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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 ANACHRONISM 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 SueMollineaux of Torrington, Connecticut, 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, hun- dreds 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: A R N O A N C I H S M Answer: Harmonicas reader ’ s digest 156 OctOber/NOvember 2026 Brain GAMES Sharpen Your Mind