Tuesday, October 13, 2020

This last weekend's Word Puzzle from NPR (aired on October 11, 2020)

Time to play this last Sunday’s on-air challenge of word puzzle by Will Shortz from NPR! Every answer today is a word or phrase in which the only consonants are P and R — repeated as often as necessary. The other letters are all vowels. Let us play the following easy peasy puzzle!

 

Example: More mature, as fruit --> RIPER

 

1. What beats rock but loses to scissors in a children's game

2. Musician with a flute

3. Partner of salt

4. Fix, as an appliance

5. Brand of bottled water

6. Open grassland, as in Kansas and Nebraska

7. Like reasoning by theoretical deduction (2 words)

8. Come into view again


 

Answer Keys

    1.   paper

    2.   piper

    3.   pepper

    4.   repair

    5.   Perrier

    6.   prairie    

    7. a priori

    8.   reappear



P    picture source: https://cargocollective.com/awool/P-R-WEDDING 


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