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Wordplay 101
John Ritchie, An Expected Rise in Stocks, nineteenth century. It’s galling to reach adulthood and realize how many things have gone over your head. That, in a single e-mail thread, you can learn both...
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Pun Home: Or, The Double Meaning of Life
Via: The Telegraph “The only thing harder than crafting a good pun,” wrote Ted Trautman in these pages, “is finding someone to appreciate it.” But as Trautman makes clear, those people who love puns...
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Thirty Malapropisms
Ed. Note: every month, the Daily features a puzzle by Dylan Hicks. The first list of correct answers wins a year’s subscription to The Paris Review and a copy of Dylan’s new novel, Amateurs. (In the...
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Thirty Malapropisms: The Answers
Ed. Note: last week’s puzzle contest is officially over—thanks to all who entered. Our winner this time is Jonathan Harkey, who got twenty-five out of thirty malapropisms. He gets a free subscription...
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Forty (More) Hink Pinks
***UPDATE—The contest has ended! Thanks to all who entered. Click here for the answers—and the winners.*** Ed. Note: every month, the Daily features a puzzle by Dylan Hicks. The first list of correct...
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Forty (More) Hink Pinks: The Answers
Hink pink is a word game in which synonyms, circumlocution, and micronarratives provide clues for rhyming phrases. Check out Dylan Hicks’s forty hink-pink riddles here. Ed. Note: This week’s puzzle...
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The Game of the Name
Every month, the Daily features a puzzle by Dylan Hicks. The first list of correct answers wins a year’s subscription to The Paris Review. (In the event that no one can get every answer, the list with...
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What’s the Takeaway?: The Answers
Ed. Note: This week’s puzzle contest is officially over—thanks to all who entered. Our winner is Mike Emmons, who solved nineteen out of twenty riddles. He gets a free subscription to the Review....
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The Tomboy’s Malaise, and Other News
A Lego ad from the eighties, featuring a tomboy. The Anglophone world treats homophony like a fun parlor trick—two words sound alike, so let’s make some puns and call it a day. But Chinese culture...
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In Defense of Puns
Once upon a time—in 382 C.E., to be exact—Eve bit into an apple. Seeing it was good, she offered the apple to Adam, and he also took a bite. Whereupon Adam and Eve’s eyes were opened, and they...
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