{"id":507640,"date":"2026-03-01T15:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507640\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T15:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:57:08","slug":"sunday-puzzle-sandwiched-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507640\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Puzzle: Sandwiched : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sunday<\/p>\n

\n Sunday Puzzle<\/p>\n

NPR<\/p>\n

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NPR<\/p>\n

\"Sunday<\/p>\n

On-air challenge <\/p>\n

I’m going to name two things from the same category. You name the only thing in that category that fits between my two things alphabetically.
Ex. Blue \u00a0 Indigo \u00a0 –> \u00a0 GREEN (colors of the rainbow)<\/p>\n

1. August \/ February <\/p>\n

2. Five \/ Nine<\/p>\n

3. Bashful \/ Dopey<\/p>\n

4. Tau \/ Upsilon<\/p>\n

5. Kings \/ Lakers<\/p>\n

6. Nixon \/ Pierce<\/p>\n

7. Ventnor Avenue \/ Virginia Avenue<\/p>\n

8. Cuspid \/ Molar<\/p>\n

Last week’s challenge <\/p>\n

Last week’s challenge came from Greg VanMechelen, of Berkeley, Calif.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Name something you don’t want to have at night (3,5).\u00a0Shift each of the letters of the second word nine spaces later in the alphabet. If your count reaches the end of the alphabet, continue counting from the start. The result will name a famous singer.<\/p>\n

Challenge Answer <\/p>\n

Bad sleep \u2014> Bad Bunny<\/p>\n

Winner <\/p>\n

Jonathan Black of Brockport, NY.<\/p>\n

This week’s challenge <\/p>\n

This week’s challenge comes from Andrea Carla Michaels, of San Francisco.\u00a0Name a famous 20th century writer. Remove the last two letters of the first name and the last letter of the last name. The result will name a clothing material. What is it?<\/p>\n

If you know the answer to the challenge, submit it below by Thursday, March 5 at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday Puzzle NPR hide caption toggle caption NPR On-air challenge I’m going to name two things from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-507640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}