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What a treat—themeless crosswords from a long established master of the form, Frank Longo, and a newer hotshot, Mike Nothnagel. Mike's puzzle is the New York Times one, and he's loaded it with s
...d style clues to be found in a 15-square word search block. An average puzzle includes between 40 and 50 words.
Each puzzle has a theme, which is hidden through the use of many double meanings in th...
... to the NYT crossword but somwhow ended up reading a post from the favorite about the popularity of crosswords.
Are there as many crosswords addicts today as there were ten years ago - probably not....
If you think that I'm going to solve the crosswords for you think again! It would take out all the fun. What I can do is give advices as to how to become a crossword genius such as him.
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awful: 1)inspiring awe. ...3)extremely disagreeable or objectional.
So, we have an example of two words which are both synonyms (in a sense) and antonyms (in a sense).
Now, slang usually uses...
Each integer from 1 to 36 is associated with a letter (a, b, or c) as given below.
Place the integer/letter combinations ('ILC's) into the spaces (one ILC per space) of a 6-by-6 grid such that:
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I was looking through Willard R. Espy's _The Game of Words_ and encountered a section entitled 'What is the Question?'. The section describes a word game in which the first player gives an answer, and
On a different forum, someone posted this question:
What two common English words are synonyms, but when you add the same suffix to each, become antonyms?
The answer given was jail and prison and
This is a rebus puzzle. The arrangement of the letters/words pictorially is supposed to suggest a common phrase.
For example,
mind matter
Answer: Mind over matter
This one has me stumped:
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The following words have been placed in a logical order.
Nautical Wonder Tomb Foresight Survive Asinine Attention
Where, if at all, should Retaliate be placed in the list?
...longest list of synonyms that you can create, where each word is a synonym of the previous and following words, but not the other words? For example:
paddle row quarrel bolt run line fill ...
Note...
...et to provide the 'graphics'. Since there wasn't a lot of screen area left over for textual information (words like 'rotate', 'left', 'right', etc.), I used characters from the standard character set ...
The sets of words below all comprise of 3 items with one common link. You have to find out each link. However, before you do that you have to find out what the words actually are, not such an easy cha
The Newest Zoo Aquarium (= New Quiz to Amuse or Hate)
Pair up the words given below so that each pair forms an anagram of a fish name. For example, HER and GRIN form an anagram of the word HERRING.
...e problems wrong?
Day 5: - 'skeptical' is an american spelling
Day 6: - 'brainteasers' should be two words
Day 10: - Polonius said 'To thine ownself be true' (not 'own self') - Modern physics di...
Of course this is silly. A crossword MUST be two-dimensional if it's to have words crossing. But still, it may be a new form of puzzle...
...two different letters (to avoid trivial cases like A A-A). Your equation doesn't have to contain actual words, but it should be written without the use of digits (e.g., an equation containing (A+B+57...
...HDFM.
I've run it through several Caesar progs and it just produces more gibberish. I assume that some words are backwards or it involves shifting letters one space to the right or something.
Any ...
Help! I need a title and the words to a Christmas song. The 1st letters of the words of the 1st verse are: WUNWTAGC Can anyone help? Please email me at:
Thanks, Herb Miller
at least 4 six letter words with the letters STBLEU ???????/
...atured in THE TIMES so I believe it is genuine.
If the Z is a space, the text seems to break into nice words. If you take out the Zs then looking at the 'words' JPJ UMPOBADV repeats in 45 and 660 ch...
Here is a list of the longest one consonant words I could find.
Note: 'Y' is accepted as a non-consonant only if it ends a syllable (e.g., 'hooey' & 'joey') but not otherwise (e.g., 'deadeye').
B:
Piece the bits together to make five words. Each bit can only be used once and all of the bits must be used. The order of the letters within the bits cannot be changed. You should finish up with two 1
Complete the alphabet shown below by finding appropriate words for the letters N to Z. Use words that follow the same 'secret' rule as the given words. There are many possible solutions, so just give
I turn myself to the world - what possible meaning could the 'words' and have??? please help gabriel smit south africa
...f cutlery. (Generic names only; brand names disallowed.)
5. Name a cartoon character whose name is two words that begin with the same letter.
6. Name one of the Tarot cards known as the Major Arca...
...stag' but I wasn't 100% certain of the spelling so I put it in my anagram generator....and I found
666 words can be formed from 'RICH GATES'
If this isn't a subtle hint about microsoft I don't kno...
What is the largest set of 4-letter English words such that each word in the set is a letter-permutation of some other word in the set?
E.g. .
What is the largest such set of 5-letter English word
The following words are arranged in a certain logical order. Can you work out what it is?
1)Beauty 2)Now 3)Angels 4)Day 5)Brown 6)Streets 7)Bull 8)Dogs 9)Driver
...round 1 of my competition
Thus spake Dave
A nice easy little series to end off the first round. What words can be put in place of the question marks to complete the series?
Created, Beginning, C...
The grid below contains the names of several ingredients that are used to create a holiday feast. The words are written up, down, across, and diagonally (in traditional word-search fashion). One catch
...expression for 24. With the three 'ones,' of course, you may use any mathematical signs you know; but no words, such as 'log.' For example, if you had to express the number 10 in this game, it could b...
... (i.e. the same number on all five dice).
Assuming that you're only goal is to get a yahtzee (in other words, you do not choose to go for any other of the combinations needed in a true game of yahtz...
... but only one of each. Using these, together with any regular mathematical signs but no other figures or words, you have to make up an expression for each number in turn working up from 'one.' You cou...
...eter 40 centimeters resting up against a perfectly straight wall on a perfectly straight floor (in other words, at a perfect right angle) thus creating a gap between the ball and the corner of the wal...
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