I am a word of letters six,

“Pertaining to the mind;”

Rearrange my letters, and I’ll “grieve,”

Because you are unkind;

I am made up of 9 letters.

My 3,4,5 is a body part.

My 3,4,7,8 is to jump.

My 1,2,7 is a beverage.

My 5,6,7,8,2 is a red fruit.

Hi everyone. I’m doing a guest post with a new word-beheading riddle I wrote. Unlike the last one there is no clue for the starting word.

Who am I?

Behead me and I will tell the story.

Wow, this fun word puzzle game packs a bunch of challenges that are somewhat reminiscent of cryptograms, but the method of solving is really quite different and something I haven’t seen before.  To reconstruct a quote, you must swap the tiles until you get every original word. The tiles can be swapped

As a whole, I am single, ’tis true;

Behead me, I am single too.

Behead again, I’m ‘not equal to’.

I am made up of 7 letters and my whole is a plant.

My 1,2 is a preposition.

My 5,4,3 is vehicle hailed.

My 3,2,7,1 is worn on foot

Several days ago one of our readers emailed us, asking for some help with an apparently difficult word puzzle. The challenge basically uses a faux word

Fill in the blanks with the words in italics, transposed.

1. Pray, Simon, that I  may be cured of ______.

2. A certain ______ used green soap.

3.

My 1st is an abbreviated term, French, for addressing a man;

My 2nd comes from one end of a dog, runs up a tree, and floats on the sea;

Can you find the four animals in the sentence below?

There is something unique about this sentence- other than being really hard to understand!.

Can you figure it out?

• Take away my last 7 letters, and I’m a useful article held in the hand
• Without my first 3 and last 4 (letters),  I am the noblest animal

Created by Mashplum!

Supply missing letters, and find a common proverb:

a-i-d-n-h-h-n-i-w-r-h-w-i-t-e-u-h.

I am composed of 7 letters:

My 1,2,7 means through.

My 3,4,5,7 gives a favorable expression in the face.

My 5,2,3,1,4 is in heaven.

My 4,5,6,7 is the earth.

In how few moves can you transform LION to LAMB?

Be sure to change only 1 letter at a time. Each change must always spell correct dictionary words.

Submit your answer below in comment section, and we’ll show it, along with others, in 2 days.

After many, many months of trying to get something like this done for smartkit, think we’re finally ready to go. A multiplayer word puzzle game in which you can finally meet up with and play other visitors in real time.

Tom Lion is a puzzle writer from Australia whose works regularly feature in puzzle magazines in Australia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. He also maintains the puzzle blog, Gridless- www.gridlesscrosswords.blogspot.com

The blanks should be filled in with words spelled with the same 7 letters:

No ____ to glory, he ____ the blows

Of the ____ that threaten his life;

Fill in the empty slots with a word ending in ice.

Over the past 2 years, we’ve put up a number of fun flash/java based games. Here’s our first word puzzle challenge

Mentally rotate the rings so that when they are all properly aligned, four 5-letter words appear.

Note: words are read from outer to inner ring.

Can you figure out the 15 edibles from the hints below? (you don’t need the picture to solve; it’s mainly a word puzzle).

1. An iron utensil and eight ciphers