May « 2008 « winstonbreen.com

Archive for May, 2008

Just Drop It

Friday, May 30th, 2008

You can drop each letter into one of the empty boxes below it to form words reading across. Letters in a given column may need to be rearranged as you drop them. A black square indicates the end of a word. If you place all the letters correctly, you’ll spell out a quote from Richard Bach.

Answer

Posted in Secret Messages | Comments Off

Make Me A Sandwich

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

You can place letters in the blanks below to make series of three-letter words reading down. Some blanks can take more than one letter — should that first word be ODE or ONE or OWE? If you choose the right letter every time, you’ll spell a two-word phrase reading across both puzzles.

Answer

Posted in Secret Messages | Comments Off

Pathfinder

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

In the three puzzles below, you can trace a path along the lines to spell out the name of a movie. In each puzzle, you’ll have to figure out where to start. Can you find all three movie titles?

Answer

Posted in Scrambled Words | Comments Off

Sweet P

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Each of the clues below leads to an answer that begins and ends with the letter P. Can you get them all?

1. Little Bo ___
2. Bicyclist’s equipment, or a kind of shoe
3. ___ school
4. Small truck
5. Chubby
6. Staple alternative
7. Menu item for a meat eater
8. Handwriting
9. Group of little kids who get together
10. Vegetable related to the carrot

Answer

Posted in Name It | Comments Off

Comic Relief

Monday, May 19th, 2008

This past weekend was the Washington Post Hunt, a large-scale puzzle event held in Washington, DC, with puzzles by humorist Dave Barry and a few of his friends. One of the puzzles required you to scour the Sunday comics in search of hidden numbers, planted there by the artists.

Can you find the hidden numbers in each of these comic strips?

Opus

Frazz

Pearls Before Swine

(That last one is going to be really hard on a computer screen — if you have your own copy of the Sunday comics from the newspaper, that might make it a little easier.)

If you want to read Eric Berlin’s report on the Hunt, it’s here, although be warned there are spoilers for this puzzle in the comments.

Answer

Posted in Numbers | Comments Off

Alien Invasion!

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Aliens have invaded this word search! Every time the letters ET appear in this puzzle, they’ve been replaced by an alien’s head. (Those might look like pictures of Spider-Man, but trust me. They’re aliens.) You don’t need a ray gun to shoot down these spacemen—just circle the eighteen words, which can be found reading up, down, left, right, and diagonally, and either forward or backward.

DIETETIC
ETCH-A-SKETCH
ETHERNET
ETIQUETTE
EYETEETH
FALSETTO
FETCH
FLEET
METRO
PARAKEET
PETITION
PLANET
SAFETY NET
SHEET METAL
STRETCH
TAPLETOP
TELETHON
WET BLANKET

For easier solving, you can download this puzzle here.

Posted in Word Seeks | Comments Off

Strange Apparatus

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

You can change two letters in the word APPARATUS to make a different common word. The two letters are not consecutive. Can you figure out the other word?

(I stole this one from Ken Jennings.)

Answer

Posted in Wordplay | Comments Off

Name Dropping

Monday, May 12th, 2008

First, identify each picture below. You can then drop one letter from each picture name, run the remaining letters together, and get the name of a famous celebrity. Who is it?

Click the image to enlarge.

Answer

Posted in Name It | Comments Off

Swordplay

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Each of the clues below will lead you to two different words — a five-letter word starting with S, and a four-letter word made by dropping that first letter. (For instance, SWORD and WORD, which might be clued as “Dictionary entry weapon.”) Either word might be clued first. Can you figure out all twelve sword pairs? I mean, word pairs?

1. Pointy stringed instrument
2. Number isn’t odd
3. Fire at an owl’s sound
4. Additional marshmallow-and-graham-cracker treat
5. Tiny shopping outlet
6. Inedible story
7. Fishing need shivered
8. Anger group of players
9. Tip over medicine
10. Study the night before and run!
11. Passageway will
12. Fruit goo

Answer

Posted in Wordplay | Comments Off

Give Me a Ring

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Each set of numbers below, when dialed on a phone keypad, will spell out the name of a breed of dog. For instance, the first set of numbers, 784, can be turned into the word PUG. You’ll have to figure out which of the three (or four) letters each digit stands for. Can you call up all the answers?

a. 784

b. 34646

c. 48759

d. 766353

e. 7646837

f. 244482482

g. 7726435

h. 322474863

Answer

Posted in Wordplay | Comments Off

Archive for May, 2008

Just Drop It

Make Me A Sandwich

Pathfinder

Sweet P

Comic Relief

Alien Invasion!

Strange Apparatus

Name Dropping

Swordplay

Give Me a Ring

Archives

Categories