Thursday, August 30, 2012

A Spinoff


Q:

I thought of several puzzles related to last week's NPR puzzle.  Click this link to see it.   Here's one.

Think of a well known composer.  Some of the letters is his name are used more than once.  Remove the duplicates and rearrange what's left to come up with an adjective that describes what some of the statements made by the popular fictional character (in the NPR puzzle) are NOT.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

An Abbreviated Ounce of Prevention


Q:


Consider these:

 pair,  parliament member,  plod,  proficiency, 

pitch,  powerhouse,  passé


Replace each with a synonym using only the letters whose mirror image does not result in a backwards letter.  The font used here is Century Gothic and exactly all the letters you will need are in this paragraph.  When you have the correct solution, the first initial of each word will spell out a familiar movie quote.


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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

What's Up?


Q:

At a certain pseudoscience convention, a couple found this dinner invitation slipped under the door of their hotel room.

La Soiree - Ribs Special - Currant Sauce    

The letters in each phrase can be rearranged  to get two new words that are related.  What convention was the couple attending?

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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Rub-a-Dub-Dub


Q:

Vowels and vowel combinations can have different sounds depending on the word.  Room and wood both have a double but sound different.  Read and read sound different depending on the verb tense.  Who cares, right?  Consider this.  Take the word friend.  The ie has a short e sound.  Drop the r, and you have fiend with a long e sound.  Drop the and you have fend, back to a short sound.

Think of a word with a vowel combination.  Drop a letter to get a word with a different vowel sound.  Drop another letter to get a word with the first vowel sound.  Finally, drop one more letter to get a word with the second vowel sound.  The vowel sound pattern should be ABAB.  What words are these?

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Thursday, August 2, 2012

May I Take That?


Q:  


Take the word nostril and the word pepper.  Change one letter and rearrange the result to name two descriptive terms that are at opposite ends of the spectrum.



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