October 2022
Think of a superhero. Take their alter ego's last name, and the last word of their nickname, and together you’ll get the full name of a living actor. That actor’s most famous role kind of sounds like a superhero, …
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September 2022
What is a word for something you might eat at a roast, or something you might do at a roast?
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.