NPR: Sunday Puzzle Podcast
NPR: Sunday Puzzle Podcast
NPR's weekly word game: match wits with "Weekend Edition" puzzle master Will Shortz.
Give A Ring, Get A Grin
For each clue, the answer is a four-letter word. The word is an anagram of one of the words in the clue. For example, if the clue is "main ...
Maybe Not So Easy As Pie
This puzzle is called "Dividing the Pie." Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase in which the first word starts "pi" and the word ends ...
'A' Test Of Islands
For each word given, add the letter "a" and rearrange all the letters to name a well-known island. For example, if the clue is "trees," add ...
Reading Backward Is The Trick
Each answer starts with a clue for a six-letter word. If you drop the first letter and read the remaining letters backward, you'll get a ...
Scramble The Word To Get One Like The Other
From two given four-letter words, rearrange the letters of one of them to get a synonym of the other. For example, given "each" and "pain," ...
Oh My, A Relaxing Game
This puzzle involves meditation. Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase that starts with the initials "O-M." For example: protection ...
It's All About The Wordplay
It's a game of completing analogies. Each involves wordplay. For example, "pink" is to "pen" as "plead" is to "pencil," because by removing ...
How Does That Old Saying Go?
Every answer is a familiar proverb or saying. Given a two-word phrase, one of the words is in that proverb or saying, and the other is an ...
Take A Risk To Be Risque
Start with two sentences. Each sentence has two blanks. Put a word in the first blank. Add a long 'A' sound to the end of it to get a new ...
The Most Common Consonants, In Any Order
Three of the most common consonants of the English language are R, S and T. Every answer today is a word, name or phrase that contains each ...
Special Edition: This Game's A Beach
The challenge is a game of categories. The word is "beach." Each clue is a category, and for each category, the goal is to name something ...
Have A Cow
The theme today is "cow." Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase or name in which the first word starts with "co" and the word starts ...
First And Last Rhymes
Every answer is a familiar three-word phrase. The clues are two-word phrases. The first word of each phrase rhymes with the first word of ...













