I saw an AD for this product just the other day.Q: Take the phrase NEW TOWELS. Rearrange these 9 letters to get the brand name of a product you might buy at the supermarket. What is it?
Edit: The product would need an additional AD to spell out AND; it's just 'N. By the way, this same product was mentioned in a similar puzzle from November 2018. The color of the bottom towel in the picture was also a hint to the product's pink packaging.
A: SWEET 'N LOW
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ReplyDeleteRearrange and get a brand name and an exclamation.
ReplyDeleteI got that one first! My second try was the correct one. :)
DeleteThat's the rabbit hole I fell into....
DeleteAnagram the inventor's surname to get a definition of "telescope".
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle isn't.
ReplyDeleteI don't have the answer yet, but I must pipe in about guinea pigs. They come in a variety of colors and patterns, not "usually white' like Will said. My oldest kid has had them since she was 10 or so, and we both learned a lot about guinea pigs via 4-H.
ReplyDeleteFinally got the answer. I'm much slower than the rest of you.
DeleteEasy...
ReplyDeleteRearrange the odd letters of the product. You something that might happen with allergies.
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ReplyDeleteIs it available in all 50 states?
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm pretty sure it doesn't have any kind of area stamp.
DeleteI would think so.
ReplyDeleteI haven't used this since the 70s.
ReplyDeleteI am tickled that I got this so quickly!
ReplyDeleteI should have known my first answer was too easy....
ReplyDeleteI had to look up my answer to be sure it's a thing. (My demographic would be more familiar with Dover sole.) Rob's clue has me puzzled, though.
ReplyDeleteOh, gee, I hope I didn't miscount again!
DeleteI got it, Rob. I was thinking of maybe something besides allergies but I get your clue...
DeleteRob, I think you did count correctly, so the clue worked for me.
DeleteDo I need the odd letters of the "brand name" or the odd letters of "the product"?
Delete"Brand name of the product" is what the Puzzle says for an answer. If you have the answer, I think my clue will work if you operate on that answer.
DeleteStill stumped. I'm sure I have the answer that many others have, but I can't reconcile it with Rob's clue, nor with some others, including the poet string initiated by Dr. Awkward below (although I'm pretty sure I know the poet). It may have something to do with my unfamiliarity with the product. I can't believe there could be more than one answer to this puzzle! So...Thursday.
DeleteAhh, coffee and breakfast in a diner this morning.
ReplyDeleteIt also anagrams to a chocolate lover’s exclamation.
ReplyDeleteSee my comment above.
DeleteYes, I see what you mean. Anyway, it's not a clue. And, unrelatedly, I don't care for the product that is actually the answer.
DeleteI thought that was the product at first.
DeletepjbPrefersReese's,Actually
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DeleteI’m not as punctual today but I’m surprised no comments yet taking issue with the liberties taken in this puzzle’s wording….the staff could have worded it better. Anyway, I wonder if Tina Fey uses this product…..
ReplyDeleteThe link above and the NPR app only have last week's puzzle?? I can't be the only one experiencing this?
ReplyDeleteThe NPR intern(s) haven't brought their A game lately. It's been pointed out here before that the Submit Your Answer button isn't specific to any particular puzzle so it should be safe to use even if the description is from the previous week...
DeleteI'm still waiting for the puzzle to be posted and then I'll update the link. I did my best to transcribe the puzzle from memory.
DeleteNPR site is up now.
DeleteSite unseen
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ReplyDeleteWow! This puzzle seems so familiar.
ReplyDeleteBecause it was used before as an answer.
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DeleteSweet'N Low was used in the Nestle+Wow->Sweet'N Low puzzle on November 25, 2018. That puzzle used the word Wow.
DeleteToo easy rearranging letters. Maybe try solving the Sunday Jumble.
ReplyDeleteLucky Charms
ReplyDeleteI posed this puzzle last week but no one solved or commented. I think you will enjoy the answer. Here it is again:
ReplyDelete"Revenge is a dish best served cold" Food is often used as a metaphor.
Think of a specific Supreme Court justice, and then if you say the name out loud of a well known suburban city that is located near a major U.S. city everyone knows, you will phonetically describe how this judge might be served.
Who is the justice and what is the city?
only thing I can think of is Thomas/Alito and Treason, NJ. Pretty sure that's a city, they might be co-mayors
DeleteYou have the right judge, but not the city.
DeleteTruth or Consequences (New Mexico)
DeleteNope. I suspect you are overthinking it.
DeleteWell, Thomas is a Pal o’ Al(i)to….
DeleteCute, and closer too, but not it yet.
DeleteYou folks are making this complicated when all you need do is name the town and it will describe how this judge should be served.,
DeleteThe answer is Sausalito and the judge is served with Sauce Alito.
DeleteI do not think exact match given the way puzzle worded.
ReplyDeleteThis is a rare case in which posting the name of a certain poet might be TMI!
ReplyDeleteCalling all poets, right, left, and front!
Deletetoo clever by half! :)
Deletep.s. what do we think—600 right answers or so?
DeleteCute, but I think that's a bit light. I'd double that.
DeleteDr. A, a noble guess. Jan, do you have a reason why?
DeleteYou're both out of my league!
DeleteOh, man. Very good.
DeleteThe poet wrote a poem that I believe inspired a folk/country song, although I've never found anything to confirm it.
Glad you enjoyed our little exchange. If only there were a way to charge for it?
DeleteSweet and low, sweet and low,
DeleteWind of the western sea,
Low, low, breathe and blow,
Wind of the western sea!
Over the rolling waters go,
Come from the dying moon, and blow,
Blow him again to me;
While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.
Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,
Father will come to thee soon;
Rest, rest, on mother's breast,
Father will come to thee soon;
Father will come to his babe in the nest,
Silver sails all out of the west
Under the silver moon:
Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.
I have always assumed that if Will doesn’t attribute the weekly solve-at-home puzzle to someone, it’s one that he wrote himself. Does anyone have any insight on this?
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DeleteI too, Chuck, have always assumed that to be true. But I have no real "inside insight." I suppose it is possible that some folks who send Will Shortz puzzles (ones he runs on NPR) ask him if they can remain anonymous.
DeleteFor any of you who have solved this week's NPR Puzzle Challenge, and are just hankerin' for a second challenge, here is this week's Puzzleria! Schpuzzle of the Week:
Schpuzzle of the Week:
Wood, Sullivan & Miller, oddly even
Write down the first names of well-known people surnamed Wood, Sullivan and Miller.
The odd-numbered letters of the result are even.
The even-numbered letters are odd.
What are these first names?
Explain how their odd-numbered letters are even and how their even-numbered letters are odd.
Also featured on the current Puzzleria! are five clever conundrums contributed by a great friend of Puzzleria!
LegoWhoIsProudToAnnounceThatThisThurdsay'sPuzzleria!WillFeatureFiveExcellent"ConundrumbsruckByChuck"Puzzles
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ReplyDeleteTake the phrase NEW PAT. Rearrange these 6 letters to get the brand name of a completely different product?
DeleteFound the brand name. There is something missing though.
DeleteHas the NPR puzzle reached a "newest low"? Just kidding. Nothing could sour me on these puzzles.
ReplyDeleteSplendid.
DeleteAll things being Equal, I'm glad we didn't see any "Stevia Inskeep" puns here this week.
DeleteAnother familiar answer...
ReplyDeleteFinally got it! Personally, I do not use this brand, but I did once purchase it for my late father-in-law.
ReplyDeleteMusical clue: Aerosmith
DeleteWas having breakfast at a diner when the puzzle aired, got to it only just now. Like my breakfast eggs…over easy!
ReplyDeleteSomehow this product says a lot about us as Americans.
ReplyDeleteEven more so, if the creator of a supermarket product was inspired by highbrow poetry.
DeleteJust wondering: is my mustache middlebrow? Is a soul patch lowbrow?
DeleteWhat about a Cockney's eyebrow?
Delete1849
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to reading your treatise on Thursday.
DeleteI finally got it. It sort of reminds me of a song.
ReplyDeleteMusical clue: Django Reinhardt
ReplyDeleteAnd the answer to my puzzle ABOVE is:
ReplyDeleteSausalito and the judge is served with Sauce Alito.
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day! Let's hope others follow in his footsteps!
ReplyDeleteNew Towels>>Sweet n Low
ReplyDeleteWhile this is the intended answer, my wrong answers were better in their own way.
The first (also alluded to by Dr. K and Chuck) was Nestle Wow, a failed attempt by Nestle to market reduced sugar chocolates, which ended in 2020. It can’t be found today.
Applying a broader definition of, “rearranging letters,” to include inverting them, I flipped the W’s to make M’s, and found Nestle Mom, a dietary supplement for expecting and nursing mothers. A current product, but in limited distribution.
Wrong, but fun….
NEW TOWELS >>> SWEET'N LOW
ReplyDelete"JS" refers to Jodie Sweetin, an actor.
NEW TOWELS → SWEET'N LOW
ReplyDeleteNEW TOWELS —> SWEET’N LOW
ReplyDeleteHint: Rearrange and get a brand name and an exclamation.
—> Nestlé + wow
Thank you, Dr. Awkward (and Jan). Tennyson, anyone?
A shout-out to intercalary lyrics in _The Princess_ never goes amiss!
DeleteAfter the massive cleanup that has become necessary here after Tropical Storm Helene, I'll be in need of some Tennysonian "sleep and rest."
DeleteWith all the power lines down, you'll need the fire department's illumination trucks to continue the cleanup after dark. All that overtime pay will cost you, though. Prepare for the charge of the light brigade!
DeleteSWEET'N LOW
ReplyDelete> Anagram the inventor's surname to get a definition of "telescope".
It was invented by Benjamin Eisenstadt, who ran a cafeteria by the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in 1957. (He previously invented the single-serving sugar packet, for which SWEET'N LOW was a substitute, but neglected to patent it.) "Eisenstadt" anagrams to "see distant", a literal translation.
> Take the phrase NEW PAT. Rearrange these 6 letters to get the brand name of a completely different product?
WET-NAP, a single-serving moist towelette packet, also invented in 1957, by Arthur Julius, working in a loft in lower Manhattan, across the East River from the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Each packet contains a (wait for it) NEW TOWEL. (The business took off after a joint venture with Kentucky Fried Chicken -- who needs all that messy finger lickin'?)
Our friend Chuck takes center-stage on tis week's Puzzleria! with his always enigmatic, entertaining and enlightning "Conundrumbstruck by Chuck" five-pack of puzzles. They are titled " Scavenging, “Shrimporting,” Snack-noshing, Seafaring, Serpentine."
ReplyDeleteWe will be uplpading Chuck's creativity soon, a bit later this afternoon.
Also on this week's menu:
* a Schpuzzle of the Week titled "Fops & foam pianos,"
* a Synonyms Galore Hors d’Oeuvre titled An Invitation to a “double-beheading,”
* a More “Galorious” Synonyms Slice titled “Singularization” spawns synonyms,
* a More-Or-Less More-Is-Less Dessert dessert titled "Less letters = more faces and space," and
* ten riff-offs of Will Shortz's Sweet 'n' Lowdown NPR challenge, titled "From terrycloth to cloying!" (including six riffs from Nodd and one from Plantsmith).
Drop by. Get enlightninged!
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ReplyDeleteI wrote, “Rearrange the odd letters of the product. You something that might happen with allergies.” That’s WELTS.
ReplyDeleteMy answer was Nestle MOM, so I had to anagram NSLMM. Even rotating the Ms to Ws and the N to Z, I needed to buy some vowels.
DeleteMy clue was Lucky Charms. Over the years this cereal has contained, among others, pink, blue and yellow marshmallow bits (the colors of the big three artificial sweeteners). The pink heart is the only remaining original "marbit" from the cereal's debut in 1964.
ReplyDeleteSWEET'N LOW"
ReplyDelete"New towels"-->"Sweet'N Low"
(Rearrange the 9 letters in phrase 'new towels' for brand name of a product [saccharin] one might buy at a supermarket.)
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ReplyDeleteSweet'N Low
ReplyDeleteMy three deleted comments were meant to refer to the old spiritual song "Swing low, sweet chariot..."
ReplyDeleteI apparently suffer from indirection indiscretion.
NEW TOWELS —> SWEET’N LOW
ReplyDeleteMy musical clue was Django Reinhardt, because Woody Allen had a 1999 movie about a second tier Gypsy Jazz Guitar player called SWEET AND LOWDOWN.
I thought that it was Nestle Wow, except that I could not find any such product.
ReplyDeleteNEW TOWEL'S => SWEET 'N LOW
ReplyDeleteI wanted to complain about the apostrophe, but that would have been TMI, so I'm doing it now. Or, you can define the puzzle as new towel's, which does have the apostrophe.
As for the Aerosmith clue, it could refer to two different songs: Sweet Emotion, or Pink.
Last Sunday I said, “It also anagrams to a chocolate lover’s exclamation.” Nestle Wow!
ReplyDeleteLate posting; totally forgot; preoccupied with Helene.
ReplyDeleteLike JAWS, I was concerned about the apostrophe ( and wonder why not two apostrophes). My "question" about "all 50 states" was intended to point to Hawaiʻi, which contains something that actually isn't an apostrophe.
I don't know what Cap meant by 1849, but I doubt it had anything to do with the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation and Extradition signed on December 20.
Wow! No wonder I was confused. I got Nestle MOM, which is a brand of baby formula. It involves flipping the Ws as part of the "rearrangement." I got reassurance from the capital letters in Blaine's hint, and from Splainit's smiley face after saying he got Nestle WOW just before his "second guess" (which I assumed was my answer). I now believe, against all odds, that there really ARE two answers to this puzzle!
ReplyDeleteJust noticed that SuperZee mentioned this possibility above, but I think he should not have dismissed it. On an unrelated note, what's the connection to Tennyson?
DeleteTennyson wrote a poem called "Sweet and Low". As well as "The Charge of the Light Brigade".
DeleteThanks, jan! I caught all the clever COTLB references and knew it was Tennyson, but I didn't know the rest of his repertoire. This just wasn't my week!
DeleteLancek, I dismiss Nestle Mom as the answer because its not available in supermarkets. It seems to only be available through specialized mail order sites.
DeleteSweet 'n' Low. As I said Sunday, I haven't used this since the 70s. Is a puzzle supposed to take a person back 50 years to bell bottoms, push button phones, Sanka?
ReplyDeleteI Got SWEET'NLOW but was hampered in posting by a fall I sustained
ReplyDeleteClark, hope your fall this fall 🍂 was a minor one.
DeleteAnd that you're doing ok.
DeleteDitto & ditto.
DeleteThe same, Clark.
DeleteOUCH. Hope you're OK, Clark.
DeleteSWEET 'N' LOW
ReplyDeletepjbCanSeeHeleneWasANo-ShowHereInWestAlabama
Here in western SC, we've already had 5" of rain, with 2" more to come (maybe more?). Our power is out, but we have a generator. Be safe, everyone affected by Helene.
DeleteThanks Folks. I am going thru one patch and another since my open heart surgery in June.
ReplyDeletePaul, 1849 was the date Tennyson wrote the Sweet and Low poem. It wàs published in 1850.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
DeleteI thought it might be a typo, as 1879 was the year saccharin was invented.
DeleteSweet'n'low is usually on the table in diners. Late to post my answer as per usual.
ReplyDeleteBarbara loved to go to the beach when it was sunny and warm. Those who would also be there were not at all happy that she would lie on her beach towel in the nude. Barbara, however, was not at all concerned with their mores, but only in getting hers from the sun.
ReplyDeleteMore rays are better than morays. Just ask a Dover sole.
DeleteNow that's another topic entirely, and I suppose one would have to ask a Dover sole survivor. On the other hand, I will say, I much prefer Abalone to bologna.
DeletePerhaps it should also be pointed out that Boeing Machinists are back at the negotiating table as their strike for more raise enters its third week.
DeleteI wonder how many people used an anagram solver and wondered what to do with the spare "n,."
ReplyDeleteI had to remind myself of the apostrophe and elision in the product name. Is it a contraction of 'sweeten' or of 'and' as in "law n order" ? :)
This week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from listener Curtis Guy, of Buffalo, N.Y. Name a certain breakfast cereal character. Remove the third, fifth, and sixth letters and read the result backward. You'll get a word that describes this breakfast cereal character. What is it?
ReplyDeleteAnother silly, easy, non fun puzzle.
DeleteSolved it right away, although I never eat cereal, nor ever heard of this one or the character.
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ReplyDeleteAmerica is such a prosperous country, even the homeless can have a pocketful of sweet and low. And ketchup as well
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