NPR: Sunday Puzzle Podcast

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 ...
3 months ago

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 ...
09/13/09

'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 ...
09/06/09

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 ...
08/30/09

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," ...
08/23/09

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 ...
08/16/09

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 ...
08/09/09

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 ...
08/02/09

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 ...
07/26/09

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 ...
07/19/09

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 ...
07/12/09

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 ...
07/05/09

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 ...
06/28/09
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