Blaine's Puzzle Blog

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 23): Football on your FM Dial... : Q: Name something a football player wears, in eight letters. Rearrange the eight l...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 16): Synonyms for fragility? : Q: Name a certain shop some people visit every day. Reverse the order of the last four...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 9): Still working on this one? : Q: Take the word 'near.' If you shift each of its consonants to the next con...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 2): They're both trees -- but quick, are they synonyms? : Q: Rearrange the letters in CHARADES, to make two words...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Aug 26): Providing clues in close to realtime : Q: Name an event at which food is served (eight letters). Inside this wor...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Aug 19): Music Is in the Air : Rearrange the letters of NITROGEN to get a familiar word everyone knows, that did not exis...

I'll be on vacation this next week, so I won't be able to post clues about the puzzle. Edit: For completeness, here's last we...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Aug 5): Outdoor Puzzle : Q: Think of a six-letter word ending in a vowel that names something worn outdoors. Change the v...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (July 29): A Tale of Two Movies : Q: Name a well-known movie in five letters, two syllables. The vowel sound in the first ...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (July 22): Sly as a Fox : Q: Think of an adjective that would describe a fox. Remove all the letters in the even positions...