Ahoy = Sailor / Yahoo = Cowboy / ??? = Puzzler

Here's this week's NPR Sunday Puzzle:

Think of a common exclamation in four letters. Move the last letter to the start, and then add a new letter to the end, to get another well-known exclamation. What is it?

Here's the answer Henry came up with: AHOY -> YAHO + O = YAHOO. Is that the "right" answer? I have no idea. It's what we've got.

While I'm thinking of it, Sunday's blog post may be delayed by a few hours. (Or I will have conned Ross into posting it for me.) I'm off on Friday to Blantyre, a small hotel in Lenox, Massachusetts, to celebrate a cousin's 50th birthday. I'll be home on Sunday, but who knows when.

Let's see what Flickr has for Lenox, shall we?













Time for

Here are this week's picks:

Zero and fewer     1 - 50  51 - 100 101 - 150 151 - 200 201 - 250 251 - 300 301 - 350 351 - 400 401 - 450 -- Joe Kupe 451 - 500 501 - 550 551 - 600 601 - 650 651 - 700 701 - 750 -- legolambda 751 - 800 -- Ross 801 - 850 -- Margaret 851 - 900 901 - 950 951 - 1,000

1,001 - 1,050 -- David 1,051 - 1,100 -- Henry BW 1,101 - 1,150 -- Jay 1,151 - 1,200 -- Magdalen 1,201 - 1,250 1,251 - 1,300 1,301 - 1,350 1,351 - 1,400 -- Maggie Strasser 1,401 - 1,450 1,451 - 1,500 1,501 - 1,550 1,551 - 1,600 1,601 - 1,650 1,651 - 1,700 1,701 - 1,750 1,751 - 1,800 1,801 - 1,850 1,851 - 1,900 1,901 - 1,950 1,951 - 2,000

2,001 - 2,050 -- Mendo Jim 2,051 - 2,100 -- Paul 2,101 - 2,150 2,151 - 2,200 2,201 - 2,250 2,251 - 2,300 2,301 - 2,350 2,351 - 2,400 -- Curtis 2,401 - 2,450 2,451 - 2,500 2,501 - 2,750 -- Word Woman 2,751 - 3,000 3,001 - 3,250 3,251 - 3,500 3,501 - 4,000 4,001 - 4,500 4,501 - 5,000  > 5,000  > 5,000 + new record

Our tie-break rule:   In the event that a single round number is announced with a qualifier such as "about" or "around" (e.g., "We received around 1,200 entries."), AND two separate people picked the ranges of numbers just before and just after that round number, the prize will be awarded to whichever entrant had not already won a prize, or in the event that both entrants had won a prize already or neither had, then to the earlier of the two entries on the famous judicial principle of "First Come First Serve," (or in technical legal jargon, "You Snooze, You Lose").  As of July 2012, this rule is officially no longer obsolete (and also I still just like having fine print).