tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post4681238485955918980..comments2024-03-29T04:50:38.638-07:00Comments on Blaine's Puzzle Blog: NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 14, 2014): Calculator GeographyBlainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379274325110866036noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-39588881497118341162014-09-21T06:44:05.810-07:002014-09-21T06:44:05.810-07:00When you solve it, you might ask yourself for whom...When you solve it, you might ask yourself for whom the bell told.skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-79705033170633317792014-09-21T06:39:02.300-07:002014-09-21T06:39:02.300-07:00Tough, but not too tuff. . .Tough, but not too tuff. . .Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-26935126211471433902014-09-21T06:37:36.262-07:002014-09-21T06:37:36.262-07:00the answer to this week's puzzleis probably no...the answer to this week's puzzleis probably not Alexander Popezeke creekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12559686966843380823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-44036340128820388982014-09-21T06:35:50.098-07:002014-09-21T06:35:50.098-07:00Yes, they remain in order and I already have the a...Yes, they remain in order and I already have the answer. Easier than I thought it would be.skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-45889890992474579032014-09-21T06:34:34.461-07:002014-09-21T06:34:34.461-07:00The letters remain in the same order. Having faile...The letters remain in the same order. Having failed to come up with a clever clue, I'll simply say the author came from a famous family - the actor from a much larger one.SuperZeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08024610786525654860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-40713265385441175212014-09-21T06:21:25.211-07:002014-09-21T06:21:25.211-07:00Are we to take it that these letters remain in ord...Are we to take it that these letters remain in order during the transformation, or that they are free to wander within the outlined confines?MrSciencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11112686794893154281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-31962801632086973012014-09-21T05:25:06.049-07:002014-09-21T05:25:06.049-07:00Next week's challenge: Name a famous actor bes...Next week's challenge: Name a famous actor best known for tough-guy roles. The first five letters of his first name and the first four letters of his last name are the first five and four letters, respectively, in the first and last names of a famous author. Who is the actor, and who is the author?janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-9031547257156589362014-09-20T22:14:03.467-07:002014-09-20T22:14:03.467-07:00Yes, thank you, ron, for this fun exercise. I had ...Yes, thank you, ron, for this fun exercise. I had just returned from a climate change/tar sands demonstration at the Kanadian border at the Blaine Peace Arch and did not say it out loud, but read them both silently without any difficulty at all, and even much faster than I normally read text. Then I cooked and ate dinner and went back and read both aloud after mucho Portuguese wine without any difficulty again, but a bit slower than when I read them silently. I can't remember if I have that memory disease I forget the name of though. skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-50865723318462875692014-09-20T21:00:32.381-07:002014-09-20T21:00:32.381-07:00ron,
Thanks for posting. Enjoyable and fascinatin...ron,<br /><br />Thanks for posting. Enjoyable and fascinating. <br /><br />But I hvae a finleeg taht Bvnaaleliisnis wlil psas wtih fynilg crloos tihs elenexlct emalxpe of a biarn sduty. I sotnrlgy ssguegt taht most of you beogrlgs are on the bensusis end of the <a href="http://puzzleria.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Blel Cvrue</a>.<br /><br />LgeoLdmaba<br />legolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-10785065100874348302014-09-20T16:40:53.274-07:002014-09-20T16:40:53.274-07:00Interesting and amusing, sure, but I'd like to...Interesting and amusing, sure, but I'd like to see the peer-reviewed, randomized-control study that proves any relation to reduced Alzheimer's risk.janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-16233098853080539882014-09-20T13:09:57.391-07:002014-09-20T13:09:57.391-07:00Here's another trick of Doctor Dementia to tes...Here's another trick of Doctor Dementia to test your skills...<br /><br />Can you meet this challenge?<br /><br />Good example of a Brain Study: If you<br />can read this OUT LOUD you have a strong mind. And better than that:<br />Alzheimer's is a long long, way down the road before it ever gets<br />anywhere near you.<br /><br /><br />7H15 M3554G3<br /><br /><br />53RV35 7O PR0V3<br /><br /><br />H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N<br /><br /><br />D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5!<br /><br /><br />1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5!<br /><br />1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG<br /><br />17 WA5 H4RD BU7<br /><br />N0W, 0N 7H15 LIN3<br /><br />Y0UR M1ND 1S<br /><br />R34D1NG 17<br /><br />4U70M471C4LLY<br /><br />W17H 0U7 3V3N<br /><br />7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17,<br /><br />B3 PROUD! 0NLY<br /><br />C3R741N P30PL3 C4N<br /><br />R3AD 7H15.<br /><br />PL3453 F0RW4RD 1F<br /><br />U C4N R34D 7H15.<br /><br />Only great minds can read this. This is weird, but interesting!<br /><br />If you can read this, you have a strange mind, too.<br />Can you read this? Olny 55 people out of 100 can.<br /><br />I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg.<br />The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at<br />Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a<br />word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer<br />be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still<br />raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseaethe huamn mnid deos not raed<br />ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and<br />I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed this forward it.<br /><br /><br />ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07302749761931016101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-66226745311049524312014-09-19T17:06:41.912-07:002014-09-19T17:06:41.912-07:00beautifulbeautifulPaulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-22697393190897680382014-09-19T15:26:22.881-07:002014-09-19T15:26:22.881-07:00That was exactly what I was referring.That was exactly what I was referring.benmar12001https://www.blogger.com/profile/02721420444783718903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-68661494076742661932014-09-19T15:04:10.677-07:002014-09-19T15:04:10.677-07:00What about DILI capital of Timor-LesteWhat about DILI capital of Timor-LesteRoRohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16762881841491412811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-13242378487427292302014-09-19T13:55:02.748-07:002014-09-19T13:55:02.748-07:00The van ride sounds lurid. The van ride sounds lurid. skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-89554674506491494452014-09-19T12:04:23.596-07:002014-09-19T12:04:23.596-07:00With what did you bait your breath? I find worms ...With what did you bait your breath? I find worms gross; my friend, Kermit, says time's fun when you're having flies. Speaking of which, the guide on our Snake River raft trip decorated the sun visor in his van with dry flies and lures he's found snagged on driftwood on the river.janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-8350747398166591802014-09-19T07:14:24.230-07:002014-09-19T07:14:24.230-07:00And I had replied that you were correct.And I had replied that you were correct.benmar12001https://www.blogger.com/profile/02721420444783718903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-17062064435977111532014-09-19T07:13:28.128-07:002014-09-19T07:13:28.128-07:00Boys - BOISE
High and Low - OSLO
Please - BELIZE
...Boys - BOISE<br />High and Low - OSLO<br />Please - BELIZE<br /><br />Locale used previously: NORWAY, as part of WAYNE MANOR, Batman's residence, used in a challenge in the Fall of 2010Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-87470481936498874782014-09-18T17:21:21.569-07:002014-09-18T17:21:21.569-07:00Lego, I awaited your 10-letter answer with baited ...Lego, I awaited your 10-letter answer with baited breath. James Hutton geologized, I geologal. ;-)<br />Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-4808622922354459772014-09-18T15:58:15.912-07:002014-09-18T15:58:15.912-07:00Does that make U the Seoul survivor? Does that make U the Seoul survivor? skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-17497217560891563502014-09-18T15:37:15.291-07:002014-09-18T15:37:15.291-07:00In my Monday 5:51 PM comment, I sought to find len...In my Monday 5:51 PM comment, I sought to find lengthy words that could be formed with inverted digital numbers.<br /><br />The six-letter toponymic Greek isle (3751) is Lesbos. The seven-letter Russian ballet academy is the Bolshoi.<br /><br />Others:<br />What a minister often does at funerals or wakes (8 letters/numbers)<br />ELEGIZES <br />Word describing paradise after it is paved (8 letters/numbers)<br />SOILLESS (“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” -- <em>Joni Mitchell</em>)<br />Word often describing bachelors (8 letters/numbers)<br />ELIGIBLE<br />Word describing a bad marriage (9 letters/numbers)<br />BLISSLESS<br />Word describing what Word Woman (aka Scientific Steph) does over on her excellent PEOTS blog. (10 letters/numbers)<br />GEOLOGIZES<br /><br />LegoElegizesSobs<br />legolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-61660182692477774832014-09-18T15:00:20.895-07:002014-09-18T15:00:20.895-07:00When benmar12001 posted on Sun Sep 14, at 10:31:00...When benmar12001 posted on Sun Sep 14, at 10:31:00 AM PDT:<br /><br />Actually there might be a 2nd unintended world capital out there.<br /><br />I replied on Sun Sep 14, at 02:22:00 PM PDT:<br /><br />I don't see how. I just looked through the entire list of world capitals, and besides the one and only expected answer, there is <b><i>only one capital</i></b> that misses by <b><i>only one letter!</i></b><br /><br />All others have <b><i>at least two</i></b> letters which are <b><i>not</i></b> amongst the set of {B, E, G, H, I, L, O, S or Z}.<br /><br />So what is the only one capital that misses by only one letter?<br /><br />Answer: SEOUL (South Korea) could be represented upside-down on a calculator were it not for the U.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-44725366412059936702014-09-18T14:11:44.806-07:002014-09-18T14:11:44.806-07:00In retrospect, the above may have been a tip-off t...In retrospect, the above may have been a tip-off to BOISE and BELIZE. Maybe I should have stuck with my earlier version:<br />Z*gII-<br />LL*BB-<br />Bg*OI<br />SZ*LI<br />Zg*Eh<br />OG*GS<br />Dispensing with the nonsense:<br />17.25, -88.77 Belmopan<br />43.62, -116.20 Boise<br />59.9, 10.68 Oslo<br /><br />(4615)<br />Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-17528068822472639862014-09-18T13:08:33.219-07:002014-09-18T13:08:33.219-07:00As in you want more in that quota, Chuck?! ;-)
WW...As in you want <i>more</i> in that quota, Chuck?! ;-)<br /><br />WW, EE, MM, 33Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-63632103854973608052014-09-18T13:05:00.733-07:002014-09-18T13:05:00.733-07:00BELIZE OSLO BOISE
We've been discussing turn...<b> BELIZE OSLO BOISE </b><br /><br />We've been discussing turning letters around over at the 51st (!) posting of <a href="http://wordwomanpartialellipsisofthesun.blogspot.com/2014/09/true-north-and-week-51-using-maps-as.html" rel="nofollow">Partial Ellipsis of the Sun: TRUE NORTH</a>Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.com