SECRET AGENDAS I
Credit: GAMES Magazine
October, 2000
Stephen Sniderman

1. What do the following animal names have in common?

CROW
HERON
LEMUR
RABBIT
BEAVER

MAMMOTH 

CHAMELEON

2. Each of the following words can be changed in the same way to form new words. Can you determine the change?

MUSLIM
DYNASTY
LIFELINE
FIREPLACE
FOREIGN
SAUSAGE
DUCHESS
SATURN

3. What do the following words have in common?

MANE
ROAM
MOLLY
NIECE
LOUSE
WAILS
GNOME
SOLE

Answers:

1. Each animal name conceals the name of another animal. The hidden letters are in order, though not consecutive (with one exception).

CROW - COW
HERON - ERN
LEMUR - EMU
RABBIT - RAT
BEAVER - BEAR
MAMMOTH - MOTH
CHAMELEON - CAMEL

2. Dropping the first two letters of each clue leaves a new word:

muSLIM
dyNASTY
liFELINE
fiREPLACE
foREIGN
saUSAGE
duCHESS
saTURN

3. Each word is a homophone for a city or country:

MANE - Maine
ROAM - Rome
MOLLY - Mali
NIECE - Nice
LOUSE - Laos
WAILS - Wales
GNOME - Nome
SOLE - Seoul