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How To Be Black

If you love playing around with palindromes, quoting Downton Abbey's Dowager Countess, and spotting factual errors in the news (Editor's note: "What factual errors?"), then this episode will make you so happy, you'll want to clap your hands.

The Puzzle Master Takes On The Puzzle Grasshopper

Saturday, December 01, 2012

This week, famous works of art and literature are slapped with product placement, we honor "Weird Al" Yankovic's timeless tunes, and one of Ask Me Another's own challenges the puzzle world master in an anagram showdown for the ages.

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The Big, Mean, and Green

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Test your ability to tell the difference between a Harry Potter spell, a prescription drug, and a piece of IKEA furniture. Then, meet a Rhodes Scholar-turned-filmmaker and comic book scribe — this week's Ask Me Another Mystery Guest.

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The Girl Who Played With Her Food

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Translate international film titles, like "Meetings and Failures in Meetings," back into English, and try to name a military official famous for his chicken — who isn't Colonel Sanders. Then, meet our sweet-toothed chemist of a Mystery Guest.

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Secret Agent Man

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Host Ophira Eisenberg and her puzzle gurus serve up presidential tunes from our nation's capital, such as the hit song "Summer of '69," by the second U.S. President John Adams...wait a minute. Also on the menu are a variety of cheeses—or are they Moby Dick characters? This week's Mystery Guest probably knows, since his specialty is intelligence.

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The Sporting Lifer

Saturday, November 03, 2012

What sounds right: "remember the Alamo," or "remember the Aniston"? For this hour of puzzles and trivia, it may help to know both. Contestants try to top the lyrical talents of Justin Bieber, while a backwards spelling bee turns a few heads. Plus, our Mystery Guest, a best-selling journalist, tests his knowledge of pro athletes-turned-bad actors.

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The "Too Many Editions" Edition

Saturday, October 27, 2012

"What ever happened to predictability?" asked one esteemed poet – or was that a TV theme song? Host Ophira Eisenberg and her puzzle mavens travel to Washington, D.C., seeking math in odd places and fitting new underwriters for some classic novels. All this, plus a special visit from this week's Mystery Guest, a worldly NPR correspondent.

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You Always Remember Your First KISS

Saturday, October 20, 2012

This hour of puzzles and games involves shared names, like Jon Favreau — Swingers director AND a White House speechwriter. There's also fictional love triangles and a quiz specially tailored for our Mystery Guest, a notable rock critic and pop culture aficionado.

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The Maverick of the Twitter Set

Saturday, October 13, 2012

What if horror film characters ran personal ads on dating sites, and musicians wrote songs like "Wake Up, Little Herman"? Our puzzle gurus imagine such a world, while our Mystery Guest, a 21st-century political darling, tells us what makes America sexy, and shows us that the good life is but a tweet away.

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Auto-Tune The Puzzle Show

Saturday, October 06, 2012

House musician Jonathan Coulton takes a '90s alt-rock hit around the world in this week's music game, while contestants go to Tinseltown for some weird movie mash-ups. And ever wonder what car Tiger Woods might drive if he wanted to keep out of Page Six? Speaking of news, this week's Mystery Guests tell us how they keep in tune with the headlines.

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They Had Me At Hello

Saturday, September 29, 2012

"Radio is a sound salvation," sang Elvis Costello, and it's also the theme of Jonathan Coulton's euphonious music quiz. Fitting that the Mystery Guest is a Broadway superstar. Plus, mutated movie titles, a double name game, and an etiquette test from the 1960s. Got a light?

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