1. The same change can be made to each word below to produce a new word. Can you determine what it is?

MANATEE

WINDLESS

KISS

LEAF

OUGHT

CORES

2. The same three letters, but not in the same order, will fill the blanks below to form complete words.

_ _ _

S _ _ _

_ _ C _ L

_ _ _ OT

_ _ L _ AT

HINTS:

1. The first letter of the first word is E.

2)

Hint #1: One of the letters is F.

Hint #2: Another letter is A.

Answers:

1. Move the last letter of each word and make it the first letter.

EMANATE/SWINDLES/SKIS/FLEA/TOUGH/SCORE

2. The letters are OAF:

OAF/SOFA/FOCAL/AFOOT/AFLOAT