Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Filling Station #7
by Sandy Wood - August 31, 2011 - 7:30 AM

Wednesday Wordplay is the challenge for today’s mentalfloss.com Brain Game. Today, the seventh entry in our popular new Filling Station puzzle series. Enjoy!

Each of the following 5 entries can be turned into an English word by adding the letters from the name of a musical instrument – in the order it’s spelled – into the blanks provided. An example appears below to get you started.

example:  _ _ E _ _ _ O
solution:  ORGANO R E G A N O )

1.   _ _ R _ _ N
2.   _ _ _ _ A T _ O _
3.   _ H _ L _ _ T H R _ P Y
4.   _ _ _ _ O O N
5.   _ _ S _ L E T _

Here are the SOLUTIONS.

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