On-air challenge: Change one letter in each word to name something to eat.
Ex. STEAL --> STEAK
1. fracture
2. BUDGE
3. ROUST
4. BARON
5. FILED
6. DUMBO
7. LIVEN
8. PRUDE
9. PASTY
10. CHILD
11. BUTLER
12. TICKLE
13. BOOKIE
14. POODLE
15. CLEESE
16. BUTTON
17. RAN OUT
18. DELISH
Last week's challenge: This challenge came from Joseph Young of St. Cloud,Minn. acquire the singular and plural forms of a particular noun. Remove the first two letters of the singular form and you'll name a country. Remove one letter from inside the plural form to name another country. What words and countries are these?
acknowledge: Yeoman, yeomen --> Oman, or Yemen
Winner: Shaun Kuter of Phoenix,Ariz.
Next week's challenge: A playful challenge comes from Carole Highland of Ephrata, Wash. The name of what vehicle, and spelled backward,becomes phonetically a four-word phrase identifying another vehicle?
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