Q: Think of something to drink in two words. Rearrange the letters to spell a famous prison and a means of getting out of prison. What words are these?You can also rearrange the letters to get a cookie and a storage container.
Sunday, October 19, 2025
NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 19, 2025): Getting Out of Jail
NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 19, 2025): Getting Out of Jail
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Bingo! Not among the most difficult of puzzles.
ReplyDeletePaul, I wish I could say that!
DeleteRearrange a block of five letters from the drink. You get something connected to the name of the prison.
ReplyDeleteEvents at the prison were front page news in a prior time.
ReplyDeleteRemove one letter from the means of getting out of prison and rearrange to get a two-word phrase describing another means of getting out.
ReplyDelete453 correct entries last week.
ReplyDeleteGot it with the second prison I thought of. It's taking me much longer to think of a non-TMI hint.
ReplyDeleteThe letters for one of the ingredients of the drink appear in the drink name, and in the name of the prison, in the same order.
DeleteGot it. Nice.
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ReplyDeleteDr. K, I think you should withdraw this comment.
DeleteOk. I wondered myself.
DeleteA nice bit of wordplay! Not as straightforward as most anagrams. I liked Blaine's comment.
ReplyDeleteI'll piggyback on Blaine's comment to say you can also rearrange the letters to get a two-word phrase for something we are all doing on this blog.
DeleteWow, I was completely wrong about the source of one of the two expressions. In a way the history is the opposite of what I'd always assumed.
ReplyDeleteRemove a letter from the second word of the drink. Rearrange to produce something you'd likely see in and around the prison.
ReplyDeleteI have a bad feeling about this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteThere will be a barrage of correct answers, probably between 1327 and 1361.
ReplyDeleteI was hoping that the means of getting out of prison would be "slowly chipping through a wall, and then sliding through a sewer pipe into a local stream."
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