PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVED 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

 PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVED 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. Appetizer Menu&nb ..read more

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVED 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

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVED 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, _______? Appetizer Menu 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

 PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVED 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? Appetizer Menu 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

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVED  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? Appetizer Menu 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

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVED  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? Appetizer Menu Puzzle-Wizardly-Zarkinesque Appetizer: Classics, Malady & remedy, Doing in, Doing to, the World’s a stage, Morning delight, Return to sender  Classic description ..read more

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVED 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? Appetizer Menu Piggybacking Appetizer:  A shallow crossword If you print the name ARIANA above the name W ..read more

 PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVED 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? Appetizer Menu 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

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVED Schpuzzle of the Week: “So, what’s on the Telly? Kojak?” Insert a two-letter verb into a well-known television series title.  Some consecutive letters of the result spell the first name of a television show’s host. Some other consecutive letters of the result spell the surname of that television host’s successor.  What is the TV series?  Who are the hosts? Appetizer Menu MMXXIV Appetizer: Ringing in the New Year cryptically What better way to bring in and ring in the New Year than to celebrate 2024 by solving another incredible Cry ..read more