Can You Solve These Word Puzzles?

Your average palindrome has to be read forward and backward to fit the definition of the word. The word "swims" is only a palindrome when you flip it upside down though. Thanks to M looking like W, it becomes a palindrome.

If your father is my father's son then you are my child and I am your father. My father is the father of your father, so I don't need to have any brothers or sisters at all to make us a family still. No idea where mom is in this equation, though.

This little puzzle means "mother in law." If you take the word "mom" out of the center of the letter jumble, you have "court" leftover. Mom means mother and the courthouse is a place of law. Hence, mother in law.

Joe has 15 Danish and pretending his donuts are Danish doesn't really make a difference in the grand scheme of things. Assumptions aren't facts, after all, so he has five donuts, 10 muffins, and 15 Danish. Joe has a lot to eat.

"I am lying" is a paradoxical statement that can neither be true nor false. If you're being honest you cannot honestly say you're lying. If you're lying, you can't admit to it in an honest statement. Thanks to the vagaries of language, you can say it and have no meaning behind it.

This one has a twist to it. The word "noon" fits the bill but it has to be "NOON" in all caps. It's an obvious palindrome like "peep" and "bib" and it also is the same upside down like "swims" but it's the only one that covers all the bases.

Wordplay is the crafty reason for the answer in this one. Tom hasn't slept in 12 days because Tom is sleeping at night, not during the day. All things being equal, it's not healthy to skip sleep for very long.

If you break down the word "dissolve," you have everyone's favorite slang term for disrespect which is "diss" and of course "solve" is what you're trying to do when you need to figure out the answer to something.

If you have a large quantity of dimes in your possession then you clearly have a lot of change. If the dimes turn into nickles then they just underwent a change of form. Change is a versatile word like that!

When it comes to garden-based wordplay the only plant that's keeping your hands warm while also showing off a fluffy tail is the foxglove! Foxes are known for their puffy tails and a glove, of course, is used for warming hands.

While it sounds like the butcher is a big guy, the only thing you know for sure that he weighs is meat. He is a butcher, after all, and that is a big part of what his job entails if he's doing it correctly.

Generally speaking, most people spell the word "incorrectly" incorrectly because that's the proper way to spell it. They even spelled it incorrectly in the dictionary. Of course, some people might spell it the wrong way, too.

An idiom is a saying that has an understood meaning apart from the explicit meanings of the words in it, kind of like a metaphor. In this case, we're using "a bird in hand" from the idiom "a bird in hand is worth two in the bush" which means it's better to have one sure thing than multiple maybes. The actual words "a bird" are in the middle of the word "hand."

No matter what you believe about the story of Noah's Ark, the answer to this question is a solid none since we asked about Joseph's ark and, as far as we know, no one named Joseph ever had an ark full of animals.

This riddle is all in your head, which is to say it's about your teeth. Your baby teeth are meant to be lost and then your adult teeth come in. If you lose one of those, the only way to replace it is with a fake tooth of some kind.

There are a lot of factors to consider when it comes to building one of those sandbag walls in a flood situation, and how fast the river is rising is just one of them. That said, regardless of how many bags it takes to make the wall, only one bag, the very last one, is needed to complete it, which is what we asked.

It was back in 1891 when Canadian physical education teacher and physician James Naismith created the sport of basketball. When he came up with it, the baskets were literal peach baskets and the hole in the bottom was so small a broom had to be used to poke the ball back up and out.

You can enjoy any lunch meat any time but if you want to enjoy one periodically, as in the Periodic Table of Elements, then you're likely reaching for the Spam. Spam = (S)ulfur, (P)hosphorus, (Am)ericium based on the abbreviations on the Periodic Table.

The letter H is the answer to this one. It's in the word "shadow," but if you add it to "sun" you get "shun." It's at the end of the word "stomach" and it's also the beginning of the word "heart." It all fits together quite nicely.

In this example we're mixing a classic novel and a popular Canadian TV show. "The Scarlet Letter" was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne back in the year 1850. "Letterkenny" is a Canadian sitcom that's been in production since 2016.

It's Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man himself who fits this anagram. If you rearrange the letters in the word "Spider-Man" you get DNA Primes. You can also get "damp resin," "name drips" and "mend Paris."

This tricky bit of wordplay is about choices. If you have three choices then you can choose between three different options. Likewise, two choices mean you have two options. But if you can only make one choice then you really don't have a choice, since it's the only option.

Neither of these options is going to be the correct thing to say and it has nothing at all to do with your understanding of grammar. The statements are not factually correct. Egg yolk is not white, it's yellow.

The answer to this little word trick is cow because, if you spell cow out phonetically you get "see oh double you." That combination has 14 letters in it, making it somewhat less efficient if you're spelling in a time crunch.

This is 100% a bit of a trick question but the answer is obvious when you think of it, right? The side of a house that gets the most sun will always be the outside, because that's where the sun is located.

You need to wear long johns when it's cold outside but if you want to make it long on the page then you can pull out the letters to mmmmaaaaakkkeee iiiitttt rrreeeaaallllllyyyy lllooonnngggg.

Getting off the Titanic after the lifeboats are gone would be no easy task unless you choose to just stop imagining that you're on the Titanic since we started with the premise that this was all in your imagination.

Today is ahead of yesterday in the dictionary, the afternoon is well before the morning and always definitely comes before forever when you're following the standard English method of keeping words in alphabetical order

Our little code here means "adding insult to injury" since the word "insult" is broken down, letter by letter, and interwoven with the letters of the word "injury" to complete the word equation for the idiom.

The letters we're missing from the sequence we've listed here are JMMASN. Why? They stand for January, March, May, August, September and November. The sequence is just the months of the year with six of them missing.

In this example the linking word is "trunk." The base of a tree where it grows out of the ground is called a tree trunk, while the rear of a car in which you store things is known, in North America anyway, as the trunk.

A Chihuahua is a specific kind of dog just like horror is a specific kind of movie, so that's how the analogy works here. These questions used to be all over SAT tests but several years back they were dropped because it was deemed both irrelevant and biased to ask analogy questions that might be based on vocabulary a student would have no reasonable knowledge of.

When you have 12 inches in front of the word "other" you have one foot in front of the other, which is a reasonable way to go for a walk or sing the song "One Foot In Front of the Other" by '80s band Bone Symphony.

An hourglass likely has the most moving parts of any timepiece thanks to the thousands of grains of sand that have to fall from the top of the glass to the bottom when you turn it over. Even the most complex watch can't compete.

That's the word water and it has some gaps in it or, put another way, it's full of holes. So that's effectively holy water. In the Catholic faith, you're not supposed to put holy water down regular drains, incidentally.