If you rearrange the letters in the longer word, you get something you might do at a marina.Q: Think of a word for a person who helps you. Copy the last three letters and repeat them at the front, and you'll get a new, longer word that names a person who hurts you. What words are these?
A: MENTOR, TORMENTOR
Q: Name a U.S. state capital for which the name of another well-known U.S. city is an antonym. The second city has a population of more than 100,000The second city was the setting of a sitcom from the '70s.
A: LITTLE ROCK and BOULDER
Q: Let A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, etc. Think of a five-letter word whose letters' values add up to 51. Now take this word's last two letters. Add their values. (For example A and C would total 4.) Change these two letters to the single letter of the alphabet that represents their total. (In this case, D.) The result will be a new word that is the opposite of the original. What words are these?I threw together a chart to help us.
A: THICK and THIN
Add 3 letters in front of the first name to get a destination. Insert 1 letter in the last name to get a different destination.Q: Take the name of a well-known artist. The first name can be divided to form two common words that are synonyms. The last name can be anagrammed to form an antonym of those two words. Who is the artist, and what are the words?
A: DIEGO RIVERA --> DIE, GO, ARRIVE
Q: Think of a six-letter word for something you might wear. Insert an "O" in the exact middle, and you'll get a phrase meaning "Not aware." What is it?A Rubik's Cube
A: OUTFIT --> OUT OF IT
I have two answers. One would be familiar to crossword solvers, the other (intended) answer is probably simple enough for an elementary school student.Q: Think of a five-letter animal. Remove the middle letter, and two opposites remain. What animal is it?
A: SWINE --> SW (southwest) and NE (northeast)
The hardest part is coming up with a clue that is relevant.Q: Think of two five-letter words that are opposites. One of them begins with E, the other ends with E. Drop both E's. The remaining eight letters can be rearranged to spell a new word that is relevant. What are these three words?
A: ENTER, LEAVE, RELEVANT
If today is Day 1, I'll definitely give you the answer before Day 6.Q: Think of a two-letter and a five-letter word that are synonyms. The two-letter word and the last syllable of the five-letter word sound like new words that are antonyms. What words are these?
A: HI, HELLO --> HIGH, LOW
May you have the first but not the second.Q: Think of a common two-word phrase, in nine letters, naming something that makes it easy to get money. Rearrange its letters to spell another common two-word phrase naming something that makes it hard to get money. What phrases are these?
A: DEBIT CARD <--> BAD CREDIT
Don't make the mistake I did.Q: This puzzle is for the new school year. Think of two antonyms, each in three letters. Set them side by side. In between them arrange the letters of TRY TO ACE in some order. The result will name someone at school. Who is it?
A: HISTORY TEACHER
I have a myriad of excuses as to why I forgot to post the puzzle and answer last week running the gamut from A to Z, but mainly my wife and I were very busy constructing costumes for the family to attend a convention this weekend. I intended to post as soon as I figured out the answer last Sunday but never came up with it, so forgot to get back to it. Apologies to all.Q: If you squish the small letters "r" and "n" too closely together, they look like an "m." Think of a common five-letter word with the consecutive letters "r" and "n" that becomes its own opposite if you change them to an "m."
A: stern --> stem
Q: Take the word FALSE and divide it between the L and the S (e.g. FAL and SE). FAL is the start of the word FALL, and SE is the end of the word RISE. And, of course, "fall" and "rise" are opposites. Do the same thing for the word SHALL. Divide it into two parts, so that the start of it starts one word and the end of it ends another word — and those two words are opposites. The dividing point is for you to discover. There are three different solutions and you are to find all three.
A: SHORT and TALL, SHARP and DULL, SHAKY and STILL and SHAN'T and WILL
For some reason this reminds me of the Tom Hanks --> Thanks puzzle from nearly 10 years ago.Q: Think of a word that means "unfinished." Add one letter at the start and one letter at the end, and you'll get a new word that means the opposite of the first. What words are these?
A: ROUGH --> WROUGHT
Anyone watch Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?Q: Think of a word that means "entrance." Interchange the second and fourth letters, and you'll get a new word that means "exit." What words are these?
A: GATEWAY --> GETAWAY
How does the puzzle rate this week? Like? Dislike?Q: Take the word die. Think of two synonyms for this word that are themselves exact opposites of each other. What two words are these? A hint: they have the same number of letters.
A: PASS, FAIL
Who's there?Q: Name someone who's the subject of many jokes; two words. Remove the space between the words. Insert the letters O and N in that order — not necessarily consecutively — inside this string of letters. The result, reading from left to right, will be two words of opposite meaning that this someone might say. Who is it, and what are the words?
A: ST PETER --> STOP ENTER
I initially thought of a Siren and a siren, but there's no U added. I'll let you take it from here.Q: Name someone who welcomes you in. Insert the letter U somewhere inside this, and you'll name something that warns you to stay away. Who is this person, and what is this thing?
A: BELL BOY --> BELL BUOY
The anagram of one of the words makes me want to cry.Q: Think of a word that means "to come before." Replace its last letter with two new letters to get "someone who comes after you." These two words are unrelated etymologically. What words are they?
A: PREDATE --> PREDATOR
NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 30, 2012): Opposites Attract: Q: Think of a word in which the second letter is R. Change the R to an M, and rearrange the result. You'll get the opposite of the original word. What is it? (Hint: The two words start with the same letter.)
Q: Name an occupation in nine letters. It's an entertainer of sorts — an unusual and uncommon but well-known sort of entertainer. Drop the third letter of the name, and read the result backward. You'll get two four-letter words that are exact opposites. What are they?I'm sorry for the late post of the puzzle. There was some problem with our internet where it would be up for a little bit, but before I could finish a post, it would come back down. Anyway, it seems to have sorted itself out and my elder son is just grateful that he can get online with his Xbox again.
A: DAREDEVIL --> LIVE + DEAD
