Why am I stuck thinking of Lyft and their pink branding?Q: Name a company that's known for transportation. Move the first two letters to the end. Reverse everything. Insert the name of an international tourist destination. And you'll get the name of a game that involves transportation. What things are these?
Sunday, October 11, 2026
NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 11, 2026): Let's Get Moving
NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 11, 2026): Let's Get Moving
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Take the name of the game. Remove three letters. Rearrange. You get a weapon.
ReplyDeleteNot in the street!
ReplyDeleteThe game that involves transportation has four state postal abbreviations in a row.
ReplyDeleteQuite true.
DeleteCute observation
DeleteWhen I lived in one of those four states I was given directions to another of the three. But I can't repeat them in mixed company.
DeleteI don't want to say how many of those states I've lived in.
DeleteGot the answer. Congrats to the creator but you have to admit this is one of the most convoluted sets of puzzle instructions you’ve ever seen. No clue here. And what kind of “ask” is, “What things are these?”
ReplyDeleteI thought this was harder than last week's puzzle but there were only 300 correct submissions to that one so what do I know?
ReplyDeleteA lot of colleges
DeleteYou can rule out Amazon.....or can you?
ReplyDeleteYou’ve delivered quite a clue!
Delete21 years apart.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Chuck re the convoluted instructions. But fun puzzle nevertheless.
ReplyDeleteIf you take the first two and last two letters of the game and reverse them, you get another form of transportation (that some may find familiar).
I'm reminded of one of Blaine's holiday videos, I think.
ReplyDeletepi-0.04
ReplyDeleteThis one has me going in circles
ReplyDeleteMusical clue: Arlo Guthrie.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what both JAWS and Lorenzo posted at the end of last week's blog re: this puzzle. However, that being said, I ended up enjoying it because, although I never heard of the game, I was able to basically solve it while still in bed. I then had to google to see if I actually had solved it.
ReplyDeletePretty much the same for me, except I was not in bed! (I was nine timezones from you.)
DeleteI am so very envious!
DeleteMusical Clues: Sha Na Na, Allman Brothers Band, and Ben Jaeger.
ReplyDeleteIt took me a while to get this. Like sdb, I had never before heard of the “game that involved transportation,” so I had to guess and then research it. Live and learn.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, the answer to last week’s puzzle included three states. This week’s excluded four.
This is one I got right away, although I lucked out because the first company I thought of was the correct one. I can say I have partaken of the company's transportation as well as played the game, but have never been to the travel destination and would have to think of a different travel company to use should I ever go there.
ReplyDeleteI figured there would be a generational divide, as there often is, in knowing the game. That said, I babysat children in the 1980s who played the game.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe it existed in the 1980s.
Delete1990a
DeleteTough puzzle this week. I wondered how people were getting it so quickly without knowing the game, but then I realized they must have lucked into the right company at the outset, like Courtney. That gave me a fresh start that led to success. (I also did not know the game.)
ReplyDeleteI finally figured it out today while driving from Vermont to the Mid-Atlantic region. It helped that I saw the name of the transportation company a few times. It helped me keep track of which letters end up where as you move them around.
ReplyDeleteTimely, again.
ReplyDeleteI guess the wording “international tourist destination” rules out domestic destinations like Chicago or New Orleans…
ReplyDeleteWhy couldn't an international tourist end up in Chicago or New Orleans? 😜
DeleteI too considered that possibility, and after trying to make the Kennedy Center and the Reflecting Pool work with no joy, I realized Will would not have worded it that way if it were in our country, so I immediately put my attention on Auschwitz.
DeleteOver 2 million visitors to Auschwitz annually. Most left alive.
DeleteI think I've mentioned here before that I live just one block from Seattle's largest cemetery, and that I walk there a lot. Sometimes as I am walking back to the gate to leave, and I approach someone I don't know who is walking in, I might say, "I always feel fortunate to get out of here alive; so many don't." Only about half seem to get the joke.
DeleteMany are dying to get in there.
DeleteYes, and that old joke is buried there too.
DeleteTrue story: it was coming up on the 50th anniversary of my Dad's death, and I wanted to visit his grave for the very first time. (I was just 14 when he passed.) Unfortunately, we didn't get a tombstone or even a marker for his grave. So I called the cemetery to see if they could help me. I gave the nice lady all the info I could recall. This is what she said: "I'll see what I can dig up, and call you back." I don't think she realized how it sounded, but I just chuckled.
DeleteReminds me of the time we were heading to Long Island a few summers ago. We'd made reservations for the Bridgeport-Port Jefferson ferry to avoid having to drive through the city. Got a call halfway through Connecticut. If was the ferry company to tell me the trip had been cancelled, because the boat had gone down. She was using the term the way you'd describe a computer system going down, but I was envisioning a shipwreck.
DeleteWell speaking of ups and downs. I found out the cemetery grounds workers do not get along with those who work in their crematorium. It seems the latter feel the former are beneath them.
DeleteEither way is a sad way to urn a living.
DeleteTrue, but at their days end they all get a bier.
DeleteJan, did they refund your ferry fare? If not, that's not fair.
DeleteI doubt they refunded it, but most likely carried it over.
DeleteOr buried it at sea.
DeleteThey were swamped with requests.
Delete"Sound"s like it.
DeleteJust write it off as a sunk cost.
DeleteYou might be able to float aloane.
DeleteIt’s always hard to gauge what path the comments on a post will take. I’m in grave danger of making some bad puns here…
DeleteJust good puns please. The bad ones are killing us.
DeleteJust make sure the pun-ctuation is correct.
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