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Hey, I've Got Five On It! Every answer is a familiar three-word phrase, name or title in which each word has five letters — for example, "Royal Opera House." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rearranging The Deck Chairs On The Anti-Tic Each clue contains at least one seven-letter word. Rearrange the letters in that word to answer the clue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Puzzle Is The Pits Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase or name in which the first word starts with "PI" and the second word starts with "T." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sitting Comfortably In Between You'll be given two things in the same category. You name the only other thing in the same category that fits between the given things alphabetically. For example, given "Mars" and "Saturn," the answer would be "Mercury." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Second To Last Think of a word that can follow a given word to complete a familiar two-word phrase or name. The first two letters of the word must be the second and last letters, respectively, of the given word. For example, given "fallen," the answer would be "angel." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arrange The Notes Each answer is a five-letter word or phrase containing the letters N, O, T, E plus one other letter. Answer the clues to get the words. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fame Game In our annual year-end news quiz, you are given new names in the news — people you probably never heard of before 2011, but who became famous during the past 12 months. Explain why they're famous. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unwrap The Phrase To Reveal A Gift Identify a gift for a child spelled by consecutive letters in familiar two-word phrases. For example, if given "tomato paste," the answer would be "top." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rearranging Titles On The Magazine Rack Rearrange a series of anagrams to identify some well-known magazines. For example, if given "never point," rearrange the letters to spell "Prevention," the name of a popular health magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teasing Out A New Word Add a letter to create new words in a series of word teasers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Changes Is Up To You Change one letter in each word of a made-up, two-word phrase to get two new words that will start a familiar proverb or saying. Determining which letters to change is up to you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keep Your Head Above Water Each answer is a compound word or a familiar two-word phrase containing the consecutive letters H-H-O, as in H2O. For example, given the clue "Dutch province containing Rotterdam and The Hague," the answer would be "South Holland." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where In The Blanks Are The Answers? Every answer is a familiar phrase in the form of "_____ for _____ ." Given the word that follows "for," what's the first word that precedes "for"? For example, if you're given "joy," the answer would be "jump" to complete the phrase "jump for joy." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Four-Letter Word For Capital City Every answer is the name of a world capital. You'll be given a four-letter word. The first two letters are the first two letters of the city's name, and the last two are the last two letters of the country's name. For example, if you were given "loin," the answer would be London, Great Britain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two Words Enter, One Meaning Leaves You will be given a five-letter word and seven-letter word. Rearrange the letters of one of these words to get a synonym of the other. For example, if you are given "alloy" and "devoted," the answer would be "loyal," which is an anagram of "alloy." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Putting The Name Back In The Fame You will be given the name of a famous person without the first and last letters of their first and last names. Find the missing letters to add onto the name. For example, if you are given "err row," the answer would be "Jerry Brown." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sometimes You've Got To Find The Right Word You'll be given three words. Name the fourth word that, when added to each of these words, creates a familiar two-word phrase. The answer will rhyme with one of the three words. For example, if you're given "boob," "inner" and "test," the fourth word would be "tube." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Puzzle Riddled With Objects Identify the objects described in a series of riddles from A New Collection of Riddles by Jesse Cochran. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Highly Logical Christopher Columbus Identify errors of fact, logic and grammar in a short essay on Christopher Columbus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Supreme Court Order In honor of the start of the Supreme Court's new term, think of five words related to a given category whose first letters spell out "court." For example, if the category was girls' names, the answers could be (C)onnie, (O)lga, (U)ma, (R)achel and (T)ina. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Islands In The Stream Name the well-known island concealed in consecutive letters of each sentence. For example: "Helga is a saucy Prussian." The answer: "Cyprus." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A College Campus Mix-Up Every answer is the name of a college or university. You must identify the schools from their anagrams. For example: "ICER" The answer: "RICE." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The End Is The Beginning Will names something in a category. The challenge is to name something else in the same category in which the last two letters of Will's word are the first two letters of the answer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Anagram Challenge Every answer is the name of a card game. You must name the game from its anagram. For example: "THIS" plus "W". The answer is: "WHIST" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lest We Forget Every word is a compound word, or a familiar two-word phrase or name, with the consecutive letters L — E — S — T. Specifically, the first word ends in L-E and second part starts with S-T. For example, "activity in a seminary." The answer would be "BibLE STudy." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding The Ends Will brings a twist to an old game of categories. He gives some categories, and for each one, the listeners name something in it that ends in the letters E,N,D, and S. For example, if the category is boy's names, the answer could be Luk(e), Aaro(n), Davi(d) and Jame(s). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Race To The Top Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase or name in which the first word starts with T-O and the second word starts with P. For example, given, "a person who is responsible for organizing a series of live concerts," the answer would be "tour promoter." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hey, How About A Roll In The Hay? Each answer is a pair of homophones, which are words that sound alike but are spelled differently. You are given two words: One would precede one of the homophones, the other would follow the other, to complete a familiar two-word phrase. For example, given the words "hay" and "jumper," the answer would be "bale" as in "hay bale" and "bail" as in "bail jumper." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Stroll Down Main Street Every answer is the name of a state capital. You are given a word. The first letters in the word are the first letters in the name of the capital. The last letters in the word are the last letters in the name of that capital's state. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barking Up The Right Tree Every answer is a compound word or a familiar two-word phrase in which each part is a single syllable. The vowel sound in the first half is a long I, and the vowel sound in the second half is a long O. For example, given the clue "something found on a fir tree," the answer would be "pine cone." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Call My Bluff Every answer ends with the letter F. You are given an anagram of the letters before the F. For example, given the word "flub," the answer would be "bluff." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Losing Letters One Blank At A Time You are given a series of sentences, each of which is missing three words. The word in the first blank is five letters long. Drop the last letter to get a four-letter word for the second blank. Drop the last letter to get a three-letter answer for the third blank. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Screen Play Each answer is the name of a well-known film. You are given three words. Say the words out loud quickly to identify the film. For example, given the words "booty," "Andy" and "pieced," the answer would be Beauty and the Beast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Word Game In Rare Form The four rarest letters in the alphabet are J, Q, X and Z. You are given a familiar word and must change one letter in it to a J, Q, X or Z to get another familiar word. For example, given the clue "enact," the answer would be "exact." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's Lonely At The TOP You are given three words, starting with the letters T, O and P, and must come up with a fourth word that can follow the words and complete a familiar two-word phrase. For example, given the words "taste," "oral" and "paternity," the answer would be "test," as in "taste test," "oral test" and "paternity test." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Your Goose Is Cooked Every answer is a compound word or familiar two-word phrase, in which the first word has a long O for its vowel sound and the second word has a long U. For example, given the clue "a traditional Christmas entrée," the answer would be "goose." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Audie Cornish Is The New Host. True Or False? You are given a statement and must determine whether it is true or false. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Everything's Coming Up Roses You are given an item in an unnamed category and must name something else in the category. The answer must start with the first two letters in the clue, only reversed. For example, given "orchid," the answer would be "rose" (the category being flowers). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As A Matter Of Course You are given a sentence with two blanks. The word that goes in the first blank has an O as its second letter. To complete the sentence, drop the O to get another word that goes in the second blank. For example, given "If I were to hit my thumb with a hammer, of ___ I would ___," the answer would be "course" and "curse." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moms Are DownRight Excellent In honor of Mother's Day, come up with items in each of the given categories that start with the letters of the word "Madre." For example, for the category "3-letter boys' names," the answer would include Moe, Art, Don, Ray and Eli. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where It's At Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase with AT in the middle. The letter A ends the first word of the phrase, and the letter T begins the second word. For the clue, "trying out of something while changes are still being made," the answer would be "beta test." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Name Game You are given the first names of famous people and must figure out their last names. The last two letters of the first name, when reversed, are the first two letters of the last name. For example, given "Brad," the answer would be "Davis," as in Brad Davis, the actor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cool As A Cucumber Every answer is a simile, in the form "___ as a ___." You are given a rhyme for the first and last words. For example, given "dead as a street," the answer would be "red as a beet." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Should Be A Piece Of Cake Every answer is a pair of homophones, like "wait" and "weight." You are given a word that can precede one homophone and follow the other, in each case, to complete a familiar two-word phrase. For example, given "chess" and "pipe," the answer would be "piece" and "peace." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Try One On For Size Every answer is a familiar proverb or saying that contains a word that starts with the letter T. You are given the T word and must guess the saying. For some words, there are multiple answers. For example, given the word "try," the answer could be, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Step In The Right Direction Every answer is the name of a famous person. The first and second letters of the person's last name are the third and second letters of the first name. For example, given the first name "Harold," the answer would be "Ramis" (the actor, screenwriter and director). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 'Inset' Is Set In The Answer Every answer is a seven-letter word in which the middle five letters are the letters in the word "inset" in some order. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fill In The Blanks You are given a sentence that contains two blanks. The word in the first blank contains a J sound. Change that to a CH sound to get the second word and complete the sentence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Tip Of The Hat Each answer is a familiar two-word phrase. The first word starts with H-A and the second word starts with T. For example, given the clue "a brand of tanning lotion," the answer would be "Hawaiian Tropic." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A President Is Present Each word you are given conceals the name of a U.S. president in left-to-right order, but the letters are not consecutive. For example, given the clue "hairdressing, in seven letters," the answer would be "Harding." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Et Tu, EU? Every answer is a word or phrase in which the first syllable is E-U. For example, give the clue "Holy Communion," the answer would be "Eucharist." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Ol' Switcheroo Each clue ends in a four-letter word with a single vowel. Change this vowel to a different vowel to make a new four-letter word. The new word will start the answer to the clue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Business Like Snow Business You are given clues, and each answer has the letters S, N, O and W in it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two B's Or Not Two B's Every answer is a familiar word with two B's in a row somewhere inside it. You are given an anagram of the other letters in the word. For example, given "oat," the answer would be "abbot." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show Us Your Independent Streak Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase, name or title containing the consecutive letters I-N-D, as in "independent." For example, given the clue "19th-century British prime minister," the answer would be "Benjamin Disraeli." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Think They Rhyme? Think Again Every answer is a made up two-word phrase in which the two words look like they should rhyme, but they don't. For example, given the clue "desires trousers," the answer would be "wants pants." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Remember These Names From 2010? It's our annual year-end news quiz, prepared with the help of Kathy Baker and Tim Goodman. You are given names you've probably never heard of before 2010, but became famous during the past 12 months. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bringing Good Things To Life Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase with the initials G-E. For example, given the clue "traditional Christmas activity," the answer would be "gift exchange." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Cut Above Average You are given three clues. The answer is a word that can follow each of the clues to complete a familiar two-word phrase. For example, given "batting, grade-point and below," the answer would be "average." In addition, each answer has seven letters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Driven To Succeed You are given some words and names from a specific category and must name something else in the category that can be spelled from the letters in the clue. For example, given "Dodge," the answer would be "Geo." Both are cars, and "Geo" can be formed from the letters of "Dodge." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Starring S And B Every answer is a six-letter word or phrase that contains the consecutive letters S-B. For example, given the clue "comic Bill and others," the answer would be "Cosbys." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Constant Consonants Every answer consists of two things in the same category that start with the same pair of consonants. You are given rhymes for the items. For example, given "mean" and "way," the answer would be "green" and "gray." ("Green" and "gray" are both colors and start with the same pair of consonants, G-R.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Wish Upon A Star You are given an anagram and must rearrange the letters to name a Walt Disney film. For example, given "iconic hop," the answer would be "Pinocchio." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don't Draw A Blank You are given a sentence with two blanks. The word that goes in the first blank contains an "oy" sound. Change this to an "oo" sound, and phonetically, you'll get a new word that goes in the second blank to complete the sentence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opportunity Comes Knocking You are given a word and must provide a second word to complete a familiar two-word phrase. The first letter of the word must be the last letter of the word given, and the last letter of the word must be the first letter of the word given. For example, given the clue "photo," the answer would be "op." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creature Double Feature You are given categories. For each of the categories, name an item starting with each of the letters in the word "ghost." For example, given the category "girls names," answers could be Greta, Hilda, Olive, Sue and Trish. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Power Play Each answer is a two-word phrase in which the first word begins with P-O and the second word begins with P (and is not followed by an O). For example, given the clue "his or hers," the answer would be "possessive pronoun." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Not Add Y? Every answer is a word that starts with the letter Y. You are given a clue that is an anagram of the answer before Y is added. For example, given "wan," the answer would be "yawn." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Connect The Unconnected Categories You are given two categories and must name two things in both of them. For example, given "male singers who have No. 1 hits" and "state capitals," the answers would be John Denver (Denver is the capital of Colorado) and Michael Jackson (Jackson is the capital of Mississippi). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Take Hold And Make A Hole You are given two sentences, each with two blanks. The word that goes in the first blank ends with the letter D. Drop the D and phonetically, you'll get a new word that goes in the second blank to complete the sentence. For example, answers might be "field" to "feel" or "beard" to "beer." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Puzzle Is The Pits Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase, in which the first word starts with P-I and the second word starts with T. For example, given "path taken by early settlers in the West," the answer would "pioneer trail." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Get In the Game Every answer is a familiar three-word phrase starting with "in the." You are given the interior letters of the last word plus a clue to the full phrase. For example, given "A-R-D" and the clue "likely," the answer would be "in the cards." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rhyming Compound Words You are given a compound word and a clue. The answer is another compound word whose halves rhyme, respectively, with the halves of the original compound word. For example, given "lamplight," with the clue "a place to sleep outdoors," the answer would be "campsite." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hopelessly Devoted To A Challenge You are given a five-letter word and a seven-letter word. Rearrange the letters of one of the words to get a synonym of the other word. For example, given "alloy" and "devoted," the answer would be "loyal." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fill In The Blanks You are given sentences with the last two words missing. Add the letter F before the missing word that goes first to get a new word that follows it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Syllable Solution Remove the vowel in the first syllable of one word to come up with a new word that's a syllable shorter but sounds the same. For example, "succumb" becomes "scum." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can You See The Trees? Each sentence conceals the name of a tree in consecutive letters. For example, given "Use soap, please," the answer would be "apple." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Time To Get Very Creative Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase or name with the initials V.C. For example, given "serving of calf's meat," the answer would be "veal chop." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's Just A Walk In The Park Every answer is the name of a U.S. national park. You are given an anagram of the park's name and asked to identify it. For example, given "search," the answer would be "arches," as in Arches National Park in Utah. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You Have The Right Of Way Every answer is a familiar phrase or title in the form of "____ of ____," where the word before "of" starts with the letter R. You are given the word that follows "of" and must come up with the phrase. For example, given "Saturn," the answer would be "rings." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Bundle Of Laughs You are given two words and must provide a third word that can go in between them. The answer will follow the first word and precede the second to complete two familiar two-word phrases. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show Us Your ID Every answer is a familiar, two-word phrase with the initials I-D. For example: "A fake gem for a ring." The answer is "Imitation Diamond." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Answers Run The Gamut You are given categories and must name items within those categories that begin with the letters G, A, M, U and T. For example, given the category "girls' names," possible answers would be Gloria, Amelia, Martha, Ursula and Theresa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Well Hello, Dolly! Every answer is the first name of one famous person and the last name of another, in which the names are anagrams. For example, "Dolly Lloyd" for "Dolly Parton and Christopher Lloyd." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Port Of Call Every answer is a word or name that contains the syllable "port." For example, given the clue "consequential," the answer would be "important." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Master Of Ceremonies Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase in which the first word ends in the letter M and the second word starts with C. For example, given "Lysol or Comet product," the answer would be "bathroom cleaner." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pearls Of Wisdom You are given clues for two words. Add an "L" at the end of the first word and you'll get the second one. For example, given "a fruit and a gem from an oyster," the answer would be "pear" and "pearl." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All The Clues Fit To Print For each word you are given, change one letter to get a common name for a newspaper. For example, given "tomes" the answer is "Times." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Real American Hero For each category given, name things that fall under it that begin with the letters in "G.I. Joe." For example, given the category "large," the answers could be "gigantic," "immense," "jumbo," "oversized" and "enormous." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oh, There's Always Room For 'Gel' Each answer is a familiar two-word phrase containing the consecutive letters G-E-L. For example, given the clue "where a university student may study," the answer would be "college library." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Does It All Mean? This week's on-air puzzle is an extension of last week's challenge in which a group of letters and symbols represent a familiar word or phrase. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make A Mental Note You are given two six-letter words. Rearrange the letters of one word to get a rhyme of the other word. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Accentuate The Positive A "dactyl" is a metrical foot in three syllables, accented on the first syllable, like "Anderson." Every answer is the name of a famous person whose full name is a double dactyl, like "Pamela Anderson." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two-For-One Travel Every answer is the name of a country. For each word given, take two consecutive letters in that word and change them to one letter to name a country. For example, in the word CUBIC, you would change IC into an A to spell CUBA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Divide And Conquer Every answer is a six-letter word, name or phrase in which the first five letters read backward and forward the same. In other words, if you drop the last letter, what's left will be a palindrome. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Initial Here Every answer today is a familiar two-word phrase or name with the initials "E and "S." For example: "Today." The answer is: "Easter Sunday." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Long And Short Of 'I' This week, Will Shortz's gives clues for two words. Each of the words has two syllables. The first vowel sound in the first word is a short "I." Change it to a long "I" sound, and phonetically you'll get a new word that answers the second clue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's In A Name? Plenty This week, Will Shortz's game involves famous people whose last names are used to finish a sentence — only the names have been turned into anagrams. Take, for example, the sentence "Andre is a gas." Rearrange the letters in the last three words to get the answer: "Agassi." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The A-B-Cs Of Anagrams This week, Will Shortz's game involves anagrams, and every word contains the letters "A," "B" and "C." For example: To get a type of metal, use A-B-C along with the letters "L," "O" and "T" to form "cobalt." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Just Two Little Words Given a word, you give a word that can follow to make a familiar two word phrase. And the third and fourth letters of the word must be the first 2 letters of the listeners. For example, "fashion." The answer would be: "show." Because the third and fourth letters of "fashion" are "SH" and they're the first 2 letters of "Show." And "Fashion Show is a familiar phrase. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Put An EE On It This week, Will Shortz's game involves two words. The challenge is to add an EE sound at the end of the first word to get the second word. Example: For "A person with a bank account" and "tasty" — the answer would be "saver" and "savory." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Let There Be L-I-G-H-T This is a game of categories. For each one, name something in it starting with each of the letters "L-I-G-H-T" in any order. For example, if the category is two-syllable girls' names, the answer might be, "Lila," "Irene," "Georgette," "Holly" and "Tina." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 'Pen' Is Mighty In This Game Every answer is a word whose second syllable is "pen." For example, given the clue, "a child, say, on one's tax return," the answer is, "de-pen-dent." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Honor Of The Super Bowl Every answer today is a word used in football. Given three words, you give a word that can follow each to give a familiar two word phrase. The answer will always be a football term. For example, if the clue is "year, tag and dead," the answer would be "end." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alma Maters (Or, A Smart Male) Every answer is the name of a college or university. Given an anagram, the contestant names the school. For example, if the clue is "lay" plus "e," the answer is "Yale." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who Killed This Puzzle? Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase with the initials J.R. For example, if the clue is "going for a spin in a stolen car," the answer would be "joy ride." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bad Pun Department Strikes Again Every answer is a word, name or familiar phrase with alternating A's. For example, if the clue is "Woody Allen movie," the answer is "Bananas." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solving This One Will Be A Fine Trick Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase that has the letters N-E-T consecutively inside. Specifically, the letters N-E will end the first word, and T will start the second. For example, if the clue is "cause of a breakdown on the road," the answer would be "engine trouble." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Tale Of Turkey, Full Of 'Blobs' This is a game called Blobs that Will Shortz found in an old book of party games. Will talks about his recent trip to Turkey, and the account has a number of intentional errors. Every time there's an error of fact, logic or word usage, the player says "blob." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Familiar Phrases Starting With 'T' Every answer in today's puzzle is a familiar phrase in the form BLANK of BLANK, where the first word starts with the letter "T." Given the last word of the phrase, the player must give the first word. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Categories Fit For 'Radio' To mark Liane Hansen's 20th anniversary hosting Weekend Edition Sunday, this puzzle is a game of categories using the word "radio." Will Shortz names the categories, and the guest names something in the categories beginning with each of the letters in "radio." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fill In The Blanks Each clue is a sentence with two blanks. Fill in the blanks with two words that complete the phrase. But here's the twist: The words that complete the sentence are homophones of the words in the answer phrase. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 'Mix And Match' These Word Ensembles This puzzle is called "Mix and Match." Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase in which the first word starts with M-I and the second word starts with M-A, as in "Mix and Match." For example, for the clue "a day before St. Patrick's Day," you would say "mid-March." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Get A Clue And A Four-Letter Word I'm going to give you some clues. The answer to each clue is a four-letter word which can be found in consecutive letters inside the clue. For example, if I said "a sail boat's part", you would say "spar", because a sail boat's part is a spar, and it's concealed in consecutive letters inside "sail boat's" parts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.S., Think U Have It Solved? This week's puzzle involves the letters P-S-U as in Portland State University, where Will spoke on Saturday. Each answer is a familiar two-word phrase in which the first word starts with "P" and the second word starts with "SU." So if the clue is "What a lawyer conducts to see if an invention has been made before," the answer would be "patent survey." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website These C's Come In Threes Each clue consists of two words starting with the letter "C." The answer is a third word starting with "C" that can follow the first word and precede the second one to complete a compound word or familiar two-word phrase. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Initially, Michigan's Upper Peninsula This week's puzzle is in honor of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Because U.P. is short for Upper Peninsula, each answer has "U" and "P" in it. The first clue is: "U" and "P" are the initials of a common two-word phrase naming something holding a street lamp. What is it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 line through Egypt," the answer would be "Nile," because Nile is a rearrangement of the letters in "line." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 second word ends with "e." So, the "pi-e" is divided. For example, if the clue is "power source for most automobiles," the answer would be "piston engine." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website '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 an "a" to get the answer: Easter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 five-letter word that answers a second clue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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," the answer is "ache," because "ache" is an anagram of "each," and it means "pain." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 for the hand while cooking? Answer: oven mitt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 the "p" from "pink," you get "ink," which goes inside a pen. And by removing the "p" from "plead" you get "lead," which goes inside a pencil. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 anagram of a word in it. The anagram can be either word in the phrase. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 word, phonetically, that will go in the second blank to complete the sentence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 of the letters R, S and T exactly once, along with any number of vowels. For example, if the clue is "short-winded," the answer would be, "terse." Note: The R, S and T can appear in any order. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 second word starts with "w." For example, if the clue is "person who can fix a hard drive in 10 minutes," the answer would be, "computer whiz." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 the answer. The last word of the phrase rhymes with the last word of the answer. For example, if the clue is, "Split this," the answer would be, "Hit or miss." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building On Four-Letter Words There are three four-letter words. Think of three letters that can precede each of them to complete familiar seven-letter words. For example, for "each," "rove" and "lode," the answer is "IMP": impeach, improve and implode. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Testy Word Play Today's puzzle is called "test." Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase, in which the first word starts with "te" and the second word starts with "st." For example, if the clue is "cut of beef that is often grilled or barbequed," the answer would be "tenderloin steak." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three Of A Kind Each clue is a list of three things. The answer is what they all have in common. For example, if the clues are: "a college graduate, a thermometer and longitude," the answer would be "degrees." Hint: Every answer, like "degrees," is a seven-letter plural. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Tough Act To Follow Each clue is a pair of words. For each pair, find a word that can follow the first word and precede the second one so that, in each case, it will complete a familiar two-word phrase. For example, given "hand" and "talk," the answer would be "jive," as in "hand jive" and "jive talk." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Look Inside A Famous Person Each clue is a pair of four-letter words. Each can be found inside the first and last names, respectively, of a famous person. For example, given "rend" and "rase," the answer would be "Brendan Fraser," the actor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flush The Birds Change one letter in each of two words of a sentence to name birds. For example: "Is actor Dennis Quaid afraid of the dark?" The answer: Quail and Lark (Change the "d" in "quaid" to make "quail" and change the "d" in "dark" to make "lark."). It's always the same letter of the alphabet that changes — twice for each sentence, and the letter it changes to is also the same. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Mother Lode Of Brainteasers This week's puzzle is an assortment of brainteasers that all have to do with the word "mother." The first challenge: Rearrange the letters of "mothers" to name something you might drink from. The answer: "thermos." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make A Name For Yourself Every answer is the name of a famous person whose first and last names start with the same letter and end in the same letter. For example, given "the poet who wrote poems about imaginary gardens with real toads in them" and the letters M and E, the answer would be "Marianne Moore." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Put The Meaning In Reverse For each sentence given, change just one letter in one word to reverse the sentence's meaning. For example, given "The guard will not let you through the gate," you would change the T in "not" to a W for "The guard will now let you through the gate." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Periodically Mixed Up Every answer is the name of a popular magazine. Name the title of the magazine from the anagram. For example, given "weird," the answer would be "Wired." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Stitch In Time Every answer is a familiar phrase in the form "_____ in _____," in which the first and last words given as clues are rhymes. For example, given "hide in spots," the answer would be "tied in knots." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keep It Short Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase, in which each word has a short "A" vowel sound. For example, given the clue "A pest weed in lawns," the answer would be "crab grass." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Hour Of Our Time Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Albert Tumpson from Beverly Hills, California. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station KPCC in Pasadena, California.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Find Your Calling Each clue is three words. For each set, think of a fourth word that can follow each clue to complete a compound word or familiar two-word phrase. For example, given "cat," "cattle" and "telephone," the answer would be "call," as in "catcall," "cattle call" and "telephone call." Hint: Each answer ends in two L's, like "call." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rites Of Spring For each category, name five items, each one beginning with a different letter in the word "Aries," the first Zodiac sign in spring. For example, given the category "elements on the periodic table," the answers could be "argon, radium, iron, einsteinium and silicon." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barking Up The Right Tree Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase that contains the consecutive letters "E-L-M." And specifically, the first word will end in "E-L," and the second word will start with "M." For example, given "publication that a person with wanderlust might read," the answer would be "travel magazine." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Merchant, A King And A Shrew Walk Into A Bar ... Every clue is an anagram for the name of a Shakespeare character. For example, given, "real," the answer would be "Lear." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website That's What She Said You are given some quotes with the ending, "Tom ________." The word that goes in the blank is a synonym for "said" and completes the statement in a punny way. For example, given, " 'That was the best all-night dance party ever,' Tom ________ ," the answer would be "raved." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Mixed Up Every answer is the name of an animal you might see in the zoo. Name the animals from their anagrams. For example, given "oil" plus "N," the answer would be "lion." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Linking Letters This week's challenge: Take the name of a country, interchange two consecutive letters. Add an "e" after the fifth letter. The result will be two synonyms, one after the other. What is the country, and what are the synonyms? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Super Bowl Of Word Games Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase in which one word starts with S-T, as in Steelers, and the other starts with C-A, as in Cardinals. The words can be in either order. For example, given "people who work for a political candidate," the answer would be "campaign staff." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Answer Is A Car Think of a word that starts and ends with the letter 'm' as in Mary, drop the first 'm,' insert an 'o' somewhere and you'll get a new word that means the same thing as the first word. What words are these? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Answer Has A Hole In It Every answer is a word starting with the letter O. The clues are two words — one that can precede the answer, and one that can follow it to complete familiar two-word phrases. For example, given "elected" and "statement," the answer would be "official," as in "elected official" and "official statement." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sound Of Letters This week's challenge: Every answer consists of two letters of the alphabet that sound like a word or name. Fill in the blanks to get them. For example, if the clue is ___ watermelon, then the answer would be, "C-D" as in seedy watermelon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's In The Pan? Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase or name, in which the first word starts with "PA" and the second word ends in "N." For example, if the clue is, "namesake of a popular pizzeria chain," the answer would be, "Papa John," because it starts with "PA" and ends in an "N." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Name That Headline-Maker You are given the names of people whom you had probably never heard of before 2008, but who sprang to national or international prominence during the past 12 months. Who are they? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Categorically Claus This is a game of categories using the word "Claus." For each category, name something in it starting with each of the letters: C-L-A-U-S. For example, if the category was girls' names: Carol, Laura, Alice, Ursula and Sarah. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Answer May Elude You You are given two seven-letter words. Rearrange the letters in one of the words to get a synonym of the other. For example, if the clue is "gratify" and "eluding," the answer would be "indulge," which is an anagram of eluding and means gratify. The anagram can be the first or second word. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You've Got A Friend In P-A Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase or title in which one word starts with P-I, as in Pittsburgh, and the other starts with P-A. The P-A and P-I words can be in any order. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website City Slickers For each word given, add a letter at the start, the end or somewhere inside to name a well-known U.S. city. For example, given the word "flit," the answer would be "Flint." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From First To Last Each clue is one word. The answer is a word that can follow the clue to complete a familiar two-word phrase. The first two letters of the answer must be the first and last letter of the clue. For example, given "pool," the answer would be "player." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sure Bet You'll Know The letters S-B stand for seat belt. They also stand for some other familiar two word phrases. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Good Morning, Anagrams Every answer is an anagram of a word starting with the letters, A-M. For example, if the clue is "A-M + sue," then the answer would be, "amuse." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Long Way From Milan To Minsk For each category given, the answers are things within the category that start with the letters, M, I, N, S and K. For example, given "two-syllable girls names," the answer could be "Mary, Ingrid, Nora, Sarah and Kathy." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Pox On You Each answer is a familiar word, name or phrase that begins with the letter P and ends in X. For example, if the clue is "showy flower," the answer would be "phlox." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Now That's A Capital Idea You are given a word. Drop two letters so that the remaining letters, in order, spell the name of a world capital. For example, given "backup," the answer would be "Baku," the capital of Azerbaijan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Little Hankity-Pankity Every answer is a two-word, rhyming phrase in which both words have three syllables. For example, given the clue "unexplained circumstance of the past," the answer would be "history mystery." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fill In The Blanks And Ta-Da! You are given a sentence that's missing two words. The word that goes in the first blank has a T in it. Change this to a D, and phonetically, you'll get the word that goes in the second blank. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keep Plugging Away Every answer is a word, name or familiar phrase starting with K and ending with Y, as in "Kentucky." For example, given the clue "stereotypical fraternity blowout," the answer would be "keg party." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scoring A Touchdown You are given two clues. The first answer is a word that starts with the sound T. Change this to a D, and phonetically you'll get a new word that answers the second clue. For example, if the clue is "to work hard" and "author Conan _______," the answer would be "toil" and "Doyle." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website At The REC Center Each answer is a familiar two-word phrase in which the first word ends in R-E and the second word starts with C. For example, if the clue is "text that comes from the Associated Press or Reuters," the answer would be "wire copy." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The End Justifies The Clue You are given clues that end in a six-letter word. Rearrange the letters in the last word to get the answer to the clue. For example, given "Jewels a pirate buries," the answer would be "rubies." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thinking Phoneticall-EE Each word has 2 syllables. The first vowel sound in the first word is a long "E." Change this to a short "E," and phonetically you'll get a new word that answers the second clue. If the clue is "slang term for an eye, and partner for salt," the answer is "peeper and pepper." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CH-CH-CH-CH-CHanges Each word you're given has the letters C-H within it. Rearrange the letters to come up with an anagram that begins with C-H. For example, "inch" becomes "chin." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Turn Of Phrase Every answer starts with the letter A and completes a familiar three-word phrase that takes the form "blank of blank." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Of Primo Importance In the on-air puzzle, you are given several 10-letter words. For each word, rearrange the first five letters to spell a common word and the last five letters to spell another common word. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vowel Swapping You are given clues to two words, each with two syllables. The vowel sound in the first syllable of the first word is a long A. Change that vowel to a short I, and phonetically you will get a new word that answers the second clue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's a Real Tease In this week's on-air challenge, every answer is a word or familiar phrase of no more than 12 letters. The word contains at least four T's. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A River Runs Through It In this week's on-air challenge, you are given anagrams plus an extra letter that you must unscramble to name a river. For example, given "roil" plus E, the answer would be "Loire," the river in France. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I-O You a Clue In this week's on-air puzzle, every answer is a compound word or a familiar two-word phrase in which the first part has a long I vowel sound and the second part has a long O sound. Both parts have just one syllable. For example, given "a small pink flower growing in a field," the answer would be "wild rose." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fill in the Blanks: Going Up, Anyone? In this week's on-air puzzle, you are given two sentences. Each sentence has two blanks. A word starting with "UP" goes in the first blank. Move the "UP" to the end, and you'll get a familiar two-word phrase that goes in the second blank to complete the sentence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ode (Owed?) to Ma In this week's on-air puzzle, you are given clues for six-letter words, each containing the consecutive letters M-A. Remove the M-A, and the remaining four letters, in order, will spell a word answering the second clue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rhyme Three Times In this week's on-air puzzle, you are given three words that rhyme with three things that start with the same letter and are in the same category. For example, given "soxer," "facet" and "regal," the answer would be "boxer, "basset" and "beagle." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Challenge for Star Gazers In this week's on-air puzzle, you are given anagrams of the names of constellations. You name the constellations. For example, given "ray" plus L, the answer would be "Lyra." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Any Champs in the House? For each category Will lists, you must name something that belongs in it that begins with each of the following letters: C, H, A, M and P. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amen to Gag Men In this week's puzzle, clues are given for two words. The first word has two or more G's in it. Remove all the G's and the remaining letters, in order, will spell the answer to the second clue. For example, given "joke writers" and "prayer ending," the answer would be "gag men" and "amen." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 'VA' Is for Word Lovers In this week's puzzle, every answer is a familiar two-word phrase, where the first word starts with V and the second word starts with A. For example, given "subject of a tax in Britain" the answer would be "value added." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting in the Swing 'of' Things In this week's puzzle, every answer is a familiar three-word phrase in the form of "______ of ______." The first word starts with M, and you are given the third word. For example, given "production" the answer would be "means" for "means of production." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Puzzle for Crows In this week's puzzle, every answer is a familiar two-word phrase in which the first word starts with CA and the second word starts with W. For example, given "a glass opening in a wall that is attached by hinges," the answer is "casement window." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Common Ground In this week's puzzle, you are given two things and must name what they have in common. Each answer has six letters. For example, given "typewriter" and "Christmas gift," the answer is "ribbon." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Separated by A Clues are given for two short words. Combine the words and add the letter A in between them and you'll get the answer to a third clue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Er, Give Me Another Clue In this week's on-air puzzle, clues are given for two words that each ends in an unaccented vowel sound. Change that sound to an "er," and you'll get a new word that answers the second clue. For example, if the clue were "sandwich fish" and "piano repairman," the answer would be "tuna" and "tuner." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Uh-Oh! Clues for Two Clues are given for two words. Each word has two syllables. The first syllable of the first word has a short "U" sound as in "uh." Change this to a long "O" sound and, phonetically, you'll get a new word that answers the second clue. Example: "absolutely beautiful" and "an old-style punishment," would be "stunning" and "stoning." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hidden Presidents This week, an on-air presidential puzzle for Presidents Day. Will reads a series of sentences. Each sentence conceals the name of a U.S. president in consecutive letters. For example: Have moms hairstyle redone. The answer would be Tyler, which is hidden inside, hairsTYLE Redone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anagram Magic In this week's on-air puzzle, every answer is a two-word phrase, in which both words start with the letter "P" and the two words are anagrams of each other. For example, for the clue "One hundred percent the land of Lima," the answer would be: Pure Peru. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prepare to Be Taxed In the on-air puzzle, every answer is a familiar two-word phrase in which the first word starts with the letter C and the second word starts with P-A. For example, given "a place for electrical switches and gauges," the answer would be "control panel." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guess the Rest In this week's on-air puzzle, every answer is a three-word phrase in the form "(blank) the (blank)." Will offers rhymes for the first and last words in the phrases. For example, given "lease the reels," the answer would be "grease the wheels." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seeing Red In the on-air puzzle, you are given a word and must drop two letters so that the remaining letters, in order, spell a color or shade. For example, given "greed," the answer would be "red." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Calculated Risks This week's on-air puzzle is about CARS. Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase, in which the first word starts with C-A and the second word starts with R. For example, given "basis for computing insurance rates," the answer would be, "calculated risk." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mixed-Up Company In the on-air puzzle, every answer is the name of a well-known company. You must name the company from its anagram. For example, given "Coal plus A," the answer would be, "Alcoa." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website