This was extremely easy.Q: Name a well-known restaurant chain. Rearrange its letters to name a large area in the United States. This area has a two-word name. What is it?
A: TACO BELL → COAL BELT
I can't give a hint that doesn't give it away.Q: Think of a familiar three-word name of something. The first word in that name is a number. Let's call that number "x." The last "x" letters of the second word of the name are a French translation of the third word. What's the name?
A: THREE MILE ISLAND, ÎLE = ISLAND
Or change the penultimate letter and rearrange to get a car part. Or change it to a different letter to get a type of truck.Q: Think of a well-known European city in seven letters. If you remove the third letter, you'll get a two-word phrase describing what you must do to win a race. If instead you remove the fourth letter, you'll get a two-word phrase describing what you can't do to win a race. What's the city?
A: BELFAST --> BE FAST, BE LAST
Anagramming "Housing and Urban Development" might take several months.Q: Name a Cabinet department — as in "Department of ___." Rearrange the letters of what goes in the blank to get the brand name of a product you might find at a drugstore or supermarket. What is it?
A: LABOR --> ORAL-B
or STATE --> TATE'S or DEFENSE --> SENEFED
Well, I can make FORD into WORM, but how will I make an animal out of MUSTANG? :)Q: Name the make and model of a popular car. Change the first and last letters of the make to name an animal. Change the first and fourth letters of the model to name another animal. What car is this?
A: TOYOTA COROLLA --> COYOTE, GORILLA
Kuantan Port Malaysia or Macomb, IllinoisQ: Think of two common phrases in the form "___ and ___," in which the blanks stand for four-letter words. All four words in those two phrases have different first letters, but the last three letters in the words are the same. What are the phrases?
A: NEAR and DEAR, WEAR and TEAR
Bonus puzzle: Find another 8-letter word that starts with the same two letters. It also starts and ends with the same letters as the landmark. What word is it?Q: Name a famous American landmark in 8 letters. The first 4 letters in order are the first 4 letters of the name of a famous person associated with this landmark. Who is it? Here's a hint: The famous person's name also has 8 letters.
A: ALCATRAZ --> AL CAPONE
Change the 6th letter to the one immediately before it in the alphabet. You can rearrange the letters to spell a plural of another body part.Q: Name part of the human body in seven letters. The first four letters, in order, spell a familiar boy's name. The second through fifth letters, in order, also spell a familiar boy's name. What body part is it?
A: EARLOBE --> EARL, ARLO
This could take some time to figure out.Q: The challenge is to create the shortest possible word ladder connecting LARGE to SMALL, changing one letter at a time, making a common, uncapitalized word each step of the way. Here's the tricky part: Plurals and verbs formed by adding -s are not allowed.
A: LARGE, SARGE, SERGE, VERGE, VERSE, TERSE, TEASE, CEASE, CHASE, CHOSE, WHOSE, WHOLE, WHALE, SHALE, SHALL, SMALL (15 steps).
Part of this brand was owned by **** *** at one time.Q: Think of a well-known U.S. city. Its population is over a quarter of a million. Phonetically, the first syllable of the city's name plus the first syllable of the name of its state will sound like a well-known brand name. What is it?
A: PLANO, TEXAS --> PLAYTEX
