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 familiar two-word phrase in which the letter pattern EE appears in both halves. Example: Extended period of extreme cold: Deep Freeze.
- What the moon is said to made of.
- Right guaranteed by the First Amendment.
- Head of a hive.
- Equivalent of one yard.
- Noted thoroughfare for London newspapers.
- Something excellent, in 1920s slang.
- Initials are often carved in its bark.
- Active time for fraternities and sororities.
- Reaching mid-leg, as mud (hyph.).
- America’s Junior Miss, e.g.
- What golfers pay to play
- Shropshire or merino, e.g.
- Musical group that sang the soundtrack for Saturday Night Fever.
- Dodger Hall-of-Famer known as the “Little Colonel” (3 words).
- What one little pig cried all the way home (3 words).
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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- Green cheese
- Free speech
- Queen bee
- Three feet
- Fleet Street
- Bee’s knees
- Beech tree
- Greek Week
- Knee-deep
- Teen queen
- Greens fee
- Sheep breed
- Bee Gees
- Pee Wee Reese
- “Wee wee wee”
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