I'm thinking of a rectangle.Q: Name two well-known colleges or universities from the same state. The last letter of one is the first letter of the other. Change each instance of this letter to the same new letter to get the names of two other well-known colleges or universities. What four schools are these?
Edit: The common letter in each pair are L and W (length and width) which multiply to give you the area of a rectangle.
A: DePaul/Lake Forest (in Illinois) --> DePauw/Wake Forest (in Indiana and North Carolina)
I don't get Blaine's clue.
ReplyDeleteBut that's how it goes: each of us has to adapt ourself week to week.
Nice puzzle! Remove one letter from a college town name to get something connected to two of the school names.
ReplyDeleteFrom the first pair of colleges, take the one with the longer name. Remove a block of four letters. Rearrange. You get a food.
ReplyDeleteCheck your social security number.
ReplyDeleteOne of these might lead you to the Bible.
ReplyDeleteOr, today you could ask a Cardinal.
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DeleteOK, let’s try this instead: maybe the author attended one of these institutions?
DeleteFor a couple of the schools, my dog sees a connection to last week’s puzzle.
ReplyDeleteI can see a connection to a puzzle from a few months ago.
DeleteI feel defeated.
DeleteI think you caught my drift.
DeleteSnipper, I getting better at noticing details. ;)
DeleteWill included a hint.
ReplyDeleteMy initial guess, with the "slippery" college or university, was mistaken. But now I do have the intended answer. But as for a hint...
ReplyDeleteSome Final Fours in there...
ReplyDeleteI think I've got it. Then again, I did spend a year playing bass in the worlds largest rock band, long time ago.
ReplyDeleteIn time for Halloween: a skeleton on the outside!
ReplyDeleteCole Porter comes to mind with this less-than-obvious collection of institutions
ReplyDeleteNice puzzle from Robbie Ellis! The two swapped letters suggest yet another well-known college or university.
ReplyDeleteI give up. Adieu till next week.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend who spent a year teaching at one of these schools. Because I kept referring to the wrong school when we spoke, the answer to today’s puzzle came to me quickly. (No hint here unless you happen to know my friend.)
ReplyDeleteI just figured out Blaine's clue. As usual, subtle and clever!
ReplyDeleteTo continue with the basketball theme: Two of the schools contributed two NBA Hall of Famers, one of whom, a personal favorite, I got to see play in person in the NBA Finals.
ReplyDeleteOne of them is indeed all that and more. I'm so happy for you that you got to see him or her play.
DeleteOn that theme, there's a bit of significant trivia that directly links two of the schools and which resulted in a contest still known in some quarters as the game that. . . . . . . . . . . .
DeleteThanks, Ben. Seeing him or her play in the Finals was indeed a treat.
DeleteAnd Cloak'n'Dagger, right you are. That game marked the end of an era.
Continuing on that theme, I posted mention of this Challenge on a sports board which I frequent. It's a discussion board for one of the four schools - if my guess is correct. We might get to see how much of a crossover there is between puzzlers and FANatics.
DeleteI got up and did this puzzle with my uncle.
ReplyDeleteI woke up, like Wake Forest. I have an uncle named Paul, like DePaul.
DeleteI can't believe this week's winner would have officially won before, but she had a prior commitment and couldn't record it the next morning! I would've broken whatever else I had planned in order to do it. Good thing that didn't happen to me! I got to be on the air with the Puzzlemaster, and I'm glad to say I have won, if only just the once. Can't wait to get the call again, if lightning does strike twice for me later on, like(more than)a few other winners over the years!
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My cousin went to one of these colleges, and a friend from grad school teaches at another. The other two are not familiar to me at all, although I recognize the name of one of them.
ReplyDeleteSomething similar happened to me, too. I was called and played on the air. And then, about a year later, I was called again. I told the producer that – since I’d already played and had my lapel pin – if he wanted to I’d let him pass me by and give someone else a chance. He said he’d really appreciate that. So that’s what happened.
ReplyDeleteI was on air in 2013, and again in 2017. Now whenever I send in a puzzle solution, my entry says on it that I need no further calls.
DeleteEspecially not Rob-o calls! ;-)
DeleteFor a couple of the schools’ team names, I’d provide a musical clue, but….(I did already)
ReplyDeleteI’m guessing that this puzzle might defeat many solvers
ReplyDeleteAfter a lot of searching on lists, I have the answer. It doesn't help that I've only heard of two of the four. No hint here.
ReplyDeleteWhile searching, I came across an alternate answer. Considering that my alternate has three colleges/universities that I've heard of, I feel it is just as valid an answer.
DeleteWell don't feel down about that. You've heard twice as many as I.
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ReplyDeleteThere's an alternative answer that involves abbreviations and some cheating.
DeleteThis may be the answer I first came up with that involved one college or university that I called "slippery."
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ReplyDeleteDe Paul & Lake Forest & DePauw & Wake Forest
DEPAUL, LAKE FOREST, DEPAUW, WAKE FOREST
ReplyDelete> Will included a hint.
He said the puzzle comes from Robbie Ellis, of Chicago. DEPAUL is in Chicago, and LAKE FOREST is nearby.
> I can see a connection to a puzzle from a few months ago.
I can see the FORESTs (for the trees).
> In time for Halloween: a skeleton on the outside!
Take the two pairs of schools: DEPAUL / LAKE FOREST and DEPAUW / WAKE FOREST. Remove the "insides". In each case, you're left with "DeForest". As in Kelley. "Bones" on the outside!
> There's an alternative answer that involves abbreviations and some cheating.
USC, CSU, USF, FSU: University of Southern California, California State University, University of South Florida, Florida State University. CSU is the state university system, not a single school.
The alternative answer was my first guess, but I thought that CSU was "slippery" because it was a system and not one college or university.
DeleteDePAUL, LAKE FOREST, DePAUW, WAKE FOREST
ReplyDelete“Some Final Fours in there…”
In basketball, DePaul has made the NCAA Men’s Final Four twice, and Wake Forest has made it once. DePauw has made the NCAA Division III Women’s Final Four three times and won the national championship twice.
“Two of the schools contributed two NBA Hall of Famers, one of whom, a personal favorite, I got to see play in person in the NBA Finals.”
—> George Mikan (DePaul ’46) and Tim Duncan (Wake Forest ’97)
I saw Duncan play against the Knicks in Game 1 of the 1999 NBA Finals.
The significant trivia linking two of the schools referred to in the earlier exchange was the Game That Retired (Ray) Meyer when Wake Forest beat DePaul in overtime in the 1984 Midwest Regional Finals of the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
DeleteI wrote, “From the first pair of colleges, take the one with the longer name. Remove a block of four letters. Rearrange. You get a food.” That’s LAKE FOREST – FORE = LATKES.
ReplyDeleteOr, you could rearrange another block of four letters and get "kale."
DeleteDePaul, Lake Forest, DePauw, Wake Forest
ReplyDeleteThe swapped letters (W and L) form the nickname of another college/university, Washington and Lee. I believe the two letters are also related to Blaine's hint.
ReplyDeleteDePaul, Lake Forest, DePauw, Wake Forest
ReplyDeleteMy only gripe with the puzzle is that I wouldn't call those four schools 'well known.'
And I'm very jealous of Dr. K that he got to see Tim Duncan play!
Probably well known to the submitter, who is from Chicago...
DeleteThat’s my gripe as well. I didn’t spend much time on this, and I didn’t come close to solving it, but I can’t say that I’ve heard of any of these schools.
DeleteCome on, these may not be on anyone's top ten list, but U.S. News and World Report says:
DeleteDePaul is #169 among National Universities,
Lake Forest is #62 among National Liberal Arts Colleges,
DePauw is #49 (tie) among National Liberal Arts Colleges, and
Wake Forest is #34 among National Universities.
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ReplyDeleteMy compliments to those of you who solved. I found DePaul/Depauw but got hung up on Loyola, totally missing Lake/Wake Forest. Well done!
ReplyDeleteSee you Sunday.
DePaul --> Lake Forest
ReplyDeleteDePauw --> Wake Forest
Last Sunday I said, “One of these might lead you to the Bible.” DePaul --> Paul”
My "Or, today you could ask a Cardinal." reply referred to the Wake Forest Demon Deacon 57-3 football win over the Stanford Cardinal last Saturday.
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It took me a while to find the answer, mostly because I was not familiar with DePauw or Lake Forest. What helped the most was searching for colleges with similar names, and that got me to DePaul/DePauw.
ReplyDeleteAlternatively, I came up with UT (Uni of TX), TCU, changing to UC (Uni of CA) and CCU (Coastal Carolina Uni). I had heard of all but CCU.
DEPAUL, LAKE FOREST(Illinois), DEPAUW(Indiana), WAKE FOREST(North Carolina)
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My clue was:
ReplyDelete"But that's how it goes: each of us has to adapt ourself week to week."
ADAPT OURSELF WEEK anagrams to LAKE FOREST DEPAUW or WAKE FOREST DEPAUL.
My posts:
ReplyDelete- “For a couple of the schools, my dog sees a connection to last week’s puzzle” …..referred to Depauw and DePaul which sound like “the paw” (sorta like da Nile)
- “For a couple of the schools’ team names, I’d provide a musical clue, but….(I did already)”……referred to the Blue Demons (DePaul) and Demon Deacons (wake forest) which both have Demon in their names, and Demons is a hit song by Imagine Dragons, which gets abbreviated as ID (like in “I’d” or “I did”).
And I did catch your drift with "defeat". Also with "detail".
DeleteYews guise are prose: I had never heard of any of those colleges ... nor had my computer!
ReplyDeleteYeah, my friend Danny from high school went to either Wake Forest or Lake Forest, I can't remember which one. That's why I recalled the pairing with one letter change. Danny's now a professor of German Studies at Penn State.
DeleteEasy enough to discover: Wake Forest.
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ReplyDelete(Hasan also sported a full beard, but after the shooting the Army made him shave it off, so people wouldn't see the resemblance.)
DeletePossible alternative: UM / MIT / UF / FIT (University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Florida, Fashion Institute of Technology)
ReplyDelete“Well known” is quite a stretch. Maybe if you’re from Chicago…. I have literally never heard of 3 of these colleges.
ReplyDeleteWake Forest makes me think of "Good Morning, Vietnam!"; and this puzzle makes me think of Elmer Fudd.
ReplyDeleteThis week's online challenge also comes from Nancy Taubenslag, of Scarsdale, N.Y. Name a company that's known for transportation. Move the first two letters to the end. Reverse everything. Insert the name of an international tourist destination. And you'll get the name of a game that involves transportation. What things are these?
ReplyDeleteCute! Easy! My first guess didn't pan out, but I love to solve before it airs.
DeleteI disagree. This puzzle is wide open. There are a lot of companies that are known for transportation, whether for moving goods, people, or building the machines that transport them. It can be argued that anywhere in the world could be an international tourist destination. There are thousands of board and video games that “involve transportation.”
DeleteUnless you get lucky and happen to think of the right company, destination, or game, this is too wide open.
Easy... for me. Don't harsh my mellow! :)
DeleteI'm usually spending hours with a spreadsheet and lists, so this was refreshing for me. I will say that I wonder if the submitter developed it by working it backwards from the game?
DeleteYeah, it’s the same for me usually. With this one, I’m not sure where to start!
DeleteJaws – I completely agree. When I first saw SDB’s post stating the puzzle, I thought it was a parody. After learning that it was indeed this week’s challenge, I was annoyed by the inelegance of the instructions. Essentially: “Do the following random things to get a random answer.” Not my cup of tea! I’ll pass.
DeleteBut, congratulations to Splainit for solving it so quickly!
Starting with the transportation is the way to go. Once it's manipulated and reversed, the game sort of presents itself.
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