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Let’s Try Within-onyms!

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The heart of this blog is celebrating puzzles and wordplay in as many forms as possible, so for today’s blog, here’s a puzzle for you to solve!

I call this puzzle “Within-onyms” and the concept is simple. I’ll give you a combination of letters and blanks. Each blank represents a missing letter. The given letters spell out not only a word, but your clue as well. Because when you fill those blanks with the missing letters, you’ll spell out a larger word that’s a synonym of the given word.

For example, I give you this Within-onym:

G I _ A N T _ _

The given letters spell GIANT, but if you add a G, I, and C, you spell the word GIGANTIC, a synonym of GIANT!

Ready to try it for yourself? Careful, they get tougher as we go!

WITHIN-ONYMS

L A _ _ S T

_ _ N O _ _ B L E

_ _ T _ _ O M B

H _ _ _ I E S

M A _ _ _ L _ _ E

S P _ _ _ _ E D

_ _ S E _ _ E

U _ _ _ G _ _ L Y

_ _ H E _ I _ _ R

_ _ _ T A _ I N _ T _

_ R _ _ _ _ _ _ A _ I _ N

B _ _ _ _ I _ G _ _ _ _ _ _

Happy puzzling!

How many did you get? Let me know in the comment section below!

A Punny Costume Mashup Challenge for Halloween!

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Happy Halloween, puzzlers!

One of the best things about Halloween is guessing what people’s costumes are. Clever costumes can be great fun, and I’m a huge fan of costumes that combine humor and design because they really let your creativity shine through.

Mashup costumes offer ample opportunity to show off (and often require some fun wordplay to figure out), so it’s only appropriate that we celebrate Halloween in the puzzliest way possible — by looking at some punny mashup costumes!

I’ve compiled ten costumes for you to figure out. Let’s see how many you can get!

#1

Image courtesy of TDR1411 on reddit.

#2

Image courtesy of EvolvedLurkermon on reddit.

#3

Image courtesy of Epbot.

#4

Image courtesy of pnuttbuttafly on reddit.

#5

Image courtesy of Maude Garrett.

#6

Images courtesy of lithiumflame on reddit.

#7

Image courtesy of reddit.

#8

Image courtesy of EvolvedLurkermon on reddit.

#9

Image courtesy of amandabomb on reddit.

#10

Image courtesy of Zacch on reddit.

How many did you get? Have you seen any great mashup costumes I missed? Let me know in the comments section below. I’d love to hear from you. And Happy Halloween!