Today's Puzzle
Thursday, March 18
I pass this restaurant every time I walk over the Park Street Bridge from Alameda to Oakland. I've never eaten there, but I can tell what kind of food they serve from the sign. Can you? (In case you have trouble reading the text, it's "Dragon Rouge".)
Yesterday's Puzzle + Solution
My daughter uses 50–100 words. What is the one word she uses with two clearly different meanings (a noun and an adjective)? The way she pronounces it rhymes with "launch", which solves a notorious problem for poets.
Solution
Orange!
Congratulations to yesterday's solvers Yana, Charlie, Ena, Kate, and Mrs. Gregg. Thanks to everybody who made a guess!
About This Site
Though he now teaches mathematics, Dr. (né Mr.) Shapiro's first job in a K–12 school was as a lunch monitor in Davis, CA. It was there that he originated the Puzzle of the Day, even rewarding correct answers with tickets in denominations like "15 points" (though without a clear idea of how he'd ultimately redeem these). Dr. Shapiro's favorite puzzle from this pre-professional era was "Tell me the location of the beehive on this campus."
Ten years later, Dr. Shapiro revived Puzzle of the Day at Proof School, writing each day's puzzle on a name tag. After 600 puzzles or so, he was just starting to feel normal about students reading his chest all the time when campus closed and the puzzle, like the rest of our lives, moved online. New puzzles are posted daily on school days.
Want to catch up on old PotDs? There's an archive currently containing puzzles from March to December 2020.