GARDEN VARIETY

Credit: GAMES Magazine
November, 1988

N.M. Meyer

1. What do the following words have in common?

DOGFIGHT
UNSPEAKABLE
INUNDATE
CORNERSTONE
SPEARMINT
MILLIMETER
IMPEACHMENT
PLUMMET
BOOKRACK

WORDS TO THE WISE

Credit: GAMES Magazine - May, 1988

Robert Gray

2. All of the following words share an interesting property. Can you determine what they have in common?

AWL

EAST

EARLY

AWNING

EARNING

OURSELVES

HINTS:

1. Each word contains a hidden word, and all nine hidden words are related.
2. Adding the same letter in the same place will change each word into a new one.

Answers:

1. Hidden in each word is a common fruit or vegetable, the letters in uninterrupted order: FIG, PEA, DATE, CORN, PEAR, LIME, PEACH, PLUM, OKRA

2. Adding a Y to the beginning of each word creates new words.