Unwrap The Phrase To Reveal A Gift
On-Air Challenge: Identify a gift for a child spelled by consecutive letters in familiar two-word phrases. For example, if given "tomato paste," the answer would be "top."
Last Week's Challenge: Take the word "at." Put a man's first name on each side of it, and say the word out loud. Phonetically, you'll get a word that describes a growing part of our country.
Answer: Put "Jerry," "at," and "Rick" together, and phonetically, you get "geriatric."
Winner: Ginny Walters from Shelburne, Vt.
Next Week's Challenge from listener Mike Reiss: Name an occupation in nine letters. It's an entertainer of sorts — an unusual and uncommon but well-known sort of entertainer. Drop the third letter of the name, and read the result backward. You'll get two four-letter words that are exact opposites. What are they?
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