Pa Rum Pa Pum Pum

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Take the phrase "fusion tea".  You can rearrange the letters to come up with three distinct words.  One word has the opposite meaning of the other two, although the other two words are not necessarily synonyms.  What words are these?

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Found In Translation

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There are many foreign words that are made simply by removing one letter from an English word.  For example, a stylish young woman would be a chic chick.  See if you can come up with the answers to these clues.

Holidays for the sopranos             Spanish

Found on a trike                           Spanish

Giant potato                                 German

Fight over money                          Russian

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Life Is Short

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Shank             Gold Tiara             Cower             Gib

__________ : __________ :: __________ : __________

Rearrange each group of letters and put them in their proper places to make a sensible analogy.

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Locked and Loaded

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Take the word "bit" and a synonym of the word "bit".  Rearrange the letters to name a well known movie by a well known director.

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It Never Sleeps

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Take the phrase

Noticeable Evils

Rearrange the 15 letters to get a two-word phrase describing where you might find noticeable evils.

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Two Against One

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Take the following phrase:

 Shady Forest

Add one more letter and rearrange to come up with three words, one the opposite of the other two.

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It's What We Do

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What is the next pair in this series?

DD     PP     LL     LD     MM     SS     GL     _ _

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Time To Eat Yet?

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Name something that is part of a group of twelve.  Move the first letter up two places and translate to name something that is part of a group of seven. 

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I've Seen This Before

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Think of a US state postal abbreviation whose letters can be reversed to name a chemical element from the periodic table.  Think of a second US state postal abbreviation with the same property.  The name of the second chemical element will describe a property of  the first chemical element.  What are the states and elements?

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More Color Codes

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Last week we gaveth.  This week, we taketh away.

Take the phrase INDIGO ROE.  Drop one letter and rearrange the result to name a well known food brand.

Now, take the phrase TEAL NESTS.  Drop one letter and rearrange the result to get the full name of the company that owns the brand.

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Color Coded

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Take the phrase RED GOAT.  Add a vowel and rearrange the letters to name a popular beverage brand.

Now, take the phrase AQUA STORK.  Add a vowel and rearrange the letters to name the company that owned the brand for almost twenty years.

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Who Wants to Get Things Started?

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This week we have multiple challenges.


Take the phrase

Native Beagle Cheered

First challenge -  how many four letter animal names can you come up with?  I came up with fourteen singular animal names, six of which have a homophone.

Second challenge - take one of the more common animals and add a consonant.  The five letters can now be rearranged twice to make a pair of homophones.  What are they?

Third challenge - using the letters of  Native Beagle Cheered only once, come up with four common phrases that begin with one of the above homophones.

Good luck!!

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Sibling Rivalry

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Take the phrase Boggle Winner.  Rearrange the letters to name the sister of a certain 2011 NPR Sunday Puzzle solution.

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Next In Line, Please

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It's time to renew your tag for your license plate.  You go to the Secretary of State's office only to find twenty people already in line when three clerks open their windows.  Clerk A can complete the transaction in two minutes.  Clerk B can do it in three minutes and clerk C, in four minutes.  Assuming everyone knows this and all are in a hurry, how long does it take you to get your license plate tag?

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Bonus Q:

Take the phrase  NOWHERE STILL.  Add one letter OR one punctuation mark and rearrange the result  to name something unusual about today.

AC/DC

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Take the phrase Fat Flyswatter.  Add one more vowel and rearrange the letters to name an east coast misnomer.

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Are You Talking to Me?

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Take the nationalities of the starred countries.  Find a homophone of each.  Rearrange the result to complete this often asked question:

_________________ or _________________?

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"What'd Ya Say, Abe?"

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TLA stands for many things, but in this case, it stands for three letter abbreviation.  In the US(A), there are four very well known and very closely related TLA's.  Two contain a two letter US postal abbreviation.  The other two do not.  Name the four TLA's.

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I'd Say Those Gloves Are Absolutely Winsome

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With Labor Day fast approaching, it might be time to plan a picnic in the park.  The park I like has a picnic table under a tree by a river.  Here's the challenge.  Take the words

Tree        River        Labor       Day

Change one letter and rearrange the result to name something you might see in a park on Labor Day.

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I Think Therefore I Am

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Think of a two word phrase meaning "had".  Switch the order of the words to name how you would probably  feel.

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This Just In (AVM Revisited)

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Think of a four letter word that names (as far as kingdoms are concerned) a certain animal, a certain vegetable and a certain mineral.  Rearrange the four letters to name a certain twenty first century farm collective.

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You're My Hero

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There are two car companies that meet these criteria:

1)  they both have two sets of repeated letters

2)  the repeated sets of letters for both companies are the same distance apart in the alphabet

What car companies are these?

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Such a Drag!

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Take the oft used slogan,

 "Save The Whales".

Remove the first name of a well known childrens' author and rearrange what's left to name what many US citizens are experiencing lately.

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Almost Time For Dinner

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If you ever watch The Food Network, you may have seen the show, Chopped.  Each chef is given a basket of generally non-related food items with which they must prepare a dish for the judges. Your challenge?  You must use the letters in these ingredients to name four well-known cocktails.

Gingersnaps

an

Enchilada

Marinated Ants 

and a 

Solid Hoof

Your time starts now!

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You're Driving Me Crazy

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Think of two well known Americans who share the same first name and began their careers the same way.  Their last names are each two syllables long.  The word way can be added to the first syllable of each to make two common compound words.  The word hood can be added to the second syllable of each to make two more common compound words.  Who are these people?

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Just One More

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Take the phrase "The Customer Smiles".  Rearrange the letters to name something that makes for a long day.

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Animal, Vegetable or Mineral

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Think of a tree in three letters.  Add a state postal abbreviation and rearrange the five letters to name an animal.

Think of another tree in three letters.  Add another postal abbreviation and rearrange the five letters to name another tree.

Think of one more tree in three letters.  Add one more postal abbreviation and rearrange the five letters to name a mineral.

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Some Do Too Much While Others Do Little

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Take the words:                            
                                       LOAMY  -  YARD  -  AMPLIFYING

Rearrange the letters to name two well known titles that are related.

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All That Remains

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What is the next letter in this series:

N - U - S - D - E - R - W - __ ?

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Rags to Riches

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Take the phrase "ten upon these beams".  Rearrange the letters to name two things that are at opposite ends of the spectrum.

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Shop, Drop and Roll

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Rearrange the same four letters to complete these two statements:

People leave __ __ __ __ 's carrying more than when they came in.

People leave the __ __ __ __ carrying less than when they came in.

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BONUS:  What is the connection to the image?

Ten is Ne one?

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Of the postal abbreviations for the fifty US states, fifteen are also symbols for chemical elements on the periodic table, as in NE for Nebraska and Ne for Neon.  If you assign a number to each letter of the alphabet, A=1, B=2, etc.,  there is a numerical property unique to one of these chemical elements.  What is it?

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Opposites Attract

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Take the opposite meanings of these words:

Yeah             Asset                 Abundance             Key     

One result is two letters long and the other three are four letters long.  Rearrange the fourteen letters to get a common phrase relating to heavy hitting or heavy lifting.

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1040 Short Form

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The phrase "editors' guards" contains each vowel only once.  Change two of the vowels to e's for three e's total.  Rearrange the result to name something you might find in a bathroom or on  a bedroom nightstand.

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Spring Fever

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Arrange the vowels of the alphabet in a circular pattern like this:

A

U        E

O   I

Think of a spring flower in four letters with two vowels.  Shift one vowel clockwise one space and the other counter-clockwise one space.  Rearrange the result to name a different flower.  

Think of a spring flower in five letters with two vowels.  Shift the vowels in the same way.  Rearrange the result to name a part of that flower.

Think of a spring flower in six letters with two vowels.  Shift the vowels in the same way.  Rearrange the result to name the same flower.  There are several possibilities, but.....

This next flower is a species of the previous six letter answer.  Think of a flower in seven letters with two vowels, prized for its aromatic qualities.  Shift the vowels in the same way.  Rearrange the result to name the part of your body most attracted to this flower.

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15.875733 kilograms

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A certain Cheshire Lane in California has been a lightning rod for trouble for years.  Now things have flared up again.  You can watch this disaster unfold daily on TV and the internet.  In case you've been living under a rock, use the clues in this puzzle to discover who is at the center of the Cheshire Lane nightmare.

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John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

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Andy Pigeon and Dingo Payne are two of my favorite fictional characters. They are arch rivals and have been since childhood ..... yet there is something they have always shared and always will.  When you discover what that is, rearrange the letters to find when they will next meet.

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The Scouting Report

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The word "bookkeeper" is the only word in the English language that has three consecutive pairs of double letters - oo kk ee.

Think of a two word phrase that also contains three consecutive pairs of double letters.  Take one letter from each of the pairs to get a three letter word.

If you practice the phrase throughout your life, you may be the subject of the three letter word.

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If I Only Could

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Take the phrase "Wholesome Hempstead Rodent" from the off Broadway musical remake of Disney's "Ratatouille."  Rearrange the letters to name three fierce competitors.

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Approval Rating

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Take the phrase "Dire Congress".  Rearrange the letters to name a place you might to like to find its members.

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HAL 18 15 1 3 8

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Think of a farm animal in five letters.  Add a farm plant in three letters.  Grind the result and fry it to make a seven letter food item for people.  Change one letter and rearrange the result to get a farm plant that is fed to farm animals.  What are these words?

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Straight Up

Think of two famous men with 4 letter first names and 7 letter last names.

These two cross "town" rivals competed in a race in which the time difference between first and second place was 23 days.  Who are these men?

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Joyeux Mercredi

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Take the first name of a famous artist.  Move the last letter up 1 place in the alphabet and rearrange the result to get the last name of this artist.  Who is it?

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Celebrity Anagranalogy II

As a refresher, Anagranology is a made up word. It is a puzzle consisting of  anagrams and an analogy.

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Rearrange the letters in each section to create an accurate analogy.

Sea Tunes : Hairdryer : : Oh Sue Us : Social Penny 

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