Quiz Guy John Chaneski was inspired by a version of film in which a filmmaker went to the trouble to take a clip of every word used in the movie The Wizard of Oz, arranging them in alphabetical order, all the way to the Tin Man’s saying zipper. The movie is called, not surprisingly, Of Oz the Wizard. John pondered a puzzle that applies the same treatment to other artistic works. For example, U.S. national anthem would be “Banner Star-Spangled The.” He’s created a whole puzzle based on that idea. The first clue starts the game out with an alphabetic flourish: Using this pattern, how should he title the alphabetically correct version of the 1967 Faye Dunaway-Warren Beatty classic about two bank robbers? This is part of a complete episode.
Quiz Guy John Chaneski is back with another “Take-Off” game in which the object is to take one letter from a word suggested by a clue to form another word. In this case, the letter that’s to be taken off will always be an initial R...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski has been thinking a lot about it—that is, how the presence or absence of the letters I-T can clue different words. Each of this puzzle’s sentences suggests one word containing the letters I-T, and a second word...
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