Word puzzles

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Midword puzzles[edit | edit source]

There is an eight-letter word whose third to sixth letters are DUST. What is that word?

The answer is “industry”. Easy? Let’s try another.

There is an eight-letter word whose third to sixth letters are ACHE. What is it?

The answer is teachers. This one is very difficult because the sound of “ache” in the answer word is radically different from the sound of “ache” as an independent word.

What if the middle is LINE? The answer is ugliness.

Also, there is a nine-letter word: ___ICU___. That word is ridicules or ridiculed.

Occasionally, the question may provide unusual letter combinations at the middle.

  • _ _ _ W W _ _ _ : glowworm
  • _ _ _ H H _ _ _ : withhold
  • _ _ _ P F _ _ _ : campfire
  • _ _ _ T F _ _ _ : platform
  • _ _ _ H T _ _ _ : rightful
  • _ _ Q Q _ _ : niqqud

Tricky puzzles[edit | edit source]

Many tricky puzzles make you think in the wrong way from the beginning. For example, consider the following puzzle:

“What is the most common word whose third letter is H?”

~ Tricky puzzle 1

You would think that H is used as an individual consonant. Such words do exist, like "coherent" and "dehydrate", but they are not used very often. If you realize that H is more commonly used in letter combinations like TH, SH and CH, you might come up with "ache". But the correct answer is "other".

If you got the first one right, you might want to try another.

“Think of 25 words that begin in "par".”

~ Tricky puzzle 2

You know these words: part, park, party, parties, parts, parks, pare, pared, parked, parking, participate, participated, participates, participation, participating, participant, participants, partial, partly and partially. That's 20. The key is to think of the prefix para-. Then it would become very easy.

The third puzzle is even more difficult.

“Think of a word that contains "YI".”

~ Tricky puzzle 3

Here the letters Y and I must be adjacent and in the right order, meaning that words like "cynical" are not accepted. An answer is dying. Other answers include defying and justifying. All of them have the suffix -ing.

The fourth puzzle is similar to the third.

“Think of a word that contains "TC".”

~ Tricky puzzle 4

"TC" is found in the letter combination TCH. Example words include bitch and scratch.

The fifth one is similar to the fourth.

“Think of a word that contains double W.”

~ Tricky puzzle 5

The extremely rare double W is only found in Compound words. One of the answers is glowworm.

For additional challenge, there is a sixth puzzle that is radically different from the five above.

“Dwarf mobs quiz lynx.___, kvetch!”

~ Tricky puzzle 6

The answer choices are GIF, JPG and PNG. The correct answer is JPG. Because if you fill it in, the sentence would be a perfect pangram.

“Find an eight-letter word that ends in -demic other than epidemic and pandemic.”

~ Tricky puzzle 7

Answer: academic.

Crossword puzzles[edit | edit source]

"Crossword" is a misspelling of "crissword". Crossword puzzles are popular. Back in the good old days, crossword puzzles were very easy, mostly because they were one-dimensional. But modern crosswords are insanely difficult. There is a HUGE crossword puzzle that needs you to fill in more than 1000 words, but it takes forever to load. In the meantime, you may practice your meager crossword-solving skills on this one:

Today's Crossword Puzzle*
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 1 Animal allergic to french fries
 5 Sign language used by blind amputees
10 End result of an infinite loop
14 Albert Schweitzer's favorite flavor
15 Playing chess on a parabolic hyperboloid
16 Zanzibarian beetle, colloquially
17 Antonym for Horatio Wilburforce (1803-1847)
20 Fictional fragrance
21 Unwaxed candle
22 Artificial eggplants
23 Wine that goes best with ytterbium
25 Business end of a hula hoop
26 Standard abbreviation for _____
27 Prequel of Hawking's A Brief History of Time
28 What a stegosaurus says when provoked
32 Anonymous author of "My 437th Book"
34 SI prefix for zero
35 Dessert topping found in pants
36 Irrational fear of cheese doodles
37 Machine used for scaring trees
38 Future geologic era
39 Urine-based cheese made in Scotland
41 Fossilized slices of bologna
42 One who is fluent in Spanglish
43 The answer to this crossword clue, spelled backwards
44 A banana with way too many teeth?
45 Calvin Coolidge's longest speech (verbatim)
47 A hairstyle made famous in Liechtenstein
50 An unanticipated surplus of mayonnaise
53 What to feed to a rabid zebra
54 How the hell now, brown cow?
55 Morse code for dummies
58 Sentient piñata, theoretically
59 A popular typeface for hieroglyphics
60 Least important physical property of peanut butter
61 One who degreases monkeys for a living
62 Moose's colonoscopy
63 Alternative use for a wingnut

 1 Popular dance style with a 17/5 beat
 2 Don't do this when skydiving
 3 Medical term for itchy fingernails
 4 Why idiots fall in love
 5 Drowning in a river of tapioca
 6 Electrified celery
 7 Forbidden part of speech
 8 Klingon word for "doily"
 9 What not to stick into 39 Across
10 Exquisitely obese
11 Indescribable gardening tools
12 87,013th word of the novel War and Peace
13 A seemingly random string of letters
18 Enigmatic jar full of phlegm
19 22nd digit of the human body
24 Collective noun: "A ___ of solipists"
25 Monochromatic rainbows
27 Holy guacamole (eccl.)
29 Worst misspelling of "Albuquerque" ever
30 Roman numeral for one zillion
31 The Canada of Canada?
32 Acronym for 32, 36, 39, and 42 across
33 Country with the most gerbils per capita
34 Answer to a rhetorical question
35 Susan B. Anthony's third greatest accomplishment
37 The last letter of this word is missing
40 Largest possible serving of toothpaste?
41 In mathematics, the least interesting number
44 Moving sideways through time
46 Humming an entire opera off-key
47 What John Smith is famous for
48 Scientific instruments for measuring pancake residue
49 Plural form of "ssss"
50 One third of a bicycle
51 Immersing oneself in a warm bath of Coke Zero
52a The darkest side of the sun
52b Explosive facial hair?
53 To translate into Urdu, badly
54 Smallest city of South Dakota
56 Making shit up, metaphorically
57 The end, finally

* 23 x 23 grid purchased separately.

A miscellaneous puzzle[edit | edit source]

  1. You lost half of your body, but now you are all right. What happened to you? Answer: your left side left your body.

A see-also puzzle[edit | edit source]