I didn't know the answer at first, but I received some reinforcement; I feel much better now.Q: Think of three eight-letter words that are identical in spelling except for the fourth letter. Each word contains a G ... that is pronounced differently in all three words. What words are they?
A: STRANGER (soft g sound), STRINGER (nasal ng sound), STRONGER (hard g sound)
No need to be an "old-timer" this week. This should be easily solvable by any age.Edit: Old-timer is an anagram of Time Lord, and the fourth Dr. Who was played by Tom BakerQ: Name something to eat. Change one letter in it and rearrange the result. You'll name the person who makes this food. Who is it?
A: BREAD --> BAKER
A: Looking at a telephone keypad, 2=ABC, 3=DEF, 4=GHI, 5=JKL, 6=MNO, 7=PRS, 8=TUV, 9=WXY. The first letters in each triad can be used to spell PAJAMA. The second letters in each triad can be used to spell REBUKE. The third letters can be used to spell several words, but for words using 9 letters I found SCOLIOSIS and SILICOSIS.
To clarify, the cities and the countries may not correspond but everything is in the Middle East.Q: Take the name of a country and a well-known city in the Middle East — 12 letters in all. Rearrange these letters to name another country and another well-known city in the Middle East. What places are these?
A: BAHRAIN, DUBAI <--> IRAN, ABU DHABI
I suppose you could hire a private escort to help you get to where you need to be with this puzzle.Q: Take these three phrases:
Turkey breast Ski slope Cash drawer What very unusual property do they have in common?
A: In each phrase, the second word can be anagrammed to complete another common phrase:
Turkey breast —> turkey baster
Ski slope —> ski poles
Cash drawer —> cash reward
I was going to make a pun, but it was unfunny.Q: This one is an extension of the on-air puzzle where the example was vegetable --> leek or lettuce.
Think of a category in three letters in which the last two letters are the first two letters of something in that category. And the thing in the category has seven letters. Both names are common, uncapitalized words. What are they?
A: GEM --> EMERALD
Wouldn't this be easier if we switched to metric?Q: Name a unit of measurement. Remove two consecutive letters. The letters that remain can be rearranged to name what this measurement measures. What is it?
A: MINUTE - NU --> TIME
A: By adding/subtracting a letter each time, you can go from WHOLE to HEART in six steps. WHOLE —> HOLE, HOE, HOER, HER, HEAR —> HEART.
Personally I'd say the sound is more like the last name with a letter removed.Q: Name a famous actress who has four letters in her first name and four letters in her last name. Add one letter, and rearrange the result to name an animal and the sound this animal makes. Who is the actress, what is the animal and what is the sound that the animal makes?
A: TERI GARR + O --> TIGER + ROAR
And the five letters (without the starting consonant) sound like another word that would have fit in the sequence.Q: Think of four common six-letter words that all end in the same five letters, in the same order. And the first letters of these four words are consecutive consonants in the alphabet (like B, C, D, F). No other common six-letter words end with these five letters. What are the words?
A: LOTION, MOTION, NOTION and POTION (alternate BROWNS, CROWNS, DROWNS and FROWNS but Will was less enamored by the use of plurals.)
