Category: Puzzle

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jun 23, 2023): Who’s Your Favorite TV Character? Q: Name a well-known TV character (5,6). Change the first letter of the first name to a Y and read it (the modified first name) backward. You’ll get a synonym of the character’s last name. Who is it? The […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jun 18, 2023): Daddy, Look What I Drew! Q: Take the name of a fish. Add the name of a mammal. Rearrange all the letters to get the name of a reptile. What is it? The first letter of the fish and the first letter of the […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jun 11, 2023): Sing It Again Q: Name a famous singer (6,6) whose last name is a body of water. And if you remove a letter from the first name you’ll get a landform. What singer is this? I’ve looked nearly all around my globe for bodies […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jun 4, 2023): A Singer Does Some Singing Q: Name a famous singer (6,4). Remove the last letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. The result, reading left to right, is a word for some singing. What is it? You can […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (May 28, 2023): Author turned Pro Athlete Q: Think of a well-known author whose first name is nine letters long, and last name six letters. Change the first letter of the last name and anagram those six letters to spell a word. Now read everything together — […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (May 21, 2023): A Place in Europe Q: Name a place in Europe in nine letters. Swap the third and fourth letters, then the eighth and ninth letters. The result is two words describing what this place famously does.

NPR Sunday Puzzle (May 14, 2023): Mother’s Day Puzzle Q: Think of an animal in which the singular form of the female and the plural form of the male sound like synonyms. What animal is it? Take the name of a different animal, drop the fourth letter and you get […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (May 7, 2023): Compound Body Parts Q: Think of part of the human body whose name is a compound word (like fingertip or toenail). Add an N and rearrange the result to get another part of the body whose name is also a compound word. What body […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Apr 30, 2023): Azure and Beige Q: The “zh” sound can be spelled in many different ways in English — like the “s” in MEASURE; like the “g” in BEIGE; like the “z” in AZURE; like the “j” in MAHARAJAH; and like the “x” in LUXURY as […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Apr 23, 2023): Complaint Department Q: Think of a five-letter word for things a lot of people complain about. Add a letter and rearrange the result to get an example of these things. Then add one more letter and rearrange to get a remedy for these things. […]