But I have a really good excuse. I’ve been working on the final touches of this:

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You can change HEAT into COLD by changing one letter at a time, always making a new word as you go along: HEAT, HEAD, HELD, HOLD, BOLD, COLD.

How many steps will it take you to change the word PAWS into the word SWAP?

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This puzzle will have you saying lots of four-letter words. Start at any letter and follow the lines to spell out a word. Letters cannot be repeated within a word — for instance, TEEN can’t be used. How many words of exactly four letters can you find? Consider yourself a genius if you find twelve of them.

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No puzzle today, but check out Blocks With Letters On. All you have to do is move the blocks around to form a word. Starts off kinda easy, but it gets tricky before too long.

What do these things have in common?

PRESENT

VIOLIN

SHIP

ARCHER

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Ten stars have fallen and are hiding in the grid below. You must find the locations of these stars. A number tells you how many stars are located next to that cell, either horizontally or diagonally. No square with a number in it also contains a star, but a star may appear in a square with no adjacent numbers. Can you find all ten stars?

Here’s a starting hint, if you need it.

For easier solving, you can download this puzzle here.

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Can you come up with a rhyme for each word shown below so that all five words have something in common?

YAWN
LOOK
RIGHT
TEEN
WING

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BEAR   BRONCO   BROWN   EAGLE   LION   PANTHER   PATRIOT   RAM   RAVEN   VIKING

Which football player…

1) … spells another word backwards?

2) … becomes something you wear on your head when you change the first letter to the next letter in the alphabet?

3) … contains a word meaning “group of three?”

4) … sounds like a word meaning “naked?”

5) … is an animal that can become a new animal when you add a letter at the start?

6) … contains a three-letter abbreviation meaning “street?”

7) … contains in its middle a three-letter boy’s name?

8) … has a name whose first half consists entirely of Roman numerals?

9) … is an animal that contains another animal within it?

10) … becomes a word meaning “swimsuit” when you change the first and last letters?

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I’m stealing this one from puzzle guru Merl Reagle:

You pluralize most words by adding an S at the end. But there is a common three-letter word you can pluralize by adding the letter C to it — not at the end but somewhere within the word. What word is this?

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In school, I like to study PSYCHOLOGY, but I don’t like MATH.

At the dinner table, I like my KNIFE, but not my FORK.

I like to fix things with a WRENCH, but not a HAMMER.

On an airplane, I prefer an AISLE seat to a WINDOW seat.

I’d rather be bitten by a GNAT than stung by a BUMBLEBEE.

Which is my favorite unit of time: a SECOND, a MINUTE, an HOUR, or a DAY?

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