{"id":299587,"date":"2026-02-15T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299587\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:30:09","slug":"sunday-puzzle-common-threads-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299587\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Puzzle: Common threads : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sunday<\/p>\n

\n Sunday Puzzle<\/p>\n

NPR<\/p>\n

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\"Sunday<\/p>\n

On air challenge <\/p>\n

I’m going to name three things. You tell me something they all have in common.
Ex. Telephone \u00a0 Saturn \u00a0 Tree stump \u00a0 –> \u00a0 RINGS<\/p>\n

1. Face \u00a0 Needle \u00a0 Hurricane<\/p>\n

2. Hospital \u00a0 Pickup truck \u00a0 Flower garden<\/p>\n

3. Pen \u00a0 Finger \u00a0 Waiter<\/p>\n

4. Fireplace \u00a0 Rustic cabin \u00a0 Ship’s captain<\/p>\n

5. Geisha \u00a0 Car engine \u00a0 Celebrity<\/p>\n

7. Men’s clothing store \u00a0 Deck of cards \u00a0 Law firm<\/p>\n

8. Fish \u00a0 Map \u00a0 Butcher<\/p>\n

9. Tavern \u00a0 N.F.L. \u00a0 Room with an open window<\/p>\n

Last week’s challenge <\/p>\n

Last week’s challenge came from Michael Schwartz, of Florence, Ore.\u00a0Name something in 7 letters that’s designed to help you lose weight. Insert the letters EP somewhere inside this word to get a two-word phrase naming things that are likely to add weight. What words are these?<\/p>\n

Answer: pie plates<\/p>\n

Winner <\/p>\n

Shyra Latiolais of New Orleans, Louisiana.<\/p>\n

This week’s challengeThis week’s challenge comes from Tom Streit, of Crozet, Va. A man said to a friend: “I’m thinking of a 9-letter word that contains my name, Ian (“I-A-N”), embedded somewhere inside it. If you replace my 3-letter name with your 4-letter name, you’ll get a familiar word in 10 letters.” What are the two words, and what is the name of Ian’s friend? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday Puzzle NPR hide caption toggle caption NPR On air challenge I’m going to name three things. You…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-299587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}