Compound words are words that are composed of two or more other words, like high + light = highlight.
Can you make compound words out of the following three words by adding the same 4-letter word either before or after each word?
- CROSS
- WORKS
- WILD
Tag Word Puzzles
Puzzles and riddles primarily involving language, writing, or letters and words
Finish My Wordle
These Wordle puzzles are nearly complete, you just need to finish them by figuring out the correct word. In each of these 5 puzzles, there should be just one or two valid answers remaining – find them!
Haven’t played Wordle before? You get 6 tries to guess the 5-letter English word, and for each guess you are shown whether each letter is in the right place in the word (green), in the word but in the wrong place (yellow), or not in the word at all (gray).
Vocabulary Puzzle
Quick vocabulary puzzle – given the middle four letters of each word, figure out these 8-letter words:
- _ _ TABA _ _
- _ _ CUME _ _
- _ _ NERO _ _
- _ _ IDEN _ _
- _ _ NETA _ _
- _ _ EASA _ _
- _ _ ENAR _ _
- _ _ WERF _ _
Something in Common
These words all have an unusual property in common, what is it?
- Adopt
- Glory
- Knot
- Empty
- Hint
- Begin
Middle Four Letters
The middle four letters of these 8-letter words are shown. Can you figure out the full 8-letter words? There may be multiple suitable answers for some of the words.
- _ _ EQUA _ _
- _ _ DUST _ _
- _ _ CUBA _ _
- _ _ COLA _ _
- _ _ DIRE _ _
- _ _ MESA _ _
- _ _ TACO _ _
- _ _ OPIC _ _
Compound Word Puzzle 2
Compound words are words that are composed of two or more other words, like high + light = highlight.
Can you make compound words out of the following three words by adding the same 4-letter word to each of them?
- SHINE
- HONEY
- WALK
Compound Word Puzzle 1
Compound words are words that are composed of two or more other words, like high + light = highlight.
Can you make compound words out of the following three words by adding the same 4-letter word to each of them?
- WOOD
- FALL
- SURF
Tricky, Tricky
Can you figure out the number I am thinking of?
Some cryptic clues:
- Call it sin, and mess it up (9)
- Between θ and κ (4)
- Engage emotionally (5)
- Half a byte (6)
- Mottle (5)
- Never mix meds & gin (7)
- – (4)
If you have all the answers right, that’s only about 33% percent of the solution: you need to justify them too.
Some clues were left over, so here’s a second set:
- Sing about the matter (10)
- Frog’s pole (3)
- Heroin or slap (5)
- 0 or 1 (1,3)
- A toy asking a question on an online forum (4+2 = 6)
An ingenious and very difficult puzzle by Bass on Puzzling StackExchange (spoiler warning: contains the solution)
Continue reading “Tricky, Tricky”Unique Number of Letters
Out of all whole numbers between one and five thousand, there is only one number that has a unique number of letters when you spell it out. What number is it?
Include spaces and dashes. For example, “twenty-four” and “two hundred” both have 11 letters.
Continue reading “Unique Number of Letters”Hidden Word
What hidden word can be found among these pairs of words?
- Staple, paste
- Phasor, sharp
- Uneven, venue
- Secret, crest
- Litter, title