This week’s challenge from Quiz Guy John Chaneski involves non-rhyming pairs of words that both end in the letter Y. Try this clue: John and his wife Jennifer recently spent a whole day there last week participating in their civic obligation. What’s the two-word answer? This is part of a complete episode.
Ian in Cincinnati, Ohio, has noticed that some words can lose one letter at a time and a meaningful word remains. For example, drama can become dram, then ram, then am, then a. The National Puzzlers’ League has several specific names for this: If...
In this week’s brain teaser from Quiz Guy John Chaneski, each clue involves switching the first and last sounds of a word to form a new word. In the case of the word look, for example, swapping those initial and final sounds leaves you with...
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