Q: Think of a popular commercial name that ends with the names of two male animals one after the other. If you have the right commercial name, its first six letters can be rearranged to spell the name of an N.F.L. team. What is this commercial name?If you change the fifth letter in the commercial name to an H and rearrange the letters, you get a part of the lower body.
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I'm thinking of a place whose name more famously denotes a different place. This place connects the commercial name and the NFL team, but only via another 'denotes a different' connection.
ReplyDeleteAnother nice one from Lego. My first guess at the NFL team was wrong, but it was close enough.
ReplyDeleteGood clue
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ReplyDeleteGreat clue, got me right to it.
DeleteUh-oh!
DeleteChatGPT got it.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Chat GPT will play on-air with Will and Ayesha.
DeleteKind of reminds me of a certain songwriter.
ReplyDeleteThere's a nice tie-in between Lego's latest Sunday Challenge and one of the offerings on this week's edition of his Puzzleria! blog.
ReplyDeleteIs it fair to call that clue a stretch?
ReplyDeleteI sure love a puzzle that's snack-y like this one...a little brain teaser that doesn't take too long to solve and is satisfying. Unfortunately, it look me longer than I would have liked because I tried to solve it with the commercial name, but then decided to work it the other way with the NFL teams. Gemini failed.
ReplyDeleteI solved this one rather quickly and, I gotta say, I kinda like this puzzle compared to some recent offerings. Nice one Lego (isn't that a commercial name too?)!
ReplyDeleteYeah, same here. It took some effort to solve, but wasn't seemingly impossible. Good puzzle, Lego!
DeleteRearrange to get a test I've done.
ReplyDeleteI solved it, and then I fed the puzzle into ChatGPT. ChatGPT got it. I have heard Will say, years ago, that using any reference or web page is completely acceptable in coming up with an answer, but maybe Will will have to start checking to see if AI can solve the weekly puzzle before announcing it.
ReplyDeleteRearrange the even letters of the commercial name. You get an insect.
Re-arrange those letters and you get an extinct drink.
DeleteSort of extended puzzle: If you figured out my songwriter hint above, try to think of a word I almost used in my hint that would have (accidentally!) been TMI. Extra connection: one of the hints on this week's blog.
ReplyDeleteI've solved Lego's, but I can't figure out your songwriter. I am therefore deprived of the fun of trying to figure out the TMI word.
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I can think of a particular cover of a particular song that connects two of the three discovery words in Lego's puzzle. Probably unrelated to your songwriter though.
A hint upthread largely influenced my answer.
ReplyDeleteAdd a pronoun to the name and rearrange to get a school-related word.
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Joe!!! Another notch. As a puzzle writer, myself, I find it tougher and tougher, though not completely impossible) to write one that Chat can’t solve :(
ReplyDeleteBlaine's clue reminds me of last week's puzzle.
ReplyDeleteIf you substitute a letter for one of the first six letters of the commercial name and rearrange, you get something interesting.
ReplyDeleteThe animals faced each other in basketball--men's and women's--last year.
ReplyDeleteThere's also a relation to Blaine's clue and one of the on-air puzzle answers.
ReplyDeleteThis week when I submitted my answer via the old NPR form I received their automatic reply immediately. I am still waiting for their reply from last sunday. So, I have to wonder if they actually received it.
ReplyDeleteLots of fun, Lego! Thanks for a new way to think about this word.
ReplyDeletePenelope: "They don't know what they're looking at."
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ReplyDeleteIf the University at Buffalo's men's sports teams are nicknamed the Bulls, shouldn't the women's sports teams be nicknamed the Cows?
ReplyDeleteIt's no doubt the reason the Chicago WNBA team is called the Sky.
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DeleteI like it! Probably not a good idea for Chicago, though.
DeleteThe Washington Bullets eventually came to the same conclusion and renamed themselves the Wizards. Which drew some sniping from those who thought it was in poor taste to choose a title that the Ku Klux Klan also used for its leaders. But after nearly thirty years of mediocrity no one really cares anymore.
DeleteMixed signals: Blaine's post asks "What is this commercial name?" But when Will poses the puzzle he asks "What team is it?" [The transcript, just to confuse things further, quotes Will to say "So again, a popular commercial name. It ends with the names of two male animals, one after the other. And if you have the right commercial name, the first six letters can be rearranged to spell the name of an NFL team. What team is?" Maybe if they paid those interns more they wouldn't keep making mistakes when transcribing the puzzles.]
ReplyDeleteI am assuming that the powers that be will accept either the "commercial name" or the "team name." But I'm listing both just to be on the safe side.
Not a clue here. But I happen to be at an event tonight in Tarrytown NY at which Will Shortz himself is speaking. If anyone else is here please holler!
ReplyDeleteAlso, GREAT puzzle, Lego! Mindful, entertaining, thematically appropriate.
Solved it while driving. Finally getting a chance to comment here. A tame puzzle.
ReplyDeleteCouldn’t solve this puzzle this morning, so I put it down and went to the gym. Couldn’t solve it this afternoon, so I did some chores and made dinner. Couldn’t solve it after dinner, so I sat down with a book. BANG, no lists, no pen and paper, and the answer popped into my head.
ReplyDeleteAh, the mysterious ways of the human brain.
Thanks Lego, for a fun puzzle.
I think this is the first time that I actually found Blaine's hint to be an actual hint.
ReplyDeleteD.M. and B.F.
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