Saturday, May 18, 2019

THE PUZZLE CORNER: MAY 18, 2019

😎FUN FACT
Samuel Morse established the first telegraph line on May 24, 1844.

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇
What was the first message Samuel Morse sent over that telegraph line to show it was operational?

TRIVIA TIME⌚
The game of Parcheesi originated in what country?

We’ll reveal all next weekend, but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the May 11, 2019 Puzzle Corner.

COMMON BONDS
The items in each subset below have something in common. Do you know what it is?
01. {Jack Berry, Snoop Dogg} = Both have hosted The Joker’s Wild.
02. {Hugh Downs, Alex Trebek} = Both have hosted the rebus based game show Concentration.
03. {Subsets 1 and 2} = Both involved game shows.

THE LETTER SHUFFLE
How many new words can you spell out of the letters in MOTHER?
Em (printing measure), emo
He, hem, her, hero, home, hot
Me, more, moth
Or, ore, other
Rot, rote (a way of learning)
The, them, tom (some male animals), tome, tor (mountain top), tore
Other words besides the 22 listed above might be possible.

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