Challenging Puzzles

While the puzzles present challenges, they intend to encourage your mind to solve problems. When your mind learns to solve problems, you will find life is more manageable. Rather than running from problems, you will learn to take life’s challenges with welcoming arms head-on.

How challenging puzzles open the mind:

Can you turn the word Navy into Army? Start by changing one letter at a time. 

Navy – Nave – Name – Same – Came – Rave – Rams – Rim – Maim – Arm – Army 

You can come up with your own words to complete the puzzle. There is no right or wrong, so try to develop your ideas. Now try to solve the Terse Verse puzzle below.

He ran to the beach 

Look at the puzzle, find “he ran to the beach,” and then continue to find the rhyme that completes the puzzle. Think about a rhyme that best fits the puzzle. Once you find the rhyming parts, next, create a new vocabulary from the puzzle, pick out as many words as you can and then write a new sentence once you find the rhyming parts. The sentence does not have to rhyme. 

Hi – he – of – give – am – me – so – wet – go – tot – speech – to – rap – beck – beach – oar – bee –we – my – pare – skirt – at – par – came – hum – ran – he – woe -

Answer: 

To give a speech

As you can see, you can continue to find words in the puzzle to make a new sentence. Use the word list above and create a new sentence or find your own words and create a sentence from the list. 

Other types of puzzles help you build vocabulary. As you build your vocabulary, you will improve your IQ and memory. The puzzles are fun to solve, yet some are more challenging. We can do one more, so you get the point. 

Puzzle 

With this puzzle, you will see a list of scrambled words below. Try to pick from the words that do not fit in the list. 

ANDCY CLESRA UGSRA COCOHTELE YENHO IPE – TEESW

Take your time to review the scrambled words and attempt to solve the puzzle. Unfortunately, one of the words does not fit in the puzzle, which you will need to unscramble to see why it does not fit. Once you solve the puzzle, use the list of words and create new words to build your vocabulary. 

Answer: 

Candy – rascal – sugar – chocolate – honey – pie – sweet 

Candy - Andy – can – Dan – and – an –

Rascal – as – cal – scar – 

Sugar – rag – as – 

Chocolate – late – locate – at – eat – lat – loco – ate – coal – ho – hot – hat – 

Honey – on – no – Hon – 

Pie – pi – 

Sweet – set – wet – stew – sew – 

As you can see, some words are harder to find more than a word or two. It doesn’t matter since you build your vocabulary and learn how one word can turn into many words. Continue and see if you can get more words from each word listed.