July 2022 Take the codes for two of USA’s busiest airports. Add a single letter to each code and you’ll get the name of a movie & TV producer, director, and writer, who won an Oscar in 2018. Who is it?
June 2022 Think of two words, 1 letter & 5 letters, that might kick off a sincere speech at a wedding. Change one letter, and move the space, to get two new words that might also begin a speech at a wedding, this time by someone a little more snarky.
May 2022 Change one letter in the name of a member of a certain NFL team. Do it again for a different team. These two words are synonyms of a member of a third NFL team. What words are these?
April 2022 Take the name of a small creature. Write it out twice, with 8 spaces in between. Then anagram the plural form of another small creature, along with another letter, and put it in those 8 spaces. The result will be a 14-letter word for a kind of pharmaceutical. What is it?
March 2022 Take a four letter term for a part of the body. The first and last letters are the same. Advance the first letter 1 spot in the alphabet, and the last letter by 2 spots, and you'll get another term for the same body part. Which 2 words
February 2022 Name two movies with five-letter titles that came out 43 years apart and share 4 of those 5 letters. Both were nominated for and lost Best Picture, and both won a single other Academy Award. The solution is at the bottom of the January 2023 newsletter.
January 19, 2022 Name a movie that was nominated for Best Picture in the ’90s. Add one letter to the end of the title to get a movie that was nominated for Best Picture in the ’00s. Which movies are these?
December 08, 2021 Think of the name for a member of a particular professional sports team on one American coast. Remove a letter, and you'll have the word for a person hailing from a particular place at roughly the same latitude on the other coast. What words are these?
October 08, 2021 Think of a store that's got about 9,000 locations across the USA. Remove the first and last letters and add a space, and you'll get the name of a beloved Grammy-winning musical artist. What store and artist are they?
September 09, 2021 Think of a number, remove one-third of it, then remove one-third again (in a different way), and the result will be the original number. What number is this?
August 04, 2021 Name two world capitals that are only 300 miles apart. Inside each capital is an English word. These two words describe two people who could be father and son. Which capitals are these?
July 07, 2021 Name two countries in the Western Hemisphere that are about 1000 miles apart, one with a five-letter name and one with a six-letter name. Anagram their names together to get the name of a current head of state. What countries are these?
May 13, 2021 Think of the name of a famous woman from 20th century American politics. Change one letter in her first name to a different double letter. You’ll end up with the first and last name of a famous 20th century American athlete, along with the last name of his rival.
March 11, 2021 What three movies, released from 1985-1990, all had one-word titles, all started with the same letter, and all starred the same actor?
February 16, 2021 What two components, which are often mixed together in cocktails, contain, within their names, words that are opposites of each other?