Archive for September, 2008

Are You Ready For Some Football?

Monday, September 29th, 2008

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?

Answer

Roll ‘em!

Friday, September 26th, 2008

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?

Answer

What I Like

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

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?

Answer

Ballyhoo

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Each of the clues below leads to a word ending in a pair of Os. I’ll cry — BOOHOO! — if you can’t get them all.

1. Sneeze sound

2. Eskimo’s home

3. Australian animal with a pouch

4. “Silly” bird 

5. Soap for your hair

6. Musical intrument you play by humming into it

7. First game a baby learns to play, usually

8. “Ink,” in slang

9. Google rival

10. Asian plant often used as a building material

Answer

Gone Fishin’

Friday, September 19th, 2008

You can catch five different fish in the grid below. To spell out each one, start at a letter and move up, down, left, right, or diagonally. Letters can be used more than once — even within a word — but you can’t use a letter two times in a row. Can you find all five fish?

Answer

Face the Nation

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Each word below can be turned into the name of a country. Just add one more letter and then scramble all the letters together. How many countries can you figure out?

1. INCH

2. LIBRA

3. FARCE

4. MANGER

5. PANS

6. LASER

7. RANKED

Answer

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

Answer

Life of Eees

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Can you fit all the words shown below into the crossword grid? I’ve placed all the Es for you to get you started.

4 Letters
BACK
BETS
DUDE
ECHO
EELS
EVEN
EVIL
TOOL

5 Letters
ALIEN
AMAZE
EAGLE
EJECT
NAKED
PIECE
SAUCE
VIEWS

6 Letters
ACCEPT
ENVIED
HORSES
KNEELS
NEEDLE
PUPPET

7 Letters
GRENADE
IRKSOME
ROUTINE

8 Letters
ATHLETES
NINETEEN
PONDERED
SEASHELL

You can download this puzzle for easier solving. Click here.

Answer

Sound It Out

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Say the names of each item below, in order, and you’ll sound out the name of a famous athlete. Who is it?

Answer

Clothes Line

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Take a five-letter word for something worn by girls. Change the second letter, and you’ll have a different article of clothing, worn by both boys and girls. What are these articles of clothing?

Answer