FAMILY TIES XLI

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

May 1, 2025

 

Each group below contains four unrelated words. Without re-arranging the letters, change one letter in each of the words in each of the groups to get four related words.

 

1. Chain.....Heat.....Spool......Beach

2. Stitch.....Teal.....Rattle.....Reseal 

3. Boot.....Slip.....Ask.....Canon

4. Rise.....Lilt.....Patsy.....Ires 

5. Cool.....Word.....Til.....Gap

6. Squire.....Oral.....Cure.....Cane

7 Ashen.....Pink.....Birth......Salsa  

8. Swap.....Pinch.....Pleasant.....Deck 

 

Answers:

 

1. Chair, Seat, Stool, Bench

2. Snitch, Tell, Tattle, Reveal

3. Boat, Ship, Ark, Canoe

4. Rose, Lily, Pansy, Iris

5. Coal, Wood, Oil, Gas

6. Square, Oval, Cube, Cone

7. Aspen, Pine, Birch, Balsa

8. Swan, Finch, Pheasant, Duck