Time to play the Sunday Puzzle from NPR On-Air Challenge!

With the given clues, find the answer to each one which is one of the words in the clue with its vowel sound changed. (Make sure to change the vowel sound, not just a single vowel letter)

 

Example: What fish bite --> BAIT (the word "bite" with the long-I sound changed to a long-A)

 

1. What a babe might wear in a high chair

2. Family dude

3. River seen in Paris

4. Waters that run through Cologne

5. Something that goes "boom!"

6. What you bowl with

7. What the government takes from your income

8. What a hat adds to your body

9. Where to order a beer

10. Something that will go round and round

11. What a cryptographer could read

12. Word that means "strange"

13. When night is done

 

Answer Keys

    1.  babe => bib

    2.  dude => dad

    3.  seen => Seine

    4.  run => Rhine

    5.  boom => bomb

    6.  bowl => ball

    7.  takes => tax

    8.  hat => height

    9.  beer => bar

    10.   will => wheel

    11.   could => code

    12.   word => weird

    13.   done => dawn

 (*picture source: https://www.google.com/search?q=change+a+vowel+in+a+word&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS944US944&sxsrf=ALeKk00U09xHaqvrdoOYIZDILxWa_BmHDw:1618779869796&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjx6O742IjwAhVbWs0KHVC9ADwQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=870&bih=561)