“Your sister wears eskimonos!” Seefood you may sea on menus; The answer is not Au, Ea or Ur; Thinking through puzzles thought-provoking, though not too tough; Time to play ketch-up?

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Seefood you may sea on menus 

Name a word for seafood you might see on a menu. 
Change the first letter of this word and spell the result backward to name a different seafood you might see on the same menu. 
What are these two seafoods?
Hint: The letter that is changed and the letter it is changed to are the initials of a noted filmmaker who directed a movie based on a novel by a noted author with the same initials.

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Skydiverting Appetizer:
“Your sister wears eskimonos!”

⭕1. Imagine, if an Inuit/Eskimo man of North America were to travel to a distant country on the opposite side of the world, what the inhabitants of that country might call him by simply rearranging the letters of their country?

⭕2. Spoonerize a 2-word phrase describing where your sister may live to get a 2-word phrase meaning “There’s something is wrong with you!” What are they?

⭕3. Spoonerize a 2-word dwelling located in America’s heartland, someplace an adventurous person might enjoy spending the night, to phonetically describe a place where you would not enjoy spending the night because it is “Blank Blank.” What are they? 

⭕4. Think of a country in eight letters. Change the first vowel to an A and then switch the positions of the third and fourth letters with each other to get the name of a well known tree. What are they?

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Municipal Slice:
The answer is not Au, Ea or Ur  

What large city is associated with the value of its third letter?
Hint #1: There are six figures in the city’s population, and more than six characters in its name.
(More obscure) Hint #2: Hood’s Honey.
(Perhaps more helpful) Hint # 3: There are just not that many cities that are associated with the “value of one of its letters.” In this puzzle that “value” is a number.

Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:
Thinking through puzzles thought-provoking, though not too tough

Will Shortz’s June 14th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Greg VanMechelen of Berkeley, Calif, reads:
Think of a five-letter word. Change the first letter to the next letter of the alphabet, and you’ll get a new word that doesn’t share any sounds with the first one. Then change its first letter to the next letter of the alphabet, and you’ll get a third word that doesn’t share any sounds with either of the first two. What words are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Rearrange the letters of a puzzle-maker to form three words. 
Two of them (a verb and proper noun/name) are what a white plantation landlord and a mob of his neighbors and friends (in a 1935 short story published in Scribner’s Magazine) would do to a black sharecropper had they been “armed” with ropes instead of shotguns. 
The third word is the landlord’s motive for assembling the mob.
What three words are these? 
Who is the puzzle-maker? 
ENTREE #2:
Think of a five-letter word. Move its first letter to the end. 
The first three letters of this result are almost always pronounced as a long “i” as in “pi,” “pie” “pry.” 
Replace those three letters with a single vowel to form a three-letter homophone of the original five-letter word.
What are these two words?
Note to Puzzlerians!: Cana-wedding-like, we are saving the best for last. The following six riff-off puzzles were created by Greg VanMechelen himself. 
He is thus “riffing off” his own NPR puzzle!
ENTREE #3:
Can you name a 4-word sequence of 6-letter words in which you can change the first letter to the next in the alphabet and make the next word in the sequence?
Note: The third word is not very common.
ENTREE #4:
If you change the first two letters of the word “notion” to the next letters in the alphabet you get the word “option.” 
Can you name a 9-letter word that, when you similarly change the first two letters, results in a new word?  
The two words, both adjectives, are near antonyms, and describe what you wouldn’t want and would want in a product or relationship.  
ENTREE #5:
Change the first letter of an 8-letter word to the letter eight places later in the alphabet (for example: a --> i). 
The first five letters of the new word are pronounced completely differently. 
Both are very common words. What are they? 
ENTREE #6:
Can you name three rhyming words that share no letters in common? 
There are at least two answers, one with a total of nine letters and the other with ten total letters.
Hint: The image at the left will be of no help at all to you in solving this puzzle.

ENTREE #7:
Can you name a common English word that contains four alphabetically consecutive letters (for example: __abcd__)? 
ENTREE #8:
A word in a famous musical work by a well-known French composer contains four alphabetically consecutive letters. 
Can you name it?  
Hint: the piece was used in the end credits of a non-musical movie from 1981.  

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Consumers Of Condiments Dessert:
Time to play ketch-up?

Take  a word in a condiment brand. 
Switch its two syllables. 
Change a letter to the one preceding it in the alphabet and add a letter to the end to spell an adjective customarily believed to characterize those who consume this brand. 
What are these words? 

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.

Dang good, but also dang bad! What did Noah drink on the Ark? Run for the border, loosen your belts; Four on a match; Mamas & Papas, Marimba? & Grammys

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Schpuzzle Of TheWeek:
Four on a match

Your puzzle assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a two-word title to the five-stanza anapestic dimeter poem, below.
Hint: Identify 18 words in the poem. These words contain a total of 63 letters (but only 7 different letters!). 
Consider 14 of these 18 words as 7 pairs, consider 3 of them as one triplet, and consider one of them as a single stand-alone 7-letter word. 
Each of the pairs contains 7 different letters, as does the one triplet, as does the single word. 
The words in each of these seven pairs of words are in close proximity within the text of the poem. The three words in the one triplet are consecutive in the poem’s text.

MIXED DOUBLES

On the court, four did joust:
Ed and Deb, Bud and Sue.
Two were skirted and bloused,
Two wore tees from J. Crew.


Sue was bold, Deb had soul,
Young buck Ed had no clue.    
Graybeard Bud had a hole 
In the sole of his shoe.

“Hey Ed, lob us the ball,”
 Yelled Bud, trusting that Sue
(Who had grace like Bacall)
Would smash-volley it true.

Ed indeed used a lob,
But Sue whiffed! What bad news!
Deb cheered, “Ed, Superb job!
We win! Sue and Bud lose!”


And so ends this sob story
Of a duel two-on-two.
On green sod two found glory...
For two, blue was the hue.

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Rock Fare by Chad Appetizer:
Mamas & Papas, Marimba? & Grammys

Name a musical instrument in five letters, two syllables. 
Add the name of a famous theatrical award to the first syllable. 
Add what mothers and fathers have in common to the second syllable. 
You will name a very famous pop/rock musical group in two words, 14 letters. 
What is the instrument and who is the group?

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Southern Creature Comfort Slice:
What did Noah drink on the Ark?

Say the names of two creatures aloud, in alphabetical order. Both creatures begin with an S. 
What you say will sound like something non-alcoholic from which you drink when you are outdoors, in one word, followed by something alcoholic you drink, in two words.
What are these two creatures? 
Hint: Add a letter to the beginning of a word associated with the biblical Jacob to spell a word associated with this alcoholic “something” (and also with its consumer).


Riffing Off Shortz And Graham Slices:
Run for the border, loosen your belts

Will Shortz’s June 7th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Chad Graham of St. Louis, Missouri, reads:
Name a well-known restaurant chain. Rearrange its letters to name a large area in the United States. This area has a two-word name. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Graham Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Interchange the first and last names of a puzzle-maker. Rotate the last letter of this result 180 degrees to form a new letter. 
After this new letter write the three-letter word that belongs in the following blank: “Wise ___ #2,” the name of a character in “Life of Brian.” 
The result is the name of the actor who portrayed “Wise ___ #2.”
Who are this puzzle-maker and actor?
ENTREE #2:
Name the two-word generic female subject of an 1860’s-era oil painting by an American artist. Rearrange the 11 letters in the words to name a large area in North America. 
This area has a two-word name. What is it?
Hint: The artist’s first name is the same as that of a Nobel prize-winner who served in the cabinets of two presidents. The artist’s surname is the same as that of the lead singer of of a rock band formed 30 years ago on the West Coast.
ENTREE #3:
Give a description of this stuffed animal using two adjectives beginning with an F and C and a noun beginning with T. 
Rearrange the letters of this description to name a large area in the United States. This area has a two-word name. 
What are this name and this description?
ENTREE #4:
Name a well-known restaurant chain. Rearrange its letters to spell two words:
1. a type of carriage, and 
2. an adjective for the animal that the carriage is drawn by (like “feline” or “canine,” for example). 
What is this chain? 
What are this carriage and creature-adjective?
ENTREE #5:
Name a somewhat well-known restaurant chain that was founded in Florida. Rearrange its 13 letters to spell three words: 
1. one that follows “kobe” on a menu, 
2. a cool seafood on a menu that is often served with soy sauce, and 
3. a word on the drink menu that follows “whiskey.” 
This restaurant chain has a two-word name. 
What is it?
ENTREE #6:
Name a reasonably well-known restaurant chain. 
Rearrange its letters to spell a two-word caption for the image pictured here. 
What are this caption and restaurant chain?
Hint: Lopping of the final two letters of the caption will produce an alternative caption for the image.
ENTREE #7:
Chad Graham, the creator of this week’s NPR puzzle, also created this week’s Appetizer (under his screen name, Chuck). 
The title of his “Conundrumbstruck by Chuck!” feature this week is titled “Rock Fare by Chad Appetizer.”
Rearrange the combined letters in “Rock,” “Fare” and “Chad” to name a well-known restaurant chain. 
What is it?
ENTREE #8:
Name a very large two-word area in the United States that is also the brand name of a beverage produced in Minnesota.
Rearrange its letters to form two words:
1. how certain native Europeans say the word “day” and
2. a city where such a European might reside.
What are the beverage/area and the European’s hometown?

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Dangling Dessert:
Dang good, but also dang bad!

Name two words: something good that is dangled and something that is bad when it is dangling. 
Both begin with the same syllable. 
What are these two words?


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.

9 and 19 are fine, but 29 skidoo! The heartbreak of cinemoriasis; Letter-switcherooin’ Suite; Laciport stiurf & mayoral eponymy; Solving for x... wisely

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Letter-switcherooin’ Suite

Note: This week’s Schpuzzle is actually a suite of four puzzles. 
But fret not. If you solve just one puzzle and you’ll likely solve all four.
🎨1.Name an object in a painting by a European surrealist. 
Replace one letter with a different letter to name the color of the object. 
What are the object and color?
🍺🍷2. Name something you might do to beer on a hot summer day. 
Replace one letter with a different letter to name something you might do to wine on a cold winter evening. 
What are these two things?
🗽3. Take just the last word in the title of a colossal sculpture. 
Replace one letter in this word to name the plural artistic heading under which the sculpture might be categorized. 
What are this title and heading?
⛄4. Take a one-word synonym of “breaking away.” 
Replace two adjacent letters in the synonym with two other letters to form a possible two-word newspaper headline for a 2010 weather-related mishap in Minnesota. 
What are this headline and synonym?
Hint: The mishap involved snow. 

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Geofantastic Appetizer:
Laciport stiurf & mayoral eponymy

Puzzling fruits
🍍🍌🍉🍊Think of a tropical fruit. Spell it backwards. Replace the final letter in this result with another letter to form the genus name for a different tropical fruit. This genus name is the name for this second fruit in most Western languages (notably excepting Spanish and English). 
What are the original fruit and the genus of the second fruit?

Never woulda thought it
🤔The name for a convention center in a major American city sounds as if it is named for the city. In reality, the convention center is named for a former mayor of this same city. What is the city and the name of the convention center?

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Neighborly letter Slice:
9 and 19 are fine, but 29 skidoo!

Spell out two consecutive letters of an alphabet. 
Rearrange the letters of the result to form two words that equal 9 or 19 but not 29. 
What are the two letters?
What two words equal 9 or 19 but not 29?

Riffing Off Shortz And Weiss Slices:
Solving for x... wisely

Will Shortz’s May 31st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Scott Weiss, of Walkersville, Maryland, reads:
Think of a familiar three-word name of something. The first word in that name is a number. Let’s call that number “x.” The last “x” letters of the second word of the name are a French translation of the third word. What’s the name? 
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Weiss Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of an unfamiliar three-word phrase describing the span of time that certain series of films – like the “Lord of the Rings,” “Back to the Future” or “Godfather” franchises – are shown in theaters. The first word in that phrase is a number. Let’s call that number “x.” The last “x” letters of the second word of the phrase are a French translation of the third word. 
What’s the name?
Note: There is a hyphen connecting the first two words in the phrase. 
ENTREE #2:
Think of an unfamiliar three-word phrase for a handful of prosthesis-like props (including two spares) perhaps used by actress Kristin Bauer van Straten in a “Seinfeld” episode. 
The first word in that phrase is a number. Let’s call that number “x.” The “x” letters of the second word of the phrase (if you delete the apostrophe and insert an “i” in the middle, making it x+1 letters) spell a French translation of the third word. 
What’s the phrase?
ENTREE #3:
Think of a very unfamiliar three-word phrase for the Vitamin B2 content in a certain beverage. 
The first word in that phrase is a number. Let’s call that number “x.” The last “x” letters of the second word of the phrase are a French translation of the third word. 
What’s the phrase? 
Note: There is a hyphen connecting the first two words in the phrase.
ENTREE #4:
Think of a very unfamiliar three-word caption for the image of the competition pictured here. The first word in that caption is a number. Let’s call that number “x.” 
The last “x” letters of the second word of the caption are a French translation of the third word. 
What’s the caption?
Note: There is a hyphen connecting the first two words in the caption.
ENTREE #5:
Think of a three-word definition for a tricorn. The first word in that name is a number. 
Let’s call that number “x.” 
The last “x” letters of the second word of the definition spell an adjective that pertains to one of the four tricorns in the multiple-choice question pictured here. 
What’s the definition? 
Which of the tricorns in the multiple-choice question should you choose?
Note: There is a hyphen connecting the first two words in the definition.
ENTREE #6:
Think of a somewhat familiar three-word name of a creature. The first word in that name is a number. 
Let’s call that number “x.” The last “x” letters of the second word of the name spell the abbreviated title of a revered multi-volumned dictionary. That dictionary’s definition of the third word in the name of the creature reads: “an edendate arboreal mammal of a sluggish nature, inhabiting tropical parts of Central and South America.” 
What’s the name of the creature?
Note: There is a hyphen connecting the first two words in the definition.
Hint: The second word in the three-word-named creature is a homophone of another creature.
ENTREE #7:
There is a familiar three-word idiom for an evening so bitterly cold that one cannot fall asleep. In the arctic regions of Canada and Greenland, however, the first two words in that idiom (which are linked with a hyphen) are sometimes changed. 
In these regions, the first word in the idiom is a different number. 
Let’s call that number “x.” 
The last “x” letters of the second word of the idiom are a French translation of the third word. 
What’s this altered idiom?
Hint: The second word of the idiom is an arctic breed of working creature.
ENTREE #8:
During World War II German-occupied France was bombed by British and U.S.forces. Allied incendiary bombings of Caen in Normandy on July 8 and 9, 1944, necessitated imposition of a succession of evening stay-indoor directives from July 8 through to July 10.
Take a three-word phrase describing these directives. The first word in that phrase is a number. Let’s call that number “x.” The last “x” letters of the second word of the phrase spell a homophone of a French translation of the third word. 
What’s the phrase?

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Lynchpin Dessert:
The heartbreak of cinemoriasis

Name a four-word movie title from the mid-1950s. 
Rearrange the combined letters of its first and third
words to spell a seven-letter proper noun. 
Rearrange the combined letters of its second and fourth words to spell a seven-letter common noun. Those two nouns form a phrase that describes Stan Lynch, who spent 18 years as a Heartbreaker.
What are this movie title and phrase?
Hint: One of the four words in the movie title is really really short.

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.