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1. The Lighter Side: Medical Mix-Ups

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Oops! In each of these sentences, related to medicine and health, one word is misused and needs to be replaced with a word it rhymes with. Can you solve this fun puzzle?

2. The Lighter Side: Q & A Search

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This puzzle is similar to a word search, but instead of looking for individual words, you look for complete questions and answers. Can you find them all?

3. The Lighter Side: Sophie’s Seven Tasks

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Last week, “Sophie” completed tasks related to every article in this issue of Forum. Can you find the order in which she completed the tasks?

4. The Lighter Side: Sixty Years

   In: English Teaching Forum, Volume 60, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Can you unscramble the words associated with events that have taken place in the six decades since Forum was first published? And can you put those events in the order in which they occurred?

5. The Lighter Side: "Vanilla Rice Stream"

   In: English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 3 Format(s): E-book

   In this puzzle, two words in each sentence don’t make sense. Your job is to replace them with words that rhyme with the original words and make the sentence make sense.

6. The Lighter Side: "An English Class Logic-Grid Puzzle

   In: English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   In this puzzle, your job is to solve a logic-grid puzzle that is based on elements of sentences that three students have written. After you have solved the puzzle, you must determine the sentence that each student wrote from a list of choices.

7. The Lighter Side: Reduce, Reuse, Re____

   In: English Teaching Forum 2023, Volume 61, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This puzzle features words that begin with the letters ”re” … and similar words without “re” as the first letters. Can you find them all?  

8. The Lighter Side: Peace Puzzles

   In: English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   See if you can solve these short puzzles that feature quotes related to peace and different uses of the words “peace” and “piece.”

9. The Lighter Side: Fishy Fun

   In: English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   There are two games. The first has five tongue twisters, each word missing a letter which the student must complete. The second game is a matching game, but the words are missing letters which the student must fill in before he/she completes the match. The games help with vocabulary and spelling.

10. The Lighter Side: The Happiness Puzzle

    In: English Teaching Forum 2023, Volume 61, Number 1 Format(s): Text

    In this puzzle, your job is to unscramble groups of letters to spell things that happy people might do, then to fill in blanks to spell out things that make many people happy. After solving the puzzle, you are encouraged to think of your own puzzle items—or have your students create some and happily share with their classmates.

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