Category: Puzzles

35 Hidden Countries

Can you find 35 different countries hidden in the text that follows?  Many are easy but I bet you cannot get them all. “Don’t look back in anger,” many a wise man has said, including William Shakespeare who wrote “Much Ado about Nothing.” The captain asked the sargent in an email if he could plug and advertise the event. He had a broken yardstick and wore a jumper under his coat and a cap... Read More--

Letter Combinations Quiz

Each question contains a three letter combination in capitals. There follows a short clue with the length of the answer shown in brackets. You have to find the word which contains the unusual letter combination. For example if the question were THH, restrain (8) the answer would be WITHHOLD. The three letter combination can appear anywhere in the answer as three consecutive letters. Take your... Read More--

Country Capitals Quiz Answers

Answers to the country capital cities quiz:   1.  There are five European Capital Cities beginning with the letter V. Can you name them? Vienna, Austria. Vilnius, Lithuania, Valetta, Malta. Vatican City, Vaduz, Liechtenstein.   2.  Which are the northernmost and southernmost capital cities in the world? Reykjavik, Iceland and Wellington, New Zealand.   3.  Which is the highest capital... Read More--

Country Capitals Quiz

Test your knowledge of country capital cities with this quiz:  There are five European Capital Cities beginning with the letter V. Can you name them?  Which are the northernmost and southernmost capital cities in the world?  Which is the highest capital city?  Which is the lowest capital city at 92 feet below sea level?  Which capital city lies exactly on the equator?  Which capital cities... Read More--

The Christmas Word Quiz – with Answers

Here is my Christmas Word Quiz: 1. What word has just three syllables yet contains 26 letters? (Lateral one to start with.) 2. What is the longest word in which all the letters come from the second half of the alphabet (Something you eat at Christmas – 7 letters). 3. What is the longest word which forms another word when spelt backwards? (One word is something you eat at Christmas and the other... Read More--

Remarkable Words make Great Puzzles

Des MacHale and I have put together a word puzzle book that contains some great puzzles about remarkable words.  For instance try these questions: What is the longest word containing just one vowel used once? What is the longest word containing just one vowel used as many times as you like? What is the shortest word which uses all five vowels? What is the longest country name which has alternating... Read More--

Never odd or even – and other great palindromes

Palindromes are words or sentences that read the same forward as backward. Good examples of palindromic words are: kayak, racecar, deified, madam Rotavator, redivider and Malayalam are 9 letter palindromes. Malayalam is a language used predominantly in the state of Kerala in India. AIBOHPHOBIA is an 11 letter palindrome.  It means fear of palindromes. It was deliberately constructed by combining the... Read More--

Top Ten Lateral Thinking Puzzles – the Answers

Please read the questions  first before reading the answers: 1. The man in the Elevator The man is (of course) a dwarf. Variants of this puzzle include the clue that on rainy days he goes up in the elevator to the tenth floor (he uses his umbrella!) 2. The Man in the Bar The man had hiccups. The barman recognized this from his speech and drew the gun in order to give him a shock. It worked and cured... Read More--