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