November 3, 2024 • NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays with puzzle with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and WBUR listener John Byrne of Watertown, Massachusetts.

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On-air challenge: Today's puzzle is called "The Pits." Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase or name in which the first word starts PI- and the second word starts with T-.

On-air challenge: Here are names of things that are in certain categories. Take the first two letters and reverse them. Then name something else in the same category that starts with those two ...

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On-air challenge: This is a phonetic puzzle. If I asked you to say a letter of the alphabet before one of the gifts of the Three Wise Men to get a boy's name, you'd put L before MYRRH to get ELMER.

Note: Most subscribers have some, but not all, of the puzzles that correspond to the following set of solutions for their ...

Last week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from listener David Dickerson, of Tucson, Arizona. The city UTICA, NEW YORK, when spelled out, contains 12 letters, all of them different. Think ...

No more than three puzzles pending at a time. What we could use more of: Thursday and Sunday puzzles that don’t involve a rebus. Themes should be fresh, interesting, narrowly defined and ...

On-air challenge: I'm going to give you some words and phrases. Rearrange the letters in each one to get the brand name of a product that you might buy at a drugstore or pharmacy.

A larger puzzle format for Sunday players of America’s favorited word game. The navigation bar above the puzzle will provide you with options for instructions, information, guesses, reveal ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Northwest Public Broadcasting listener Midge Komenda of Lacey, Washington. Sunday Puzzle: drugstore scramble On-air challenge ...