Puzzle of the Day

Wednesday, April 8

Which San Francisco–based radio and television station is clued by the image below? (Feel free to look up a list of stations.)

Hint: That image should be ample enough to supply the typesetting needs of even the longest math textbook.

Thanks to Will for making a suggestion that led to today's puzzle.

   


Check back tomorrow for the answer, a shoutout to all the solvers, and a new puzzle!

Yesterday's puzzle:

Oakland has a lot of interesting street signs, like this bilingual one in Chinatown:

or this one that, to those who know Latin, doesn't seem to know if it's coming or going:

The two streets signed in the picture below are notable for something they have in common—or, rather, something they lack:

Very few streets in Oakland share this trait; the only others I can think of are El Embarcadero (which is distinct from Embarcadero) and El Caminito. So, a few questions...

  1. What trait am I talking about?
  2. Why do these streets share that trait? (Yes, there's a logic to it.)
  3. Which street in this map snippet deviates from the norm in precisely the opposite way?

Answer:

Most street names end in Street, Boulevard, Drive, or some similar word (like 8th St and Vale Ave above). However, Broadway is just Broadway and Embarcadero is just Embarcadero. This is because these streets already have names implying that they are streets; Broadway is a "broad way", Embarcadero is Spanish for "pier", and El Caminito is "the little path". (Mr. Gregg points out that El Caminito is labeled on Google Maps as El Caminito St, but the real-life street sign—which I've seen in person—just says El Caminito. Yes, Google can be wrong!)

As for which street on the map snippet is unusual in the opposite manner—some of you made a reasonable case for Sunny Slope Ave, but IMO the answer is Boulevard Way.

I did a bit of further research and found one more street in Oakland whose name doesn't include a "street" word, and, folks, it is just the best:

Cheers to street-smart solvers Anna K., Agniv, Leo S., Zachary Z., Martina S., Zachary S., and Mr. Gregg!