers and sellers of shares,” in five and six letters, that is associated with that thoroughfare. Change the second word in that term to a four-letter synonym if itself. Rearrange these nine combined letters to spell the first name and surname of a puzzle-maker. 

Who is this puzzlemaker?

What is the country?

ENTREE #2

Think of a country with a one-word name. 

You can add an “i” and rearrange the resulting nine letters to name a petty officer on a merchant ship having charge of hull
maintenance and related work.

What is the county? 

Who is the officer?

Bonus Hint: An abbreviated version of the officer is an anagram of “bonus.”

ENTREE #3

Take a word for American infantrymen especially during World War I which were also advertising mascots for a Minneapolis-based company that was one of the world’s largest producers of grain and other foodstuffs until it was bought by General Mills in 2001. 

This company might ___ many a ___ from local pork-producing farmers who might also “bust” ___ with a plow to cultivate grain the company may also purchase. The letters in those blanks (three letters in each blank) can be rearranged to spell the word for the infantrymen/mascots.

What is this word?

What are the three words in the blanks?

What is the Minneapolis-based company?

ENTREE #4

Think of a country with a one-word name. 

You can rearrange its eight letters to identify a member of one of our country’s armed forces. 

If instead you remove one letter from the country’s name you will spell a common surname – that is, a common-noun surname as opposed to a proper-noun surname.

What’s the country?

Who’s the member of the armed forces?

What is the common-noun surname?

ENTREE #5

Think of a country with a one-word name. You can rearrange its letters to spell two nouns that apply to men:

1. a 3-letter synonym of  “rake,” and

2. a 4-letter synonym of  “snake.”

What’s the country?

What are the two synonyms?

ENTREE #6

Think of a country with a one-word name. 

You can rearrange its final three letters to spell a body part.

You can spell its first four letters backward to get an automobile part.

Take a five-letter synonym of  “delicacy, kickshaw, tidbit
and treat.” Place it in front of the body part (without a space), followed by the auto part.

The result is a brand name of the auto part.

What’s this country?

What are the body part and auto part?

What is the five-letter synonym and auto-part brand name?

Hint: The five-letter synonym, if repeated, is the title of a song associated with Frankie Lymon. 

ENTREE #7

Think of the new name of a recently renamed African country with a one-word name. 

You can rearrange its letters to spell a kind of 4-letter alcoholic beverage and a 4-word Italian city that is home to a 2-word sweet sparkling white variety of this beverage. 

What’s the country?

What are the beverage and the city that is home to a variety of the beverage?

Hint: The eight letters in the second word of the variety of the beverage can be rearranged to form the two words that describe either this song or that song.

ENTREE #8

Think of a celestial body that orbits the sun, the name of an Earth orbiter since 1962, and the name of a card game played with 32 cards. 

Rearrange the combined letters to name a puzzle-maker and the city where this puzzle-maker lives.  

Who is it? 

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No Phone No Lights No Motor Car Dessert:

Telecommunication & Mini-critters

Name a man associated with telecommunications whose first name is a small creature and surname sounds like a similar small creature. 

Who is this man?

Hint: The man is also associated with “Gilligan's Island.”

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.

Faithful groupies erupt in cheers! Captain’s Cooking Endeavour; Composers, contractions, cars, and crunchiness; Eat at Joe’s: sparse seating, greasy eating; Two companies... and three’s a crowd

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Faithful groupies erupt in cheers!

At Yellowstone Park you can hike on a mountainside or view a geyser like Old Faithful. 

Rearrange the combined letters of “mountainside” and “geyser" to form the names of two rock groups. 

What are these rock groups?

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Just Try Beating These Conundrums Appetizer:

Composers, contractions, cars, and crunchiness

🥁1. Think of the last name of a music

composer in six letters. 

Rearrange to name something related to
sound.

🥁2. Name a word with a contraction. 

Add a common two-letter pairing to the beginning of the word, and remove the apostrophe, to describe the contraction.

🥁3. Name two common parts of a car in four and seven letters that are also synonyms when used in a different sense.

🥁4. Name a smooth thing from before the computer revolution. 

Add an R and rearrange to name a crunchy thing associated with hipsters.

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Yelping Slice:

Eat at Joe’s: sparse seating, greasy eating

“What Joe’s Burger Joint lacks in room for
seats it makes up for in grease for eats – even our macaroni side order was swimming in it.” 

What body part do four words in the above twenty-six-word Yelp review hint at? 

What are the four hinting words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:

Two companies... and three’s a crowd

Will Shortz’s February 28th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota, who runs the website Puzzleria!, reads:

I’m looking for the names of two companies. One of them has a two-part name, with five letters in each part. The other has a three-part name, in five, seven and five letters. The last five-letter part of the two names is the same. And the first five-letter part of the first company’s name is something the second company wants. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:

ENTREE #1

I’m looking for the names, first and last, of a puzzle-maker. Rearrange the combined letters to spell:

1. the surname of a “Shark Tank” shark,

2. an abbreviated version of a multinational conglomerate associated with both Thomas Edison and Ronald Reagan, and

3. a capitalized word that precedes “Sales.”

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the surname, conglomerate and capitalized word?

ENTREE #2

I’m looking for the name of one of the top 250 largest companies in the United States by revenue, one that specializes in water treatment, purification, cleaning and hygiene.

Rearrange the letters to form a pair of tennis terms.

What are these two terms?

What is the company?

ENTREE #3

I’m looking for the names of two companies – one involved in technology, the other in household products – that end with the same three letters. 

The combined remaining letters of the companies can be rearranged to form the name of a red-lipsticked minor movie character whose home is a bowl, and the first name of a minor literary character surnamed Billups.

What are the two companies? 

What are the names of the two minor characters?

Hint: the last three letters in the names of the two companies sound like a synonym of “ice cubes” or “diamonds.”

ENTREE #4

Take the four letters in the name of a Tokyo-based multinational conglomerate corporation, then add six “L’s,” five “I’s,” and one “E.”

Rearrange these sixteen letters to spell the first two words in an Indiana-based pharmaceuticals manufacturing company and the first word in another manufacturing

company in a neighboring Midwest state.

What is the Tokyo-based corporation?

What are the two companies in the Midwest?

ENTREE #5

I’m looking for the name of an eight-letter Texas-based video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise company. 

Rearrange the letters to form a two-word description of  “Towards Break of Day” by William Butler Yeats.

What is the company?

What is the two-word description? 

ENTREE #6

The six-letter singular form of a California-based insurance company and the four-letter name of a Texas-based technology company are the two nouns in a five-word title of a traditional children’s song that is also a nursery rhyme and singing game. 

The longer noun is a word for a person engaged in a certain outdoor profession.

This person’s possible surname, which can be found in a second traditional children’s song, is also the surname of the founder of an Illinois-based food chain.

What are the insurance company, technology company, and food chain?

What are the two children’s songs? 

ENTREE #7

I’m looking for the names of two companies. One is a Virginia-based retail company with a two-word name, and the other is a Washington-State-based food services company with a one-word name in two syllables. 

The second syllable in the Washington State company name is a plural slang synonym of the first word of the Virginia company.

Around Christmas-time, you might find the first syllable of the Washington State company name atop the second word of the Virginia company.

What are these companies?

What are the synonyms?

“What may be atop what” around Christmas-time?

ENTREE #8

Name a sarcastic reply in three 4-letter words beginning with “Y”, “w” and “s”.  

The reply might be made by one person on behalf of a larger group in response to hearing a preposterous lie such as this example recently in the news: “We won the election twice. I mean, you know, think about it ...” (spoken by a former president during the CPAC
Convention, February 28, 2021).

Rearrange the 12 letters in the reply to spell the name of a Washington-State-based forest and paper products company.

What is this company?

What is the sarcastic reply?

Hint: The image is a hint to the company.

Hint: The middle word in the reply contains an apostrophe.

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Light “Latipac” Dessert:

Captain’s Cooking Endeavour

Spell a former world capital backward to form the names of a cooking vessel and a nautical
vessel. 

What is this capital?

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.

The story of the Torys (sp.?) Restaurants and Food; Philosopher’s Stoneware; Catching fish, creating critters; Two kings & a wild card(iologist?)

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Two kings & a wild card(iologist?)

Rearrange the combined letters of three words associated with a well-known doctor from history to spell the names of two well-known kings, one historical and the other
mythical. 

The mythical king is also associated with the doctor. 

Name these three words, two kings and one doctor. 

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Bands, Global Lands And Viands Appetizer:

Restaurants and Food

 

🍲1. Take the name of a restaurant. 

Add a synonym of restaurant. 

Rearrange the letters to get a band. 

What band is it?

🌍2. Take the name of a country. 

Remove the first two letters and the last letter.

Add the capital of a neighboring country at the beginning of the result. 

You will get a food. 

What are the countries and the food?

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The Compleat Angler Slice:

Catching fish, creating critters

Name something that might help you catch a fish, in one word. 

Spell the letters backward and divide the result into two words to name two different critters. 

What are these critters?

What is the fishing aid?

Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices:

Philosopher’s Stoneware

Will Shortz’s February 21st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco, California, reads:

Think of a famous philosopher — first and last names. Change one letter in the first name to get a popular dish. Drop two letters from the last name and rearrange the result to get the kind of cuisine of this dish. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a puzzle-maker — first and last names. 

Rearrange the letters in the first name to get the profession of the character played by Strother Martin in a 1960s-era movie. 

Drop two consecutive letters from the second name to get the type of “gang” portrayed in the same movie by “ankle-braceleted” actors Dennis Hopper, Wayne Rogers, Harry Dean Stanton, Ralph Waite and Paul Newman. 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

ENTREE #2

Think of a famous philosopher — first and last names. 

Change one letter in the first name to get a musical instrument. 

In the last name, replace two letters with an “s” and an “o”. 

Rearrange the result to get two other musical instruments. 

Who is this philosopher?

What are the three musical instruments?

ENTREE #3

Your waitron may serve you a healthy entree — perhaps asparagus, peas, string beans or broccoli — at a sit-down family restaurant. 

Name a two-word, 14-letter term for any one of these entrees.

The 10th-through-14th letters in the two-word term spell a common one-word term for the buffet platform upon which food is placed and kept warm under radiant heat lamps.

You may well see the 8th and 9th letters of the two-word term printed on the heat-lamp bulbs. 

You can rearrange the first seven letters of the two-word term to spell a dish that you would definitely not find on the heat-lamp-lit buffet table.

What is the common term for the buffet platform?

What are the two letters perhaps printed on the heat-lamp bulbs?

What is the dish you would not find on the heat-lamp-lit buffet table?

What is the  two-word, 14-letter term for asparagus, peas, string beans or broccoli?

Hint: The seven-letter dish absent from the heat-lamp-lit table is — like sorbet, gazpacho or Waldorf salad — best served cold.

ENTREE #4

Think of a famous philosopher — first and last names. 

Change one letter in the first name to get a verb for what you do when you fry food lightly, seafood for example, and then stew it slowly in a closed container. 

Replace a letter that appears twice in the last name with a note of the major scale in solfège and rearrange the result to spell seafood, in eight letters, that you might prepare by frying and stewing it.

Who is this philosopher?

What is the verb for frying and stewing food, and what is the seafood that might be prepared in this way?

ENTREE #5

You plan to make a stew consisting of fillets from the European pilchard along with lion, goat and sepent meats culled from a certain monstrous fire-breathing Greek mythological creature. 

You begin by taking the letters in the name of this creature and the letters in a more common name for the European pilchard. 

You mix these 14 letters together to get the
name of a “Dish” quite popular with the men of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in South Korea.

What is the name of the “Dish”?

What is the name of the mythological creature?

What is the more common name for the European pilchard

ENTREE #6

Rearrange the combined letters of the first and last names of a famous philosopher to form a possible name, in seven and four letters, of an upstart journalistic rival to the The Orange County Register.

Who is this philosopher?

What is the name for this upstart journal? 

Hint: The new newspaper might use the feeds from the  Associated Press (AP) news service. Why? Because A and P are the initials of its name.

ENTREE #7

Rearrange the combined letters of the first and last names of a famous philosopher and author to spell an alternative (but nonexistant) title of an early song, “Early Morning Rain,” written by Gordon Lightfoot.

Who is the philosopher?

What is the title?

ENTREE #8

In order to ply their chosen profession, Rona Barrett, Hedda Hopper, Dorothy Kilgallen and Louella Parsons often had to frequent nightspots and mingle with seemingly seamy characters over cocktails or less-pricey foamy amber beverages. Their objective, of course, was to “get dirt” on married celebrities who may have been having affairs, or may even have been secretly married to two spouses – one on the West Coast, another on the East, for instance! 

Take an eleven-letter word for such people these columnists may have “outed,” Remove from this word the five letters in a word that describes the foamy amber beverages. Rearrange the result to name of the kind of dish regularly served up by the likes of Rona, Hedda, Dorothy and Louella.

What is the dish?

What is the word for people possibly “outed?”

What word describes foamy amber beverages?

Hint: You can also spell this dish by removing four consonants from the word “nightspots” and rearranging the result.

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Blankety-Blank Dessert:

The story of the Torys (sp.?)

Take a phrase in the form “the (BLANK) of the (BLANK)” in which the first letter of the first word is moved to its end to form the second word. 

A third word, formed by keeping that letter at both ends, is a microcosm – or perhaps, one might say, a “miniature version” – of what the phrase describes. 

What phrase is this?

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.