Virtual Team Brain Storm Update!

Team Brain Storm is now going to be combined with Team Word Challengers to form one team. We now have 18 members.

Last week, we tried to solve the following brain teaser:


The blanks in the following sentences will be filled in with three different homonyms (words that are spelled differently but sound alike) to make valid sentences. The dashes indicate the number of letters in the words. The first one is fairly easy, the next two are a harder. Answers are below. Good Luck!


1. The cut on his _ _ _ _ won't _ _ _ _ in time for the race, so _ _ '_ _ have to drop out.

2. The man was so upset about being _ _ _ _ that he regularly _ _ _ _ _ _ himself up on the bed and _ _ _ _ _ _ his eyes out.

3. A bloodthirsty pirate will wander the _ _ _ _ and essentially _ _ _ _ _ everything he _ _ _ _.




Kelly Lance
Team Captain















Answer



1. The cut on his HEEL won't HEAL in time for the race, so HE'LL have to drop out.

2. The man was so upset about being BALD that he regularly BALLED himself up on the bed and BAWLED his eyes out.

3. A bloodthirsty pirate will wander the SEAS and essentially SEIZE everything he SEES.

Virtual Team Word Challenger: Mind the Gap!

Which single three-letter word completes all of the following words?



H --- --- --- E R

T R --- --- --- S

R E P --- --- --- E D

C H --- --- --- I N G

 mailto:AlActivities@stleonard.net for the answer

Virtual Team Word Challenge Update!

The answers to the first two Splitzers are:



1) LAGOEHERSG gorge, leash or shale


2) EMOSORTATM motor, steam or tames or mates



This week's puzzle is below:


PROVERB PROBLEM---Place these groups of letters in the correct order to read a well-known proverb.

THE ROW DER ABS HEA

FON ENC KES RTG EMA

Good Luck!
Sister Christine

Team Virtual Word Challenge: Splitzer!

From Team Captain Sister Christine Doerger!

Here is our first challenging word puzzle; it is called a splitzer, because the letters need to be split up into other words:

Make two five-letter words from the following splitzer.

LAGOEHERSG

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