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Here's a sample puzzle for you to try.
In this Brainbender, your aim is to make a series of five different words. Each box in column 1 asks you for a four-letter word to fit a definition or description. The next box, in column 2, asks you to use that word as an anagram but also to add one more letter, and make a new word to fit the description or definition. This continues in columns 3, 4 and 5.
The first row has been done for you, showing the answers.
Hint: You don't have to start in column 1. You might be able to recognise a word in another column and work backward.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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THE ANSWER TO EACH CLUE IN THIS COLUMN IS A 4-LETTER WORD |
5-LETTER WORD. ANAGRAM OF WORD FROM COLUMN 1 PLUS ONE LETTER |
6-LETTER WORD. ANAGRAM OF WORD FROM COLUMN 2 PLUS ONE LETTER |
7-LETTER WORD. ANAGRAM OF WORD FROM COLUMN 3 PLUS ONE LETTER |
8-LETTER WORD. ANAGRAM OF WORD FROM COLUMN 4 PLUS ONE LETTER |
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A metal disk used as money. COIN |
Something, such as a medicine, which makes you feel stronger. COIN+T TONIC |
An occurrence, movement or event. The process of doing something.
TONIC+A ACTION |
Care. The act of being careful. ACTION+U CAUTION |
Sales at which items are sold to the person who bids the highest price. CAUTION+S AUCTIONS |
| The part of an orange you remove before eating the fruit. | Slumber. | (Of time) to pass by. | Very satisfied, delighted. | People who beg or pray earnestly for something. |
| Expensive. | This is what an intelligent person does with a book. | Deleted. | Spread a wet, sticky or messy substance such as paint (verb, past tense.) | People who have pictures in their minds while they are asleep |
| Close, adjacent to. | Wrath. | To get something back. | To do with Greece (adjective) | Producing or making something new and innovative. |
| Without much colour, or with a light colour. | Jumps through the air. | Gems found in oyster shells. | Careful study (usually of a book). | The feeling of being very satisfied or delighted. |
| You find a lot of this on the beach. | Very important parts of your anatomy. | Of or from Denmark. | Rushing. | Groups of words at the top of articles or chapters. |
| Types of rodents. | To gaze with a fixed look. | A Christian festival. | Strict, severely simple, or without any ornamentation. | Something of very great value. |
| Muddy, swampy ground. Another word for bog. | A collier. | To do with the sea. | A strong shade of red. | Someone who was born in the USA. |
| This falls when you weep. | Someone who consumes food. | Tidier. | To ask earnestly or sincerely. | A general or common description of an animal such as an aardvark or an echidna. |
| A small flying insect that bites. | An extremely tall person. | Consuming. | Warming up. | Teaching. |