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Sunday

This Puzzle Is A Blast!

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This Puzzle Is A Blast!

This week we're playing a game based on the word "blast." Given a category, name something in the category starting with each letter: B-L-A-S-T.

This Puzzle Is A Blast!

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Tuesday

4 Comic Albums And Audiobooks To Lighten Up Your Holiday Road Trip
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4 Comic Albums And Audiobooks To Lighten Up Your Holiday Road Trip

Let Amy Poehler, Jeff Kinney, Jim Gaffigan and Hannibal Buress help you laugh away the tension while you're stuck in holiday traffic.

4 Comic Albums And Audiobooks To Lighten Up Your Holiday Road Trip

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Monday

Sunday

Making A Change To Keep A Constant Consonant

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Making A Change To Keep A Constant Consonant

Given two words, change the first consonant sound in each word to the same new consonant sound and you'll phonetically name two things in the same category.

Making A Change To Keep A Constant Consonant

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Saturday

Not My Job: We Ask 'Real Housewives' Producer Andy Cohen About House Flies
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Not My Job: We Ask 'Real Housewives' Producer Andy Cohen About House Flies

Andy Cohen is host of Watch What Happens Live and also the Bravo producer responsible for the Real Housewives franchise. He'll play a game called "Bzzz ... bzzz ... bzzz."

Not My Job: We Ask 'Real Housewives' Producer Andy Cohen About House Flies

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Monday

Sunday

Don't Get Dizzy While You're Busy

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Don't Get Dizzy While You're Busy

Every answer today is a rhyming two-word phrase in which each word has two syllables and the first word ends with a doubled consonant plus the letter Y.

Don't Get Dizzy While You're Busy

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Saturday

Not My Job: Ron Perlman, Who Played The Beast, Gets Quizzed On Beauty
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Not My Job: Ron Perlman, Who Played The Beast, Gets Quizzed On Beauty

Actor Ron Perlman, the Beast in the TV show Beauty and the Beast, has also appeared in several other movie roles where we couldn't really see his face. So why not quiz him on fashion models?

Not My Job: Ron Perlman, Who Played The Beast, Gets Quizzed On Beauty

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Thursday

Ask Me Another

Answers So Nice, They Named Them Twice

They call New York, New York, "the city so nice, they named it twice," and that's the theme for this game. All answers will be phrases that feature repeated words or names.

Answers So Nice, They Named Them Twice

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Ask Me Another

Fictional Illnesses

R2-D2-berculosis? In this game, we've mashed up the names of fictional comic, sci-fi and fantasy characters with medical diseases or conditions. Welcome to the hypochondriac's Comic Con.

Fictional Illnesses

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Something Borrowed

Karaoke. Guru. Opera. This game features "loanwords," English words that have been "borrowed" from other languages. Can you guess the loanword from its language of origin and the English translation?

Something Borrowed

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One Letter Away From Fame

Take a single letter away from a celebrity's name and he's transformed. If the star of World War Z lost a letter in his first name, he becomes a piece of lingerie: "Bra Pitt."

One Letter Away From Fame

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Heroic Tunes

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's house musician Jonathan Coulton, performing Five For Fighting's soft-rock classic "Superman (It's Not Easy)" with rewritten lyrics about famous comic book heroes!

Heroic Tunes

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Neil, Gamin': The Author Is Quizzed On Gilbert & Sullivan

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Neil, Gamin': The Author Is Quizzed On Gilbert & Sullivan

When he was nine years old, Neil Gaiman won a newspaper contest about Gilbert & Sullivan. See how much he remembers about the duo's 19th century operettas...and whether he can sing his answers.

Neil, Gamin': The Author Is Quizzed On Gilbert & Sullivan

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