NPR Sunday Puzzle Focuses on Ice Cream and Sorbet Flavors

The NPR Sunday Puzzle for this week centers on flavors of ice cream or sorbet. Each answer to the challenge corresponds to a specific flavor, identified through wordplay and letter manipulations. m. ET, with selected participants eligible to play on air.

The challenge includes nine riddles. For example, one asks for a two-word flavor where each word starts with 'CH'. Another seeks a two-word flavor where each word starts with 'RO'. Additional riddles involve finding a flavor hidden in the sentence 'That's the caravan I'll announce', or one containing the letters 'UTTI' twice in its name.

Other clues reference a silent 'P' as the fourth letter, changing 'PI' to 'MU' to form men's facial hair, or combining names of two trees starting with 'M' and 'W'.

Flavor Transformations and Anagrams One riddle describes a fruit flavor that becomes another fruit flavor when its first and third letters are interchanged.

Another requires an anagram of 'TEENAGER' forming a two-word flavor. The previous week's puzzle, submitted by Michael Schwartz of Florence, Oregon, involved a musical instrument. Adding two letters at the end yields the names of two automobile models, reading left to right: accordion leads to Accord and Ioniq.

New Challenge Introduction This week's challenge originates from Benita Rice of Salem, Oregon.

It requires naming a famous foreign landmark with letters 5,4. Changing the eighth letter to 'V' and rearranging forms an adjective describing the landmark. Listeners submit answers via the provided form.

The puzzle encourages engagement with linguistic puzzles, drawing from everyday items like ice cream flavors and landmarks.