Grab your coffee — today's teaser is a "What Connects These?" round. Each numbered item gives you a set of three clues. Figure out the single word or short phrase that links all three, then check yourself against the answers below.
1. Coffee ___ • Dining ___ • Water ___ (What word fits before all three?)
2. These four words all connect to one thing: Wick, Meridian, Sundial, Sextant. What do they all have to do with?
3. Anagram time: rearrange the letters in LISTEN to form another common English word.
4. What connects: the Great Barrier Reef, the Amazon Rainforest, and Mount Everest?
5. Word ladder — change one letter at a time to turn COLD into WARM in four steps (each step must be a real word). There's more than one valid path; find any one that works.
Take your time, no peeking below until you've given each one a real shot!
Answers
1. TABLE — Coffee table, Dining table, Water table.
2. Time and navigation — a wick relates to candle clocks, a meridian marks longitude/time zones, a sundial tells time by the sun, and a sextant navigates using celestial bodies to find position (and once, time at sea).
3. SILENT (an anagram of LISTEN — a nice bit of wordplay trivia in itself!)
4. They are all natural wonders often listed among Earth's most famous/iconic natural landmarks — each also faces serious threats from climate change and human activity.
5. One valid path: COLD → CORD → CARD → WARD → WARM
How many did you get? Come back tomorrow for another round!