Hello, puzzlers!
Nova is picking blueberries in Maine this week.
But the first Sunday in the month is our puzzle potluck! Anybody can contribute a puzzle! Either Kosmail your puzzle to me and I'll add it to the party, or you can just put it in the comments and I'll post it.
We love all kinds of puzzles - even riddles!
To start, here is something I found on the Wuzzles and Puzzles web page (www.wuzzlesandpuzzles.com)
This type of puzzle they call "Commonym" For each of these trio of items, what do they have in common? For example, if the items are: car, tree, elephant, the answer is they all have trunks!
So, 10 commonyms:
1. A Ball - A Fish - A Cold
2. A Ball - A Salad - A Coin
3. A Cork - A Question - A Balloon
4. A Bottle - A Baseball Player - A Mushroom
5. A Bell - Mouth - A Shoe
6. A Tug of War - The Nightly News - A Boat
7. Seventeen - Time - People
8. A Basketball Court - A Highway - A Bowling Alley
9. Fog - A Jack - A Body Builder
10. A Hockey Game - A Restaurant - A Bank
Here's a quickie from science!
What is the next letter in the sequence?
E O E R E X N T E N N ?
And one from sny, too!
You can buy either 7 day tickets or 30 day tickets to the local subway, costing $7.03 and $30 respectively. You want to buy tickets for the calendar years 2014-2016. What is the least amount you can spend?
Make sure to prove/justify that your answer is optimal.
For new visitors to Sunday puzzle, our tradition is to have a puzzle every week in the style our founder Julie Waters brought to us. We call it a Juliecrostic in her honor. Here's how it works:
Using the clues, you try to create a grid of words. Starting with the word in the first column, you add one letter and rearrange it to form a new word. Then you add a letter to form the word in the next column, etc. The added letter goes between the words. When the grid is complete, the added words form a phrase when read vertically. Here is an example that Julie made for us.
Part of the challenge is to determine what the topology of the grid looks like, how many rows and columns and the length of the words.
Anyway, here is today's Juliecrostic:
1 Burn, a little
2 Layered rock
3 Gets on base
4 Without a crown
5 Sometimes they are bit
6 Casual pants
7 Nichelle or Rachel or James Garner
8 Like a goof
9 What you hear when Boehner tries to get a bill through his House
10 Having horse canines
11 Bellowed (from the puzzlemaker: ha!)
12 Tortuga, Hole-in-the-wall, the Batcave
13 Rec'd
14 Reader
15 Nasty tattoo
16 What Santa did
17 Child transportation
18 Tinsmith
19 No-goodnik
20 Philosophers
21 Pilot
22 A type of egg you see once a year
23 Jumper, sometimes
24 Coupes and flutes
25 Streets
26 Used to be black, now mostly white
27 Tavern for teens
28 Eastern word for coast
29 Real sugar
30
31 Wash
32 What 30 does