NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WITF listener Travis DiNicola and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

More than half of states rely on signature matching to verify the identities of people who vote by mail. These states compare signatures they have on file (from voter registrations, ballot ...

Experts explain this foundational reading skill. "When a child is sounding out the word 'cat,' for example, first they work through the individual sounds of the letters C-A-T," Woodward says.