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Word Puzzles - U.S. Cities #1

Solve the puzzles to guess the names of these U.S. cities
Example: Not Old + Noah's Boat = New + Ark = Newark
Quiz by buck1017
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Last updated: December 21, 2019
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First submittedNovember 24, 2013
Times taken18,727
Average score65.0%
Rating4.36
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Word Puzzle
U.S. City
Employer + Can Metal
Boston
Mineral Deposit + Star Wars' Calrissian
Orlando
Fox Home + Animal Pelt
Denver
24 Hours + 2000 lbs
Dayton
Season After Winter + Farmer's Land
Springfield
Bison
Buffalo
Mr. Hefner + Large Pebble
Houston
Service Charge + Fleetwood Mac's Stevie
Phoenix
Follower of Judaism + Not Yes
Juneau
SpongeBob's squirrel friend + Waffle Brand
San Diego
Young Man + Large Body of Water
Boise
Young Female Horse + Actor Lundgren + German Yes
Philadelphia
Go By Boat + Dorothy Gale's Aunt
Salem
Timid + Miss Hathaway
Cheyenne
Hot Dog + Sumpter/Knox Etc.
Frankfort
Wealthy + To Fix Clothes
Richmond
Possessive 'I' + French Friend
Miami
Gun Sound + Boat Paddle
Bangor
Short Skirt + Red Fruit + Not More
Minneapolis
Genghis + Three Simultaneous Notes
Concord
48 Comments
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Level 81
Nov 28, 2013
It's not accepting Minneapolis!
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Level 69
Nov 28, 2013
Same for me, I even tried St Paul just to be sure ;)
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Level ∞
Nov 29, 2013
That one was my fault. Fixed.
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Level 46
Nov 28, 2013
Minneapolis isn't being accepted
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Level 62
Sep 14, 2021
Lol it is accepeting "Miniappleis"
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Level 20
Dec 12, 2013
Very nice quiz Quizmaster (or your tyrant name which I forgot), I just couldn't find out a bunch of them.... I guess I'm not good at these puzzles.
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Level 57
Jan 31, 2014
Great quiz! 100% with 2:56 to spare. More! More!
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Level 73
Nov 14, 2018
Better than me, 2:21. These are mostly pretty hard but somehow people's minds figure them out.
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Level 93
Jan 31, 2014
Guessed Bangor by the clues, but I'd previously never heard of this city. It so in one of the 4 states I've never been to, so perhaps that's why...
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Level 57
Feb 1, 2014
Guess you've never read a Stephen King book. I'm from Aus but he always manages to weave Bangor, Maine into the plot...
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Level 93
Nov 10, 2015
You'd be correct, never have. Though his Dark Tower series has been sitting on my reading backlog for... oh, about 12 years now.
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Level 57
Jul 11, 2016
Bangor, Maine also features prominently in the song "King of the Road." The line goes: "Third boxcar, midnight train, destination, Bangor, Maine."
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Level 90
Dec 8, 2019
Is that where the grating pronunciation "banger" came from? Anyone who pronounces it like that is instantly and under any social circumstances immediately met with the comeback beginning "Bang 'er?......"

It's Ban-gor, just like that. Remember it like it's something Stephen King is opposed to: Ban gore.

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Level 78
Sep 15, 2021
I genuinely thought it was pronounced "Banger." Just the other day I learned that the local newspaper is called the "Bangor Daily" and I giggled like a teenage boy. Now it's not as funny.
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Level 69
Jan 31, 2014
Love this quiz. Only one I didn't get was Houston, and I kept saying to myself " HughRock". LOL
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Level 72
Sep 10, 2019
I did the same followedby hugerock... then I got it haha
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Level 64
Jan 31, 2014
Excellent quiz; would love to see more like this!
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Level 86
Mar 29, 2014
Got stuck on the boss one. I guess I don't consider my boss my employer. Maybe you could have made a Bruce Springsteen reference instead!
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Level 76
Aug 20, 2014
Good quiz! The clue for Concord could've been better. "Three or more notes played simultaneously" for example.
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Level 89
Jan 31, 2015
You've misspelled "Judaism."
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Level 78
Feb 11, 2015
Thanks. Fixed.
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Level 83
Nov 4, 2015
You Americans have some weird pronunciations for place names. Oh wait... we pronounce Towcester as Toaster and Worcester as Wuster. Never mind.
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Level 87
Dec 1, 2018
We pronounce Worcester the same!
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Level 72
Dec 4, 2018
Wustah
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Level 73
Mar 9, 2016
I've never heard of Bangor. That seems like a pretty off the wall question considering it's a small town of less than 35,000 people. Perhaps it should be changed to a larger, more well-known city?
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Level 78
Mar 9, 2016
The way the quiz is set up, the city could be Searcy Arkansas and if you can figure out the clues, you should be able to get it. No matter the population of the city or town.
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Level 90
Jun 22, 2018
It isn't large, but Bangor, Maine is known widely enough. Just like Bar Harbor or Laramie, Wyoming or Monterey, California.
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Level 55
Jul 11, 2016
My hometown is the most guessed! Whoop, whoop!
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Level 57
Jul 11, 2016
Fun quiz! The one that got me was Houston. My brain was stuck on Boulder, Colorado for some reason, so I kept thinking Hugh + Boulder? What?
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Level 85
Jul 21, 2017
Wouldn't "young male" be better than "young man"? That threw me off. A young man is what a boy becomes. They're not the same thing. They're more sequential than equivalent, IMO.
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Level 44
Jan 21, 2021
Yeah, I agree.
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Level 87
Dec 1, 2018
I did not expect my lack of SpongeBob Squarepants knowledge to hurt me on this quiz. Still fun, though!
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Level 72
Apr 9, 2019
When I saw "Miss Hathaway" I immediately thought Jane (Beverly Hillbillies). Then my mind finally remembered what century we are in now. Just another old people thing I guess.
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Level 83
Aug 11, 2024
I mean, Anne Hathaway did live way back in the 16th/17th century... 😆

(In seriousness though, I've always thought it a bit interesting that there have now been two quite famous Anne Hathaways in history, but centuries and centuries apart. Similar with Jane Seymour...)

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Level 79
Aug 6, 2019
Love the San Diego one!
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Level 49
Aug 29, 2019
Love these quizzes. But was stumped on Phoenix....was trying tipnicks...
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Level 90
Dec 8, 2019
Stevie Nicks is actually from Phoenix.
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Level 83
Dec 23, 2021
Yeah I was also wondering if there was a place called Tipnix, Kansas or something. Got there in the end...
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Level 44
Jan 21, 2021
I am from San Diego, thought of both Sandy and Eggo, and somehow didn't get the question.
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Level 82
Mar 2, 2021
I got Sandy, and although I've never heard of Eggo, I guessed the answer. Some interesting definitions and pronunciations among these clues.
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Level 83
Aug 11, 2024
Same for me, except the other way around.

Didn't have the foggiest idea what the squirrel from SpongeBob might be called (I've never seen the show) but knew immediately the waffles had to be Eggo.

So I went around the map of the USA trying to think of any city that might end in a sound like "eggo" until I got it.

(My first stop was actually Chicago, wondering if the squirrel might be named "Chicka" or something like that.)

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Level 77
Jul 16, 2021
not quite sure the frankfort one works - surely a hot dog is a frankfurter, and then i get that knox et al are forts; so you should get frankfurterfort? or am i missing something?
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Level 79
Sep 10, 2021
Frankfurter is shortened to just "frank" a lot of the time
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Level 62
Sep 14, 2021
Lol "Miami" separated (Mi ami) is French for my friend LOL! what a good clue!
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Level 83
Dec 23, 2021
No, it's not. My friend is "mon ami".
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Level 91
Jun 23, 2022
Great quiz, but why “red fruit” for apples? Surely apples are just as likely to be green? I spent ages typing in actual red fruits to no avail
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Level 75
Apr 18, 2023
I literally typed in 'boysea' and still didn't get it.
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Level 80
Jun 18, 2024
So fun. Thanks for this one.