Crosswordese: A Guide to the Weird and Wonderful Language of Crossword Puzzles (Bookshop|Amazon) by puzzle constructor David Bukszpan is a cruciverbalist’s delight, full of crossword lore and puzzle-solving tips, plus a dozen puzzles that Bukszpan created. This is part of a complete episode.
Oo-ee! Quiz Guy John Chanesk’s brain-teaser is all about irregular plurals involving double O’s and double E’s. Since the plural of foot is feet and goose is geese, he says, surely this means that the plural of boot must be … wait, what? This...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski is back with another Common Bonds game, in which the object is to figure out what one word links a trio of ideas. For example, what one word unites the following three things? A report card, USDA inspected beef, and an incline...
