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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 SOVEREIGNTY 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: S E O I V G E N R T Y Answer: Generosity reader ’ s digest 116 June/July 2026 Brain GAMES Sharpen Your Mind EMILY GOODMAN (ON VACATION, A NUMBERS GAME, REFLECT ON IT). NOUN PROJECT (CLOCK). VLADST/GETTY IMAGES (STAMPS) Reflect on It MediuM You signed up for a fitness class to work on your beach bod. But mere minutes into it, you regret having signed up. So for the rest of the hourlong class, you keep stealing glances at the clock—but you’re seeing it in a mirror. A, B, C and D show four views of the clock throughout that hour. Determine in which order you saw them and which hour the class ran. (It started and ended on the hour.) A C B d On Vacation eAsy Shara, David, Scarlett and Jackson are all going abroad this summer, each to one of these places: Australia, Italy, Mexico and Spain. Based on the clues, can you figure out who’s going where? Shara is traveling to Europe; David isn’t. Scarlett has been studying Spanish in anticipation of her trip. Jackson has already been to Australia, and Shara has previously been to Italy. Both are going someplace new this summer. 30 >> 10 >> 12 >> 4 >> 6 >> ? >> ? A Numbers Game MediuM Looking at the sequence below, what should the next two numbers be? readersdigest.co.nz 117 Brain Games