IN THE BEGINNING
GAMES/World of Puzzles
February, 2020
Raymond Love

Each of the 25 words below can be changed into a different common word by adding a letter at the beginning. Some letters may fit at the beginning of more than one word, but there is only one arrangement that will use 25 different letters of the alphabet. The Q is not used. Can you determine what letter goes at the beginning of each word?

__ ANGUISH          __ ONE
__ ARMFUL           __ OUNCE
__ ARROW             __ OURSELF
__ ASCOT               __ OUST
__ DEAL                 __ RANGE
__ EIGHT                __ RAY
__ ELAPSE             __ RIGID
__ HAIR                  __ RIVER
__ IRATE                __ ROOM
__ ISSUE                __ SAGE
__ LOVE                 __ VENUE
__ MOTION            __ WORD
__ NIGHT

Answers:

LANGUISH             ZONE
HARMFUL              BOUNCE
NARROW                YOURSELF
MASCOT                 JOUST
IDEAL                      ORANGE
WEIGHT                  XRAY
RELAPSE                 FRIGID
CHAIR                      DRIVER
PIRATE                    VROOM
TISSUE                     USAGE
GLOVE                     AVENUE
EMOTION                SWORD
KNIGHT 

NOTE from JA: A variation of this puzzle that would be much more challenging would be to list the 25 initial letters and try to think of a word that could follow each of them.