Saturday, November 24, 2012

THE PUZZLE CORNER: NOVEMBER 24, 2012

Despite what the retail industry thinks, we will not be starting our annual parade of Christmas puzzles until December 1, so please enjoy these regular enigmas in the meantime.

TRIVIA TIME
What is an oenophile?

REBUS
Something familiar is represented by the image below. Do you know what it is?

We'll reveal all next weekend.
Meanwhile, let's peek inside THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results from the November 17th Puzzle Corner.

TRIVIA TIME
"Come on down, it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track" are the directions to Alice's Restaurant.

THE LETTER SHUFFLE
Out of the letters in the word THANKSGIVING, you can make the following:
A, aging, ah, akin, an, angst, as, at
gag(s), gain(s), giant(s), gat(s) <old 1930's slang for guns>, gig(s), gin(s), gist, git(s) <Hillbilly slang for scram/get>, giving
hag(s), haggis <a Scottish delicacy>, hang(s), hat(s), having, hi <short form of "hello">, hiking, hint(s), hit(s)
I,  ink(s), in(s), inn(s), is, it, its
kin, king(s), kit(s), knight(s), knit(s)
nag(s), nigh, night(s)
sag, saint, sank, sat, saving, shag <type of carpeting>, sight, sighting, sign, signing, sink, sinking, sin, shin, shining, sit, skit, snag, stag, staging, stain, staining, stank, sting, stinging, stink, stinking
tag(s), than, thank(s), thin(s), thing(s), think(s), this
vain, vat(s), visit, Viking(s), (AND) vista.
Other words besides the 108 above might be possible. But IV (the medical term) didn’t count because it’s an abbreviation. The Roman numerals II and IV are debatable, but the cuss word for human waste was not listed since this is a family oriented E-zine.

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