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All New Fun for December

In the age of the Internet, an almost unlimited amount of information is available at our fingertips. But challenging ourselves with games or puzzles that require us to use our own brains involves active thinking and stimulates memory. Keeping the brain active is not only fun, it has been proven to foster positive and healthy aging. Use the answer buttons below to find out if you have solved the puzzles! If you would like us to let you know when new games are posted on our website, send us an email at [email protected] with “game update” in the subject line.

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Find Opposites

Come up with a word that means the opposite of the word provided. The first letter of each answer is supplied.

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Parallel Puzzlers

A relationship is described and you must find the missing word that will form a similar relationship. For example, the answer to “fingers are to snapping as hands are to…” is “clapping.”

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Ringo Starr is to the Beatles as Charlie Watts is to…

The Who

The Monkees

The Rolling Stones

U2

Rolling Stones

Shallow is to Deep as despair is to…

Ignorance

Hope

Anger

Emotion

Hope

Thomas Edison is to gramophone as Alexander Bell is to…

Television

Computer

Telephone

Typewriter

Telephone

Botany is related to study of plants as the study of animals is to…

Cardiology

Zoology

Geology

Biology

Zoology

Huckleberry Finn is to Mark Twain as Nicholas Nickleby is to…

Walt Whitman

Charles Dickens

Louisa May Alcott

Henry David Thoreau

Charles Dickens

The Seine is to the city of Paris, France, as The Thames is to…

Rome

Dublin

London

Melrose

London

Cut is to scissors as pound is to…

Hammer

Cake

Money

Strike

Hammer

Hazardous is to pothole as colorful is to…

Feast

Rainbow

Handsome

Picturesque

Rainbow

Words Within

A word is hidden in a sentence that is also a description of the answer. For example: The answer to “The monarch at Buckingham Palace” is “KING.” (The monarch at BucKINGham Palace.)

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MEOW – What a hoMEOWner hears if her cat is unhappy

ANKLE – A sometimes thANKLEss part of the leg

RAGE – Intense anger can lead to tRAGEdy

YES – Desired affirmative response when asked if my purple eYE Shadow looks okay

ASSET – A confession on a tape cASSETte is a thing of value in court

TUNA – A popular sandwich is made of this unforTUNAte fish

STING – A bee’s action that leaves a laSTING impression

IRON – A metal found in the envIRONment

Wacky Word Puzzles

Black bird

Holy cow!

Stepfather or stepdad

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