Category: Puzzle

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Mar 5, 2023): MeDiCaL XaVier Q: Name something scary in two words. Five of the letters are vowels, which are all the same. And the consonants are all Roman numerals. What scary thing is this? I found a weird connection to last week.

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Feb 26, 2023): It Doesn’t Add Up Q: Take this equation: 14 + 116 + 68 = 47. Clearly this doesn’t work mathematically. But it does work in a nonmathematical way. Please explain. It makes about as much sense as 22 + 11 = 26 + 39.

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Feb 19, 2023): Make Like A Tree and Get Out of Here Q: Name a tree. In the very middle of the word insert a homophone of another tree. The result will be a new word describing what everyone wants to be. What is it? What everyone […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Feb 12, 2023): Under Pressure Q: Name a popular rock band — one that everyone knows. Add a “B” sound at the end, and phonetically you’ll name a place where you might hear this band play. What band is it? I believe they’ve been touring since the […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Feb 5, 2023): Would You Like Fries with That? Q: Name a food item you might order at a fast food restaurant. The first, second and last letters in order name another food item. Remove those letters and the remaining letters spelled backwards name yet another food […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jan 29, 2023): Fruit Salad Q: Name a fruit in one word. Drop the last two letters. The remaining letters can be rearranged to name two other fruits. What are they? Or if you remove the 2nd and 4th letters, you can rearrange to get a symbol.

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jan 22, 2023): One Capital, Two Capitals Q: Take a word that’s in the name of several tourist attractions in our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. Rearrange the letters in that word to spell the names of two other nations’ capitals. What are they? If you anagram the […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jan 15, 2023): For Today’s Special We Have… Q: Name a food dish in 10 letters. The last syllable consists of a consonant and a vowel. Change that syllable to a single consonant sound and you’ll name another popular food item, in two words. What foods are […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jan 8, 2023): Elementary! Q: Name a famous living person — first and last names. If you drop the last letter of the first name, you get an element on the periodic table. And if you drop the last letter of the last name, you get the […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jan 1, 2023): Opposites Attract Q: Name a U.S. state capital for which the name of another well-known U.S. city is an antonym. The second city has a population of more than 100,000 The second city was the setting of a sitcom from the ’70s.