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Candy Sampler
There’s a wide variety of candy in this box. Each piece contains a word, and each word (except for one) is the answer to one of the questions listed below. Answer each question, and cross off its answer—the last word remaining is the one you need.
1. Which word becomes a kind of sea creature when you take the last three letters and move them into the middle of the word?
2. Which word becomes a new word if you change the last letter to the next letter in the alphabet?
3. Which word becomes a new word when you put the letters FI at the start?
4. Which word becomes a new word when you put the letters ICY somewhere inside it?
5. Which word becomes a new word when you tack a Z at the end?
6. Which word becomes a part of the body if you move the first letter into the third position?
7. Which word becomes an animal when you put a W at the front?
8. Which word becomes a color if you add a letter to the front and the back?
9. Which word becomes a country if you add an A and scramble all the letters?
10. Which word becomes the name of a planet if you scramble its letters?
11. Which word is hiding a musical instrument backward inside it?
Chocolate-Chip Cookie
Instead of chocolate chips, this cookie is packed with letters. Before the cookie fell and broke into pieces, the letters spelled out all the months in the year but one. Can you figure out which month is missing?
Make Your Own Sundae
Now you have five words, one from each of the previous puzzles. Carefully follow the directions below, and if you do your job right, I’ll give you something really sweet.
1. Alphabetize the words and number them 1 to 5.
2. Write the words out, all in a row, in this order: 2nd, 3rd, 1st, and 5th.
3. Oh wait. I forgot to tell you: The 1st word in that row of words should be spelled backward.
4. Remove the last letter. In fact, remove this letter wherever it appears.
5. Double the 12th letter.
6. Remember the 4th word? We haven’t used that yet. Delete all these letters, as many times as each appears, in your letter string.
7. Switch the 1st and 2nd letters. Switch the 8th and 9th letters. Switch the 11th and 12th letters.
8. Cross off every other letter, starting with the 2nd letter. Read what remains!
CARE FOR SOME DESSERT?
Answers
Apple Pie
Captain Hook, for one, is a PIRATE.
Fruit Plate
The remaining letters spell out
COLDEST SEASON, a clue for
the word WINTER.
Jelly Roll
Inward answers:
SPACECRAFT / RAP /
ADAM / OGRE / DICE /
RAW / ABUSE / ELF
Outward answers:
FLEE / SUB / AWARE /
CIDER / GO MAD /
APART / FARCE / CAPS
 
The circled letters spell out the word SPIRAL.
Candy Sampler
1. STRAYING (STINGRAY)
2. HIDEOUS (HIDEOUT)
3. REPLACE (FIREPLACE)
4. UNCLE (UNICYCLE)
5. QUART (QUARTZ)
6. BELOW (ELBOW)
7. EASEL (WEASEL)
8. AGENT (MAGENTA)
9. INCH (CHINA)
10. HEART (EARTH)
11. EGGNOG (GONG)
The unused word is TIN.
Chocolate-Chip Cookie
The missing month is AUGUST.
Make Your Own Sundae
After Step 3, your word list should look like this:
ETARIPSPIRALAUGUSTWINTER
Step 4:
ETAIPSPIALAUGUSTWINTE
Step 5:
ETAIPSPIALAUUGUSTWINTE
Step 6:
EAPSPALAUUGUSWE
Step 7:
AEPSPALUAUUGSWE
Step 8:
APPLAUSE
ANSWERS
Page 2
BRAT
RACE
ACES
TEST
CODE
OVEN
DEED
ENDS
PASTA
ASHES
SHARK
TERSE
ASKED
Page 14
One jockey and one horse together have six legs, so 108 legs would mean there were eighteen horses in the race.
Page 23
Cros
sword
puzzles.
Page 27
WISECRACK
ASTRONAUT
CHOCOLATE
PARAKEETS
QUALIFIED
TRADEMARK
Reading down the fifth and eighth columns reveals the phrase
COOKIE CUTTER.
Page 32
PLATE, PASTEL, STAPLER, PLANTERS
Page 37
All these words are the names of colors with the first letter removed: EBONY, PEACH, PINK, BLACK, OLIVE, GOLD, GRAY, and ORANGE.
Page 41
STRESSED and DESSERTS are the longest words that spell another word backward.
Page 56
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