Saturday, November 28, 2020

THE PUZZLE CORNER: NOVEMBER 28, 2020

😎FUN FACT
Although many radio stations have been playing Christmas🎄 music♫ since BEFORE Thanksgiving🦃, our holiday puzzles will not start until December 5.

AKA, ALSO KNOWN AS
Who do we know Calvin Broadus, Junior better as?

THE 50/50 CHANCE
Just like a regular TRIVIA TIME question, except there are just two possible answers, hence the even odds of getting it right. Ready?
TRUE OR FALSE: All 5 Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo, and Gummo) have appeared on film🎥 together.

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the November 21, 2020 Puzzle Corner.

NUMBER PLEASE
Get ready! We ask the question, but the answer is just a number.
How many Three Point Shots has Shaquille O’Neal successfully made in his professional basketball🏀 career?

THE LETTER SHUFFLE
With the holiday this week, how many new words can you form out of the letters in THANKSGIVING?🦃
A, aging, ah, akin, an, angst, as, at,
Gag(s), gain(s), giant(s), gas, 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), has, 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 <a type of carpeting>, sight, sighting, sign, signing, sink, sinking, sin, shin, shining, sit, skin, skit, snag, snit, stag, staging, stain, staining, stank, sting, stinging, stink, stinking
Tag(s), tan(s), tank(s), than, thank(s), thin(s), thing(s), think(s), this, tin, vain, vat(s), visit, Viking(s), (AND) vista.
Other words besides the 117 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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