Exactly the amount of tricky I'd expect from Lego.Q: This week's challenge is a little tricky. Change one letter of a place on earth to get a familiar phrase much heard around this time of year. What is it? The answer consists of three words (5,2,5).
A: PLACE ON EARTH --> PEACE ON EARTH
I was fortunate to figure this out quickly.Q: Name a common tree of North America in two words (three letters, five letters). Rearrange its letters to name a well-known plant of Central America, also in two words (four letters, four letters). What tree and plant are these?
A: RED MAPLE, REED PALM
Take another item that might be worn while sleeping, increment the last letter so it is one later in the alphabet and move it to the 4th position. Change the first vowel sound and you have the last name of the person's most famous character role.Q: Think of a classic television actor — first and last names. Add a long-E sound at the end of each name and you'll get two things that are worn while sleeping. What are they?
A: TED KNIGHT --> TEDDY, NIGHTIE
The last names make me think of a former School of Journalism.Q: Name a state capital. Inside it in consecutive letters is the first name of a popular TV character of the past. Remove that name, and the remaining letters in order will spell the first name of a popular TV game show host of the past. What is the capital and what are the names?
A: MONTGOMERY --> GOMER (Pyle), MONTY (Hall)
I had to nix my previous hints.Q: Think of a classic American author, whose first and last name's are each one syllable. The last name, when said aloud, sounds like part of the body. Insert the letters "A-S" into the first name and you have the location of this body part. Who is the author?
A: BRET HARTE --> BREAST, HEART
I got the first two words and the last two words. I didn't think there was a dish that put them together. Update: I had the incorrect first two words... no wonder it didn't make sense. As a hyphenated word it makes more sense.Q: Using only the letters of PANDERS, and repeating them as often as desired, spell a certain entrée at a seafood restaurant (3-6 3 7).
A: PAN-SEARED RED SNAPPER
Rearrange the letters in the person's full name and you get a quiet animal.Q: Name a place where experiments are done (two words). Drop the last letter of each word. The remaining letters, reading from left to right, will name someone famously associated with experiments. Who is it?
A: TEST LAB --> TESLA
I've heard of REED PARK, but I'm not letting any DEER have the keys to my car, red jacket or not.Q: Name a place somewhere on the globe -- in two words. Rearrange the letters of the first word to name some animals. The second word in the place name is something those animals sometimes do. What is it?
A: HUDSON BAY --> HOUNDS, BAY
A typo was introduced when the city name was registered; if that hadn't occured, it wouldn't be composed of 13 unique letters.Q: The city of UTICA, NEW YORK, when spelled out, contains 12 letters, all of them different. Think of a well-known U.S. city, that when its name is spelled out (including the state), contains 13 letters, all of them different. Your answer doesn't have to match Will's.
A: CASPER, WYOMING
The removed letters form a state abbreviation.Q: Think of something to drink whose name is a compound word. Delete the first letter of the first part and you'll get some athletes. Delete the first letter of the second part and you'll get where these athletes compete. What words are these?
A: SCREWDRIVER --> CREW, RIVER
The first letter of each word is a hint to the answer.Q: Think of a place in America. Two words, 10 letters altogether. The first five letters read the same forward and backward. The last five letters spell something found in the body. What place is this?
A: NEW ENGLAND (NEWEN/GLAND)
Change the fifth letter of the character's name to an 'O' and rearrange to get something Russian.Q: Name a certain breakfast cereal character. Remove the third, fifth, and sixth letters and read the result backward. You'll get a word that describes this breakfast cereal character. What is it?
A: TOUCAN SAM --> MASCOT
I saw an AD for this product just the other day.Q: Take the phrase NEW TOWELS. Rearrange these 9 letters to get the brand name of a product you might buy at the supermarket. What is it?
A: SWEET 'N LOW
Change the last letter of the dinner entree to the letter directly to its right on a standard typewriter keyboard. Rearrange to name something we might fear.Q: Name a U.S. state capital. Then name a world capital. Say these names one after the other and phonetically you'll get an expensive dinner entree. What is it?
A: DOVER (Delaware) + SEOUL (South Korea) --> DOVER SOLE
How close are you to the answer? Are you hot or cold?Q: Take the name of a watercraft that contains an odd number of letters. Remove the middle letter and rearrange the remaining ones to name a body of water. What words are these?
A: GONDOLA --> LAGOON
You can drop all instances of that letter and you still get the same answer.Q: Name a famous TV personality of the past. Drop the second letter of this person's last name. Phonetically the first and last names together will sound like a creature of the past. What celebrity is it?
A: DINAH SHORE --> DINOSAUR
I don't have a clue to help you identify the person... or do I?Q: The word NONUNION has four N's and no other consonant. What famous American of the past -- first and last names, 8 letters in all -- has four instances of the same consonant and no other consonant?
A: Eli Lilly (founder of the pharmaceutical company).
Q: Think of a famous movie star -- .first and last names, nine letters in all. The third, fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth letters, in order, name a profession. The star's last name is something that this profession uses. Who is the movie star and what is the profession?In one role, this actor played a [redacted].
A: EMMA STONE --> MASON, STONE
Q: Think of a popular food item in six letters. Change the last two letters to a K to make a common five-letter word in which none of the letters are pronounced the same as in the six-letter food. What food is this?Add the letters in the word DOTES to the food item, rearrange to get a place that was popular in the last century.
A: QUICHE --> QUICK
Q: Think of a famous American woman with a two-syllable last name. The first syllable is spelled like a body part, but isn't pronounced like one. The second syllable is pronounced like a body part, but isn't spelled like one. Who is this famous woman?Her middle name can be rearranged to mean "brigade".
A: Amelia EARHART
Q: Think of a classic movie title in which the initials of all the words up to the last one, in order, spell the number of letters in that last word. The number of words in the title is for you to discover. What film is it?The last name of a main character sounds like a word meaning "accomodations".
A: "The Wizard of Oz" --> TWO, OZ
Q: Take the name of a famous actor of the past. Say it out loud, and phonetically you'll describe what a famous general's horse did. Who is the actor and who is the general?I need an "L" to make my answer work.
A: CARY GRANT --> CARRY (ULYSSES S.) GRANT
Q: Think of a famous actor and a famous actress who co-starred in a classic movie of the past. The actress's first name, when reversed, and the actor’s last name, spelled forward, are similar romantic gifts. Who are these film stars?Somehow I don't think it's Fay Wray and King Kong.
A: Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal ("When Harry Met Sally") --> GEM, CRYSTAL
Q: Think of something in two words (7,5) that you might take camping. The phrase has seven consonants, which are all different and appear in alphabetical order through the phrase. What camping item is this?You can rearrange the letters to name something archeologists might study.
A: CoLeMaN SToVe
Q: Name a state capital. Remove its first two letters, and you can rearrange the rest to name something in two words that you might find while beachcombing in that state. What is it?Burt Reynolds has a connection to the capital.
A: TALAHASSEE - TA --> A SEASHELL
Q: Name a famous film actor of the past (4,6). Swap the second and third letters of the first name to name a color. Change the third letter of the last name to get another color. What actor is it?The actor died 6 days after their birthday.
A: GARY COOPER --> GRAY, COPPER
Q: Think of two parts of the human body that start with the same letter of the alphabet. Drop one instance of that letter and rearrange the remaining letters to name another part of the body that is not near the other two. What are the body parts?For Father's Day, [REDACTED]
A: NAPE, NECK --> KNEECAP (very similar to a puzzle from Apr 2021)
Q: This is a little tricky. What item containing a silent "u" is commonly found in kitchen drawers?If you change the "u" to a different letter of the alphabet, you get a name for a similar item.
A: A GUIDE is part of the construction of a kitchen drawer. But SILENT U anagrams to UTENSIL. I'll update this with the intended answer when it's revealed on Sunday.
Update: There were 64 people that submitted the intended answer of UTENSIL
Q: Think of a famous writer with a three-word name. The first two letters of the last name followed by the first two letters of the middle name followed by the first two letters of the first name, in order, spell an adjective that describes this author today. Who is it?Take the last two letters of each name, rearrange those six letters to get something you might do while solving this puzzle.
A: EDgar RIce BUrroughs --> BURIED
Q: Think of a well-known actor of the past whose last name is also a brand name. Remove the last letter of the actor's first name and you'll have a product produced by that brand. What is it?We could have had this puzzle about 3 weeks ago.
A: ALEC GUINNESS --> GUINNESS, ALE
Q: Think of a famous film with a three-word title (six letters in the first word, three letters in the second, and four letters in the last), in which the first and last words are rhymes for consecutive numbers. What movie is it?The movie title also contains the letters of the next two consecutive numbers.
A: HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Q: Think of a well-known seven-letter geographical name in a single word that has just two consonants and yet is pronounced in five syllables.I'm seeing a genus of aphids in the anagram.
A: OCEANIA
Q: Think of three common six-letter words that have vowels in the second and fifth positions. The last five letters of the words are the same. Only the first letters differ. And none of the words rhyme with either of the others. What words are they?I can think of multiple answers, but a similar puzzle was given more than a decade ago.
A: BALLET, MALLET/PALLET, WALLET
Q: Think of a famous male singer of the past with two A's in his name. Drop both A's and the remaining letters can be rearranged to name a popular make of automobile. What is it?Take a model of that automobile, drop all A's to name a sports figure.
A: RAY CHARLES --> CHRYSLER
Q: Think of a a major American corporation of the past (two words, 15 letters altogether). Change the last three letters in the second word and the resulting phrase will name something that will occur later this year. What is it?Mazda Motor is a Japanese corporation, so that's not it.
A: GENERAL ELECTRIC --> GENERAL ELECTION
Q: Think of a popular online service. Change the first letter to a Y and rearrange the result to get what this service provides. What is it?Yes! Will is back! If you add 4 letters to the service and rearrange, you get a color.
A: VENMO --> MONEY
If you change the fourth letter so it is two later in the alphabet (e.g. A becomes C) and rearrange, you get something rowdy.Q: Think of a nine-letter word naming a kind of tool that is mentioned in the Bible. Remove the second and sixth letters and the remaining letters can be rearranged to spell two new words that are included in a well known biblical passage and are related to the area in which the tool is used. What is the tool and what are the two new words?
A: PLOWSHARE - LH = REAP, SOW
Q: The English language developed in a patriarchal society, so many words in our language were traditionally assumed to be male, and turned into female versions by adding a prefix or suffix. Waiter and waitress, comedian and comedienne — those are just two examples of the many stereotypically "male" words that become new "female words" by adding a suffix.The answer hit me squarely on the forehead.
There is a common English word that works the opposite way. What is the common English word that is generally used to refer exclusively to women, but which becomes male when a two-letter suffix is added?
A: WIDOW + ER = WIDOWER
Q: Each chemical element can be represented by a one or two-letter symbol. Hydrogen is H, helium is He, and so on. There are two commonly known elements whose names each can be spelled using three other element symbols. Name either one.Could they be Zirconium and Tungsten, but a small quantity?
A: Iron = Ir (Iridium) + O (Oxygen) + N (Nitrogen), Silver = Si (Silicon) + Lv (Livermorium) + Er (Erbium)
Q: Take two three-letter tree names and combine them phonetically to get a clue for a type of fabric, then change one letter in that word to get something related to trees. What are the two trees?Anagram the letters of the clue to get an appropriate surname.
A: YEW + FIR --> EWE FUR --> WOOL --> WOOD
Q: Take a body part. Add one letter at the beginning and another at the end to get a different body part. Then again add a letter at the beginning and another at the end to get something designed to affect that body part.I can tell you it isn't a knee.
A: EAR --> HEART --> THE ARTS
Q: Take the last name of a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Remove the middle three letters and duplicate the last two letters to get the first name of a different Nobel Peace Prize winner. What are those two names?I gave a major clue to this week's puzzle previously.
A: Nelson MANDELA --> MALALA Yousafzai
Q: Take the word SETS. You can add a three-letter word to this twice to get a common phrase: SPARE PARTS. Can you now do this with the word GENIE, add a three-letter word to it twice to get a common phrase?Hey you!
A: GOLDEN OLDIE
Q: Think of a famous character in American literature. Change each letter in that character's name to its position in the alphabet — A=1, B=2, etc. — to get a famous year in American history. Who is this person and what is the year?The author was born shortly after the famous year.
A: (Captain) AHAB --> (War of) 1812
Q: Start with the name of a blockbuster movie star. Remove the first letter of the first name and last two letters of the last name to get the types of movies he almost never stars in. Who is this?I'm glad Will included "almost never".
A: VIN DIESEL --> INDIES
Q: Name a famous classical composer in three syllables. Change the vowel sounds in the first and third syllables, and phonetically you'll name a sport. What is it?I thought I was close with Tchaikovsky
A: PACHELBEL --> PICKLEBALL
Q: Think of brand name in seven letters that you might find in a pharmacy. Drop the last letter and rearrange the letters that remain. You'll get another brand name, in six letters, that you might also find in a pharmacy. What is it?
A: CLAIROL --> RICOLA, there were several alternate answers provided in the comments.
No comment.Q: Think of a familiar saying in seven words. The initial letters of the first three words in order spell a type of container. And the initials of the last four words in order spell something edible that might be found in this container. What's the saying?
A: There Is Nothing New Under The Sun --> TIN of NUTS
