An idea from puzzle constructor David Ellis Dickerson inspired this week’s challenge from our Quiz Guy, John Chaneski. This game involves two-word titles of books and movies, which, when those words are reversed, still make a pretty good title...
Eddie from Petoskey, Michigan, learned double-talk from his mother, who picked it up from girlfriends in the 1950s or early 1960s. In his family’s version, ib is inserted around each syllable: for a word like cat, it follows the initial consonant...
A California man says his mother used to respond to his inquiries about what they were going to do by telling him playfully, “We’re going to Buxtehude!” Decades later, he wonders whether there really is a place called Buxtehude, or...

