Two Edged Words!

Which word can be joined on to the end of the first word and the beginning of the second word to form two new words?

Example:

man ? wink

Answer is hood.

man ? wink
man hood wink

The  two new words are manhood and hoodwink.

Now try these puzzles:

1) ear ? ling

2) barn ? stick

3) cause ? lay

4) light ? fly

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Answer:

1) nest (earnest and nestling)

2) yard (barnyard and yardstick)

3) way (causeway and waylay)

4) house (lighthouse and housefly)

A Two-Dimensional Word Scramble Puzzle

A Word Scramble is a word puzzle game that provides you a group of jumbled letters and wants you to unscramble them to make a real word. As an example, if you get the letters “TBES” you may unscramble them to detect the word “BEST” [Reference: G. R. Roosta, Word Scramble Puzzles, 2010 ASIN: B003A83WA4].

A Two-Dimensional Word Scramble puzzle has two steps. In the first step you solve a couple of regular word scramble puzzles and identify the original words and then in the second step you rearrange a given set of letters from these original words to discover the final word.

Here is a Two-Dimensional Word Scramble Puzzle:

There are seven 7-letter words as follows. Unscramble them and then take the middle letter of each word to make the final answer of this puzzle:

1. WEELYJR
2. YWDKOER
3. TSYMERY
4. OREOTSR
5. TEFNEBI
6. FIRLACY
7. SENSTFA

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Answer:

1. jewelry
2. keyword
3. mystery
4. rooster
5. benefit
6. clarify
7. fatness

The middle letters of the above words:

   ewtsern

By unscrambling ewtsern, we find the final answer as:

WESTERN

Circular Words [1]

Each circle represents a word which can be spelled by starting at the appropriate letter and moving clockwise or counterclockwise around the circle. You should identify the words.

Example:

1)

Circular Word 1

2)

Circular Word 2

3)

Circular Word 3

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Answer:


1) ergometer
2) thrift
3) emblem

Word Jigsaw No. 1

Fit the pieces into the frame to form common words reading across and down. There is no need to rotate the pieces; they will fit as illustrated with each piece used only once!

Word Jigsaw - Frame

Word Jigsaw - Pieces

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Word Jigsaw - Answer

The Martian Rub

This is a well-known logic puzzle in English: The Martian Rub

After his spaceship landed on Mars, astronaut Mark disembarked and approached the first Martian he saw.

"Am I headed for the geological dig?" he asked.

The Martian rubbed his stomach.

Astronaut Mark knew that Martians could understand some Earth-talk, but were not able to speak it; Mark, like so many Earthlings, could neither speak nor
understand Martian gestures. He didn't know whether rubbing the stomach meant yes or no. But by asking one additional question, Mark was able to find out.

What was that question?

The Martian and Astronaut Mark

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Astronaut Mark rubbed his stomach and asked, "Did you do this?" 
Whatever the Martian did in reply would mean yes.

Word Trace [1]

Find a ten-letter word in the grid below. This word starts with TR as highlighted (in bold). Each next letter must be adjacent to the previous letter.

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Answer:


TRAUMATISM

Commonym Puzzles [1]

A commonym is group of words that have a common trait. For example: Cow, Coconut, and Sheep; they produce milk [reference: http://gklt.blogspot.com/2011/08/commonym.html]. A Commonym Puzzle is a puzzle in which you should detect what trait is in common among the given commonym's items.

Commonym 1.

• Dr. Seuss
• Skyscraper
• Mark Twain

Commonym 2.

• Cap
• Bubble
• Question
• Pill

Commonym 3.

• Salad
• Gag
• Coin
• Dice

Commonym 4.

• Water
• Seism
• Hair
• Brain

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1. Story

2. Pop
note: pop a cap: to shoot someone

3. Toss
note: toss a gag: to put a piece of chewing tobbaco into mouth

4. Wave