AUGUST 2022

PUZZLES

FIND A WORD

LETTER JUGGLE

Try to spot the 15 phrases found in Cockney rhyming slang. Words run in a straight line, in any direction. (Bonus marks if you can say what each of the phrases is referring to!)

Move a letter from the left-hand word to the right-hand word to create two new words (so, “mince” and “path” become “mine” and “patch”) Pain Debt House Pond Flake Goat Feather Crate Plain Tramped Halve Boat Glaze Foods Minded Wading Beacon Vent Bloom Lit Pair a word on the left with one on the right to form the name of a popular song Blinding Queen Bad Thing Rocket City Brown Monkey Penny Romance My Sugar Dancing Man Dance Lane Wild Sharona Paradise Lights TWO-WORD SONGS

K J P G N W R K G S E D B O E E O S E Z M T K E K T V A X F N Y O I T W Z I G R A E G R E O M V H P E P U U M L R O B N L F D O S K T B U B P G F A O A E N F R R Y O B Y A E F R B M X K O R M E U N N N H R N D T Y P R U A R H D G I A U E N A B U R X Y E T C O H F I T A P B R V E Q O S B T C F T F G F A V N W A H F G X U M J A O Y Y R Q D U J I G I R B W I D N A E B D E K A B Z P W R R L B R A H M S A N D L I S Z T M D O N K E Y S E A R S F V X M

Butcher’s Hook Brahms and Liszt Frog and Toad

China Plate Pete Tong Baked Bean

Barney Rubble

Bag of Fruit

Pig’s Ear

Pat Malone Barnet Fair

Pork Pies

Donkey’s Ears Dog and Bone

Ruby Murray

THE RIDDLER

RULERS AND EMPIRES

Try to decipher these three rebuses – each one is a common phrase #1

Match the famous ruler with their empire Catherine the Great British Nero Holy Roman Empress Dowager Cixi Aztec Haile Selassie I Macedonian Charlemagne Roman Alexander the Great Mongol Victoria Qing Hatshepsut Russian Genghis Khan Ethiopian Moctezuma I Egyptian

#2 T M C A U O H S M W T E

HANY HAEY HAEY HADY HALY HAEY

#3 TTTTIIIIMMMMEEEE AB DE

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