Puzzlers

October 06, 2020 October 2020 Think of something you might ask for at a salon. Change the first letter, and you'll get something you might ask for at a saloon. What are these? August 25, 2020 August 2020 Think of a place on earth with a four-word name. Take the third word. Advance three of its letters to the next letter of the alphabet (so A would July 06, 2020 July 2020 Think of a 9-letter term from mathematics. Swap letters 2 & 3, then move the fourth letter to the front, to get a 9-letter term from computer science. June 03, 2020 June 2020 Take a word that is used to describe people who are overly energetic. Change the first and last letters to get a phrase that describes people who are overly driven. May 07, 2020 May 2020 Name a brand you can buy in most drugstores, in the cough remedy aisle. Change one letter and add a space, and you’ll get the name of a brand April 16, 2020 April 2020 Name an American city in 4 letters. Add one letter inside of it to get a kind of food popular in that area. What are they? March 11, 2020 March 2020 Take the name of a well-known virus. Change two letters and you’ll get the name of a well-known bacteria. Both are known to cause harm to humans. February 24, 2020 February 2020 Think of a musical instrument in 8 letters. Change one letter, then anagram, and you’ll get another musical instrument. What are they? December 18, 2019 December 2019 Think of a name associated with fire under ground. Remove the first letter, reverse the letters that remain, and the result will be a name that’s associated with fire November 27, 2019 November 2019 Think of a movie title in 4 letters. Change one letter and anagram it to get the title of another movie that came out 20 years later. Then, change another November 07, 2019 November 2019 Think of a word in 8 letters that means “to review or change”. Swap out two letters for one new letter, and you’ll have a two-word phrase for October 02, 2019 October 2019 Take a 10-letter word for something that is often done in the dark. Remove first letter, swap two other letters, and you’ll get a word that can be September 13, 2019 September 2019 What four-letter word that means “selling point” also describes, with different capitalization, pieces of information that are often used at a selling point? September 03, 2019 September 2019 Think of a word for something that includes a list of food. Add one letter and rearrange the letters to get something that might also contain a list of food. June 26, 2019 June 2019 Take a 2016 movie in five letters. Change the first letter to the next letter of the alphabet to get a 2018 movie. What movies are these? June 11, 2019 June 2019 Take a word that means “resolve”. Remove a letter and anagram it to get another word that is often used to modify “resolve”. What words are these? May 14, 2019 May 2019 Name a character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Change the last letter and you’ll get, phonetically, another character in the MCU. Who are they? April 08, 2019 April 2019 Take a word that can mean "criminals," as well as a word for a kind of crime. Merge the two words together to get a single word that March 19, 2019 March 2019 Think of a pro hockey team whose name is in the same category as a particular pro baseball team, and also in the same category as a particular pro basketball February 12, 2019 February 2019 Think of a celebrity that goes by a stage name. Their born last name describes something found on a phone. Remove the last letter from their stage first name to January 30, 2019 January 2019 Take a woman’s first name. If you follow it with a certain five-letter word, you get someone famous. On the other hand, if you precede it with the January 15, 2019 January 2019 What state’s abbreviation, when spoken aloud, sounds like an example of the nickname of the state’s largest city? January 07, 2019 January 2019 Name a word you might use as a first word in a conversation. Change one letter and you’ll end up with a word that means, in some contexts, “first” November 14, 2018 November 2018 Take something frequently written in text messages. Swap two letters and say the result out loud, and phonetically you’ll describe something else frequently written in text messages. What are October 19, 2018 October 2018 Think of a place where you’re often asked to make a couple of choices, one right after another. For both choices, you’re asked to choose between two things, September 13, 2018 September 2018 Name a very modern two-word phrase that’s used when describing a foolish decision. It is a homophone of another two-word phrase, itself popular for only about 30 July 31, 2018 July 2018 Name a product found in a supermarket checkout line, in two words. Remove the space and 2 adjacent letters, and change the last letter, and you’ll end up with July 17, 2018 July 2018 Name a famous person from Chicago — first and last names. The last name ends in an E. Change the E to an I and rearrange the letters in just the July 02, 2018 July 2018 Name any movie (there are lots of possibilities) that could fit in the missing blank of this ordered and complete set: North by Northwest Cedar Rapids ___________ The Ghost and Mr. June 05, 2018 June 2018 What world capital sounds like two Greek letters? May 21, 2018 May 2018 Take the last name of a young movie director. Remove one letter, and what remains will be, phonetically, a synonym for a word in the title of his latest movie. March 29, 2018 March 2018 Take the name of a mountain. Change one letter, anagram it, and the result will be what you call someone who plays for the nearby MLB franchise. What mountain and February 06, 2018 February 2018 Name two activities done at a gym, one word each. Remove a single letter from one of the words. The resulting two-word phrase will describe something one might see January 30, 2018 January 2018 What is mentioned… 55 times in Wuthering Heights, 35 times in Dracula, 3 times in Through the Looking-Glass, once in Anna Karenina, and never in War and Peace? January 17, 2018 January 2018 Name a popular shopping website. Shift two of the letters forward in the alphabet by the same amount, and the result will be another popular shopping website. What sites are December 27, 2017 December 2017 Take the full name of a famous singer. Remove a letter, and add a letter, to the first name to get a kind of business. Then remove 3 letters from November 21, 2017 November 2017 Name a famous European figure from the 19th century, whose name contains three words. Remove 3 consecutive letters, and you’ll end up with a famous American figure from the September 27, 2017 September 2017 Think of a female celebrity, eight letters total in her name. Change two of them, anagram it, and you’ll get another female celebrity. Who are they? September 20, 2017 September 2017 Name a 20th century author and a 21st century actress, both born in Eastern Europe. Their first names start with the same first four letters, and their last names start September 12, 2017 September 2017 Think of a two-word English phrase that’s been anglicized from its French origins. Reverse the order of the words, add a letter to the end, and you’ll August 31, 2017 August 2017 Think of a word in 9 letters. Rearrange the letters to get two nouns that are both part of a common proverb. What words are these? July 31, 2017 July 2017 Name a place on Earth in eleven letters. Seven of these letters appear chronologically in the alphabet. What place is this? July 13, 2017 July 2017 Name an actress. Remove a letter in her last name to get a crime. Change one letter and rearrange the letters of her first name to get a word related July 06, 2017 July 2017 Name two words that are the same part of speech, and mean the same thing, but are different cases. Put the two words together to get, phonetically, a well-known May 12, 2017 May 2017 Take the first name of a famous woman. Remove the first letter to get a noun, phonetically. This woman is arguably both the most famous person with this name and April 26, 2017 April 2017 Think of a pair of five-letters words are used frequently around Christmas. They’re not synonyms, but they’re close. You can rot-7 one of the words to March 14, 2017 March 2017 What 20th century figure’s last name is made up of three consecutive U.S. state abbreviations? March 01, 2017 February 2017 The TV show LOST has all its letters in alphabetical order. Name two Oscar-winning movies — both five letters long — that also have this property. February 14, 2017 February 2017 What mountain’s name, when anagrammed, is not the name a of river in Africa? January 20, 2017 January 2017 Name a food in 7 letters. Change one letter, anagram it, and you’ll have an activity that this food will allow you to do more of, according to a