Saturday, November 16, 2013

THE PUZZLE CORNER: NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Another weekend is upon us, so let's have some fun!

COMMON BONDS
The items in each subset below have something in common.
Do you know what it is?

01. {Moses, Samuel, and Jerome Horwitz}
02. {Al, Jimmy, and Harry Joachim}

TRIVIA TIME
By what famous surname do we know Julius, Arthur, Leonard, Milton, and Herbert?
(Was originally considering this as part of a Common Bonds puzzle, but posting the surname would have given away the answer.)

We'll reveal all next weekend. But for now, let's peek inside THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results from the November 9, 2013 Puzzle Corner as we honored Veterans' Day.

TRIVIA TIME
What branch of United States military service is known to some as Mother Green?
The United States Marine Corps.

THE LETTER SHUFFLE
Out of the letters in the word VETERANS, you can spell the following:
A, An, ant(s), are, art(s), as, at, ate
Ear(s), earn(s), earnest, era(s), eve(s)
Near(s), neat, neater, nerve(s), never
Ran, rat(s), rate(s), rave(s), raven(s), rest
Sat, sate, save, sea, sear, seat, see, seen, seer, sent, serve, seven, sever, sneer, star, stare, starve
Tea(s), tee(s), tear(s), tease, ten(s), teen(s), tense, tenser, tree(s)
Vee(s), vent(s), vest, and Veteran.
The last is allowed since the plural was our starting word.
Otherwise, there might be more words possible than the 74 listed above.

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