Raddle #340Wingspan Birds

From RESPLENDENT to QUETZAL

co-written with Elizabeth Hargrave
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Fri, January 30, 2026
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RESPLENDENT
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Clues, out of order

RESPLENDENT ________, a famous monster
________ RESPLENDENT, a support or an insect
________ RESPLENDENT, a video game
Add three letters to the front of RESPLENDENT to get a weapon
Change the first letter in RESPLENDENT to get an animal
Drop a letter from RESPLENDENT to get something valuable
Drop a trigram (three letters) from RESPLENDENT to get a leader
Guatemala's RESPLENDENT
RESPLENDENT is a brand of ________
The last syllable of RESPLENDENT makes an impression
What RESPLENDENT can do to your shoe

About this Raddle

The Resplendent Quetzal is part of the new Wingspan Americans expansion. Males' display feathers can grow up to a meter long in a year; they fall out after breeding season.

Theme: Wingspan Birds

This week's Raddles, featuring some of our favorite birds from the game Wingspan, were co-written with Wingspan's designer (and Raddle fan) Elizabeth Hargrave! 🎉 🐦 Wingspan, which releases their Americas expansion this week, is one of my favorite board games, in no small part because every card in the game features a different bird, with a gorgeous illustration and an interesting fact about that bird. In our house, we have a rule that you have to announce the bird fact to the table when you play a bird. For the birds featured this week, we're including the bird fact from the game.