Enigmarch 2026, Day 14: PLACE

[tahnan]

Why is "win, place, show" where my mind went with PLACE? No idea. But I've been a fan of Sandy Weisz's "Raddle" for a while now, and I wanted to see what it would be like to write one. Or three. If you're not familiar with them, it wouldn't hurt to play through one or two of his, so you can see what they look like when they're good. Also when there's not three of them mixed together.

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WIN to ?, PLACE to ?, SHOW to ?

WIN	PLACE	SHOW
(1)	(5)	(4)
(3)	(3)	(6)
(4)	(5)	(6)
(7)	(5)	(8)
(9)	(6)	(8)
_______	_______	_______

1. Add an "A" to X and anagram to get something positive? → Y
2. Add two letters before the last letter of X to get a drink → Y
3. Add two letters to the start of X to get a spot
4. Change a letter in X to get a weather phenomenon → Y
5. Change one letter in X to get a job → Y
6. Change one letter in X to get a period of calm → Y
7. Change one letter in X to get a site → Y
8. Remove an "I" from X and anagram to get a venue
9. Remove the first and last letters of X to get a pronoun → Y
10. The colorful part of X → Y
11. Time of year associated with X → Y
12. Two before X, or two after X → Y
13. What X was an ancient deity of → Y
14. X sounds like this part of the body → Y
15. X Y, a civil rights group
16. X Y, a long hiatus
17. Y and X, a famous novel
18. Y X, a common mixer

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You know what else Sandy Weisz's organization, Mystery League, provides? This answer checking website.

Comments

[lorelei]

How was this two weeks ago? Anyway, this one was pretty fun once I got some traction. I had a lot of trouble with the WIN column for some reason.

Also the answer confused me briefly because I assumed I was looking for just one word. I did like how it came together in the end, though.