Reader's Digest Australia Feb/Mar 2026

KOLONKO/GETTY IMAGES The ORBISCULATE Challenge easy Howmany words can you find within the 11-letter word below? Words must be at least three letters long and appear in the dictionary (we use Merriam-Webster) to count toward your score. Bonus The longest word we found within ROMANTICISM is 10 letters long. Can you find it? (See answer below.) What’s With This Game’s Crazy Name? We first published “Warning: This Fruit May Orbisculate,” about a family’s made-up word, in our December 2021/January 2022 issue. Orbisculate means “when you dig your spoon into a grapefruit (or another fruit or vegetable), and it squirts juice directly in your eye.” Soon after, reader Sue Mollineaux, wrote us to say that residents of her senior community had put their heads together and found 223 words using the letters in orbisculate (like orb , brace or—good one— aerobics ). After we shared her letter, hundreds of readers took up the challenge and wrote us with their scores. We were so delighted, we decided to feature the ORBISCULATE Challenge, with a new (legit, not made-up!) word in every issue of Reader’s Digest . your score: R T O I M C A I N S M Answers : Morticians Brain GAMES Sharpen Your Mind reader ’ s digest 118 February/March 2026 DARREN RIGBY (OPPOSITES ATTRACT). EMILY GOODMAN (A CHANGE OF HEART) A Change of Heart Easy Looking at the sequence below, what should the next heart look like? Opposites Attract Difficult The circuit board below has positive and negative terminals. Each positive terminal needs to be connected to a negative terminal by a wire, but you must determine how long these wires are and how they are positioned. Can you rebuild the circuit using the clues below? H Every square on the board must be covered by a wire. H Adjacent terminals cannot be connected to each other. H A number in a square indicates howmany squares that wire touches. H A blue arrowhead in a square indicates the direction in which the current moves through that square. (Conventional current flows from positive to negative.) readersdigest.com.au 119 Brain Games