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 two-syllable word or phrase in which each syllable ends in the letter-K. Example: Illegal payment: Kickback.
- Card game also called twenty-one.
- Where to find recipes.
- Eskimo boot.
- Style of proceeding with the legs apart and feet pointed outwards.
- Something a hiker carries.
- Tchotchke.
- It helps you keep your place when reading.
- Kind of joke.
- Approval for an unlimited expenditure.
- Chicago suburb famous for its Frank Lloyd Wright designed homes.
- Style of music pioneered by the Ramones.
- Absolute regularity or precision.
- Dangerous, as speed.
- Important time for college fraternities and sororities.
- Howard Stern, for one.
- Classic host of TV’s American Bandstand.
- Safecracker.
- Research institute involved in planning or problem solving.
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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- Blackjack
- Cookbook
- Mukluk
- Duckwalk
- Backpack (or rucksack)
- Knickknack
- Bookmark
- Knock-knock
- Blank check
- Oak Park
- Punk rock
- Clockwork
- Breakneck
- Greek Week
- Shock jock
- Dick Clark
- Picklock
- Think tank
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