If you love to cut and paste (on your computer or the old-fashioned way), this puzzle is for you! Pick a word that appears in the left-hand column below, cut one letter from it, and paste a word from the right-hand column into the empty space you just created so that a new word appears. For example, if the word in the left-hand column is CANAL, and the word PIT appears in the right-hand column, you could drop the N in CANAL and replace it with PIT to spell CAPITAL.

You may cut any letter, including the first or last, from the word in the left-hand column, so you might cut the B from BIO and replace it with STUD to make STUDIO. Or you might cut the P from ROMP and paste the word ANTIC in its place to spell ROMANTIC.

As a solving aid, no letter that is cut appears in the word that replaces it. In addition, no letter is cut more than once, so if D, for example, is cut from one word in the left-hand column, it will not be cut from any other. Note that some words in the right-hand column may fit in more than one word in the left-hand column, but the solution to the entire puzzle is unique.

For a printer-friendly file with these CUT AND PASTE puzzles, click on the link below. You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader to open this file.