Strike out one letter from each word below, and then respace what’s left, and you’ll get a saying by Benjamin Franklin.
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Archive for March, 2007
Circular Reasoning
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007Fill in a letter in each circle below to complete a six-letter word reading clockwise. (You’ll have to figure out where each word starts.) The five words all belong to the same category, so solving one will help you get the others.
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Sound It Out
Monday, March 26th, 2007
Number Maze
Friday, March 23rd, 2007In this maze, the number you’re standing on tells you how many spaces you can move. You’ll start on the 4 in the upper left corner, which means your first move will be four spaces either down or to the right. The number you land on will tell you how many spaces you can jump on your next move. You may only move up, down, left, or right. Can you make it to FINISH?
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Next!
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007Board Walk
Monday, March 19th, 2007All of the following clues lead to words that end in the word BOARD. Can you name all ten?
- Where a teacher does a lot of writing
- It has a bulls-eye
- Box material, often
- What you type on
- Tony Hawk’s specialty
- Location of a car’s instrument panel
- “Man ___!” (cry after someone falls off a boat)
- Sports arena display
- It’s behind the rim, in basketball
- Computer part that contains much of the circuitry
Did you know?
Saturday, March 17th, 2007If you’re a LiveJournal member, you can add Winston Breen to your friends list.
Pathfinder
Friday, March 16th, 2007Place the letters of each movie title into the puzzle so that you can spell out the title by tracing a path from circle to circle. The first letter of each title has been placed for you. Can you solve all three? (Click to enlarge.)
Today’s puzzle can be downloaded here. (You’ll need Adobe Reader.)
To see the first puzzle solved as an example, click here.
Three of a Kind
Thursday, March 15th, 2007Each set of three letters can be placed into a set of blanks below to form a common word. You’ll find that some letters can fit into more than one set of blanks, but there’s only one way to use every set of letters exactly once.
BBB DDD FFF GGG MMM PPP SSS TTT
- _ A _ _ AL
- _ E _ _ ER
- _ I _ _ LE
- _ E _ _ ION
- _ A _ _ Y
- _ U _ _ LE
- _ LU _ _
- _ A _ _ OO
Back and Forth
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007Each clue below leads to a silly two-word phrase, in which the second word is the first word spelled backwards. For instance, the answer to the clue “Friends hit each other” would be PALS SLAP. Can you get them all?
- Quickly swallow an electrical connector
- Amaze almonds, cashews, etc.
- Give hamburger holders the cold shoulder
- Trade animals’ feet
- Halt cookware
- Dug up blue jeans material
- Give prize money to someone using a pencil