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1. The Lighter Side: Fictional Languages

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This puzzle presents examples of five fictional languages; can you figure out the rule that each fictional language follows?

2. The Lighter Side: Reverse Categories

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This puzzle presents lists of words; your job is to divide them into categories logically so that everything fits.

3. The Lighter Side: Second-Letter y

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This puzzle gives you definitions; your job is to think of a word for each definition—and every answer is a word with y as its second letter.

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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?  

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