I thought of several puzzles related to last week's NPR puzzle. Click this link to see it. Here's one.
Think of a well known composer. Some of the letters is his name are used more than once. Remove the duplicates and rearrange what's left to come up with an adjective that describes what some of the statements made by the popular fictional character (in the NPR puzzle) are NOT.
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The image is four jars of spices or seasonings, referring to The Four Seasons by Vivaldi, the composer in question. The solution to the NPR puzzle was Pinocchio and Chopin. Remove a v and an i from Vivaldi and rearrange to get the word valid, which many of Pinocchio's statements were not.
Were Simon and Garfunkel famous composers?
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle is kosher. And I'm not lying.
ReplyDeleteThis composer is well-known to me, but I doubt he/she is to the general public. At least the composer is not a dead, white male.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious to know if you have an alternate answer. The composer intended here is very much a dead, white male.
DeleteSince my answer is not the intended answer, I will say that my composer is John Rutter. He is the very well-known (at least to me) English composer of choral music. He is a living, white male.
DeleteRemove duplicate letters and rearrange Rutter and you get True.
Nicely done! In a universe as large as this, it's not surprising that there is more than one acceptable answer.
DeleteI'm surprised that it took me as long as it did to get this one, but, without the excellent hints above, it might have taken me another three weeks.
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