Sunday, June 28, 2026

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jun 28, 2026): Going Places

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jun 28, 2026): Going Places
Q: Think of a U.S. city with a two-word name. Add a letter to the first word, without rearranging letters, to name a country. Then, without adding a letter, rearrange the letters of the second word to name another country. What places are these?
Add the letter D to the city and rearrange to get a former sports team in the same state.

Edit: The California Golden Seals were an NHL team in Oakland from 1967 to 1976.
A: LOS ANGELES --> LAOS, SENEGAL

Sunday, June 21, 2026

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jun 21, 2026): Nocturnal Creature

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jun 21, 2026): Nocturnal Creature
Q: Take the name of a nocturnal creature, in two words. The first word is a spooky sound. Move the last letter of the first word to the start of the second word and you'll get another spooky, nocturnal sound. What is the creature and what are the sounds?
Change the last two letters in the first word to a vowel and rearrange everything. The result is a word that describes most of this post.

Edit: Change "ch" to "a" and rearrange to get "lowercase"
A: SCREECH OWL —> SCREECH, HOWL

Sunday, June 14, 2026

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jun 14, 2026): From the Kitchen to Something Unwanted

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jun 14, 2026): From the Kitchen to Something Unwanted
Q: Name something in 10 letters that's found in a kitchen. Drop its sixth letter to name something on a keyboard. Then drop the new word's fifth letter to name something no one wants to get. What words are these?
Normally I'd have something to add here, but today it's the opposite.

Edit: A postscript (P.S.) is something that might be added afterwards, but this time they are the letters to be removed.
A: BACKSPLASH, BACKSLASH, BACKLASH

Sunday, June 07, 2026

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jun 7, 2026): Necessary Misprint

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jun 7, 2026): Necessary Misprint
Q: Rearrange the letters of "NECESSARY MISPRINT" to spell a familiar phrase.
There are many words that can be created from those letters, e.g. reminiscent, trespassers, creaminess, seamstress, etc.

Edit: I used a couple of Latin abbreviation: e.g. is exempli gratia meaning for example and etc. is et cetera meaning and the rest.
A: SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS ("Thus Always to Tyrants")