Category: Puzzle

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 […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (July 17, 2022): Let’s Eat! Q: Name a food item in seven letters. Move the first letter to the fifth position and you’ll get two words that are synonyms. What are they?

NPR Sunday Puzzle (July 10, 2022): Presidential Motorcade Q: Write down the last names of two U.S. presidents. Move a letter from the second name into the first one. You’ll name a vehicle that’s used for special occasions. What is it? Coincidentally, the names are in the order they were […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (July 3, 2022): Add -s, -es, -ies or -ves? Q: Name a well-known fictional character in two words. Remove two letters from the first word in the name. The result is the plural form of the second word. What character is this? My first thought was a […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jun 26, 2022): The Lord is a Shoving Leopard Q: How old was Reverend Spooner when he found happiness? I started counting cobblestones and got the answer.

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jun 19, 2022): Who Are These People? Q: Think of two famous people — one from business and one from entertainment — whose last names are anagrams of each other. Now take their first names, drop the last letter of each of them, and put the result […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jun 12, 2022): Twentieth Century American Q: Take the last name of a famous 20th-century American. The 5th, 6th, 7th, and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd letters, in that order, name a European capital. Who is the person, and what capital is it? Change one letter in the […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jun 5, 2022): Do You Smell Something? Q: The name of what country contains a deodorant and an air freshener in consecutive letters? I’m just going to keep quiet and say I agree.

NPR Sunday Puzzle (May 29, 2022): Be Right Back Q: Take an abbreviation found in text messages. Reverse the first two letters, and the result sounds like something else often found in text messages. What are these things? I might say something else used in text messages. And again, I […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (May 22, 2022): A Pair of Islands Puzzle Q: Take the name of an island. Move its first letter two spaces later in the alphabet (so A would become C, B would become D, etc.). Reverse the result and you’ll have the name of another island. What […]