Making great wordplay with lexagrams uses many types of language skills. Success involves more than having a large vocabulary – it helps to recognize letter patterns and to visualize how words interact. To help build these skills, take a look at his great puzzle quiz.
Each answer is a word or a familiar two-word phrase or name that starts and ends with the letter-Y. Example, It was founded by Kublai Khan: Yuan Dynasty.
- It’s located in New Haven, Connecticut.
- Beatles hit that was #1 for four weeks in 1965.
- On an annual basis.
- Fictional locale in William Faulkner novels.
- Coward, in slang.
- Naval petty officers, as a group.
- Sixties TV game show hosted by Tom Kennedy.
- It’s north of British Columbia.
- Biographical film about George M. Cohan.
- Russian poet Yevtushenko.
- Classic advertising slogan for Virginia Slims cigarettes.
- Phrase used in addressing a king or queen.
- Choice of vote, in the Senate.
- Delicious.
- Familiar complimentary close, on a letter.
Do your best and check the answers below. If you want more puzzles like this, then take a look at the book!
| Quoted from Will Shortz’s Mind Games: 100 Alphabet Riddles by Will Shortz. A long-time puzzlemaster for National Public Radio, Shortz has created many styles of word games. One of his more popular puzzles is the Alphabet Riddle where every answer is a familiar phrase having the same initials. |
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- Yale University
- “Yesterday”
- Yearly
- Yoknapatawpha County
- Yellowbelly
- Yeomanry
- You Don’t Say
- Yukon Territory
- Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Yevgeny
- “You’ve come a long way, baby”
- “Your majesty”
- Yea or nay
- Yummy
- Yours truly
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