Saturday, April 8, 2023

THE PUZZLE CORNER: APRIL 8, 2023

 😎FUN FACT
Legendary voice actor Mel Blanc fully voiced Gideon the Cat for Walt Disney’s original version of Pinocchio, but the studio wound up using only his feline hiccups in the movie.

THE LETTER SHUFFLE
How many new words can you spell out of the letters in EASTER?
There’s more than you think.

HUH? (misquotes)
The misquote is below. All you have to do is give us the correct quote and source. Ready?
“I’m getting hugged riding up and down the same old trip.”

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the April 1, 2023 Puzzle Corner and our salute to the start of the 2023 Major League Baseball⚾ season.

NEXT?
What is the next item(s) in the sequence below?
CHC, CIN, CLE, COL, ___?
CWS for the Chicago White Sox.
The scoreboard abbreviations for the CHicago Cubs, CINcinatti Reds, CLEveland Guardians, and COLorado Rockies were before that.

COMMON BONDS
While everybody within the subsets below are the scoreboard designation for specific baseball teams, each group also has something else in common.
Do you know what it is?
01. {LAD, OAK, PIT, SEA} All are also normal words.
02. {ARI, MIA, TEX} All are also people's (nick)names.
03. {DET, MIN} Both are also abbreviations of real words: detective and minimum, respectively.

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