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10 Classic Word Puzzles To Challenge Your Verbal Brain by coolbreezy01: 10:08pm On Feb 25, 2017 |
The variety of word puzzles, many datingback to antiquity, is truly mind-boggling—riddles, anagrams, acrostics, and so on and so forth. Puzzles based on language are truly universal, revealing how the “verbal imagination” works. As a species, we have been dubbed Homo sapiens—the sapient species. But we are as muchHomo ludens(the game-player), as cultural theorist Johan Huizinga characterized our species in 1938. Indeed, Huizinga’s argument is that game-playing is a basic characteristic of sapience and essential to human civilization. It is hard to argue against such a theory, given the invention of so many genres of puzzles throughout human history. Word puzzles in particular have constituted a vast repertoire of mental game-playing activities since the Riddle of the Sphinx—possibly the first documented language puzzle. In this post, I present 10 “Change-A-Letter” word puzzles, a genre that has been presented under different names at different times in other puzzle collections. In my view, these challenges bring out a fascinating aspect of the verbal brain—its need to connect form and meaning. While this topic is an ancient philosophical one, it is my view that a simple puzzle genre can reveal as much, if not more, than a sophisticated theoretical disquisition. Let’s do a model puzzle together: Change one letter in a five-letter word that means “frighten” to get a word that means “gaze” or “gape.” (Note that you are not provided the initial word.) The solution? Change the C in SCARE (“frighten”) to T to get STARE (“gaze” or “gape”). That’s all there is to it. As in previous posts, you might come up with different answers to the ones I have provided. These types of puzzles tend to be open-ended rather than closed, in contrast, for example, to a Sudoku puzzle that has only one solution. I would loveto hear from you if you come up with different answers. Try it out let's see who is smart here. Have fun! 1. Change one letter in a four-letter word that refers to a “small round mark or stain” to get a colloquial word for “saliva.” 2. Change one letter in a five-letter word that means “to move something from one place to another” to get a word that refers to a delicious dish cooked in “an Indian-style spicy sauce.” 3. Change one letter in a six-letter word meaning “excessive self-adulation” to get a word that means “sound mental health.” 4. Change one letter in a five-letter word referring to a “hand tool” to get a word meaning “oddly amusing.” 5. Change one letter in a five-letter word meaning “supporting structure” to get a word meaning “blaze.” 6. Change one letter in a seven-letter word referring to an “adult male domestic fowl” to get a word meaning “supporter.” 7. Change one letter in a five-letter word meaning “commence” to get a word meaning “bright, clever.” 8. Change one letter in a four-letter word referring to a color to get a word referring to a musical genre. 9. Change one letter in a four-letter word meaning “succor” to get a word meaning “cry sharply.” 10. Change one letter in a five-letter word meaning “chubby” to get a word meaning “feather.” Olawalebabs Richiez Fynestboi Lalasticlala Seun Source:https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-workout/201702/10-classic-word-puzzles-challenge-your-verbal-brain?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C8916969151
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