Celebrity Anagranalogy

Q:

Rearrange the letters in each section of the following to create an accurate analogy.

Cornmeal Grants : Fractured One : : Tar My Bod : We Rub Slop

A:

Lance Armstrong : Tour de France : : Tom Brady : Superbowl

A New Homanagranalonym

Q:

Ashore : Cholera : : Ruby : Ariels

1)  Rearrange the letters of each section              Anagram

2)  Find the homophone for each new word          Homonym

3)  To make a sensible analogy                             Analogy

4)  Post your answer below                                   Homanagranalonym

5)  Brag about it on the puzzle page

A:

Ashore : Cholers : : Ruby : Ariels

Hoarse : Chorale : : Bury : Serial

Horse : Corral : : Berry : Cereal

Now Showing in 3-D

Q:

This challange requires you to use only the letters of the alphabet that can be rotated 180 degrees on the x, y or z axis without changing.  For example, you can rotate B toward you from top to bottom (x-axis), flip A from left to right (y-axis) and spin X around 180 degrees (z-axis).  X actually works on all 3 axes. 

I used the Arial font which is common in most word processors.  You can use upper or lower case letters and repeat them as needed.

And now the challenge:  Name the only state with its respective capital city that can be spelled using only the letters in this new alphabet.

Hint:

Usually I can't be bought, but for a buck I'd give you a terrific hint.

A:

The new alphabet gives the roman numerals D, I and X  yielding 509

The Carnival's in Town

Q:

Take the names of two countries.  Remove the first three letters of each and you’re left with the acronyms for two well known organizations.  Remove all the remaining vowels and you’re left with an acronym for a member of one of these organizations.

What are the countries and acronyms?

A: 


Panama  -  Canada  -  AMA  -  ADA  -  MD 

How Comforting

Q:

Take the related words ERODE and WIND.

Rearrange the letters to form two new words which are also closely related.

Question:  How do you get down from an elephant?

Answer:  You don't get down from an elephant. You get down from a duck!  (even an elephant can laugh at that)

A:


Erode and Wind ----> Eider and Down

Homanagranalonym

Tens : Wonks : : Ties : Yeas

1)  Rearrange the letters of each section              Anagram

2)  Find the homophone for each new word          Homonym

3)  To make a sensible analogy                             Analogy

4)  Post your answer below                                   Homanagranalonym

5)  Brag about it on the puzzle page

A:

Tens : Wonks : : Ties : Yeas

 Sent : Knows : : Site : Ayes

    Scent : Nose : : Sight : Eyes

I Do Declare

Q:

Take the 2 word phrase "visual pistol"  (as opposed to a concealed weapon), and the word "crime".  A visual pistol may be used during a crime.

Now, rearrange these 17 letters to create a 3 word phrase and then a second single word in which the second word may be used after the 3 word phrase.

Last Minute Hint:

Look at the pictures.  Who are they?  Jacques Mesrine (Public Enemy) and Babar.  What do they have in common?

A:  


Both pictures refer to French figures.  The answer is in french, although very common.

S'il vous plait (please) and merci (thank you).  The word merci may be used after s'il vous plait.

My Dog Has No Nose

Q:

Take the question, “Does a Dalmatian ever sneeze?” Rearrange the letters to name four places on earth that would be described with superlatives (words that end with est).

How about we start with creepiest???????

A:

Amazon - widest river, Nile - longest river, Everest - highest elevation, Dead Sea - lowest elevation

Straighten Up!

Try to get from slap happy to dead serious as quickly as you can.

Then try again using only words starting with the letters in the middle row of your keyboard.

Post your answers below.

Good luck!

You Must Remember This

Q:

Take the name of the famous singer, "Natalie Cole," 11 letters in all.  Take 3 pairs of letters (6 in all) and shift them 2 places higher in the alphabet.  You choose which pairs, but the numerical positions of each pair must add up to 13.  For example, if you shift the 2nd letter you must shift the 11th.  If you shift the 3rd, you must shift the 10th, etc.

Now take the new set of 11 and shift 1 letter up 2 places.  Rearrange them all to name a very well-known person from an earlier generation.

Hint:

There are only 5 pairs of letters so the number of possible combinations is much less than you might think.  It's not that complicated, unlike this patent diagram.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2115867.pdf  

 A:

I gave lots of hints in this puzzle.  

The title doesn't refer to the song "As time Goes By" but to "Unforgettable".

Natalie Cole made a very successful recording of this with her father, who happens to be a famous person from an earlier generation (1 to be exact).

The hint on this page was a give-away of the pairs of letters.  The patent number 2115867 shows you 2 and 11, 5 and 8, 6 and 7.

Once you get that far, it's pretty obvious which final letter to shift and what the answer is.

NAT KING COLE

Anagranalogy

Q:

Consider the analogy:

Post : i i v i : : Leidy : i v i i

Remove 1 letter overall and rearrange the letters within each section to form an accurate analogy.

A:   


Remove the second v.

Stop : viii : : Yield : iii

A stop sign has 8 sides and a yield sign has 3.

Six Feet Under

Q:

Michael loved the orchestra. But upon each entrance, he let out a horrible screech. “My oboe won’t work. I think it’s a reed.”


And so on.

Hint:

If you understand the title, you can count on finding the solution.

A:


The title refers to being buried and indeed, there are 11 words buried in this brief story.  I thought s-ix was pretty obvious (what the heck's a quasi-xylophone?).  It reads like this:

 Michael loved the orchestra.  But upon each entrance, he let out a horrible screech. “My oboe won’t work. I think it’s a reed.”

 “I think it may be both reeds…again,” replied the conductor.  "If our concert is to be a success, you must be prepared.  And if I’ve said that once, I’ve said it a thousand times.  Some of our larger and more unusual instruments are hard to maintain,” he went on, “like the wood pipes and the quasi-xylophones.  I guess even the harps, which weigh the most of all, may have an excuse.  But you play an oboe with tiny little reeds.”

 “I’m sorry,” Michael replied. “I mean I never wanted to be a problem. At least not this often.”

Seeing the shame on the young man’s face, how did the conductor respond?

A: " Don't worry Michael. Even my best players make mistakes."

B:  "Don't worry Michael, but if it happens again, you're out."

The correct answer is A.

Home At Last

Q:

Take the first 2 letters of a certain US state to get a 2 letter word.  Next, take the first 2 letters of another state and the first 2 letters of its capital city to get a 4 letter word. The result in 2-4, will name a place in which a large portion of the population might say they live.


Which 2 states and capital are these?

Hint:

No hints yet. Post your answer in the comments area.

A:

As many of you guessed, the large portion of the population is Hispanic.

MIchigan, MIssouri, etc. and CAlifornia + SAcramento  -->  Mi Casa  -  Spanish for "My House."

It's On Me

Q:

Think of two five-letter words describing a certain beverage that have very different meanings. Rearrange the letters in one of the words so that they now have similar meanings.

Hint:

This puzzle is pretty straight up, actually kind of neat.  The solution's a bit more pedestrian.

A:

The title and hint referred to alcoholic beverages and beer was the choice.  A lager is light and crisp and a stout is heavy and dark.  Rearrange the letters in lager.

Lager and Stout  ---  Large and Stout 

Would You Like Frites With That?

Q:

Combine America, Utah, Boise and Salem a certain way and you get Madison, Wisconsin. Remove any of the four and you get Lincoln, Nebraska.


How is this possible?



 Hint:

I'm very wary of making this too easy.  There's just too much at steak.  Here's a suggestion, though.  If you're  desperate  for help, send out an SOS.

 A:

Assign a numerical value to each letter of the alphabet.  A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.  The values of the letters in America add up to 50 as do  Utah, Boise and Salem.  All four add up to 200 which is the value of Madison, Wisconsin.  Remove any one and you have 150 which is the value of Lincoln, Nebraska.

The hint was the misspelling of 'steak' directly above SOS  -  steak sauce  -  A1

Feel free to post your answer or anything else in the comments area.

Sour Puss

Q:

Who might say this, Kelly Ripa or Regis Philbin?

“Oh, dear me. Cooking a meal in Paris did me in.”

Explain your answer


Hint:

There's a clue in the title that should help you deliver the correct answer.


Post your answer in the comments area.

A:

In the title, the word PUSS can be anagrammed into USPS to help you "deliver" the correct answer.

The statement is a string of postal abbreviations:  OH DE AR ME.  CO OK IN GA ME AL etc.  Since Kelly's last name is RIPA (Rhode Island and Pennsylvania), she would be the speaker.

Cooking Challenge

Q:

Take the phrase "Summer Olympics."  Change 1 letter and rearrange all 14 to name 4 things you might find in a Chinese kitchen.

With an anagram, switching a letter can make it much harder to solve.  Because this puzzle has 4 answers it becomes a process of elimination.  Pull out the obvious ones first and you're left with m - m - s.

A:

Plum - Rice - Soy - MSG

Business or Pleasure

Q:

Think of an 8 letter word that names something people like to watch.  Remove the 1st letter to name something people hate to see.

Sometimes there's a clue in the title or the picture.  In this case, the clue is in the puzzle's title.  One word relates to business and one to pleasure.  It was up to you to decide which was which.

I ran this puzzle in Blainesville earlier this summer.  The best comment went something like this...Those who disappoint during the 8 letter word may be subject to the 7 letter word.  Others simply move to Miami.  Nice smack-down of LeBron James.

A:

Playoffs and Layoffs