Saturday, March 23, 2024

THE PUZZLE CORNER: MARCH 23, 2024

 😎FUN FACT
The 2024 Major League Baseball season⚾ has officially begun with games between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres held in South Korea.

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇
The very first episode of the original Jeopardy! aired March 30, 1964. Who was the host and announcer?

TRIVIA TIME⌚
What was the first “rip off”/parody of Star Wars?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the March 16, Puzzle Corner.

BEFORE AND AFTER
Two separate items share at least one word, and so can be combined to create something new. Based upon the clue below, do you know what the new thing is?
Danny Thomas sitcom featuring a Little Orphan Annie character. = Make Room For Daddy Warbucks.

THE LETTER SHUFFLE
With Saint Patrick’s Day🍀earlier this past week, how many new words could you make out of the letters in LEPRECHAUN?
A, ace, ache, acne, ah, ale, an, ape, aper (another word for mimic), arc, arch, are
Can, cane, cap, cape, caper, car, care, chap, cheap, cheaper, cheep, cheer, clan, clap, clean, clear, creep, crepe, cruel,  cup, cur, cure, curl
Each, ear, earl (the rank, not the formal name), earn, eel
Ha, hale, hare, heal, heap, hear, heel, here
La (the musical note), lace, lap, lean, leap, learn, leech, leer
Nap, nape, near, nuclear
Pace, pal, pale, paler, pan, pane, par, pare, peach, pear, pearl, pecan, peel, pen, per, peer, place, plan, plane, plea, preach, prune, pure
Race, ran, rap, reach, real, reap, reel, rule, run, rune
Uncap, unclean, unclear, unreel, (and) up.
More besides the 98 listed above might be possible.

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