Joseph Young's Puzzleria!
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Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzle -ria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of appetizing puzzles!
Joseph Young's Puzzleria!
6d ago
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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Games people & musicians play
Name a word for things musicians play.
Five interior letters spell how some musicians play.
The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell one of the games people play.
What do musicians play? How do some musicians play? What is one of the games people play?
Hint: Take the first five letters and the last letter of the things musicians play. Add a “g”. Rearrange these seven letters to spell a plural word for parts of what “some musicians play” which are a ..read more
Joseph Young's Puzzleria!
3w ago
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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Oxymoronic anagramatic exercise
Spell out the letters of either one of two alphabets: the English alphabet, with which most Americans are most familiar, or the Greek alphabet:
a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee.
alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega.
You can select and rearrange the combined letters of any number ..read more
Joseph Young's Puzzleria!
3w ago
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Schpuzzle of the Week:
In search of a mystery verb
Subtract from a verb four consecutive letters of the “circular alphabet,” one of them twice, leaving three consecutive letters that appear elsewhere the alphabet.
Neither group of consecutive letters is in alphabetical order in the verb.
What is this mystery verb?
Note: The “Monopoly Man & Mr. Peanut” illustration gives an example of an adjective (“monocled”) that can be formed by using strings of three and four consecutive letters of the alphabet.
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Joseph Young's Puzzleria!
1M ago
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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Gophers & badgers & deer, oh my!
Take just the second halves of two creatures with the same even number of letters in their names – like badger and gopher, for example.
Rearrange these combined letters to spell words that are synonyms of the two-word subject and one-word predicate in “The female deer bounded.”
These two creatures begin with the same four
letters in the same order. These four letters spell a prefix. The first three of these four letters spell still another creature.
What are these two crea ..read more
Joseph Young's Puzzleria!
1M ago
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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Recreational diversions
The following recreational diversions have something very unusual in common.
What is it?
And what eighth diversion could be added to
the list?
Dominoes, Rebuses, Mille Bornes, Faro, Solitaire, Labyrinths, Tiddlywinks, _______?
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Academy Award-Winning Appetizer:
“Amazing Actors and Actresses”
1. ?Take the name of a famous actor. Add a letter to the first name to get a profession.
The actor’s last name is a word relating to what the profession does. Who is it ..read more
Joseph Young's Puzzleria!
1M ago
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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Pearamount Pickedcherries?
Take an eleven-letter name associated with the film industry.
Delete a letter.
The result is a fruit and what is inside of it.
What are this name, fruit and what is inside of it?
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Location Location Location! Appetizer:
Where the Heck are we?
1.☕?Take the brand name of a beverage.
Add to that the name of a laundry detergent.
The result, phonetically, will be a well-known movie based on a location.
What are the two brands and what is the movi ..read more
Joseph Young's Puzzleria!
2M ago
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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Acts of the Apostle Islands?
Take the first four words of a verse in the King James Version of the Bible’s Book of Acts (of the Apostles, that is). Delete a preposition and a space. The result will be the names of two modern Middle Eastern countries.
What are these two countries and the verse?
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Noddingly Approved Appetizer:
Suitable, Digital, Mythical, Rangy, Differential, Poetic Puzzles!
SUITABLE ARRANGEMENTS
1. ♠♥♣♦ The same letters can be arranged to spell eight words and o ..read more
Joseph Young's Puzzleria!
2M ago
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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Better chemistry, through living... color
While making a movie, if one of the ______ has no chemistry with his ______, the director
sometimes _______ the role with a new _______.
The words in the first and second blanks are anagrams of each other, as are the words in the third and fourth blanks.
What are these four words?
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Puzzle-Wizardly-Zarkinesque Appetizer:
Classics, Malady & remedy, Doing in, Doing to, the World’s a stage, Morning delight, Return to sender
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Joseph Young's Puzzleria!
3M ago
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Schpuzzle of the Week:
www revolve around xyz axes?
Take three identical lowercase letters, like the “www” in web addresses.
Rotate the first letter 180 degrees around the x-axis, the second letter 180 degrees around the y-axis, and the third letter 180 degrees around the z-axis.
The result, after a hasty uppercasing, is a synonym of “hastily.”
What are the synonym and the three identical lowercase letters you rotated?
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Piggybacking Appetizer:
A shallow crossword
If you print the name ARIANA above the name W ..read more
Joseph Young's Puzzleria!
3M ago
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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Ranking the rank-and-file pieces
Here is how I rank the six chess pieces:
1. Knight and Bishop (tied for 1st)
2. Queen (2nd)
3. Castle, also known as a Rook (3rd)
4. Pawn (4th)
5. King (5th)
What ranking system am I using?
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Friendly Yet Fiendish Appetizer:
Math, Music, Meds and More
(Note: The five appetizing puzzles below were composed by an irregular contributor to Puzzleria!”)
Body Parts & Other Fractions
1. ?✋Take a word for a human body part. Then take a word for certain frac ..read more