Raddle #307by Ben Tausig

From RICE to BALL

Sun, December 28, 2025
RICE
  (3)

Clues, out of order

________ RICE is found in some tacos
RICE ________, place with large trucks
________ RICE, road trip snack
A RICE ________ will likely get you out
Adorable animal found backwards in RICE
Adversary of RICE
Anagram RICE to become unspoken
Change one letter in RICE to become twitchy
Famous cartoon RICE
Opposite of RICE, in a fantasy novel series
Part of a house that rhymes with RICE
Remove one letter from RICE to get a sprain treatment
Replace the last two letters in RICE with a C to become RICEary

About this Raddle

Today's Raddle is by Ben Tausig with his son Julian. Ben writes, "I'm very interested in categories of food that occur in different forms in many places throughout the world, such as fried dough pockets (empanadas, beignets, hotteok, et al) and dumplings (pierogi, ravioli, momos). I recently introduced my kids to arancini, Sicilian fried rice balls, and soon we'll be visiting Japan, and surely eating lots of onigiri there. Ghanaian omo tuo and Laotian khao tom are just two other versions of this frankly perfect culinary invention."

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