ODDS AND ENDS

1. The words worth, mouth, fast and zest have something in common with four other words. What are the other words and what do they have in common?

2. Two large cities, one American and the other Canadian, share the same property: The first two letters of their names are the same as the last two letters. What are the cities?

3. What is unusual about the names South Dakota and its capital Pierre?

4. Two animals, one very large and one very small, have five-letter names that differ by a single letter. What are they?

5. Put the same three-letter word on the blanks to make a nine-letter word.

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HINT to #5:

First letter of the missing word: M

Answers:

1. They differ only by their initial letters from the words north, south, east, west.

2. MIAMI - TORONTO

3. They share no common letters.

4. MOOSE - MOUSE

5. AMENDMENT

Credit:

Colossal Book of Word Play

Martin Gardner

(4,5: Will Shortz)