Puzzles and riddles primarily involving language, writing, or letters and words
When someone asks Casey how to spell her name, she helpfully offers:
Which is Casey most likely to use as a spelling aid for Y: yield, yearn, yacht, yellow, youth, or yank?
Continue reading “Phonetic Alphabet”This fairly common proverb is missing its vowels. What is the original proverb?
PPRNCS CN B DCPTV
Continue reading “Proverb Missing Vowels”I _ _ _ E
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Which 3-letter word can be inserted into all four lines above to form complete words?
Continue reading “Word to Complete Them All”What is a special property or feature that all of the following words have in common?
assess, banana, dresser, grammar, potato, revive, uneven, voodoo
Continue reading “Assess Banana Dresser Grammar Potato Revive Uneven Voodoo”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?
Which is the odd one out?
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?
Continue reading “Slowing and Shrinking”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:
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?
Continue reading “Secret Translation”P _ _ _ N T
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Which 3-letter word can be inserted into all four lines above to form complete words?
Continue reading “Complete the Words”Replace the ?’s in each of these to complete the puzzle:
“Asia” is H
“Cuffs” is S
“Ender” is I
“Redness” is F
“Fuchsia” is ?
“Using” is E
“Desist” is I
“Visits” is E
“Design” is ?
“Gross” is W or R
“Assign” is S
“Amassing” is E
“Design” is S
“Amassing” is S
“Arrows” is ? or ?
“Pro-tem” and “row” are H
“Ties” is K
“Cohesion” is A
“Casino” is E
“Hocks” is either a word, name, ? or ?
“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)
Continue reading “Cryptic Pattern Puzzle”