Writers Write

Riddle for You

August, 2021

Because I had surgery on my broken, right arm, I cannot type as quickly as usual. My choices are to dictate or hunt and peck with my left hand. i cannot currently use my right hand due to my sling cast. So, for August, I am sharing a lipogram puzzle I created previously for a writing club newsletter.

Answers are at the bottom. In this lipogram riddle, please determine the missing letter,  and determine the words described which contain that letter. Also, name the work and the writer of a book which does not contain the letter ‘e.’

The first person to email the most correct answers to Cuethelight@cox.net (not by reply to this newsletter) will win one of my books. The answers will be revealed in my September , 2021, newsletter.

That’s puzzling by Lisbeth L. McCarty

I’m so predictable always

regarding the letter Q

Yet, in all fairness to my existence

There are other things I do

I am in the synonym for not pretty

and in the synonym for pretty, ooh!

In both French and Spanish parlances

The word for “I” has me there, too

I appear twice in the name

of the dialect of Pakistan

I am also in the past tense

of the dashing word for ran

If  we have this in the Sol

I’m always in there twice

I am rather sweetly joined

With the staple known as spice

There is certainly no fibbing

in this antonym for lie

I am always located

in the German word for bye

I’m in a leadership position

in the sport of basketball

Most players have height

I am the one who is small

I am the one and only

position that is sole

I also can be located

in a place to mine for coal

Why not try and try and try

to discover, “Who Am I?”

This is my favorite fortune I ever received from a cookie. Is it common sense or a riddle?