Drop the second letter of the place, rearrange to name something you might use while in this place.Q: Name a place where games are played. Move the last two letters to the beginning. Change the new last letter to an "H." The result, sadly, is what you might have when you leave this place.
A: CASINO --> NO CASH
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ReplyDeleteAn oblique tv clue: Madison.
ReplyDeleteRearrange the letters in the sad result. You get something tasty.
ReplyDeleteOl' Rob
DeleteFor some reason I keep thinking of cryptocurrency.
ReplyDeleteDrop the last letter and insert the “H” somewhere to get a way to avoid the sad result.
ReplyDeleteI found out about the sad result by failing to notice that Nodd's answer is the same as its opposite.
DeleteThis alternate result could have been the puzzle.
DeleteI was in Las Vegas on business and decided to try a slot machine, since they were right there in the lobby. I thought the “cash out” button was a warning that would light up if the machine was out of cash. I could have cashed in while I was ahead, but seeing no way to stop, I was doomed to play until my $20 ran out. I never played again.
DeleteGot it. Working on a non-TMI clue.
ReplyDeleteRemove the second letter from the place name, and rearrange to get something you might find at that place.
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ReplyDeleteI though of a number of clues, but one fit’s uniquely well.
ReplyDeleteSorry, this should read, “….one fits uniquely well….”, (Typing never was my strong suit, and typing with my dominant arm in a sling (post shoulder surgery) is even more challenging.)
DeleteRemove one letter from the place to name where one might go to hear music.
ReplyDeleteI used to love playing with my Casio recorder.
DeleteAdd an S to the place, then rearrange to get something that is watertight.
ReplyDeleteFirst I thought of a mostly childhood disease.
ReplyDeleteI think this has been discussed - but when I submit with this form I don’t get an email confirmation. Should that concern me? https://www.npr.org/2025/11/30/g-s1-99329/sunday-puzzle
ReplyDeleteYou do not get an email confirmation. However, you should see an indication, just below the puzzle text, that the form was submitted successfully.
DeleteTen
ReplyDelete" there's a runway in your future."
DeleteSorry, no tens.
DeleteI'm reminded of the scene in Pulp Fiction where Vincent Vega explains the difference between American and European versions of fast food
ReplyDeleteGMTA, Blaine!
ReplyDeleteI got it. This is proof the puzzles can't all be difficult.
ReplyDeleteSometimes final Jeopardy clue and correct response are easier for the people at home.
In case you missed the tail end of last week's edition, I'd like to add my congrats to Al! (Not your first time selected as an on air contributor, I believe.)
ReplyDeleteThis is the 11th time one of my puzzles was used. I've been sending in answers for over 26 years and have never won.
DeleteWell, it was a great effort, Al! Even though it looks like AI(artificial intelligence)when we're merely trying to congratulate Mr. Gori and call him by name!
DeletepjbVeryNearlyCalledHim"Mr.Gorilla"ThanksToAutoCorrect!SorryAboutThat!
Many congrats AL.
DeleteThere was a puzzle with two people. One of them had a last name with the same first 2 letters as the place. One of them had a last name with the same last 3 letters as the place. The first names of these people are also relevant here.
ReplyDeleteThe Al Capone, Al Pacino puzzle was on July 15, 2018. Capone and casino both start with CA. Pacino and casino both end with INO. Al is an important name because the creator of this puzzle is Al Gori.
DeleteProlly not: GLISTEN => ENGLISH
ReplyDeleteMy house is small enough.
ReplyDeleteGot this. It was easy, which is not a complaint. The initials of a famous country singer come to mind.
ReplyDeleteA musical clue: Fraternity
ReplyDeletePunctuation matters.
ReplyDeleteOf course. Consider "Let's eat, kids!" vs "Let's eat kids!"
DeleteSome people do eat kids ... and lambs, calves, etc..
DeleteA movie that comes to mind has been made three times. Something I just now learned when I looked it up.
ReplyDeleteI was at this place very recently with my family though we were all happy when we left. And there's a certain word that goes before 'the place' that can also be synonymous with a portion of 'the result'.
ReplyDeleteMusical Clue: "Nights in White Satin" by The Moody Blues
ReplyDeleteI can think of an alternative answer where the sad thing is "itch"
ReplyDeleteMy son works at one of these places.
ReplyDeleteI'm reminded of a delicious appetizer.
ReplyDeleteI think your post ties into the second part of my post above!
Deleteit does—a very elegant hint from you!
DeleteLaura Ingalls?
ReplyDeleteBewildering comment.
DeleteRobert Donat
ReplyDelete! (I'm upset I didn't come up with this.)
DeleteCASINO, NO CASH
ReplyDelete"Ten." I won ten dollar coins on my first play at a slot machine in Nevada when I was there doing field geology in the Elko-Ely-Eureka area. I still have them. That was enough for me. My next visit to Nevada was ten minutes in a CASINO to use the restroom enroute home from Burning Man.
I replied "Sorry, no tens" because I thought we were playing Go Fish. Joe Pesci started in "Casino". "Pesci" is Italian for "fish"(plural).
DeletePaul, "Sorry, no tens" was a fun Go Fish rejoinder!
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ReplyDeleteCASINO —> NO CASH
Hint: “An oblique tv clue: Madison”
—> Guy Madison, who played “Wild Bill” Hickok on tv (1951-58)…
To wit: The historical "Wild Bill" Hickok was killed in 1876 by Jack McCall in a Deadwood, South Dakota, saloon while he was playing poker, reportedly holding two black aces and two black eights (henceforth called “dead man’s hand”) and was buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Deadwood.
Deadwood is now a Midwestern casino center.
Allusions this week to major gambling meccas like Las Vegas and Atlantic City would almost certainly have been tmi. I have been to both but have never gambled in either (or just about anywhere else for that matter). However, years ago on a visit to Deadwood, I stopped in Saloon No. 10, the site of Hickok’s murder and now also a “casino” (of sorts), and took a chance just to prove something to my children by putting a quarter in a slot machine there. What came up might just as well have been two black aces and two black eights.
Hint: “A musical clue: Fraternity”
—> The 1967 hit “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye” was released on the Fraternity label and was performed by the Casinos.
I considered as a hint “John D. Loudermilk,” who wrote the song, but thought it might be tmi.
Casino>>>No Cash
ReplyDeleteWhen I commented I had a number of clues in mind, the number that best fit was James Bond’s 007, first introduced to us in Ian Flemming’s Casino Royale.
CASINO & NO CASH
ReplyDeleteMy HInt: "Robert Donat"
He starred in Goodbye, Mr. Chips, the 1939 original film.
If you thought this was going to be a movie about William "Buffalo Bill" Cody ridding the prairie of buffalo chips, I share your pain in this disillusion.
SDB’s clue, referring to Robert Donat’s role in “Goodbye Mr. Chips,” is as elegant as they come. Donat won the Best Actor Oscar for that role, beating Clark Gable, which was viewed as an upset at the time�.
DeleteI wrote, “Rearrange the letters in the sad result. You get something tasty.” That’s NACHOS. Once again, after I solved the puzzle, I put it verbatim into ChatGPT, and it got the answer quickly.
ReplyDeleteOur friend skydiveboy's "Skydiversions" will be diverting your attention on this week's edition of Puzzleria!
ReplyDeleteMark Scott (aka "skydiveboy") has created a stellar handful of sterling spoonerisms for us to ponder, titled "Equine herds & caseous curds."
We will upload P! very soon, this very afternoon.
Also on this week's menus:
* a Schpuzzle of the Week titled “Love Tennyson, Anyone?”
* an Streaming Hot Hors d’Oeuvre titled “Funnin’” turns to Fumin’?”
* a Rolling The Merchan“dice” Slice: titled Diana’s Dresser Drawers;
* a "What The Puzzle Answer Might’ve Said Dessert" titled “Great puzzle, Gratefully...?” and
* ten riffs of this week's NPR puzzle, titled "Leave Casino, see no cash!" (including six from Nodd and one from Plantsmith).
If free-falling high-altitude diversions is your thing, Puzzleria! this week has the questions that you quest!
Lego...
casino, no cash
ReplyDeleteCASINO, NO CASH
ReplyDelete> Remove the second letter of the place. Rearrange to name what you can use to play the games.
Coins.
I clued "Nights in White Satin" by The Moody Blues because it was a sing used to great effect in the Soundtrack of the movie Casino.
ReplyDeleteI wrote “Punctuation matters,” a veiled allusion to the business card used by Lionel Hutz, the hapless attorney who used to be part of the Simpsons universe, who had used a red pen to alter “Works on contingency. No money down” to read “Works on contingency? No, money down!” Or, in this case, inserting a comma in the phrase describing the unhappy result would change “No cash” to “No, cash.” It appears that Jan got the reference.
ReplyDeleteMy clue "For some reason I keep thinking of cryptocurrency."
ReplyDeleteCraig Sellars is an important figure in the development of blockchain technology. Of course, Daniel Craig and Peter Sellers each starred in an edition of Casino Royale (though maybe better to say Sellers co-starred).
Casino, no cash.
ReplyDeleteCASINO, NO CASH. My first hint, removed, said that the place where games are played could be spelled with the letters contained in the puzzle creator's name and location. (Al gOrI, Cozy lake, New jerSey.) After that was removed, I said to drop the last letter and insert the “H” somewhere to get a way to avoid the sad result. (CASIN => CASH IN.)
ReplyDeleteOne of my clues was "Add an S to the place, then rearrange to get something that is watertight." Answer: caisson
ReplyDeleteMy post referenced a recent trip to this place with my family, as my wife and I took my 94 year old mom to a casino, along with our kids. We played blackjack while the kids played poker. All five of us won (and left happy) - which has never happened before - what are the odds of that?. My post also mentioned a certain word that goes in front of the place that can be synonymous with a a portion of the result - this was referring to "clams" (clams casino) as clams is slang for cash/money.
ReplyDeleteIn my comment, I said
ReplyDeleteI'm reminded of the scene in Pulp Fiction where Vincent Vega explains the difference between American and European versions of fast food. In that scene, he talks about the quarter pounder as being called the Royale with cheese. That reminds me of Casino Royale.