The Pyramid is back! The word pyramid that is. Word pyramids are word puzzles that starts with a one letter answer and then each subsequent answer adds one letter to from the new word or phrase. The letters can be rearranged as needed but every letter in the previous answer will appear in the next, plus one. Whoever can solve the puzzle first and email the list of nine words in the correct order to puzzlingnyc <at>gmail <dot>com will get a prize in the spirit of the puzzle’s inspiration. Sort of… Happy Puzzling!
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Clues:
1. What Wolverine, Cyclops, and Storm all have on their costumes
2. The current year being celebrated in Chinatown
3. This goes great with a schmeer
4. The Pope at the time Martin Luther ( who is commemorated by a playground on 2nd Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn and that is as close as I can possibly get to making this clue NYC-centric!) was nailing theses to church doors (1 word, 1 letter)
5. Watch brand that Jay-Z touts
6. Lat. Lion King Lit. (2 words)
7. Subject of museum located on 27th & 5th in Manhattan, and whos website is blocked at my job (2 words)
8. What Billy Wagner is to the Mets (hyph.)
9. New York State’s Motto
Puzzling New York City 