Sunday Puzzle: For Mimi 3%

By Will Shortz0%

4/19/2026, 5:02:02 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Recency Bias, Overconfidence Bias, and False Dilemma, with Indoctrination as the most egregious example at 10.2% saturation with 27 hits. Analysis detected 146 faulty-reasoning hits from 266 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 13.7% and a BS Rank of 3% (21,379 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 97.70% of the article peer group.

This week's challenge 
Today's puzzle is a tribute to Mimi. 
Every answer is a familiar two word phrase or name in which each word starts with the letters MI-. 
Ex. 
Assignment for soldiers --> MILITARY MISSION 
1. 
Pageant title for a contestant from Detroit 
2. 
One of the Twin Cities 
3. 
Nickname for the river through New Orleans 
4. 
Super short skirt 
5. 
Neighborhood in Los Angeles that contains Museum Row 
6. 
Just over four times the distance from the earth to the moon 
7. 
Goateed sing-along conductor of old TV 
8. 
American financier who pioneered so-called "junk bonds" 
9. 
Little accident 
10. 
Land-based weapon in America's nuclear arsenal 
11. 
In "Snow White," the evil queen's words before "on the wall" 
Last week's challenge 
Last week's challenge comes from Benita Rice, of Salem, Ore. 
Name a famous foreign landmark (5,4). 
Change the eighth letter to a V and rearrange the result to make an adjective that describes this landmark. 
What landmark is it? 
Answer 
Notre Dame --> Renovated 
Winner 
Chee Sing Lee of Bangor, Maine 
This week's challenge comes from James Ellison, of Jefferson City, Mo. 
Think of a popular movie of the past decade. 
Change the last letter in its title. 
The result will suggest a lawsuit between two politicians of the late 20th century  one Republican and one Democrat. 
What's the movie and who are the people? 
If you know the answer to the challenge, submit it below by Thursday, April 23 at 3 p.m. 
ET. 
Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.3%KUOW: 2.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 2.3%Will Shortz: 0.3%KUOW: 1.3%Anchoring Bias2.3%This article: 3.4%Will Shortz: 0.8%KUOW: 3.4%Availability Heuristic3.4%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.4%KUOW: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 1.5%Will Shortz: 0.2%KUOW: 0.7%Hindsight Bias1.5%This article: 7.5%Will Shortz: 1.0%KUOW: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias7.5%This article: 7.1%Will Shortz: 1.7%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect7.1%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.9%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 1.0%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 4.9%Will Shortz: 1.3%KUOW: 3.8%Optimism Bias4.9%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 1.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 8.0%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 2.0%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 2.7%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 7.9%Will Shortz: 1.3%KUOW: 1.1%Recency Bias7.9%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 2.6%Will Shortz: 0.8%KUOW: 4.3%Appeal to Authority2.6%This article: 7.5%Will Shortz: 1.0%KUOW: 1.4%False Dilemma7.5%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 4.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.6%KUOW: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 3.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 4.4%KUOW: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.9%KUOW: 1.0%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.2%KUOW: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.8%KUOW: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 10.2%Will Shortz: 2.2%KUOW: 1.5%Indoctrination10.2%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Will Shortz: 0.5%KUOW: 1.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

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