You may be familiar with the board game Schmovie, hashtag games on Twitter, or @midnight’s Hashtag Wars segment on Comedy Central.
For years now, we’ve been collaborating on puzzle-themed hashtag games with our pals at Penny Dell Puzzles, and this month’s hook was #PennyDellSchoolPuzzles, mashing up Penny Dell puzzles with school subjects, supplies, cliches, and more, all about back to school!
Examples include: Mechanical Pencil Pusher, StarSpelling Bee, and Tossing & Turning (the Night Before a Big Exam).
So, without further ado, check out what the puzzlers at PuzzleNation and Penny Dell Puzzles came up with!
PaperBlips
Homecoming and Going
Piggybackpack
Lockerkuro
A-Plus Fours
Three of a Kindergarten
Schoolmaster Words (from Schoolmaster’s Variety Puzzles)
Middle School of the Road
In the Middle School
Back of the Word Rebus
Homework Runs
High School Scorer
Top to Bottom of the Class
Substitutions Teacher
Bull’s-Eye Spiral Notebook
Mixed Bookbag
Exchange Blackboards
Foreign Exchange Boards Student
A Few Multiple-Choice Words
Circles in the Square Root of Pi
Head of the Classified Adds
Crossing Guard Arithmetic
Textbook Worms
Crypto-Names and Dates
Double Occupancy Dorm Rooms
Give Homework and Take Attendance
Parse a Phrase
Staring Out the Window Boxes
End of the Line in the Cafeteria
Summer’s End of the Line
Learning the ABC’s
Class is Across & Down the Hall
High school Drop-Outs
Letterdropout
Letter Perfect Attendance
Short Attention Spanners
Freshman year Ups & Downs
Who’s Calling the Nurse?
Study Group Values
Home Rooms
It Facts and Figures
Lab Partners
Ringmaster’s degree
Gold Stars and Arrows
Chemistry Labyrinth
Yearbook Photo Finish
Spellingbound
Many of our contributors offered up puzzly versions of sentences you’d hear around school!
No eating Chips in the library.
Honeycomb your hair, you’ll be late for school.
Line ’em Up… for detention!
TODAY’S MENU: a Bowl Game of Alphabet Soup
Passing notes? Would you care to Share-a-Letter with the rest of the class?
Brick by Brick the new school was built.
Class, take your Places, Please.
Student: “Miss Lane, I can’t do this problem.”
Teacher: “Try to Figgerit out!”
What kinds of tests do monsters take? Criptoquizzes
Snow day Cancellations will Carry-Over into the summer!
Rodney DanGarfield Quotables: Double Negative lesson: “I don’t get no respect”
Rodney DanGarfield Quotables: “Why don’t you call me some time when you have no class?”
One solver offered the voice of experience…
Even though I graduated long ago, I still get excited by school supply displays! And now a little advice for those back-to-schoolers:
This might be a Throwback, but I remember when you got ready for Class-ified Adds by packing your TrapperKeyword in your Bookworm bag.
You could be a WordMathlete ready for the big Countdown.
You can get through those two-a-days Two at a Time to practice a perfect Bull’s-eye Spiral and make it to the Bowlgame.
And there’s One and Only valedictorian, so Try-Angles your best, and you can do it Step by Step.
Another solver delved into history with a look back on her puzzly school days:
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, please join me on a trip down memory lane as I travel in my TIME MACHINE and go back to school. During my first few DAIS-Y of school, I learned the ALPHABET PLUS played a lot of SIMON SAYS. My teacher gave us CRACKERS for snack time, but I wish she had given us BOXES of CRACKERJACKS instead. Some of the kids in my class loved constructing with wooden shapes and were pretty amazing BLOCKBUILDERS.
In elementary school, we were encouraged to increase our vocabularies and had to EXPLORAWORD every day. There was quite a bit of homework in which we had to FILL-IN the BLANKWORD to prove that we understood what we had learned. In my junior high years, I took shop class, in which we were taught to use JIGSAW SQUARES. I remember that there were BITS & PIECES of wood all over the floor of that classroom.
It was also during one of those junior-high years that we had the dreaded CIRCLES IN THE SQUARE dancing unit in gym class. Having to stand there, FACE TO FACE with a random classmate was nothing short of awkward. Later on, in high school, I KENKEN remember having a particularly cranky math teacher. I used to joke that he taught CROSS ARITHMETIC.
Well, after covering all those years of school, WHAT’S LEFT? Oh yes – just my college years. You may laugh when you PICTURE THIS, but I was the DRUMMERMAN major of our marching band. We’d SHUFFLE along, HERE & THERE during HALFTIME at every football game. Well, friends – that concludes our journey. I hope that you enjoyed your ONE & ONLY chance to experience the magic of time travel.
Finally, one solver set her puzzly school ideas to music…
It’s a fact
School is a Balancing Act
We race to Beat the Clock
Jocks hit Home-Runs and run Around the Block
While all the Bookworms and busy bees
Are learning their ABC’s
Dodge ball teams
Odds and Evens
Pick and Choose
Todds and Stevens
Tots Add One on their Abacus
Seniors are taking Quote Calculus
Rah-rahs cheer “All Four One”
Teachers are saying “Are we having fun?”
Lunch bell rings, Woohoo!
Lovebirds enjoy Alphabet Soup for Two
Keep on Moving, Line-Em Up
Scholars bolt down lunch before time is up
Outside kids play games of Hopscotch, Simon Says, and Seven-Up
Substitutions Fill-In when teachers are out
Classes and studies, hopefully no Drop-Outs
Text Message, Telephone Call
Is Johnny taking me to the Harvest Ball?
Guys and gals Mix and Mingle, then Pair Off
Stags feeling Out of Place at the Disco
Cause Double Trouble, throw Chips
Then Face to Face with…Guess Who?
Principal Chase!
School play time!
So Places, Please
Custodians clean the school Top to Bottom
Sweep spilled Animal Crackers and Crackerjacks
Miles of Bounty, the quicker Picker-Upper
Days come Full Circle
Work is done
Now home to supper!
Only question is: How many more days till summer?
One of our fellow PuzzleNationers also got involved in the puzzly fun! Jane W (aka @jawurts10) offered up the delightful entries “Essay Can You See” and “Cramming And Jamming,” which were great fun. Nice job!
Have you come up with any Penny Dell School Puzzles entries of your own? Let us know! We’d love to see them!
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