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
Word Puzzles
Puzzles and riddles primarily involving language, writing, or letters and words
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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).
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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 _ _
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Something in Common
These words all have an unusual property in common, what is it?
- Adopt
- Glory
- Knot
- Empty
- Hint
- Begin
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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 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 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
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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)
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.
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Hidden Word
What hidden word can be found among these pairs of words?
- Staple, paste
- Phasor, sharp
- Uneven, venue
- Secret, crest
- Litter, title
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Phonetic Alphabet
When someone asks Casey how to spell her name, she helpfully offers:
- C as in chaos
- A as in armor
- S as in scene
- E as in empire
- Y as in ?
Which is Casey most likely to use as a spelling aid for Y: yield, yearn, yacht, yellow, youth, or yank?
This fairly common proverb is missing its vowels. What is the original proverb?
PPRNCS CN B DCPTV
I _ _ _ E
W _ _ _ H
C A _ _ _
C _ _ _ E R
_ _ _ I O
Which 3-letter word can be inserted into all four lines above to form complete words?
What is a special property or feature that all of the following words have in common?
banana, uneven, grammar, voodoo, assess, potato, revive, dresser
Which English word can be added to either the beginning or end of each of the following words, in order to create four valid English words?
- ONE
- ACT
- KIND
- SPA
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Odd One Out
Which is the odd one out?
- catwoman
- deus ex machina
- parishioner
- pyromania
- scuba
Remove one letter from the word “SLOWING” to make another valid English word. Repeat this step until you are left with just one letter, ensuring every step results in an English word. What words did you make in the process?
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Secret Translation
The CIA intercepted some messages from a criminal organization, some in English and some in an unknown foreign language or code. As a CIA analyst and translator, you have figured out the following sentences and their English translations, but you do not yet know which sentence matches which translation:
- Casara ashter osar
- Intara amar
- Intara orter osar
- Alatara inter osar
- Ortara amar
- Alatara orter osar
- I see a spy
- I run
- You see me
- You see a spy
- A suspicious man sees an enemy
- You run
You have the opportunity to send a message in order to provoke a reaction from the criminal organization. Can you figure out and match up the translations above, and then send a message saying “a suspicious man runs” in this foreign language?
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Complete the Words
P _ _ _ N T
D E _ _ _ ST
S T _ _ _
C _ _ _ E R
Which 3-letter word can be inserted into all four lines above to form complete words?
Replace the ?’s in each of these to complete the puzzle:
Part 1
“Asia” is H
“Cuffs” is S
“Ender” is I
“Redness” is F
“Fuchsia” is ?
Part 2
“Using” is E
“Desist” is I
“Visits” is E
“Design” is ?
Part 3
“Gross” is W or R
“Assign” is S
“Amassing” is E
“Design” is S
“Amassing” is S
“Arrows” is ? or ?
Part 4
“Pro-tem” and “row” are H
“Ties” is K
“Cohesion” is A
“Casino” is E
“Hocks” is either a word, name, ? or ?
Part 5
“Edna” is I
“Slang” is X
“Siege” is E
“Basin” is X
“Sin” is X
“Sin” is A
“Besiege” is X
“Signals” is ? and ?
Source: Matt Malone on Puzzling StackExchange (spoiler warning: contains the solution)