Saturday, November 26, 2022

THE PUZZLE CORNER: NOVEMBER 26, 2022

😎 FUN FACT
Being traditionalists, The Free Choice E-zine will not be posting holiday themed puzzles until next weekend when it’s actually December.

RHYME TIME⌛
The clue to something is below, but no matter how long your answer is, each word within it must rhyme. Ready?
Monster movie.

TRIVIA TIME⌚
November 26, 2022 would have been Charles Schulz’s 100th birthday. What was his original proposed name for the Peanuts comic strip?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOXπŸ“œ and discover the results from the November 19, 2022 Puzzle Corner.

COMMON BONDS
The items in each subset below have something in common. Do you know what it is?
01. {The Running Man, Predator} and yes we know they’re movies = both featured Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura.
02. {Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Led Zepplin} and yes we know they’re rock groups = all contributed to financing production of Monty Python and the Holy Grail!

THE LETTER SHUFFLE
How many new words can you make 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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