Category: Puzzle

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 24, 2021): A Pair of Menus Q: Think of a two-word phrase you might see on a laptop computer menu. Remove five letters. What remains, in order, is a three-word phrase you might see on a restaurant menu. What phrases are these? I’m going to have […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 17, 2021): Famous Actress (8,6) Q: Name a famous actress (8,6). Change the next-to-last letter of her first name to an S. Then reverse the order of the last three letters, and you’ll name a famous ruler. The actress’s last name is an anagram of where […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 10, 2021): Start Your Day Off Right Q: Name something you might eat for breakfast, in two words. Add a “G” at the end of the first word. Switch the middle two letters of the second word. Then reverse the order of the two words. You’ll […]

Q: Write down the name of a country and its largest city, one after the other. Hidden in this string, in consecutive letters, is another country’s capital (in six letters)? What is it? The first country’s capital and the second country’s largest city share the same two starting letters.

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 26, 2021): Prepare for Departure Q: Take the common abbreviation for a major American city. Insert it inside an airport code for that city. And you’ll name a flower. What flower is it? Perhaps it is a one-letter abbreviation?

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 19, 2021): Grown in a Garden Q: Name something grown in a garden. Change the second letter, and double the third letter, to get an adjective that describes this thing. What is it? I guess it can be considered a word that describes the item.

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 12, 2021): Same Name Singers Q: Think of two famous singers with the same five-letter first name. Take the last name of one of these singers. Switch the second and third letters. Then advance the resulting first and third letters each to the next letter in […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 5, 2021): Who is it? Q: Name a famous person (8,4). The last name is a regular uncapitalized word with a single vowel. Change that vowel to make a new word that is humorously defined by the person’s first name. Who is it? I was going […]

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Aug 29, 2021): Old Musicians Never Die. They Just Decompose Q: Name a form of musical composition. If you say the word quickly, you’ll name something, in two words, that you might buy in a music store. What is it? I doubt many of these are sold.

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Aug 22, 2021): Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers Q: Take the name of a major American city. Move one of its letters three spaces later in the alphabet. Embedded in the resulting string of letters, reading left to right, is a cardinal number. Remove that number, and the […]