Category: Puzzle

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Mar 6, 2022): An Awkward Quack Q: Words starting with a “kw-” sound usually start with the letters QU-, as in question, or “KW-,” as in Kwanzaa. What common, uncapitalized English word starting with a “kw-” sound contains none of the letters Q, U, K, or W? […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Feb 27, 2022): The Oscar for Best Animal Goes To… Q: Name a famous actor — first and last names. Remove the last letter of each name. You’ll be left with an animal and an adjective that describes that animal, respectively. Who is the actor? Figuring “actor” […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Feb 20, 2022): Head and Shoulders Above the Rest Q: Name a part of the human body. Insert the name of another part of the human body. You’ll get a brand name found at the supermarket. What is it? Savage commercials for this product.

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Feb 13, 2022): What to Name the Babies? Q: Think of a common boy’s name and a common girl’s name that are pronounced the same even though they have only two letters in common. And if you reverse the boy’s name, phonetically you’ll get another common girl’s […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Feb 6, 2022): A Game of Telephone Q: What language in seven letters can be spelled using the letters on three consecutives keys on a telephone? It’s a language you would probably recognize, but not one that many people can speak. This comment has been removed by […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jan 30, 2022): Square Off and Exchange Punches Q: Think of a familiar two-word phrase meaning “to fight.” Change the third letter of each word to get two new words that are opposites of each other. What words are these? I have one answer, but won’t have […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jan 23, 2022): Wondering What To Do in your State Capital? Q: Name a state capital. Take the last two letters of the city’s name and the first two letters of its state’s name. Then rearrange these letters to name an activity closely associated with this city. […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jan 16, 2022): 5-Letter Nicknames Q: What three common five-letter nicknames have the same last four letters and alphabetically consecutive initial letters? Or to put it another way, think of three common five-letter nicknames that have alphabetically consecutive initial letters and the same last four letters. Which […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jan 9, 2022): A=1, B=2, C=3… Q: Let A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, etc. Think of a five-letter word whose letters’ values add up to 51. Now take this word’s last two letters. Add their values. (For example A and C would total […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jan 2, 2022): Chopped-up Vegetable Q: Take the name of a certain vegetable. Move the 7th, 5th, and 6th letters — in that order — to the front of the word. Phonetically you’ll name another vegetable. What vegetables are these? Now take the 2nd, 3rd and 1st […]