Friday Puzzles (Week 49)

Beheadments

To "behead" a word, remove the first letter and form a new word. In the following puzzles, solve the clues to determine the pair of words. The second word will be the first word "beheaded". (hint: all of the second words begin with P)...

• Behead saliva and get a hole in the ground.
• Behead an empty area and get a rate of movement.
• Behead a sharp projection and get a fish.
• Behead a tournament and get a writing instrument.
• Behead a gemstone and get a close friend.

- The Everything Word Games Challenge Book

Riddle of the Week:

You give me when you make me.
A broken one gives spare.
It's a small reward to keep me.
Exact is great for fare.

- Cloud Kingdom

Friday Puzzles (Week 45)

Place the same three-letter word in each blank below to make four different words...

____ENT
____ING
____DON
____ABLE

 

First unscramble the letters in each word below, then unscramble the word order to create a Tom Swifty sentence.

RGAVLEY DAIS MOT LAWYAS
OCUSTEM DOVLE I RDSSE
I DCULO NEWH PU SA
SKELENOT A TPISREA.

- Mensa Puzzle Calendar

 

Riddle of the Week:

Like a Kraken rising from the foam,
A spear embedded in its heart,
It journeys low inside the home,
With soaking kisses to impart.
Its tentacles all waving low,
It leaves behind a gleaming path
Becomes bedraggled as it goes
And then it plunges in a bath.
When it's done with the dip,
It's throttled to release its grip.

- Cloud Kingdom

Friday Puzzles (Week 44)

Unscramble the letters in each "pie" segment below, then find the mising letter tha completes each word. (The missing letter, indicated by the question mark, is the same for each word.)

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Riddle of the Week:

Under house, never over.
Perhaps something is ceased.
It's never good for the heart,
But a lawman will be pleased.

- Cloud Kingdom

Friday Puzzles (Week 43)

Unscramble the letters in the box below and add the missing letter to make a nine-letter word.




Place the same three-letter word in each blank below to make four different words.

____ENT
____ING
____DON
____ABLE

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Riddle of the Week:

Like tombstones fallen on their sides

With eyes that peer out from the bones.

Half blind sometimes they might go wild,

Two faced players cast in stone.

Danger when they're standing tall

A tiny tap, they clatter, fall.

- Cloud Kingdom

Friday Puzzles (Week 42)

Fill in the word square below with two E's, one I, two L's, one K, two S's and one T so that each word can be read across and down.




Choose the correct letter from each clue in the rhyme below. When put in order, the five letters will spell the answer to the riddle.

My first is in dog and also in dole.
My second in able but not in pole.
My third in bridge and also in bright.
My fourth in brass and also in sight.
My last in yellow, yes, and yea.
My whole a flower like a sunny day.

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Riddle of the Week:

A shoe and a foot
On which it won't fit.
A cat and a glass
Which perhaps has been hit.
Always a lady,
Sometimes good, sometimes bad.
Depend on her not,
For she may leave you sad.

- Cloud Kingdom

Friday Puzzles (Week 41)

Solve the following anagrams for the names of famous quarterbacks...

CAR STORAGE HUB

EGO BRIBES

ATE NOON JAM

NEAR FRONT TANK

ONE HAT JAM

 

- The Everything Word Games Challenge Book

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Riddle of the Week:

Without a hole it's worthless,
When having two it's junk.
Above a hole it dangles,
Useful when it's sunk.

- Cloud Kingdom

Friday Puzzles (Week 40)

Puzzle 1: An intersting observation is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction. (Hint: Start with an "I". Three nulls).

Puzzle 2: Pink is worth 25 points, blue is worth 30 points and green is worth 35 points.

Using the same scoring system, how many pionts is red worth?

- The Mensa Puzzle Calendar

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Riddle of the Week:

Like golden sand not on a beach,
Motes that flee from teeth and grit.
The craftsman makes it then throws it away.
Or raises it up with a little bit.

- Cloud Kingdom

Friday Puzzles (Week 39)

Some words sound the same, but are spelt differently and mean different things. There are three sets of them to be found in this puzzle. Find the word that matches each clue. Remember they will not look the same.

- Cool Book of Brain Teasers

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Riddle of the Week:

Like shards of night trapped in time,
Like the soul of a swamp entombed.
Lying beneath the graves of men.
Torn away to warm a room.

- Cloud Kingdom

Friday Puzzles (Week 38)

Make your way from ONE to TWO in only eight steps, changing one letter at a time to make a good English word at each step.

ONE
_ _ _
_ _ _
_ _ _
_ _ _
_ _ _
_ _ _
_ _ _
TWO

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Riddle of the Week:

A service you hate to receive.
A stick not made of wood.
Best kept stiff when times are tough.
Glossed over; read and understood.

- Cloud Kingdom

Friday Puzzles (Week 37)

First unscramble the letters in each word below, then unscramble the word order to create a Tom Swifty sentence.

A RDNOWEFLU EW
YDA ISIANGL DAIS
MOT DAH RBEZELYI.

 

The 13 letters below can be anagrammed into a famous three-word slogan.  What is the slogan?

B E E E E E F H H T W S R

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Riddle of the Week:

A phantom rises from the ground
Like a phoenix; he makes no sound
His touch leaves dirty fingerprints
That darken even brightest tints
He's not alive, he can't be slain
If he felt, he'd fear the wind and rain.
His time is brief, when it has run its course
He'll be gone, but we'll feel no remorse.

- Cloud Kingdom

Friday Puzzle (Week 36)

A "truisim" is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction. (Hint: If you need a place to start, look in the comments)

T	B	E	O	S	N	G	E	L	C	E
O	N	T	M	T	I	H	T	S	A	L
M	Y	H	E	I	E	R	Y	E	P	D
Y	A	O	P	M	V	E	T	I	O	N
E	N	R	T	T	I	N	U	S	E	C
M	O	A	N	T	H	G	B	I	N	S

- The Mensa Puzzle Calendar

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Riddle of the Week:

Very touching as a game,

A place where Tommy keeps his name.

A pup no longer is unknown,

How a value's often shown.

- Cloud Kingdom

Friday Puzzle (Week 34)

What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same six letters, can be used to complete the sentences below?

The shop had supplied thousands of ________________ with the outfit of their dreams.

Unfortunately, after the major flood, all that was left was a pile of ________________.

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Riddle of the Week:

When in it you have it,
Without it certainly.
Cast without a magic wand
On what you don't believe.
Don't stop at the shadow,
A reasonable certainty.

- Cloud Kingdom

Friday Puzzle (Week 33)

There are three columns of letters below. Each column has a sequence. Can you work out what these are and fill in the missing letter in each one? (Hint: think about the order of the alphabet or a familiar sequence of words).

- Cool Book of Brainteasers

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Riddle of the Week:

A house divided.
Living but not alive.
Service on the road
But never while you drive.

- Cloud Kingdom

Friday Puzzle (Week 32)

Fill in the word square below using two E's, two R's, two O's, one V, one T, and one D so that each word can be read across and down.

- Mensa Puzzle Calendar

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Riddle of the Week:

Where the fans are foes.

Take it and it's gone.

Where they went on holiday.

Where you put the con.

Give a gift, run in fear,

Look elsewhere, mess is cleared.

- Cloud Kingdom Games

Friday Puzzle (Week 31)

Decode the following message:

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Bonus Riddle:

A tragedy of love.
Peals forth a note so true.
A matter of degrees.
Four sides cut in two.

- Cloud Kingdom (check link for hints)

Friday Puzzle (Week 30)

Unscramble the letters in each quadrant below then find the missing letter that completes each word. (The missing letter, indicated by the question mark is the same for each word.)

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Riddle of the Week

Not sure why...but I love riddles.  Here's one from an email I get weekly, enjoy...

Uninvited visitor, unwanted guest.
Serenity assaulted, by terror dispossessed.
An opening leads to escape, lying in your nest.
Leaves unpleasant memories, takes away the rest.

- Cloud Kingdom Games Riddle of the Week

Friday Puzzle (Week 29)

First unscramble the letters in each word below, then unscramble the word order to create a Tom Swifty sentence.

TTMEAR I WAKDETE NBERSUM
I DDI TON TRPOFI DAIS
MOT HET TLYAUNIGH ON
WHO TSLLI KEAM A.

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Friday Puzzle (Week 28)

The 19 letters below can be anagrammed into a four-word menu item that can be found at a Venus de Milo Diner.  What is the item?

 

A  A  A  C  D  E  E  E  E  F  H  H  I  L  S  S  T  T  W

 

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Friday Puzzle(s) (Week 27)

Unscramble the letters in the box below and add the missing letter to make a nine-letter word.




BONUS
Make your way from LOSE to GAIN in only five steps, changing one letter at a time to make a good English word at each step.

LOSE
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____
____
____

GAIN

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