Our Quiz Guy John Chaneski shares a game called Just O.K. Take a word, add the letters “O” and “K”, then transpose the letters to form a new word. For example, what froggy word could you form by adding an O and a K to the word car? This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Just O.K. Quiz”
You’re listening to A Way with Words. I’m Martha Barnette.
And I’m Grant Barrett. And joining us is John Chaneski, our quiz guy. Hello, John.
Hi, Grant. Hi, Martha.
Hiya, John. What’s up?
I’m back for some more puzzles. What do you think?
Excellent.
Should we do?
Please.
Yes.
Let’s do.
Let’s do. Easy ones, right? Hard ones?
Well, this one is, let me put it this way. This one is just okay.
Okay.
In fact, that’s what I call it. I call it just okay.
Okay.
This is a puzzle that I adapted from an idea by Will Shorts.
His puzzle is great.
Mine is just OK.
In fact, OK is the key to the puzzle.
I’ll give you a word.
You add O and K to the letters of the word and transpose them to get the answer.
OK.
So a little bit of anagramming here.
A little bit of anagramming.
So get your pencils out if you need to.
OK.
Got it.
For example, if I said car, C-A-R, you would add OK to that, transpose the letters, and get what word?
Croak.
Croak.
Perfect.
Very well done.
Let’s try some more.
We’ll start with five-letter words.
The word sun, S-O-N.
Knock.
No.
No.
Nooks.
Nooks.
Very good.
Very good.
Let’s try the word dry, D-R-Y.
It’s an adjective describing someone who’s rather socially inept.
Dorky.
Dorky is right.
Very good.
I didn’t get that first.
I’m used to it.
Let’s try the word rep, R-E-P.
Plus OK equals?
Poker.
Poker, yes, very good.
The word now is net, N-E-T, net.
Token.
Token is correct.
Very nice.
Finally, for the five letters, we have sly, S-L-Y.
Yolks, as in egg yolks.
Yolks is correct.
I can hear the gears turning.
It’s wonderful.
Soky?
What?
Let’s move on to the six-letter words.
Get ready.
Okay.
Wean, W-E-A-N, plus okay.
E-A-N is…
No.
It describes someone in the morning.
Awaken.
No, awoken.
Awoken is right.
Very good.
How about the award known as the OBIE?
O-B-I-E.
O-B-I-E.
Plus OK equals?
A bookie.
Bookie.
Very good.
Someone who might take bets on the OBs.
Very good.
The word deco, D-E-C-O, plus OK equals?
Cooked.
Cooked.
Very good.
Veer, V-E-E-R, plus OK.
Revoke.
Revoke is right.
Let’s do another place name on the six letters.
Tape, T-A-P-E, plus okay, equals?
Equals.
Topeka.
Topeka is correct.
Good.
Okay, we’re going to do one last one.
I like this one because it’s very, well, it’s very funny.
I think you should get it pretty quickly.
The word jester plus okay equals?
Jokester.
Jokester, yes, very good.
A lot of change.
All right, you jokesters.
I’m finished.
I’m done.
You guys were great.
Thanks, John.
Really appreciate it.
We’ll see you next week, right?
Great stuff.
See you then.
Bye-bye.
All right.
Take care now.
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