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 two-part phrase or name in which each part contains the letter pattern LL. Example: City in southeast Washington: Walla Walla.
- Legendary Swiss archer.
- What people answer “Here!” for.
- Jazz great Morton.
- Slang term for a coward.
- Olympic sport with six players on a side.
- Waste time.
- Resentment.
- Outside the bounds of law.
- Host of the old The Price is Right, The $10,000 Pyramid, and other game shows.
- Cigarette once advertised with the slogan “I’m particular.”
- Boring place, in ’50s slang.
- Broadway musical (1964-65) starring Carol Channing.
- Fill in the blank: October 31st is ___ Eve.
- Very revealing, as an unauthorized biography.
- Operator-assisted telephoning (when the charges are paid by the recipient).
- Grammy-winning pop group caught lip-synching their songs.
- Civil War battle site (1863) in Virginia.
- Popular political survey.
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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- William Tell
- Roll call
- Jelly Roll
- Yellowbelly
- Volleyball
- Dillydally (or shilly-shally)
- Ill will
- Illegally
- Bill Cullen
- Pall Mall
- Dullsville
- Hello, Dolly!
- All Hallows
- Tell-all
- Collect call
- Milli Vanilli
- Chancellorsville
- Gallup poll
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