Matthew 26Q: Think of a state capital and say it out loud. Change one vowel sound in it to name something many schoolkids study. What things are these?
Edit: Matthew 26:41 includes the line, "the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Jack Swilling is commonly credited as one of the founders of Phoenix, Arizona.
A: PHOENIX --> PHONICS
Hesiod.
ReplyDeleteRemove a letter from the subject of study. Rearrange. You get a tool useful for transferring something from one place to another.
ReplyDelete1200 correct answers last week.
ReplyDeleteI have two answers, depending on the age of the schoolkid.
ReplyDeleteLancek, So do I. The first letters two that I have are three steps apart in the alphabet
DeleteI count three, if you count a subject that is commonly known by its two-letter initials.
DeleteI had fun with this one!
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ReplyDeleteNope. I'll reveal more on Thursday.
DeleteYou can also get something lots of kids study by changing a non-vowel sound in a different state capital. The two capitals are close in some ways, distant in others.
ReplyDeleteI also have two answers to this one. The consonant sound after the change is the same in both cases.
DeleteStart with the state capital. Remove nine letters from the end. Swap the positions of what are now the last two letters, and you get something most people take when they leave the house.
ReplyDeleteNice!
DeleteYes, very clever.
DeleteOhhhhh, I get it. I was convinced you had a different answer from mine, but I see now it's the same one.
DeleteHey Jaws - I like it. In a way, it even works if you removed one key word from your clue!
DeleteCute, but I take issue with the way your puzzle is stated.
DeleteWonderful riff, Jaws! Beyond clever!
DeleteLegoEnvious
Ummmm.
ReplyDeleteIt seems pretty clear that there are two answers, but I have only one. (Mine is definitely not the one Jaws has.) At first I thought Blaine was cluing mine in a way I had thought of, but now I don't see it.
I'll come up with a clue but there isn't one in this comment.
IF I'm correct, you can add the name of an animated character to the subject of study and rearrange to get another subject one might study.
ReplyDeleteDORY + PHONICS ➡ HYDROPONICS
DeleteI wouldn't mind learning something about HYDROPONICS.
Easier than falling off a log. (No clue here.)
ReplyDeleteDouble one letter and rearrange to get something kids would rather study, and what teachers would say in response.
ReplyDeleteOh that's good.
DeleteYou can also get *just* something kids would rather study, if you double a different letter.
But start with the capital, right? Not the thing they study.
DeleteRight -- my variation on yours is: start with the capital, double one of the letters, anagram to make something kids (and others!) often study in preference to what they oughta be studying.
DeleteI should have added I was talking about the capital, not the subject.
DeleteCrito: I see your answer, but eight years ago I could have solved your challenge without doubling a letter!
DeleteNot only teachers…
DeleteWhen I say it out loud, part of what I hear conjures up some happy memories from earlier this year.
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw the sunrise this morning, I felt like rising, too. So I did.
ReplyDeleteOooooh, I get this hint. It makes me realize there is a connection between this week's puzzle and last week's. (It's possible I've read too much into Chuck's comment!)
DeleteQuite apropos puzzle this week considering my daughter just moved into the dorm as a first year student at Swarthmore College.
DeleteBen Bass, the author of this week's excellent NPR Puzzle Challenge, is a subrb puzzle craftsman whose puzzles Will Shortz has often broadcast. This latest one lends itself to riffing (that is, creating similar or "copycat" puzzles).
ReplyDeleteAnd that is a good thing, especially for blogs like Puzzleria! that rely heavily on "puzzle-riffs" (that is, puzzles that are variations (or "takes" of already -exiting puzzles).
Lego....
"Exiting" puzzles? You mean like "outgoing"? They do "go out" on the site, you know!
DeletepjbThinksLegoMeant"Existing"ButHeCouldHaveMeant"Exciting"AsWell!
I didn't know Ben Bass actually lives in the suburbs(Lego got closer to it but not exactly!)of Chicago. He is also a SUPERB puzzle craftsman.
DeletepjbWondersIfChicagoEvenHasSuburbs?(He'sNeverBeenThere,Obviously!)
The capital reminds me of a character in a recent show.
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DeleteMadison LeDoux is a character in the show Elle, the prequel to Legally Blonde.
DeletePop rock
ReplyDeletePaul Revere & the Raiders?
DeleteKnowing a bit about Word Woman, it’s possible she’s not offering a musical hint. That said, I can think of many other musical hints myself, all of them tmi.
DeleteDr. K, you are on the right track.
DeleteThere was an app for that.
ReplyDeleteI hear the New York Knicks charge an admission fee to watch a game.
ReplyDeleteFake news! No soup for you!
ReplyDeleteNow that I finally got the answer... here's a nice sequel: Think of a state capital and say it out loud. Change one vowel sound in it to name something many college students study. What things are these?
ReplyDeleteA miner's delight. You and JAWS: Perfect together.
DeleteInstead of HOMES, I guess now it's SHAME. (Off topic, I know.)
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle is legendary. Totally off the hook.
ReplyDeleteMusical Clue: Jann Wenner
ReplyDeleteSpoonerise the name of a Nobel Prize winning playwright to phonetically describe posters on this blog whose hints may be TMI.
ReplyDeleteThat one got me showing my pearly whites.
DeleteI thought you would solve it. It is a good puzzle I believe, but only works on this blog.
Deletex(yw)(zw)
ReplyDeleteIn the book To Mock a Mockingbird by Raymond Smullyan, the formula for a phoenix is Ï•xyzw=x(yw)(zw).
DeleteHuh, I may have stumbled on a solution ... or one of them. My hint would be that the problem statement appears to offer a hint. What logicians would call a hintikka.
ReplyDeleteI find three answers, depending on how i interpret "schoolkids".
ReplyDeleteI didn't do this when I was in San Antonio.
ReplyDeleteApologies to anyone that saw my confusing post on Ed Asner. I read an "on this day" post for his passing back on August 29, 2021 and read it as 2026. Mea culpa.
ReplyDeleteYour confusion is understandable. He still frequently appears in crossword puzzles.
Deletehow meta!
ReplyDeleteRIP Gloria Steinem, fellow Smith College graduate. I met her at a Smith graduation/reunion when I was a "Sophomore Push" (we literally coralled the dazed seniors through the festivities) supporting the "Ivy Day Juniors" saluting the graduating class. Gloria, ever resplendent in her Ivy Day white outfit, was into all of it.
ReplyDeleteIn this interview from a decade ago or so she discusses her fondness for tap dance, which she hoped would allow her to dance her way out of Toledo (it didn't) and how she still tapped years later when listening to Muzak by herself in elevators. There's more to this little anecdote than this, which you can find at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1HGlTofjSk&t=1s.
DeletePHOENIX, PHONICS
ReplyDelete" Pop rock " >>> PHOENIX is the most populous state capital and there are lots of exposed rocks there, especially red ones. Too bad it's so very hot so much of the year!
PHOENIX & PHONICS
ReplyDeletePHOENIX —> PHONICS
ReplyDelete“Hesiod.”
—> The ancient Greek poet Hesiod was the first to mention the phoenix.
There were also quite a few musical hints that were possible, but all of the ones I thought of would probably have been tmi, e.g., Jimmy Webb, Johnny Rivers, Glen Campbell, Jefferson Airplane, etc.
PHOENIX, PHONICS
ReplyDelete> Cute, but I take issue with the way your puzzle is stated.
Unlike the original puzzle, JAWS's riff requires the name of the state as well.
> There was an app for that.
PHOENIX PHONICS was an IOS app. Seems no longer to be available.
> Fake news! No soup for you!
Other "PHO" words: PHONY (faux!), and just plain PHO.
Phoenix>>Phonics
ReplyDeleteYou can perform a similar operation, with a non-vowel sound, to change Juneau to Judo. While Phoenix and Juneau are separated by more than 2500 miles, Alaska and Arizona are adjacent on alphabetical lists of U.S. States.
You can also change Lansing to dancing.
DeletePhoenix --> phonics
ReplyDeleteLast Sunday I said, “When I saw the sunrise this morning, I felt like rising, too. So I did.” Just like the Phoenix.
Chuck, I thought you were more specifically alluding to Phoenix Rising, which is a soccer team in (unsurprisingly) Phoenix. So I said that's a connection with last week's puzzle, because... the NFL team in Phoenix is the Cardinals!
Delete(In baseball there could be a game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Baltimore Ordinals.)
I also thought the sunrise was a reference to the Phoenix Suns.
DeleteI wrote, "Remove a letter from the subject of study. Rearrange. You get a tool useful for transferring something from one place to another." That's SIPHON.
ReplyDelete"Double one letter and rearrange to get something kids would rather study, and what teachers would say in response."
ReplyDeletePHOENIX; PHONE, "NIX"
I'll let Crito reveal the answer to his variation that doubled another letter to get something students would rather study, but eight years ago they might have been studying something that would require no doubled letters: the hot new iphone X!
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Lego...
My post:
ReplyDelete- “When I say it out loud, part of what I hear conjures up some happy memories from earlier this year.” “Fee-NIX” reminded me of the Knicks and the happy memory of their NBA championship in June.
- and for Jaws clue, where he said to ‘remove nine letters from the capital’, I suggested removing a word - “letters” - from his clue, because you can remove nine (as in Roman numerals IX) from the end of Phoenix (without Arizona) and his clue still works.
Madison, medicine or Phoenix, phonics
ReplyDeleteThe capitals are Madison, Wisconsin and Phoenix, Arizona.
I had those two. I'm curious to find out the third that Roger and Quester found.
DeleteMy tjree:
DeleteMadison => medicine
Phoenix => comics
Providence => evidence (law school subject)
three, i meant
DeleteWhen I wrote "I didn't do this when I was in San Antonio," I was hinting at River Walking, a combination of River and Joaquin Phoenix.
ReplyDeleteThe answer to my above puzzle:
ReplyDeleteSpoonerise the name of a Nobel Prize winning playwright to phonetically describe posters on this blog whose hints may be TMI.
Is: Harold Pinter >>> periled hinter
"something many schoolkids study": change the E to nothing in: BOISE => BOIS => BOYS ... something many schoolkids study, mostly girls
ReplyDeletePHOENIX, PHONICS
ReplyDeleteI gave a musical clue of JANN WENNER, who was forever the Publisher of ROLLING STONE
The band DR HOOK and the MEDICINE SHOW was a one-hit wonder, whose famous song was ON THE COVER OF THE ROLLING STONE
HOOKED ON PHONICS was a commercial I saw a hundred times as a kid.
PHONICS and PHOENIX
First of all, Dr. Hook actually had a number of hits, they just didn't keep the "Medicine Show" part of their name very long.
ReplyDeleteSecond, I thought for sure MADISON/MEDICINE was the intended answer, not PHOENIX/PHONICS. Dr. Hook also eventually got their own Rolling Stone cover, or so I've heard.
Third, is anybody else having trouble with their Publish button not appearing in their Comment box when it first comes on as you click on one of these blogs? I've had to fix it twice already, and I don't think I could be able to remember what I did the last time to be able to do it again, if necessary.
pjbIsn'tSureWhatToDoAboutThisProblem,HeJustHasToKeepWorkingAtItUntilThePublishButtonComesUpAgain
Huh, Madison does seem just as good as Phoenix as an answer. Surely Will has to mention it (if indeed he was intending Phoenix!).
ReplyDeletePHOENIX, PHONICS
ReplyDeleteI had said to "remove nine letters", then reverse what becomes the last two letters, to get something most people take with them when they leave the house.
My intention was to remove IX, which are the letters that represent the Roman numeral 9, and then reversing the remaining last two letters gets to PHONE.
I was wondering all week what Jan's issue was, but I have now seen his response. I didn't even think about listing Arizona with the capital to get nine letters. So, I have to ask, who thought of which way? Who was removing IX, and who was removing IX ARIZONA?
I was removing the IX ARIZONA, and wondering about your wording.
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