Archive for the ‘Put it Together’ Category

You Can Learn A Lot From A Chameleon

Monday, September 15th, 2008

The seven animals below have all learned from their friend the chameleon how to disguise themselves — in this case, as different words. You can take a word from the first column and a word from the second column, drop a letter from each word, and put the rest together to form a six-letter animal.

For instance, you can take BARB and MOON, drop the R and the M, and get BABOON. Can you put together the other six animals?

BARB

BITE
BEAT MOON
COZY NOTE
GRAB OVER
PAIR SEAL
SCAN TROT
WEAR WARY

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You Can Salute This Puzzle

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Six of the pieces shown below can be rearranged to make an American flag. Which piece is not needed? Click to enlarge the image.

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Divide and Conquer

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Can you divide this shape into two pieces that are exactly alike?

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Five Across

Friday, March 28th, 2008

In each puzzle below, you can take a letter (or two letters) from a box in each column, and spell out a word that belongs to the category shown. For instance, you can spell MOTHER by taking the shaded letters from each column. Can you get the rest of the relatives, and then solve the other puzzles as well?

Click to enlarge the image.

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Fame Changes You

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

You can take a word from the first column and a word from the second column, change a letter in both words, and wind up with the full name of a famous celebrity. Can you piece together all five names?

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Word Addition

Friday, February 15th, 2008

You can take a word from the first column, one letter from the second column, and a word from the third column, and put them all together to make a seven-letter word. Some parts can be used to form more than one word, but if you add everything up properly, there’s a way to make seven different words.

Want clues for the seven words? Click here.

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Sum Of Their Parts

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

In each puzzle below, answer the clues, and then read the answers out loud to sound out the name of a celebrity.

1. Five-cent piece
2. Query
3. What candles on a cake represent

1. It’s connected to the wrist
2. Peanut butter accompanier
3. Mexican snack food
4. Spider-Man creator Stan

1. Game with queens and kings
2. Sound you make when you touch something gross
3. Owns
4. Not her
5. Mom and dad’s boy

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Mmm… Thanksgiving stuffing

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

You can pair up the words below, “stuffing” a word from List One into a word from List Two to make the name of a food or drink. (One answer is two words.) Happy Thanksgiving!

LIST ONE

ANGER
CALL
HALL
HERB
REAMS
RISK
STAR
URN

LIST TWO

BET
CODA
MUD
SET
SOPS
SOT
TINE
TIP

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Celebrity Split-ups

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Can you rearrange each set of letter pairs below to spell the name of a celebrity?

1. LL EB HA RY ER

2. UL UL BD LA PA

3. DS GE OO RW TI

4. CK AN JA CH IE

5. BE ER LL NS TI

6. NS WA TE JO RT

7. US LE YC MI YR

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Five Across

Friday, May 18th, 2007

In each puzzle below, you can take a letter (or two letters) from a box in each column, and spell out a word that belongs to the category shown. For instance, you can spell EARTH by taking the shaded letters from each column. Can you get the rest of the planets, and then solve the other puzzles as well?

Click to enlarge the puzzle, or download it here.

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