Quiz Guy John Chaneski takes inspiration for this week’s puzzle from cartoonist Nathan W. Pyle and his aliens from Strange Planet (Bookshop|Amazon), whose ultra-literal phrasing makes familiar experiences sound oddly technical and new. For example, if a being is getting dressed for a non-recreational event, they may need to don their seriousness cloth. What exactly would they be putting on? This is part of a complete episode.
Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a take-off puzzle involving the letters V and W. Each sentence clues two words, one of which has lost either a V or a W. For example, what two words does the following sentence suggest? He plugged his guitar into the...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a puzzle that’s full of misspellings–only on purpose. Given a definition, you have to provide the common incorrect spelling. For example, how would you misspell the word defined by the following? “A confection made from...
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