Brain Teasers

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Spell Check – Movie Stars

Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters

Who can’t live without Spell Check in their email or word software? It’s a great tool…
Unless you are poor Paula Abdul who transforms into “Pail Abut” when the Spell Checker has at her.
The following TV and Movie Celebrities have been Spell Checked and are ready for you to uncover their true identities.

1. Court Coax
2. Action Cutter
3. Kite Wingless
4. Summon Cowbell
5. Mercy Stripe
6. Deli Moose
7. Camera Dies
8. Renew Sewage

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Hint

1. Rachel’s friend
2. See #6
3. Titanic star
4. Paula’s costar
5. Mrs. Kramer then and Aunt Josephine now
6. Paired with #2
7. There’s something about her
8. Bridget Jones

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Solution

1. Courtney Cox
2. Ashton Kutcher
3. Kate Winslet
4. Simon Cowell
5. Meryl Streep
6. Demi Moore
7. Cameron Diaz
8. Renee Zellweger

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Spazy Croonerisms 4

Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters

A spoonerism is a pair of words that can have their initial sounds switched to form new words. The pairs need only sound the same, not necessarily be spelled the same (power saw & sour paw, horse cart & coarse heart). There may sometimes be one or two connecting words (kick the stone & stick the cone, king of the rats & ring of the cats). Given the following definitions, what are the spoonerisms?

1) overweight dam builder & symptom of a sick flying mammal
2) bottom of the ocean & an insect-bitten dog has this
3) a cooking utensil & a nosy admirer
4) the person in charge of clocks and watches & the result of exposing silent actors to the sun

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Solution

1) fat beaver & bat fever
2) sea floor & flea sore
3) frying pan & prying fan
4) man of the times & tan of the mimes

Low Fat Recipes

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A New Type of Word Pyramid

Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters

In this word pyramid you have to take the letters from the word pea and put them around the ‘h’ to form a new word. Once you have the next word, do the same with the next line.

pea
h _ _ _
s _ _ _ _
_ _ r _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ n
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ l

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Solution

Pea
Heap
Shape
Phrase/seraph
Sharpen
Shrapnel

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Research Team

What do these sentences translate to?

“A research team proceeded towards the apex of a natural geologic protuberance, the purpose of their expedition being the procurement of a sample of fluid hydride of oxygen in a large vessel, the exact size of which was unspecified. One member of the team precipitously descended, sustaining severe damage to the upper cranial portion of his anatomical structure; subsequently the second member of the team performed a self rotational translation oriented in the same direction taken by the first team member.”

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Hint

It’s a common nursery rhyme.

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Solution

Jack and Jill went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown
and Jill came tumbling after

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What Am I?

Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.

1-2-3-4-5-6

I am a 6 letter word.
Letters 6-5-2 spell out a drink.
Letters 4-5-2-3 spell out a fruit.
Letters 1-2-6 spell out a pet.
Letters 3-2-6 spell out a pest, which often gets eaten by 1-2-6.

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Solution

CARPET.
6-5-2: tea
4-5-2-3: pear
1-2-6: cat
3-2-6: rat

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Letter Multiplication

If E times ILE equals BANISH, and TE times T equals BOOK, what does TO times IN equal?

A. BREATH
B. TEASER
C. RUTABAGA
D. POISON
E. COPPER

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Hint

No math is needed.

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Solution

POISON

Replace every instance of the word “times” with an ‘X’.

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Animated Signatures – Animated Names

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Word Play

Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters

What do the following words have in common?

Assess
Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Voodoo

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Hint

It is more than having letters repeated in each one…

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Solution

If you take the first letter and move it to the rear of the word, you get the same word when read backwards.

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