Drop the second and eighth letters and rearrange to get a word. That word could describe an item that was taken to a place also described by the word by someone whose name sounds like the original word.Q: Think of a common 8-letter word, in which the first three letters spell a word, and the fifth, sixth, and seventh letters also spell a word. These two little words mean the same thing. The fourth letter, when rotated 180°, becomes the eighth letter. What word is this?
Edit: Alan Shepard hit a golf ball (sphere) on the moon (sphere).
A: shepherd --> she, her, p/d
Over 1000 correct submissions last week.
ReplyDeleteI thought there'd be more, as I didn't think the puzzle was very hard. I thought the on-air contestant was exceptional, though. Those were some difficult anagrams.
DeleteWe have heard WS present numerous on air state capital puzzles over the years, but I still cannot understand why some teachers seem to think it important that we learn all of them. I never did and still do not know all of them. I know ones I have a need to know and several others, but see no reason I would want to know them all as I can look them up easily should I have a need, which is unlikely. I do not feel the same about knowing many of the world capital cities.
DeleteHere is a puzzle involving a state (but not its capital) that I posted on Puzzleria!: What is a three-letter phrase to describe an early pregnancy loss experienced by the First Lady of a certain US state?
DeleteDo they really count correct submissions? If I were they I would just keep opening emails until I found five or six right answers, and pick from those. If checking correct answers is a job at NPR, they could save $ by doing away with it. Who cares? I care about how many people sent in entries. I assume most of them are correct.
DeleteCORRECTION to puzzle above: three-WORD phrase! (Thanks to ViolinTeddy for a good catch.)
DeleteThe word is connected to a small person of color.
ReplyDeleteLucky Charms
DeleteBeing totally unable to make sense of Blaine's or Rob's comments - while confident of my solution - leads me to believe there are multiple solutions
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ReplyDeleteThe letter case is not stated, so it's up to you to figure out.
DeleteRotating a letter 180 degrees to become another letter gets interesting if you allow the rotation to switch between uppercase and lower case. I haven't solved this yet, but I realized this piece immediately.
ReplyDeleteAxis of rotation can produce different possibilities here, I would think...
DeleteAgreed, but I expect that WS meant to turn the letter upside down. I would expect that if the intent was to use a vertical axis of rotation, he would have said something like "mirror image."
DeleteWell, all three rotations count as turning the letter upside down, as far as I'm concerned! But you mean, the kind that results in a congruent shape -- the axis normal to the page, or the plane it lives in.
DeleteI have the same answer as Blaine. I don't get Rob's clue though.
ReplyDeleteBlaine's describing word has an anagram that you don't want.
Rob has the same answer.
DeleteLOL! How pleasant to find that you got my hint, and even more pleasant to find it was not TMI. And I got yours!
DeleteOnly Blaine can pack four clues into one convolution without giving TMI. Sheer genius!
DeleteLancek, Agreed! One of Blaine's best-ever hints. How does he come up with these gems so quickly?!
DeleteLegoWhoSuggestsThatBlaine'sHintsAreOftenMoreCleverThanThePuzzleItself!
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DeleteWoohoo! Look at that! Baby's First Blog Post Removal.
DeleteCongrats, Tortie!!
DeleteLOL! It's not that I'm happy to have a blog post removal, but it's sort of a rite of passage.
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DeleteMy "rite of passage" was last month! 😏
DeleteHarder puzzle this week. Predict less than 500 correct responses.
ReplyDeleteOK, since you (and jan) brought it up, I predicted the number of correct reponses last week ("1000+"). I'm going to double down and predict 500-1000 correct responses this week. Taking the over... :)
DeleteI predict Dr. K and Jan will get this one quickly. Also Tortitude, Ben , Nod ,Crito and Wordwoman. How many is that?
DeleteSwitch the order of the two "little words," then say them aloud. How sweet!
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DeleteSorry, I didn't think it gave away enough to be barred.
DeleteThank you for a clue that is not harder than the puzzle!
DeleteClearly, you don't need a lot of education to solve this.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe you do.
DeleteIf you take away the SHEPHERD's PhD, you're left with SHEER.
DeleteOn the other hand, if you add PhD to SHEER, you get SHEPHERD.
I'm not sure which formulation expresses the idea more clearly.
Got it. Just in time to see Sun Studio here in Memphis. When I told my wife, she said, "Oh."
ReplyDeleteActually, she said, "You did?"
DeleteMaybe "Oh, you did?" I get the same reaction from my pup ;-).
DeleteShe also said in her inimitable fashion, “Aren’t you glad you don’t need me to guide you?”
DeleteRemove first letter of first 3 letter word and get something interesting.
ReplyDeleteI have two answers. In the first, which I think is the intended, the first letter is sometimes capitalized and sometimes not, while in the second, it is always capitalized.
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ReplyDeleteBased on an above comment, this should probably be deleted :)
DeleteNow I have the Tetris theme stuck in my head
ReplyDelete!!! Коробе́йники. (Where's TrumpTransition2016 when you need him?) Have you seen the movie?
DeleteI think I get Blaine's clue, but my mind is a bit gummed up by Rob's
ReplyDeleteAfter perhaps a dozen letter "rotation" puzzles over the years, this one simply helps prove that Will Shortz either doesn't understand or doesn't care about the ambiguity inherent in the way he states them.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I can see, he's been pretty consistent where a 180° rotation is with the letter flat on the page, hence turned upside down.
DeleteWow that's a nice compilation of the rotation puzzles!
DeleteAnyway, as you (Blaine) pointed out earlier, if you simply allow all the different kinds of rotations, it only makes the puzzle a bit harder (and might allow interesting alternative solutions -- it sure looks like some Blainesvillains have alternatives this week!). That there are different kinds of rotation doesn't make 'rotation' ambiguous.
Without specifying the axis, a 180 degree rotation can be b to d or b to p.
DeleteWithout specifying the continent, an elephant can be an Indian elephant or an African elephant. Still, 'elephant' isn't ambiguous! There are just different kinds.
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DeleteWill's incorrect description of sine and cosine as inverse functions tells me that he doesn't care as much about mathematical concepts. He always talks about rotation of letters flat on the page (around the surface normal). The other transformations you mentioned would be better described as flipping or mirroring. Image editing also makes this distinction.
DeleteI know this is off topic, but the above comment about elephants reminded me of a fun fact I learned at Busch Gardens Tampa, which is supposed to have an Africa theme. So why do they have Asian instead of African elephants? Because Asian elephants weigh about three tons less. (No clue here, as I still haven't solved this puzzle.)
DeleteIn my post above on Sunday, I left off the rotation Will wanted to make my point without giving TMI.
DeleteMike added p to d and got axed, adding more TMI.
W Whisker: Funny you should worry about going off topic here.
The first three letters remind me of a great trivia question about Billboard #1 songs.
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DeleteThat was good, Octavius. It reminded me of someone with no arms or legs.
DeleteOctavius, your deleted hint was referring to Alan Shepard, and I am referring to the disabled astronaut candidate with both legs and are amputated. No joke.
Deletethis puzzle is very a propos
ReplyDeleteWith certain type faces, a 'q' rotated 180-degrees is a 'b'.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Will should have specified a type face? LOL
He should have specified that the rotated letters are either "upper case" or "lower case" or both. My answer uses "lower case" rotated letters...
DeleteI am not wanting to give a clue that reveals the answer.
ReplyDeleteLord, I can't believe you said that!
DeleteYeah.
DeleteThe Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
DeleteBlaine,
ReplyDeleteCouldn't your clue be said to be somewhat half-baked?
Alone.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of another comment here.
DeleteI can't decide if this puzzle was a major pain or a minor annoyance.
ReplyDeleteYou sound diminished and augmented.
DeleteHey there! I'm back from my vacation. I spent a lot of time going over several lists before I thought of the word I believe to be the intended answer.
ReplyDeleteThen I did what Blaine said to do (drop the second and eighth letters, and rearrange), and one of the words I got was something no one wants.
That's what Crito said :)
DeleteIf that is the word Blaine is referring to in his hint, then my half-baked comment is also half-baked.
DeleteI meant to clarify: The lists I consulted didn't even include that word. That's a little odd, because I do think it is a common word, as the puzzle says.
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DeleteSnakes alive! What a lot of removals on this thread.
DeleteSNAKES!
DeleteOkay, Nodd, I have a snake story you will enjoy. I think I may have posted about this here several years back, but before you got here.
Years ago my youngest brother worked at a small out of town, Lynnwood, mobility business. He knew I had some spare time and called me to ask if I would like to be paid to drive a brand new Sprinter van down to L.A. in order for a company down there to design, build and install a side loading ramp. Being a skydiver, I jumped at the chance and left with the van from his store up North in Lynnwood, WA @ 3pm on Monday, September 11, 2006. I asked the owner of the business if he would mind if I stopped on the way in order to visit the Top Of The Mark at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco. That is where at 18 I had my first cocktail at a bar, and it was a weekend pass during my basic training at Fort Ord, CA. He said that would be fine. It worked out well and I arrived on the next day after a very slow crossing of the Oakland Bay Bridge into town during evening rush hour. I did not have a map but eventually found my way to the top of Nob Hill and, although it was now 5pm, I found a free streetside spot to park the Sprinter just kitty corner from the Mark Hopkins and across the street from the Fairmont Hotel. The skies were clear blue and I spent most of the evening at the top where the enormous bar had been changed into a tiny bar in the room that took up the entire top floor and provides stunning views all around. I dined at the tiny bar on appetizers and two Manhattans, the drink I had way back in 1963 at about the same time of year, but then at their huge horseshoe bar with gray leather arm cushions. I recall having a conversation with a middle aged couple from the Mid-west who were there to see their son play professional football, I think it was. I got the impression he was probably making the big bucks, but I could not have cares less, but managed to keep this from his folks.
The next day I finally made it back to I-5 from a tedious drive down closer to the coast and stopped before the Grapevine for a dinner at some Mexican restaurant where I heard something about fires having closed that route the day before. Fortunately it had reopened and I was able to reach the crest without problems, but then it did slow a bit and I could see lots of fires way over to the West as I descended down and into Los Angeles. I arrived at Ricon, the large business site I was hired to bring the van to at 1:30pm, Wednesday the 13th. Now, here is where, if you read this far, you will enjoy the story. I checked in at a large lobby with a check in window behind which was a desk and a receptionist who asked me how my drive was down the Grapevine due to all the fires. I replied that it went rather smoothly until the snakes got loose in the van. I thought that being L.A. where I heard movies are made on occasion and that Snakes On A Plane was recently released to wide news coverage, that she would instantly get the joke, but I was staring at a blank face clearly indicating she had absolutely no idea what I was talking about. Oh well, it didn't work then; perhaps it will now.
Thanks for sharing that, sdb. As a skydiver, maybe you remember this quote from the movie: "Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherf*cking snakes on this motherf*cking plane! Everybody strap in. I'm about to open some f*cking windows."
DeleteNodd,
DeleteThanks for sharing that wonderful quote. Now you have me thinking there may actually have been some value to that film I not only did not see, but have not seen a trailer, or ad, either. I probably should also mention that I have no plan whatsoever of watching the new Top Gun flick. Have you seen the Alex Honnold documentary yet?
SDB: Yes, you may have, about 10 years ago.
DeleteI have not. Honestly, I don't think I could stand to watch someone free soloing. It creeps me out. I didn't see SOAP either, I just love the quote and will forever be in awe of Samuel L. Jackson from his performance in Pulp Fiction. Like you, I won't be seeing the new Top Gun; the old one was enough. One of my instructors when I was flying sailplanes was a test pilot from Edwards AFB and I would have liked to have heard about his experiences flying high performance jets, but he only taught me for one lesson while my regular CFI was on vacation.
Deletejan,
DeleteThanks. Just over ten years ago, and reading it now, after testing positive for Covid Friday, shows it has not affected my, (sorry, I can't think of the word, oh yeah) memory.
I thought we could not do a successful search for individual comments on this blog. How did you find my old post?
The search function on Blogger may be broken, but there's this thing called Google...
DeleteI never tried that way before, I will try and (what's the word? oh yeah) remember that little trick.
DeleteNodd,
DeleteI used to be exactly the same way, sitting in my chair, or seat, watching someone climbing a wall in a film and almost feeling sick. I knew I would never be able to do that. The idea of jumping out of a plane was even more frightening. Problem was that I wanted to summit Mt. Rainier which was visible 2 or 3 days a year from Seattle, and I had watched a short documentary film of the guide service leading a group up while I was in grade school, and I knew the route they used was not steep or technical. However I also understood how truly dangerous Mt. Rainier is, and did not believe the guide service was a safe way to climb. I decided much later to join the Seattle Mountaineers and take their comprehensive basic climbing course and work my way up to that peak after learning how to actually climb properly. I wanted nothing to do with the rock climbing parts, but I quickly realized that their course began with rock climbing. Somehow, without my realizing it at first, that training with being top roped cured my acrophobia. I ended up teaching with them and then got into skydiving with no anxiety or fear at all. I never would have believed it.
Interesting, sdb. I dislike watching free soloing precisely because of my rock climbing experience -- I remember the times I fell off and only the belay saved me. I never found jumping out of a plane scary at all, though.
DeleteWell, I find that to be an interesting response and not what I would have expected from you. I must have been born acrophobic this lifetime. I would have that negative reaction to watching climbing docs and movies, etc., from a very early age. Instead of acquiring it through actual experience, I got it from a past lifetime I do not remember. As to skydiving, I did not realize most skydivers maintain their fear each time before they jump throughout their time in the sport. That really surprised me. I did have a very few tandem jumps where the manufacturer had make some seemingly insignificant modifications that did not perform well and almost cost me my life, and I would think I might easily die on the jump I was about to make sometimes after some equipment changes. I remember mentioning this to one of my younger brothers one evening as he was leaving my house after dinner and I mentioned something about it to him. He simply could not understand why I would go ahead and jump then. You just cannot not do your job because of a premonition or irrational fear. I have seen a few experienced skydivers do this and they never could return.
DeleteBack to climbing. I, like you, know in rock climbing docs what looks dangerous may not be, but we know the parts that are. I cannot watch Alex Honnold in some of those spots without feeling freaked out for him, even though I know he makes it. I am just too familiar with that reality from my real life experiences. I still watch though.
Fear is interesting and, as you say, often irrational. I only found skydiving acrophobia-inducing during the takeoff, if I was next to the doorway. Exiting at altitude felt more like flying than falling. A tandem jump might have scared me, though I never took one. Though I didn't find the tandem hang glider flight I took to be scary. I loved it. The landing was the closest sensation to flying that I've ever experienced.
DeleteBody-rappelling off an overhang and prusiking back up was pretty scary. We had to do that in the rock climbing course I took.
I love a climb in the Peshastin Pinnacles in Eastern Washington, where it is all sandstone formations, called Potholes. It is a fun climb to the top where you can join two ropes and rap off for a long open air descent. You have to be careful when you reach touchdown that you do not twist the two ropes or you will have to climb back up unroped to get them untwisted to where don't bind. Then you can rap down again and hope they come down ok. I've never had to do that, but do keep it in mind. I love the rappel.
DeleteBack in the late 70's in advanced training I was lowered about 30 or 40 feet down into an open crevasse on Mt. Rainier and then prusiked back up and then was lowered back down and hauled back up for that experience. The crevasse was over 100' deep.
I jumpmastered thousands of students from the Cessna 170 tail dragger you see me hanging from the leading edge of the wing from in my blog photo. We had a very small 4 legged makeshift seat we would set down beside the pilot seat to use when tossing out students. Sometimes going down the grass runway for takeoff the door you see in the photo would slam open and I would straighten my left leg out and rest it on the rear of the door opening. I always thought it was funny, but I'm sure it scared some of the students, and that is why I put my let across the open door, so they might feel better until we got off the ground high enough to reclose the door.
Some "high" adventures you've had! Thanks for sharing. We always jumped from planes with the door removed. I assumed that was a universal practice.
DeleteAre you talking about a different door? I can't tell from the photo.
You must change the way the door, which is on the right side of the plane, is hinged so that it will rise up beneath the overhead wing. This, BTW, requires FAA approval and you should also engineer an automatic fastener to hold the door all the way up, although it will want to stay most of the way up anyway. In the photo at the top from my feet all the way to the right corner is dark. The dark is not the wing, but the inside of the door. That tiny bit of white is the actual wing.
DeleteAnd please don't tell me I'm just winging it.
DeleteAround 50 years ago, I was taking lessons from an FBO that flew Cessna 150s. One day, I noticed that we got the Aerobat model, because there was an arrangement of a large ring and wires in the doors that allowed them to be jettisoned. I made sure to keep my hand away from that ring that day.
DeleteYes, some people can be a bit too handy.
DeleteHey, I am already over my Covid and it was nothing at all.
Yeah, if you're fully vaxxed, it usually isn't much. Did you get Paxlovid? When you say you're "over" it, do you mean you're feeling better, or that you're testing negative? I felt better after a day or two, but continued test positive -- and was therefore contagious -- for two weeks.
DeleteI had all 5 shots. I will take the last Paxlovid pills today. I felt just a slight bit off Friday and Saturday, not really any of the symptoms.
DeleteI know the CDC says you're OK to resume normal activities after completing the Paxlovid, but if you still test positive on the rapid antigen test, you're still shedding virus. This was an issue for me at the time I was getting over Covid, as I was planning visits with very elderly people at higher risk for complications.
DeleteDid they happen to describe what "normal" activities are? Is skydiving included?
DeleteProbably would be considered para-normal.
Deletejan already knows I am deeply involved in the paranormal, and I do not mean skydiving.
DeleteYeah. All of us here in the US are in car nation.
DeleteI agree. It was such a joy driving during the first half of the pandemic when there were very few cars on the freeway. Now we are back to heavy traffic and even more road rage. Now if that ain't evidence of re-in-car-nation, I don't know what will convince you. Of course I do perform past life regressions, and that offers up evidence too.
DeleteThat would be cool. I'd have to do it with someone I could trust, though. Too many hacks out there.
DeleteIf you're in this area sometime just let me know and you get a freebie.
DeleteYou are right about charlatans, but I don't think I ever heard of one doing PLR's. I don't see how it would work because the person is only getting your memory back and asking questions. It is good that the person knows not to ask leading questions, and has a knack for knowing when to move on and how to go about doing it intelligently. It can also be recorded, but, besides that, you are usually fully aware of what is happening. It is not like a stage show.
Where do you live BTW?
In the so-called "Inland Empire" east of LA. Great skydiving in Perris Valley!
DeleteSpokane, WA has always been known as the Inland Empire.
DeletePerris is a DZ every jumper knows of. Do you recall a Helio Stallion crashing in there about 35 years ago?
No, I didn't hear about it. That would have been after my time.
Deletehttps://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-helio-h-550a-stallion-perris-valley-1-killed
DeleteThanks for the link. That plane was not at the DZ when I was there. Sounds like pure equipment failure. Lucky it occurred after dropping the jumpers, at least.
DeleteThat plane was not owned by any DZ. It was owned by Jim Perry who took it all over. I made 2 Tandem skydives out of it at 16,000 feet AGL. Jim Lowe was the pilot who crashed in it while desperately trying to get out, but was pinned to the yoke. He had been a skydiver before I got into it and was an amazing person and is still missed. He was an amazing pilot too. The story is far too big to post here.
DeleteSo unfortunate. Even an amazing pilot can buy it. A pretty sobering thought for us non-amazing ones.
DeleteIt was not pilot error. Jim knew there was something not quite right with the plane when he first was asked to pilot it. I jumped out of a different one that looked identical and it also crashed later. Lots of them crashed over the years, but they are amazing.
DeleteThat's what I meant -- an amazing pilot can do everything right and still be done in by equipment failure. When you jumped from 16,000' were you on oxygen? When I was flying sailplanes, you had to use oxygen if you went higher than 14,000'.
DeleteYou are right about the oxygen rule, but we did not follow it. I do not seem to feel the ill effects most will feel at those altitudes. Same with my climbing experiences. So, no there was no oxygen on board.
DeleteInteresting. Reinhold Messner, the first to solo Mt. Everest without supplemental oxygen, was tested for VO2 max and it was not found to be unusually high. Evidently aerobic fitness and tolerance of altitude are separate. And smoking is thought to reduce the chance of acute mountain sickness in non-acclimated individuals. I only went to 13,600 so I don't know how I would have fared at 16,000. Those were tandem jumps you made? How did the other jumpers tolerate the altitude?
DeleteI really do not know. I have heard many discuss on the ground their experiences are re: how they feel at what altitudes, but I felt great. I have never smoked.
DeleteA job for Hobbes.
ReplyDeleteI considered the shortest, few minutes route and solved.
ReplyDeleteWho knows if my answer is right?
ReplyDeleteSame here -- my answer is based on sheer speculation.
DeleteThen I guess you know your station in life.
DeleteNPR, at least on Sunday morning.
DeleteMusical Clue: "Rhythm-A-Ning"
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DeleteI'll take this not as a "clue" but as a "cue"—here's a link to my favorite rendition of Rhythm-a-Ning! 😎🎹🥁
DeleteWith special thanks to Blaine for…you know.
DeleteHat tip to Wolfgang, both for the "something no one wants" clue, as well as the better color version of Rhythm-a-Ning, which is just wonderful!
DeleteThanks, Ben, but Crito came up with his "something you don't want" clue before I did. (I just didn't see it at first.)
DeleteI will take a bow for your Rhythm-a-Ning accolades, though. 😉
Would someone please be so kind as to tell me WHAT the heck state capital is made from "UP LAST"? I looked up the short list of 6-letter capitals, and none works. Neither does Andy's anagram, which does do proper nouns.This is driving me crazy.
ReplyDeleteI am darn glad that *I* wasn't chosen to do today's online puzzle. I could get only two of them without anagram help. Would have been SO embarrassing.
St. Paul, MN. You're too high strung.
DeleteThis capital has a very commonly abbreviated word, and "UP LAST" is an anagram of the name with the abbreviated word.
DeleteI know, that was a hard puzzle, and the player really killed it.
Oh, whoops. I guess I took too long typing!
DeleteThank you, Crito....
DeleteI have posted countless times on this blog that I do not watch TV. Of course there are exceptions, such as a Ken Burns PBS documentary, or the insurrection hearings, and I have admitted that I frequently watch 60 Minutes. I just now finished watching that show, which was fascinating tonight as it was last week too. But what I find interesting is the commercial breaks which I mute. I also try to leave the room to completely avoid them, but not tonight. One thing I notice is there are very few products advertised. Cars and trucks, an amazing array of prescription drugs with an equally amazing list of side effects that may kill you. But what really gets my attention are all the disgusting promos for the TV programming they are pushing. Almost all of these are a kaleidoscope of third rate actors pretending to be cops with their guns drawn. Is it any wonder why there are so many cop killings, along with mass shootings in this insane country? Back in 1950 when I began watching TV as a young child there were a lot of westerns with some gun fight scenes, but nothing at all like what is being force fed the public today; sorry I meant evenings.
ReplyDeleteTV, or not TV? I don't watch it either, but I wonder what TV is like in the rest of the developed world, which has far fewer guns and gun crimes than the US. How much is our current plight a product of our gun culture, as reflected in the content you cite, as opposed to the number and easy availability of guns in this country?
DeleteI lived in Japan for a couple of years. People there just do not steal other people's stuff, and - except for the occasional genuine lunatic - they do not attack each other. Just isn't done. My understanding is that they feel they are all "on the same side". A lot of their TV - IMHO - is bone stupid ... but I believe they did invent Shark Week.
DeleteSDB: Great post. Wish more people would read it.
DeleteTo "Gluttons for Puzzlement":
ReplyDeleteMy recent "Eggplant/Leg Pants" NPR puzzle was not much of a challenge for many Blainesvillians. Below are the two most recent "Schpuzzles of the Week" on Puzzleria!, which may be a tad more challenging:
Fashionable warfare!
#1. Take the combined letters of a World War II battle site and of a word often associated with the aftermath of such battles.
Rearrange them to spell a nine-letter word that is currently very much in vogue.
What three words are these?
#2. Halve your cake and eat it for dessert!
“In a cakewalk I won a chocolate cake and ate it too... for dessert!”
How does that sentence pertain to the history of the Cadbury chocolate company?
Hint: The Cadbury chocolate company is nearly two centuries old.
LegoNotesThatTheAnswerTo#1WasPostedOnLastWednesday'sPuzzleria!CommentsSectionAndTheAnswerTo#2WillBePostedOnThisWednesday'sPuzzleria!CommentsSection
Here are the answers to the two puzzles I posted above:
Delete#1:
Anzio, weep; weaponize
#2:
The digits of the year Cadbury was founded,1824, appear, in order, in the sentence as homophones:
"In a cakewalk I (one) a chocolate cake and (eight) it (two)... (four) dessert!" = 1824
Hint: John Cadbury began selling Cadbury chocolate in 1824
LegoNotesThatWeaponizationOftenEndsInWeeping
The answer made me think of a certain actor who's been in the news lately.
ReplyDeleteI really have to admit that I underestimated the stupidity of the Republican politicians. I knew they were like someone with a puncture in the bottom of his rowboat who drills another hole in order to let the water drain out. But I always believed they would never actually allow Roe v. Wade to be overturned because it was their rallying cry tool that seemed to work the best for their deviousness. You really do need to be careful of what you desire in life.
ReplyDeleteAnd so terrible that the Supreme Court has such a crook.
DeletePerhaps when the Supreme Court gets a different makeup Row v. Wade will be reinstated.
DeleteOh sure! And a winning lottery ticket for every citizen.
DeleteTrue story. My girlfriend (partner) and I usually work on the Sunday Puzzle together during breakfast. But we didn’t get the answer yesterday and she had to go to the store right after we finished cleaning up. So I finished this one all by myself.
ReplyDeleteI periodically check Yahoo News online just to see the headlines. I just did that now and this new one popped up at the top of the list:
ReplyDelete"The Republican-led backlash against rights and health care for transgender children is expanding to adults. Missouri’s Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued an emergency ruling Thursday that requires adults to receive 18 months of psychological therapy and to demonstrate “a persistent and intense pattern of gender dysphoria” before they are allowed to undergo gender-affirming care."
Most people will not get too concerned with this because they do not believe it relates to their lives, but just wait and if they succeed with this I bet the GOP will ratchet it up to requiring psychological evaluation being required for anyone who votes Democrat. If you believe that is a stretch I would caution you to reconsider.
"First they came for the transgender people, and I did not speak out—because I was not a transgender person. . . ."
DeleteMartin Niemöller
DeleteThe GOP: First they came for our AR-15 assault weapons...
Fox News: Then they came for our $787.5M dollars...
DeleteMe: Finally...
True story: Yesterday, my better half and I took a paddlewheel boat tour of the Mississippi River that was both entertaining—we danced to “our song”—and instructive. Of interest to Blainevillians, however, may be that the first name of the tour guide who provided the historical commentary was “Linear,” which when rearranged yields “I learn.”
ReplyDeleteI finally identified what I believe is the intended answer.
ReplyDeleteCongrats! And I think that I finally unraveled Blaine's clue.
ReplyDeleteDid Ethel Merman eventually switch to unleaded?
ReplyDeleteI've given up for this week.
ReplyDeleteOh no! Think logically and use a certain helpful list.
DeleteCaP: Would it have helped you to know which of the three possible axes of rotation Shortz had in mind?
DeleteNatasha: Not a list of three-letter words, I hope.
I used a list of common 8-letter words in which the 4th and 8th letters were M and W, W and M, d and p, p and d, q and b, b and q, etc.
DeleteMendo: I thought of trying that but found the answer really quickly in seconds using 8 letter words on a certain search engine.
DeleteMendo,thanks for the offer, but I had followed the axis conversation earlier.
DeleteAssociated Press
ReplyDeleteWreckage of submarine found by divers in Long Island Sound
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Tue, April 18, 2023 at 3:08 PM PDT
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut divers have discovered the wreckage of an experimental submarine that was built in 1907 and later scuttled in Long Island Sound.
The Defender, a 92-foot-long (28-meter-long) boat, was found Sunday by a team led by Richard Simon, a commercial diver from Coventry, Connecticut.
That is not the most surprising thing about this discovery though. It turns out that when the divers looked inside the sub they not only found the remains of Jimmy Hoffa, but scratched on one of the inner walls (bulkheads) was this remark: George Santos was here.
He did it again.
ReplyDeleteTodays NY Times crossword is all about rotating letters, but not quite 180 degrees.
ReplyDeleteshepherd; she, her; p ---> d
ReplyDelete"You think you have the answer and then you don't." You, you, and you point to ewe, ewe, and ewe >>> sheep >>> shepherd.
Clever clue, Blaine!
Pennies from heaven?..." Who needs that!? Puzzleria! this week offers you instead "A Quartet of Priceless Puzzles from Heaven" (well, actually, they're from our friend skdiveboy, who free-falls from the heavens) that involve terpsichores and trees, Indian strings, and other extravagant & exotic things! This "appetizingly mystifying manna" appears in skydiveboy's "always-skydivebuoyant parachute-pack" of "skydiversions."
ReplyDeleteOur "drop time" for all Puzzleria! puzzles is around Midnight early Friday morning Pacific Daylight Time.
Also on our menu:
* a Schpuzzle of the Week that involves “game-saving diving catches” and “supermarket shelves,”
* a Meteorologically Mysterious Hors d’Oeuvre titled "Sleet? Snow? Wither the weather?"
* a morsel about iron-rich cuisine titled “What’s in a name, Iron Mike?”
* a Handwritten-On-The-Wall Dessert titled Curvy Cursive Calligraphic Conundrum, and
* 14 riff-offs of this week's NPR puzzle, titled "Shepherd’s pie, Hershey’s for dessert," half of them created by our friend Ecoarchitect, whose "Econfusions" puzzles are featured regularly on Puzzleria!
Stop on by to Puzzleria! for some "skydiversions from heaven," supermarket-game-savers, sleet, snow, ferrous cuisine, cursive calligraphy, Shephard's Pie and Hershey's for dessert!
LegoWhoPrefersAnRCColaAndAMoonPieToAHershey'sBarAndAShepherd'sPie!
shepherd -> she, her (only works in lower case)
ReplyDelete> Ted Cruz would not approve.
Pronouns?
>> I am not wanting to give a clue that reveals the answer.
> Lord, I can't believe you said that!
I'm a little surprised our local lord allowed that to stay.
>> Then I did what Blaine said to do (drop the second and eighth letters, and rearrange), and one of the words I got was something no one wants.
> The something no one wants is something almost everyone has had. [Don't know why this was deleted -- Googling that sentence gets things like "pain", "disappointment", etc. Please explain, Blaine.]
If you've ever had a cold sore, chickenpox, or mono, you've had herpes.
> !!! Коробе́йники. (Where's TrumpTransition2016 when you need him?) Have you seen the movie?
The exclamation points show my surprise at Sheep Launcher being allowed to use their handle this week. Who's minding the sheep? Anyway, here's an earworm for TT2016, wherever they are.
> He did it again.
The theme of Thursday's New York Times Crossword (edited by You-Know-Who) involves rotating letters of a specific case.
SHEPHERD
ReplyDeleteHints: There were Instances of “she” (3x),”her” (1x), “you” (4x —> “ewe”), and “guide” (2x —> i.e., “shepherd”).
Hint #2: “Alone.” “Alone” was the title of a hit song from 1957 by the Shepherd Sisters. Identifying it as a musical clue would probably have been TMI.
My reference to your post referred to the Four Seasons, who had a cover of "Alone." See below for the nifty music trivia question and answer. There also was a Four Seasons reference with "this reminds me." One of their later 1960s songs was "And That Reminds Me."
Deleteshepherd → she = her. “p” rotated 180° = “d” (p becomes d)
ReplyDeleteshepherd contains she & her
ReplyDeleteShepherd - she, her; p => d
ReplyDeletePeruvian - per, via; u => n
SHEPHERD (she; her)
ReplyDelete“I did what Blaine said to do (drop the second and eighth letters, and rearrange), and one of the words I got was something no one wants.”
The six-letter words I got were “sphere” and “herpes.” Guess which.
“With special thanks to Blaine for…you know.”
My guess was that Ben posted his Rhythm-a-Ning clue as a nod to Blaine’s clue (drop the second and eighth letters, and rearrange), which has an association with the word “sphere” (see above). Rhythm-a-Ning is a piece composed by Thelonious Sphere Monk.
Thank you for catching that! Yes, it's true. See below.
DeleteI was just about to post "I knew it," with a link back to this thread. 😄
DeleteAnd worth a post, in awe -- they were doing this 60 years ago, and it was amazing then, amazing now:
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtCFjAwoZLA&t=27s
Here's one that is even more spirited, IMO, and showcasing everyone's proficiency, for even more awe (IMO):
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3nkms4toYk.
I wrote, “The word is connected to a small person of color.” That’s Little Boy Blue.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was a Smurf! (Apparently, some of them are shepherds.)
DeleteHa. I thought it was Jesus who was visited by the sheperds after his birth!
DeleteI thought it was Sherri Shepherd, who is only 5'1". (Sorry, Sherri, if you are reading this!)
Deleteshepherd (she, her, p->d)
ReplyDeleteSHEPHERD, SHE(P), HER(D)
ReplyDeleteMy Musical Clue was Rhythm-a-Ning, one of the great compositions of Thelonious Monk, one of the Great Innovators in Jazz History.
And Thelonious Monk's actual full name is Thelonious SPHERE Monk. And his middle name is a call out to Blaine's HERPES SPHERE hint.
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ReplyDeleteI solved it while still in bed by using a bit of logical thinking. I began by looking for 3 letter words that are synonymous and then look at the remaining letters. I got she and her quickly, but first came up with HERBSHED. The correct answer came soon after.
ReplyDeleteI thought about posting as a hint: Marcel Pagnol's brother, but thought it would be TMI.
ReplyDeleteI wrote: The first three letters remind me of a great trivia question about Billboard #1 songs.
ReplyDeleteQ: Two back-to-back Billboard #1 hits both start with the same three letters. Those three letters give you a hint about the subject of the songs.
A: From 1962, "Sheila" by Tommy Roe and "Sherry" by the Four Seasons
All charges dropped against Alec Baldwin!
ReplyDeleteJust don't accidentally ring his doorbell...
DeleteI get the joke, but it was a travesty of justice to charge Baldwin in the first place.
DeleteAs you know, I disagree. As producer, he was responsible for the lax firearm discipline on the set.
DeleteThat is an extremely weak argument.
DeleteObviously, the boss isn't responsible for everything every employee chooses to do. But, there's been enough evidence of a lax atmosphere there that I thought the case should have been pursued.
DeleteThere has been lots of noise in the media, but not real evidence. Also Baldwin is not the sole producer. The argument is still very weak. I would say if you are going to take that route then the director is far more culpable.
DeleteThere's still the civil lawsuit. All you have to show is negligence, by a preponderance of evidence, i.e., more likely than not.
DeleteI would agree with that, but jan is talking about criminal responsibility. I do not believe we are at all well informed so far as to civil culpability here, and in a court it will be more an emotional case than based on reality I think.
DeleteThe NM prosecutors elected not to proceed, so it's reasonable to infer they agreed with your view regarding criminal liability.
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