I was initially convinced it had to do with a dromedary and Drew Barrymore.Q: Think of two hooved animals. Take all the letters of one of them and the last three letters of the other, mix them together, and you'll get the first and last names of a famous actress. Who is it?
Edit: My hint was "initially". Take Drew Barrymore's initials (D.B.) and reverse them (B.D.)
A: DEER + (spring*)BOK --> BO DEREK
*Note: There are many African antelope that would work (Blesbok, Bontebok, Bosbok, Duikerbok, Gemsbok, Grysbok, Klipbok, Reitbok, Rhebok/Reebok, Springbok, Steenbok/Steinbok and Waterbok)
I wanted Salma Hayek to work with Yak. Alas.
ReplyDeleteI got nothing so far. Derailed by Len Caribou and Sandra Bullock.
DeleteMare Winningham didn't work either.
DeleteHa!
ReplyDeleteSomeone is on the right track...
Anagrams aren't a lot of fun. But there is one fun thing about this puzzle.
Wasn't STRAP going to save us from this kind of thing? Where is STRAP?
DeleteI didn't solve it yet, but I stumbled across a variant puzzle, which I am going to send to Lego for the next Puzzleria! In any case, I wanted to see if ChatGPT could solve my puzzle. Here are some of its comments:
ReplyDelete"If solving is the goal and you’re willing to give a tiny nudge that would keep it fun instead of brute-force"
"And yes—this is exactly the kind of clue where even solvers who love brute force eventually mutter, “There has to be a cleaner insight,” which makes your comment especially on-brand 😄" (my comment was that even ChatGPT got tired of brute force)
"Very clean, very fair, and yes: much funnier once you realize brute force would be miserable here."
Well, Pi Day is coming right up, isn't it?!
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DeleteSo many actresses...so many ungulates. At least Will could have told us if the actress is still extant.
ReplyDeleteOr something to narrow this down. "Famous" is a sufficiently vague term that it could be almost any actress.
DeleteMaybe we should send in Whitney Houston or Cate Blanchett just to be safe.
DeleteAt my age, it pleases in a perverse way that AI gave me two incorrect answers. It also pleases me that I can still recognize wrong answers.
ReplyDeleteI have posted on this blog before that in February or March 1964 I had dinner with Elke Sommer. I didn't score with her then, and I am not scoring with her now.
ReplyDeleteIt behooves us to know that elks have hooves. But does an Elke have hooves? Whoever heard of a herd of Elke without hooves? And bees (as well as some unwell humans) have hives.
DeleteLegoUngulatory
If it were just the surname...
ReplyDeleteOut of the mouths of babes... I think I have it!
DeleteI believe I have it. I predict very few correct answers this week.
DeleteAl, agreed.
DeleteTrue, it's a difficult one to unravel.
DeleteI wonder if I can use Miss Piggy as one of the actresses.
ReplyDeleteARMY + spoNGE => MEG RYAN ... I don't think that's it, just saying.
ReplyDeleteK, Blaine.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that too.
DeleteI have an answer but I'm not sure it's the intended one. If it is, there's something I found extraneous. One of the animals is one I'm very familiar with and the other one not.
ReplyDeleteSame here.
DeleteOh joy! I think I finally got it.
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DeleteSorry, Spanky and Blaine.
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ReplyDeleteApparently, I'm not allowed to express my opinion on this puzzle.
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ReplyDeleteOh, wait--bad hint. Picking letters out of the name, reusing at will, I can spell five hoofed animals.
ReplyDeleteSo I have an answer. It might be the intended one, but I hardly think many would call her a famous actress. Maybe, but maybe not.
ReplyDeleteNumerical Clue: 34
As I noted above in response to Lancek, "famous" is sufficiently vague that it could include almost any actress.
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DeleteBO DEREK
DeleteI clued Numerical Clue: 34 because TEN was such a glaring clue that I wouldn't dare use it, but even implying that there is a number as an encryption key was enough for me.
Number 34 was famously assigned to athlete BO JACKSON, who played both Baseball and Football professionally, won the Heisman Trophy, and wore #34 for the Los Angeles Raiders.
Also, BO JACKSON was an early endorser of REEBOK sneakers.
My actress shares a first name with a few athletes including a couple that were in the news recently (not to mention who the last name may bring to mind).
ReplyDeleteMoments ago as I was reading a just now published new book I picked up at the library yesterday, I came across the name of the less well known animal in a somewhat different context. My life is filled with strange coincidences, and this is one of the mildest, but still interesting to me.
ReplyDeleteThere's another interesting coincidence this evening.
DeleteWhat is the difference between the U.S. House and LA Fitness?
ReplyDeleteAt LA Fitness, the reps serve a useful purpose.
DeleteI'll accept that. I was thinking more like, the reps at LA Fitness actually work, or actually do their job. I figured you would solve it.
DeleteAnd too many reps lead to serious injury.
DeleteAnd weight for it:
DeleteReps not properly controlled may lead to people becoming sore.
Or worse, total collapse.
DeleteOkay, let's drop it now.
DeleteI only know of this person via a certain SNL alum.
ReplyDeleteGilda Radner as Roseanne Roseannadanna! "You've got to change your perfect ways / Bo Derek..."
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ReplyDeleteSorry, Blaine. Let's just leave it at:
DeleteThere are several animals that can supply those last 3 letters.
If it's any consolation, jan, I read your clue before it was deleted and it didn't help me at all.
DeleteNot only animals, but clothes.
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ReplyDeleteRelative may leave to marry.
ReplyDeleteI surrender. My best shot is PIG + MARE = PAM GRIER. The extra R is obtained by reading the left side like a pirate.
ReplyDelete1928.
ReplyDelete[shrug]
DeleteHow about someone with a first and last name plus a middle name not used for purposes of this puzzle?
ReplyDeleteI have it, but I really wanted to connect ANTELOPE with NATALIE PORTMAN somehow.
ReplyDeleteBut you don't want to let your antelope.
DeleteAn antelope cantaloupe!
DeleteEven with a climbing rope?
DeleteNope!
DeleteAnyway it was just a trope.
DeleteIt's a slippery slope, you dope.
DeletepjbBelievesNoSoap,NoHope
Well I can't cope, so I shall mope and wish I were the Pope.
DeleteThis whole conversation brought to you by Scope mouthwash.
DeletepjbAlsoKnowsAFamousMonkeyTrialByThatName,OnlyPlural
Canbrry, Can you explain? Tks
DeleteThe Scopes trial?
DeleteYes.
DeleteYes, but are you Listerine to me?
DeleteThe 3 letters remind me of a food.
ReplyDeleteBok is like bok choy.
DeleteThe actress's last name, plus those final three letters of that second animal, name a famous academician.
ReplyDeleteBO DEREK ( <— DEER + BOK [from GEMSBOK, SPRINGBOK, or STEENBOK])
ReplyDeleteHint: “1928”: the year Maurice Ravel composed Boléro, featured in Bo Derek’s film, 10.
By the way, “deer” + “kob”—a “kob,” like the gemsbok, springbok, and steenbok, is a hoofed African antelope—anagrams to Bo Derek, but in this case all the letters are used and none are removed.
DEER + [spring]BOK --> BO DEREK
ReplyDelete> There are several animals that can supply those last 3 letters.
Blaubok, blesbok, bontebok, reebok, steenbok, springbok, etc.
> Worst Actress, Worst Picture, Worst Director, and . . . Worst Supporting Actor! [deleted]
1989's Ghosts Can't Do It won the Razzie for Worst Picture, BO DEREK took Worst Actress, her husband, John, won Worst Director, and, in his film debut, Donald Trump scored Worst Supporting Actor.
>> 1928.
> [shrug]
Ravel's Bolero, featured in BO DEREK's 10, premiered in 1928. A Bolero jacket is a kind of shrug.
> There's another interesting coincidence this evening.
Monday's Final Jeopardy! was about Ravel's Bolero.
> The actress's last name, plus those final three letters of that second animal, name a famous academician.
Derek Bok is a lawyer and educator, and was president of Harvard from 1971 - 1991, and for the year after Larry Summers resigned.
REEBOK, DEER; BO DEREK
ReplyDelete"Well, Pi Day is coming up." refers to 3.14 Apple Pi by Bo Burnham -- another Bo, you know?
Our friend Laura’s been blest
ReplyDeleteWith a knack for fine puzzling.
Take one sip of her best...
You’ll soon find yourself guzzling!
Just one star in our cosmos is
so brilliant... ‘tis Laura,
Whose “Kozmatic Osmosis”
Lights our nights with her aura.
Candelabra? Gomorrah?
Borealis Aurora?
Sol himself shines no more
Near sheer brilliance of Laura!
Yes, our friend and master-puzzle-mistress Tortitude (aka Laura Kozma, NPR Puzzlemaker) shall light up this week’s edition of Puzzleria! with a double-dose of her heavenly brilliance. Laura’s latest “Tortie’s Slow but Sure Puzzles” package (titled: “Cast of Four” & “Past Troubadour”) shall feature:
~ An actress & three “tressless” actors, and
~ “Singer, song & slangy snack”
As is our wont (and, as we hope is your want as well!), we shall upload Puzzleria! very soon this very afternoon.
Also on our menus this week:
* A Schpuzzle of the Week titled “3 integers, 2 singers, 1 puzzinger!”
* A Puny-Not-Punny Hors d’Oeuvre titled “Punningnishment? Nay! Punyshment? Yay!”
* A Crème Brûlée Flambé Dessert? titled “Hall-of-Flamer?” and
* A Dozen Riffing Off Shortz And Hochbaum Entrees titled “Do it behoove deer to don Reeboks?” (including six riffs from Nodd, one from Plantsmith and one from Tortitude).
So, “Fear the Turtle?”
No.
But do respect it!
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I wrote, “Picking letters out of the name, reusing at will, I can spell five hoofed animals.” That’s REEBOK, DEER, ROE, DOE, and BOK.
ReplyDeleteI also got Bo Derek, using deer and kob. I felt like the wording was weird because kob is only three letters, but I did realize later that there are hooved animals called "reebok" and "springbok." I don't necessarily consider Bo Derek a famous actress, but her name is at least familiar to me so she's not unheard of...
ReplyDeletedeer, bok->Bo Derek
ReplyDeleteThe animals are deer and reebok.
At least the puzzle was fair. It was just very hard.
ReplyDeleteI was also stumped this week. Meg Ryan = Mare + ??? was as close as I got. My assumption that the name was probably a short one is validated, at least. Kudos to those that solved this one!
DeleteBO DEREK (deer + springbok or steenbok, etc.) My hints were "relative may leave to marry" (aunt elope) and "a difficult one to unravel" (Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" was featured in Derek's movie "10").
ReplyDeleteI confess I probably wouldn't have solved this without a comment here (later removed) saying the actress was not famous and had merely made a few bad movies. I googled "actress who made a few bad movies" and Bo Derek was second on the list of results.
Bo Derek >>> Deer & Bok (Springbok, Rhebok, + others.)
ReplyDeleteMy HInt: "Oh joy! I think I finally got it." I was hinting of bok choy, as I now see Bobby also noticed.
I noticed something interesting this morning having to do with occasionally posting the answer a second or so early. I used to frequently be the first to post after the deadline, but not so much lately, including today, because I forgot, but I digress.
ReplyDeleteI usually post using Nistime, but not from my computer because I have known it to be off a bit unless I have it update the clock just before posting. What I have been using is a small digital clock and temperature device made by SloScan. I have always found it to be very accurate, both on the time and the temperature. But now I am not so certain regarding the time. I say this because over time (no pun intended) I have purchased 3 of these identical devices from my favorite big box store which you may know as, Goodwill. Now, you may be asking yourself, why would I buy 3 of these clocks? To this I would reply, "Well, I thought it was about time." (Pun intended this time.)
But again I digress. What I discovered today is that I noticed all 3 of my clocks are displaying slightly different times from each other, although each one is flashing the indicator that it is in contact with Nistime. I can only think that the White House must be responsible for this anomaly, but perhaps others here might provide a better explanation.
Segal's law: A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
ReplyDeleteYes, I have heard that before, but I live in Seattle and my house is only about a mile inland from Puget Sound, and our seagulls are always on time.
DeleteThe nautical version is to never go to sea with two chronometers, go wth either one or three.
DeleteQuester, Not a bad idea, but last evening I finished reading the new book, "Captain's Dinner." I am now firmly decided that I shall no more go sailing.
Delete[I've often wondered whether Word Woman's proximity to NIST's Boulder Labs, with the atomic clock that establishes the country's official time. had something to do with her usually posting a minute early on Thursdays, but I see that today she posted a minute after the deadline. Coronal mass ejections, maybe?]
ReplyDeleteIt is a minute issue.
DeleteI'll second that.
DeleteHold on a moment.
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DeleteBTW, time.gov will tell you the correct time, and how far off your device's clock is.
DeleteHour we doing puns again?
DeleteI don't read Time anymore, but sometimes I need a time-warner so I don't arrive late to appointments.
DeleteNodd, all you really need to do is sit on your clock to be on time.
DeleteThese are timeless! They take a licking, and keep on ticking. I am crystal clear about this.
DeleteWatch yourself, sdb.
DeleteSure, but while this may sound cookoo, I have been grandfathered in.
DeleteThis thread is winding down for the night here on the east coast. I guess time will tell.
DeleteGet those glass slippers back before midnight. Oh, and don't let William Tell.
DeleteBO DEREK
ReplyDeleteI clued Numerical Clue: 34 because TEN was such a glaring clue that I wouldn't dare use it, but even implying that there is a number as an encryption key was enough for me.
Number 34 was famously assigned to athlete BO JACKSON, who played both Baseball and Football professionally, won the Heisman Trophy, and wore #34 for the Los Angeles Raiders.
Also, BO JACKSON was an early endorser of REEBOK sneakers.
BO DEREK, DEER, SPRINGBOK or RHEBOK
ReplyDeleteFor those who saw my comment before it was deleted, I really didn't like this puzzle. My comment, roughly from memory, was:
Egad, is that what they're going for?
One of the animals was familiar, but one of them I was not familiar with. I then grumbled for a few more sentences about how it's not fun solving a puzzle that's just a lot of looking through lists. Finally, I commented that I gave this puzzle a rating of 1 out of 10 stars. I'm guessing that because I used the number 10, the comment was stricken.
On another note, I had been working backwards, finding lists of hooved animals, and listing out which animals had which letters of the alphabet. Then, I was working through a long Wikipedia list of film actresses. I was able to move more quickly, because I only had zebra and bull with the letter B, for example. I got to Bo Derek, immediately spotted that deer came out of it, and it did leave three letters. I said to my self, what animal ends in bok or kob? Didn't recognize anything. After a few minutes, I decided to google animals ending in bok, and hit the rhebok and springbok, which are both antelope.
I still didn't like this puzzle.
My post - “My actress shares a first name with a few athletes including a couple that were in the news recently (not to mention who the last name may bring to mind).” - this was referring to “Bo” Nix, the Broncos starting quarterback who got injured in the NFL playoff game vs the Bills, and “Bo” Bichette, who recently signed a big free agent contract to play for the NY Mets, with the parenthetical comment referring to “Derek” Jeter.
ReplyDeleteBtw, I got close with llama + sheep = Pamela Lee (though one too many e's, and that was apparently a temporary name).
I see Blaine has now posted his clue explanation. He named all the boks I think, but left out the 1959 movie, from the play, Look Bok in Anger.
ReplyDeleteBO DEREK(DEER+BOK as in SPRINGBOK or REEBOK)
ReplyDeletepjbGotInTroubleForMentioningTheNumberTenInAnEarlierPost---WhatDoYouExpectTheseDays,"SixSeven"?
There’s an alternative answer. Someone tried to post it on this blog but wasn’t able to join the group, so he found my email address and sent his answer to me:
ReplyDeleteOna Grauer (Canadian actress) and onager and gaur. I googled her and the mammals and they do exist!
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ReplyDeleteThis week's challenge comes from Michael Schwartz, of Florence, Ore. Name something in 7 letters that's designed to help you lose weight. Insert the letters EP somewhere inside this word to get a two-word phrase naming things that are likely to add weight. What words are these?
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Clark!
DeleteYes, congrats, Clark a pseudonym!
DeleteThanks Dr. K, It's been many moons of sending in puzzles before Will picked one. Was starting to feel unloved!!
DeleteDitto for you, Jan
DeleteCute puzzle. Surely will have more correct answers than last week. In thinking about this new puzzle, I came up with: Name something in 7 letters that's designed to help you lose weight. Insert the letter E somewhere inside this word to get a word naming something that is likely to add weight. What words are these?
DeleteI don't have this week's answer yet, but I found yours right away. OK to answer it. Splainit?
DeleteCongrats, Clark! Just super.
DeleteHey, Clark. I was in Florence last week to see the rare Snowy Owl. Did you hear about it or see it?
ReplyDeleteDave, Not recently. To many MD appointments in the way. This has nothing to do with any musical talent, but at my age its too easy to give organ recitals!
DeleteAha.
ReplyDeleteIt took me a few minutes to mentally parse the question correctly!
One thing I like about this one is that there is actually some reasoning you can do, rather than just search randomly through your memory.
I wonder if Will considered saving the puzzle for next month.
Only 70 correct answers last week
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