{"id":102276,"date":"2025-10-26T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T17:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/102276\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T17:33:08","slug":"sunday-puzzle-city-swap-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/102276\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Puzzle: City swap : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On-air challenge:\u00a0Every answer is the six-letter name of a well-known U.S. city, in which I’ve changed the first and last letters. You name the cities.
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Ex. JURORS \u00a0–> \u00a0AURORA, Colo. and Ill.<\/p>\n

BALLADMOST OFCUNEAL KOPEKSSIERRARELENTNUNCIO NUGENTFUR HAT RUSTIC
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Last week’s challenge:\u00a0Last weeks challenge comes from Dan Pitt, of Palo Alto, Calif.\u00a0Think of something to drink in two words. Rearrange the letters to spell a famous prison and a means of getting out of prison. What words are these?<\/p>\n

Challenge answer:\u00a0Singapore sling –> Sing Sing + parole<\/p>\n

Winner: Tony Mangina of San Diego, Calif. <\/p>\n

This week’s challenge: This week’s challenge comes from Donn DiMichele, of Redlands, Calif.\u00a0Name a famous current American singer. Replace the last name with a colloquial term for a person from the place where this singer was born and raised. Say the result out loud. Phonetically, you’ll get a form of singing the singer doesn’t usually do. Who is the singer and what is the kind of singing?<\/p>\n

If you know the answer to the challenge, submit it here by Thursday, October 30th, 2025 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:\u00a0Every answer is the six-letter name of a well-known…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-102276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}