STAR, POST, and TEA are three very interesting words that share a very unusual common trait. What is that common trait?

The following word equation may seem to make no sense, but maybe you can explain why it is true?

BURNED UP + MINERAL = NO LONGER OUT TO SEA

 

A hinkety pinkety is two three-syllable rhyming words which complete a clue. Here's your clue:

I made the mistake of not parking my vehicle in the garage during the winter, and NOW look what it's become!

Begin with the word FLOUR. Change one letter at a time in such a way that the result is always a word, until you arrive at the word BREAD.

What was your sequence of changes?

Here's another word equation for you. Can you make sense of it?

A FRIEND + A CARD = A FINE ABODE

Oh my, this word's in a very odd state;
It has a peculiar and inexplicable trait:
It brings things together, from the very start,
But ends by slicing what's joined apart!

What is the paradoxical word?

Here's another word equation for you. How can you make sense out of the following:

LIMB + LAST = MYTH

Would it be foolish to doubt that fog causes oxidation? How can we make sense of the following word equation?

DOUBT = FOG + OXIDATION

Can you create a word ladder from your head to your toes? Start with the word HEAD, and change it one letter at a time to obtain TOES.

I'm looking for two rhyming two-syllable words for the following phrase:

MIDDLE EASTERN CLUNKER

Give me two rhyming two-syllable words that mean:

A PLANT THAT'S MAKING MUSIC

How can you make sense of the following word equation?

CONVICTION = CANINE PARENT

Here is your word equation...how can you explain this?

DISEASED = A MYTHOLOGICAL DEITY + AN OFFER

How can you make sense out of this word equation?

SIDEWALK = CRIMINAL + MEDITERRANEAN

 

Thanks to one of our members for pitching in with a couple puzzles to help me keep things going this month! One of these puzzles appears this week, another in a couple weeks.

We're looking for two rhyming words with one syllable which mean:

CONFIDENT CRIMINAL

How can you make sense of this word equation?

RATS = STICK + MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES

Find two rhyming words with one syllable each, which mean: A SHY PLAYTHING

Here's another word ladder: How can you get from HAIR to BALD, changing just one letter at a time?

How can you make sense of the following Word Equation?

COMFORT = THE SUN + PLAYING CARD

Can you figure out the next number in this sequence?

1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, ???


Congratulations to the following, who were high scorers for this past year:
AlphaSigChainsaw (96 points)
yoi55 (85 points)
lewanj (83 points)
beckyh (76 points)

Welcome to the new set of puzzles for the fall of 2008. These puzzles are all poems that are also riddles. 

I'm a girl, and a nail,
And I'm worth just a tad.
And although I am pretty,
I am also quite bad!

Well, my name is "unknown";
I'm a note, and some money.
I'm a wild woodland creature;
And occasionally runny.

I'm invisible, yes,
Perpendicular, too;
I'm a measure of wind,
And I slice things right through.

I'm a catchword or phrase...
Here's a clue that is better:
I'm a braiding of hair;
I'm a line, or a letter.

I cut things apart,
Yet I hold them together,
I make all sorts of music;
I'm birds of a feather.

This is a Stirred Word puzzle. What word, when its letters are mixed up, can be made to fit each of the clues below?

A luxurious place,
Or a poisonous snake,
I'm a sweet tasting juice,
And a step in ballet.

Here is another Stirred Word Puzzle. If you missed how to do these, click "Previous Problem" to read the explanation.

I'm your favorite pet,
Or a part to portray.
I'm the midst of a game
That is easy to play.

 

I'm the largest of men,
With the largest of loads,
And I'll guide you along
On your journey's long roads.

 

I come in many diff'rent types:
I'm popular at Halloween,
I'm also just a kind of drink,
A worm, as well, that stays unseen.

The name of a girl,
A directional sheet;
I'm a maker of sound
That is quite indiscreet.

 

I'm a nuisance, my friend,
I'm a cat or a dog,
I'm also a walk
Or a run or a jog.

 

It's in your hair,
And bounces through the air,
It's in the sea,
And shared by you and me.

 

Past and present
Of a daily task
When stirred and iced
Can fill a tall cool flask.

A verb and a noun,
And it's also a letter,
A game for a student
And a very small critter.

Clever yet crazy,
Beautiful as can be;
I live in the woods,
Though you see me on TV.

This poem riddle is actually a sonnet. 

As steadfast mutes, we utter not a sound,
Yet in our silence speak the words of God;
With steady stance we lightly touch the ground,
My twin and I, like peas that share a pod.
And though I seem to be the same as him,
Some diff'rences the watchful will divine;
His face, though lovely to be sure, is dim,
When placed beside the brilliant cheer of mine.
Though I'm the lesser one -- I must admit --
I say with kind and brotherly affection,
He is my perfect mirrored opposite,
A haunting, strange, ephemeral reflection.
I wonder, can you solve the mystery
Of who or what my twin and I might be?