Q: Think of something to drink in two words. Rearrange the letters to spell a famous prison and a means of getting out of prison. What words are these?You can also rearrange the letters to get a cookie and a storage container.
Sunday, October 19, 2025
NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 19, 2025): Getting Out of Jail
NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 19, 2025): Getting Out of Jail
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Bingo! Not among the most difficult of puzzles.
ReplyDeletePaul, I wish I could say that!
DeleteYou win the prize!
DeleteRearrange a block of five letters from the drink. You get something connected to the name of the prison.
ReplyDeleteEvents at the prison were front page news in a prior time.
ReplyDeleteHappily I never bothered to attend any.
DeleteRemove one letter from the means of getting out of prison and rearrange to get a two-word phrase describing another means of getting out.
ReplyDelete453 correct entries last week.
ReplyDeleteGot it with the second prison I thought of. It's taking me much longer to think of a non-TMI hint.
ReplyDeleteThe letters for one of the ingredients of the drink appear in the drink name, and in the name of the prison, in the same order.
DeleteGot it. Nice.
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ReplyDeleteDr. K, I think you should withdraw this comment.
DeleteOk. I wondered myself.
DeleteA nice bit of wordplay! Not as straightforward as most anagrams. I liked Blaine's comment.
ReplyDeleteI'll piggyback on Blaine's comment to say you can also rearrange the letters to get a two-word phrase for something we are all doing on this blog.
DeleteWow, I was completely wrong about the source of one of the two expressions. In a way the history is the opposite of what I'd always assumed.
ReplyDeleteRemove a letter from the second word of the drink. Rearrange to produce something you'd likely see in and around the prison.
ReplyDeleteI have a bad feeling about this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteThere will be a barrage of correct answers, probably between 1327 and 1361.
ReplyDeleteI was hoping that the means of getting out of prison would be "slowly chipping through a wall, and then sliding through a sewer pipe into a local stream."
ReplyDeleteDuring a thunderstorm?
DeleteSuperZee, yes, indeed
DeleteCute puzzle and not a repeat. Well, sort of.
ReplyDeleteI should know better than to try a puzzle while half asleep at 4 AM. I can now spend the rest of the day doing what I do when happy.
ReplyDeleteNot the Boston Crab...
ReplyDeleteNatasha, this post is mostly for you.
ReplyDeleteLast night I attended the season opening night of The Pirates Of Penzance. It was completely sold out and well done. It had never before been performed at Seattle Opera. During the 26 minute intermission I happened to run into our new General and Artistic Director, James Robinson. He is the fifth in its 61 year history. He was mingling among the crown and I walked up and asked him why the Seattle Opera would stoop so low as to use a pirated copy of the libretto. It took him a moment to catch on to the joke, but he liked it.
SDB: Thank you for the tale of your encounter with royalty. It takes most people a lot of courage to pull that off to someone of his stature. You were pulling his leg wooden or real, I think. You need to watch the Chopin Piano Competition in Poland that is on as I write this. It is amazing although no one reaches the level of Van Cliburn IMHO. At least not yet. Tomorrow is the final day and winners will be announced. I liked playing Mozart Concertos.
DeleteSDB: By the way I emailed WS about my illness and received an amazing letter back. Something in common.
DeleteThis puzzle is very hard if you've never heard of the drink. I made lists of prisons and 'means of getting out' off the top of my head - my lists included the correct answers! But there are so many possibilities for 'something to drink in two words' that making a list is impractical. Even when I put my correct answers into the Internet Anagram Server, it gives over 100 answers, and I didn't recognize any of them as something to drink. However, there was a clue above that helped me narrow my search for drinks, and from that list, I recognized the correct answer.
ReplyDeleteI had meant to say that Internet Anagram Server listed over 100 2-word anagrams, none of which I recognized as a drink.
DeleteI am reminded of the title of a popular movie I did not see, but if I were to say more it might be TMI by half of those here.
ReplyDeleteTrump owns 15 golf courses worldwide, so it's not surprising that some are near prisons and other sports venues.
ReplyDeleteObviously I cannot say if the drink in question is a caffeinated beverage or an alcoholic beverage...but it's one of the two.
ReplyDeletepjbHasHeardOfTheDrink,ButHeHimselfWouldNeverDrinkIt
That narrows it down pretty dramatically, even disqualifying your own eponymous juice.
DeleteWhen asked, “Is that a yes or a no?”
DeleteHe answerd, “Yes, it is.”
“Yes, it is what?”
“It is yes or no.”
“Which is it?”
“Which is what?”
“Which is it, yes or no?”
…….
With thanks, for the inspiration, to Abbott and Costello’s, “Who’s on first.” IMO, the funniest comedy skit of all time.