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On-air challenge <\/p>\n
Every answer is a brand name that spells something in reverse.
Ex. Soap \/ A word meaning “placed” –> DIAL \/ LAID<\/p>\n
1. Laundry detergent \/ Make changes in text<\/p>\n
2. Drink mix \/ Flying pest<\/p>\n
3. Canned meat \/ Contents of an atlas<\/p>\n
4. Chewable antacid tablets \/ Obscene material<\/p>\n
5. Cosmetics and skin-care products \/ Exploding star<\/p>\n
6. Rental cars \/ Part of the Hindu trinity<\/p>\n
7. Bygone Swedish car \/ Sounds of sheep<\/p>\n
8. Bottled water \/ Easily fooled<\/p>\n
9. Japanese watches and clocks \/ Natives of the Sooner State<\/p>\n
10. Wafer cookies \/ Bold poker bet (2 words)<\/p>\n
11. [phonetic] Candy bar consisting of a wafer covered with chocolate \/ Bit of strategy<\/p>\n
Last week’s challenge <\/p>\n
Last week’s challenge came from Evan Kalish, of Bayside, N.Y. There is a set of five five-letter words that vary by just their middle letter. If the middle is any letter from K through O, it makes a common word. However, no other letter can go in the middle to complete a word. What words are these?<\/p>\n
Challenge answer: Hokey, holey, homey, honey, hooey<\/p>\n
Winner <\/p>\n
Heather Kay of Okemos, Michigan<\/p>\n
This week’s challenge <\/p>\n
This week’s challenge comes from Michael Schwartz, of Florence, Ore. Think of a type of exercise equipment in three syllables. Remove the two middle letters and you’ll name a means of transportation. What words are these?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
If you know the answer to the challenge, submit it here by Thursday, August 6 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 Every answer is a brand name that spells…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-799406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}