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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Red-letter lessons from the Maestro
Slightly paraphrase part of an instruction given by Jesus in the Bible.
For example, in John 21:17 Jesus says to Peter, “Feed my sheep.” A slight paraphrase of that instruction might be, “Feed these sheep.”
Remove the spaces in this instruction to spell a musical instrument. What is this biblical instruction?
What is this musical instrument?
Hint: The slight paraphrasing of the instruction involves replacing a definite article (“the”) with the indefinite article (“a”).
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“Wheel of Fortitude & Tortitude” Appetizer:
Sitcoms, Sajak, Singers, Synonyms & States
Unique, consecutive, leftover letters
1. Name a profession whose name consists of ten unique letters. Three of these letters are consecutive letters from early in the alphabet, while four of these letters are consecutive letters from around the middle of the alphabet. Rearrange the three leftover letters to spell the first name of an actress who is best known for one sitcom, but also starred or costarred in several other sitcoms.
What is the profession? Who is the actress?
“Is there an ‘S’, Pat?”
2. As you may know, this is Pat Sajak’s last season on “Wheel of Fortune.” Throughout the years, Pat has interacted with many “interesting” contestants: ones that were too loud, ones that made too many dumb mistakes, ones that were too weird — you name it!
If Pat were to take revenge, he may very well impose the following massive puzzle on his contestants. The “Wheel of Fortune” stage has been updated to include a special button to flip through all four boards of data.
Pat mentions that all of the songs are Top 20 songs, with the exception of song #10, which was a Top 30 song. The oldest song is song #7, while song #1 is the newest.
Now let’s pretend you are a contestant on the show. You guess an “S.” Vanna White has revealed all of the “S”s in the puzzle. Can you guess all ten song titles?
Note: The numbers listed in the images are simply meant to delineate between the songs, and have no relevance otherwise.
Several song titles are associated with several different songs.
Brit band’s big hit
3. Name a British band who was popular in the 1970s. The band’s name contains nine letters, with no repeated letters. Seven of the first nine letters of the alphabet may be found within the band’s name.
Now name a singer. This singer had one fairly large hit in the 1960s and a bigger hit in the 1970s. The singer’s first and last names combined contain nine letters with no repeated letters. Six of the first nine letters of the alphabet are found within the singer’s name. These six letters are also found in the band’s name. Take the first letter of the title of the singer’s biggest hit, and combine that with the last two letters of the title.
You’ll have a common word. If you take the first letter of the singer’s name, and combine that with the last two letters of the singer’s name, you’ll get the same word. That word is the first word in the lyrics of the song. The first three words in the lyrics are the title of the British band’s biggest American hit.
Who is the band? Who is the singer? What is the singer’s biggest hit? What is the common word? What is the band’s biggest American hit?
“Product creation clones”
4. Name a nine-letter word that has four consecutive consonants and only two vowels.
The word describes someone who participates in the product creation process.
Now change the first letter to the letter that follows it in the alphabet. You’ll have a word that also describes someone who participates in the product
creation process.
What are the two words?
Singular synonyms
5. Name two singular nouns that are synonyms. Both words have four consonants in a row and contain only two vowels. One word has ten letters and the other has nine letters. They start with different letters.
What are the words?
Sister cities?6. Take the first five letters of a U.S. state and the first five letters of its capital. Rearrange these ten letters to produce a word relating to forgiveness.
The third, first, eighth, tenth, and seventh letters of this word spell a professional athlete
who plays in the state.
Place the athlete before the first five letters of the U.S. state and you’ll have a city located in a different state.
What is the state and its capital? What is the word relating to forgiveness? Who is the athlete? What is the city?
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Professional Hors d’Oeuvre:
Beanbag? horseshoe? ring? toss
Name an eleven-letter profession.
Change its first letter to to a C. Divide the result in two to form a piece of sports equipment that is tossed, and an Olympic athlete. What are this profession, sports equipment and athlete?
Vowelless Slice:
“FHLMNQRSX and always Y”
Besides being consonants — only sometimes, of course, in the case of Y — what else do all ten of the following letters have in common?F H L M N Q R S X Y
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
“Little Red Riding Hood in Hose”
Will Shortz’s December 3rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:A muffler is part of an automobile. It’s also the name of something you can wear.Think of two other parts of automobiles that are also things you can wear. These two words have the same number of letters and the same first two letters in the same order.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Name a five-letter part of an automobile that is also the name of something you can wear. Change the third letter, a vowel, to a different
vowel to spell a part of an automobile that is also a word for the part of a hair that is visible above the surface of the skin.What are these two automobile parts?
Note: The following riff was composed and contributed by a very valued friend of Puzzleria!
ENTREE #2Name a cover and a container that are customarily found on opposite extremes of an item that can be seen any time of day in Greenwich, United Kingdom.
Both start with the same two letters in the same order. Both words are also items of apparel.
ENTREE #3Name a part of an automobile that can also be found in a house, in two words totaling fourteen letters. Add a fifteenth letter someplace. The result is a part of a body and what you might apply to it.
What is this automobile part? What is the part of a body and what you might apply to it?
ENTREE #4
Name an abbreviation for a setup or structure that helps to stop an automobile. These uppercase letters also spell a tough rigid plastic used especially for automobile parts and building materials. These letters, in lowercase, spell a word for abdominal muscles.What are this structure, rigid plastic and abdominal muscles?
ENTREE #5
Name an upper interior part of a car that gets moist after you fill your car with gas, in two words of four and three letters. It’s also the name of something you can wear. These two words start with the same letter.What are this interior part of a car and this wearable?
ENTREE #6
Think of parts of automobiles that are also articles of clothing worn by males, in six letters. The singular form of this word is also a part of the body.
Three consecutive interior letters of this word are the last three letters of a four-letter word for what all car parts eventually become.What are these things males wear?
What do all car parts eventually become?
Blue clue: The four-letter word for what all car parts eventually become is also a slang term for what the clothing conceals.
ENTREE #7
Think of two plural parts of automobiles that are also pairs of footwear, in five letters each.
What are these automobile parts that are also footwear?
ENTREE #8
Think of a synonym of “automobile,” a kind of automobile and three parts of automobiles.
One of these three parts has threads. The other two of these three parts are spelled the same but are different parts – one that is eccentric, the other which is a safety feature. All five words have the same number of letters and the same first two letters in the same order. What are they?ENTREE #9
An eight-letter automobile part promotes safety and comfort. Divide it in half. The first half is a body part. Change the first letter of the second half to a “w”. The result is what you should do if you are driving from Baltimore to San Francisco.What is this part?
What you should do if you are driving from Baltimore to San Francisco?
ENTREE #10Think of a feature, a seven-letter compound word, on the upper-half of a car that may allow more heat and light to enter the car.
Spelling the word in reverse and saying the result aloud sounds like what allows more heat, but not light, to enter your house.
What may allow heat and light to enter your car?
What allows heat to enter your house?
ENTREE #11
Name a nine-letter compound word that is an interior part of an automobile, followed by a three-letter abbreviation for a setup or structure for something that helps to stop an automobile. Multiply the first letter in the compound word by two and invert the result. The final nine-letter-and-three-letter two-word result is something that body builders hope to have.
What are the compound word, abbreviation and what body builders hope to have?
ENTREE #12Name a two-word automobile part. The first word is something you wear. Switch the order of the words and remove the space. Replace the first letter of the result with an “f”. The result is an herb of the snapdragon family.
What are this auto part and snapdragonny herb?
ENTREE #13
Name two things worn by a large animal.
One might also be something worn on the shoulders and upper torso by a policeman to carry his gun holster. The other is a homophone of the first word in a two-word article of clothing worn by someone getting married.
What are the two things worn by a large animal, what is worn by the policeman, and what is the homophone?
ENTREE #14
Name five-letter safety-promoting parts of an automobile that are also things that some Minnesota Vikings fans wear. Name what one of these parts does to promote safety, also in
five letters. These two five-letter words share four letters in common, three of which are the same position.What are these parts and what one of them does?
ENTREE #15Name parts of your car that are visible when it is hoisted on a car repair shop automotive lift, in two words of three and four letters. Replace the last three letters with three new letters to name a display framework seen at a men’s clothier shop or at home in a bedroom or closet.
What are these car parts and clothier display?
Note: The following riff was composed and contributed by our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd Ready for Prime Time” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!
ENTREE #16A word for a vehicle, followed with no intervening space by a word for an action using something in the vehicle, names a serious crime. Something else found in the vehicle names a second serious crime.
What are these two crimes?
Dessert Menu
Hall Of Fame Dessert:
Hitter ROT10 = Pitcher
If you move the “T” in “Ty” (as in Hall of Fame hitter Ty Cobb) nine places later in the circular alphabet the result is “C” as in “Cy” (as in Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young).
Take the first name of a more modern Hall of Fame hitter.
Move all the letters of that name ten places later in the circular alphabet to spell the first name of a more modern Hall of Fame pitcher. Who are this hitter and pitcher?
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