Blaine's Puzzle Blog

I was just fiddling with numbers recently and came up with the following sequence: 4, 5, 5, 6, 14, 11, 8, 11, 8, 8, 13... Can anyone tell me...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 30) - Eli before and after Q: Take the name Eli and add three letters in front of it. Add the same three letters in r...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 16) - Multiplication Magic Square Q: In a standard 4 by 4 magic square you arrange the digits from one to sixteen so ...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 9) - Non-rhyming words starting M, N and ST Q: Take the words MAY, NAY, and STAY. Except for their opening letters, M...

All of us, by now should have heard of Sudoku ... if you haven't, you must have been living in a box. Or maybe it is the other way arou...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 2) - Four-letter O-word Q: Think of a four-letter word starting with O. Change one of its letters to a new letter and...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sept 25) - A book becomes a writer/TV Personality Q: Name a well-known book in seven letters. Hint: it's spelled as ...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sept 18) - Island Hopping Q: Name a country, somewhere in the world. You can change its first letter to name a well know...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sept 11) - Two-word place name We are back from camping so I can once again give you the answer to this week's NPR p...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (August 28) - Alaskan Conundrum Q: Take a two-word phrase meaning "a difficult puzzle." Drop the first letter, ...