Category: Puzzle

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 25, 2022): White Collar Crime Q: This week’s challenge comes from listener Adam Cohen, of Brooklyn. Take the name of a large financial corporation in 10 letters. Drop the fourth and fifth letters. Move the sixth and seventh letters to the front. You’ll name a person […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 18, 2022): Are You Using a Modern Modem? Q: If you squish the lowercase letters “r” and “n” together, they look like an “m.” Think of a word that ends in the consecutive letters “r-n.” Squish them together to get a homophone of a synonym of […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 11, 2022): It’s Not Over… Q: Name something, in eight letters, that you might hear at an opera. Drop three of the letters, without changing the order of the remaining five. You’ll name something you might see at an opera. What things are these? If you […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 4, 2022): Postcards from Two Countries Q: Name two countries with a total of 12 letters that, when spelled one after the other, form six consecutive state postal abbreviations. What are the two countries? Anagram all the letters and you get something that means “loony sail”.

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Aug 28, 2022): Switcharoo! Q: Name a well-known island. Move the last letter six spaces later in the alphabet. Read the result backward. You’ll get where this island is located. What island is it? I’m not familiar with the island of NAECI, are you?

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Aug 21, 2022): A Pair of Girls Names Q: Think of an eight-letter noun composed phonetically of two consecutive names traditionally given to girls. Remove the sixth letter and rearrange the result. You’ll get an event where you might hear the thing named by the original noun. […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Aug 14, 2022): Oklahoma, OK! Q: This is a continuation of a two-week creative challenge. The object is to write a sentence using only the letters of any particular U.S. state. You can pick the state and repeat letters as often as necessary. For example: OREGON –> […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Aug 7, 2022): Oh I, Oh! Q: This is the start of a two-week creative challenge. The object is to write a sentence using only the letters of any particular U.S. state. You can pick the state and repeat letters as often as necessary. For example: NEW […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (July 31, 2022): American TV Personality Q: Name a famous person in American television — 6 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. Then reverse the order of the […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (July 24, 2022): 1989 and 1992 Q: This week’s challenge will require a little research. The 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1992 Olympic gold medal in giant slalom both suggest, phonetically, a certain square number. What is it? Research and read carefully. You can’t say […]