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!!

Answer has been posted

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.

Answer has been posted

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?

Answer has been posted

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.

Answer has been posted

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 _________________?

Answer has been posted

"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.

Answer has been posted

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.

Answer has been posted