Books in the Series
Tiny Desk Concerts
We Can Work it Out
What's in the Board Game Box?
Animal Idiom Brainteasers
100

Stephenie Meyer:
"New Moon";
"Eclipse";
"Breaking Dawn"

Twilight

100

Don't call them U2!--Larry Mullen Jr. & Adam Clayton were absent; the Edge did a Tiny Desk Concert with this singer in 2023

Bono

100

The bench press & chest fly are popular exercises for working out these muscles, also called "pecs"

the pectoral muscles

100

32 green houses,
12 red hotels,
lots of play money

Monopoly
100

Please be patient for a moment!:
H.Y.H.

hold your horses

200

R.L. Stine:
"The Ghost Next Door";
"Vampire Breath";
"Say Cheese & Die!"

Goosebumps

200

It's the network that has broadcast Tiny Desk Concerts (1,000 and counting) since folk singer Laura Gibson did the first in 2008

NPR

200

A low-impact alternative to a treadmill, this exercise machine is named after the oval-like path its pedals move in

an elliptical

200

Lots of red pegs,
even more white pegs,
10 plastic vessels,
including 2 aircraft carriers

Battleship

200

You are in big trouble:
Y.G.I.C.

your goose is cooked

300

C.S. Lewis:
"The Magician's Nephew";
"Prince Caspian";
"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"

The Chronicles of Narnia

300

He sang hits like "Watermelon Sugar" for his Tiny Desk Concert; he also calls his sweater a "jumper" (aw, how British)

Harry Styles

300

To perform this exercise, do a push-up & then leap in the air--oh, & if you need to belch, please do it beforehand

burpees

300

4 racks,
100 tiles
(98 tiles have letters, 2 are blank)

Scrabble

300

Don't forget how many other single people are out there in the dating pool:
T.A.P.O.F.I.T.S.

there are plenty of fish in the sea

400

George R.R. Martin:
"A Dance with Dragons";
"A Storm of Swords";
"A Game of Thrones"

A Song of Ice and Fire

400

This singer opened her 2020 Tiny Desk Concert with "Show Me Love"; she closed it with "Fallin'"

Alicia Keys

400

Yes, you do have time to hit the gym for some HIIT, this type of "interval training" with short bursts of vigorous workouts

high-intensity interval training

400

Color-coded plastic armies,
42 territory cards,
5 dice

Risk

400

Make all the necessary preparations before you start:
G.Y.D.I.A.R.

get your ducks in a row

500

Philip Pullman:
"The Golden Compass";
"The Subtle Knife";
"The Amber Spyglass"

His Dark Materials

500

For a Tiny Desk Concert he did with Sting, this "It Wasn't Me" singer proudly sang "I'm a Jamaican in New York"

Shaggy

500

This form of yoga is more than just hot--it's performed for 90 minutes in a room kept at 105 degrees Fahrenheit

Bikram yoga

500

19 terrain hexes,
60 roads,
1 robber

(Settlers of) Catan

500

You can do anything you wish or go anywhere you want in this life:
T.W.I.Y.O.

the world is your oyster