Saturday, July 11, 2020

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JULY 11, 2020

😎FUN FACT
With a full orchestral accompaniment, none of The Beatles actually played an instrument on ♫Eleanor Rigby♫!

TRIVIA TIME⌚
In what sport is a Jack the ball?

REBUS
Something familiar is represented in the image below. Do you know what it is?
R|E|A|D|I|N|G

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the July 4, 2020 Puzzle Corner.

WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Been quite a while since we’ve played this last, but something famous is described below using alternate words. Do you know what it is?
“Story of Dual Municipalities”.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES (by Charles Dickens)

THE LETTER SHUFFLE
How many new words can you form out of the letters in INDEPENDENCE?
Cede
Deed, deep, deepen, deepened, den, dice, diced, die, died, din, dine, dip
End
I, ice, ID (part of the psyche), in, inn
Nee, need, needed, nice, nine, nip
Peen (part of a hammer), pen, pend, pin, pine
More than the 30 words listed above might be possible.

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