{"id":511425,"date":"2026-06-21T17:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/511425\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T17:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:52:15","slug":"sunday-puzzle-b-to-the-b-to-the-b-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/511425\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Puzzle: B to the B to the B : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/sundaypuzzle-widecrop_custom-fc423904705b59dbf8067e7f24062444f00e986b.jpg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2020\/10\/10\/sundaypuzzle-widecrop_custom-fc423904705b59dbf8067e7f24062444f00e986b.jpg?s={width}&amp;c={quality}&amp;f={format}\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Sunday Puzzle\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Sunday Puzzle<\/p>\n<p>                    NPR<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        NPR<\/p>\n<p>            <img data-original=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2020\/10\/10\/sundaypuzzle-widecrop_custom-fc423904705b59dbf8067e7f24062444f00e986b.jpg?s=2600&amp;c=100&amp;f=jpeg\" alt=\"Sunday Puzzle\"\/><\/p>\n<p>   On-air challenge   <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to give you two words starting with the letter B. You give me another word starting with B that can follow my first one and precede my second one, in each case to complete a compound word for a familiar two-word phrase.<\/p>\n<p>Ex. Boot Box &#8211;&gt; BLACK (bootblack, black box)<\/p>\n<p>1. Beer Button<br \/>2. Blue Binder<br \/>3. Bounce Burner<br \/>4. Billiard Bearing<br \/>5. Busy Builder<br \/>6. Bar Bottoms<br \/>7. Baby Brothers<br \/>8. Bird Buster<br \/>9. Brick Boy<\/p>\n<p>   Last week&#8217;s challenge   <\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s challenge came from listener Michael Pickard. Name something in 10 letters that&#8217;s found in a kitchen. Drop its sixth letter to name something on a keyboard. Then drop the new word&#8217;s fifth letter to name something no one wants to get. What words are these?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: Backsplash &#8211;&gt; backslash &#8211;&gt; backlash<\/p>\n<p>   Winner   <\/p>\n<p>John Blakelock of Yellow Springs, Ohio<\/p>\n<p>   This week&#8217;s challenge   <\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s challenge comes from Evan Kalish, of Bayside, N.Y. Take the name of a nocturnal creature, in two words. The first word is a spooky sound. Move the last letter of the first word to the start of the second word and you&#8217;ll get another spooky, nocturnal sound. What is the creature and what are the sounds?<\/p>\n<p>If you know the answer to the challenge, submit it here by Thursday, June 25 at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: include a phone number where we can reach you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday Puzzle NPR hide caption toggle caption NPR On-air challenge I&#8217;m going to give you two words starting&hellip;\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":["post-511425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511425","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=511425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511425\/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=511425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}