More Word Games

[Barb Dwyer]

Mensa's word/numbers game made me think of some more puzzles and brain twisters I have seen. Here are a few fun ones.

Palindromes

1. a female sheep
2. a baby wears one
3. paper showing ownership of land
4. used for defense against aircraft
5. a joke
6. eskimo boat
7. the sound a tugboat makes
8. an exclamation
9. another exclamation
10. you see with it



Decipher the following "fractured phrases" (normal sayings that have been slightly changed)

1. Understand the cords!
2. Scissor something from its place.
3. Final drinking tube
4. Peruse words below one line but above another
5. A blue jay in the fist is twice as valuable as one in the shrub
6. Winesap of one's oculus
7. Verdant from coveting
8. Recapture one's respiration
9. Confront the tune
10. To heap disparagement upon a wound
11. To be maintained in the total eclipse
12. Initial items at the beginning
13. Absence of sound is aureate
14. Anguish adores association
15. When the elm topples, there it will remain
16. Diversity is the seasoning of existence
17. Dial immoral acts do not constitute moral propriety
18. Oily ladle
19. Immature around the breathing apparatus
20. Put more combustible fluid on the blaze

Can you figure these out?

 

[Myrrdin]

1. a female sheep ................................ewe
2. a baby wears one ............................bib
3. paper showing ownership of land ....deed
4. used for defense against aircraft...... AAA ?
5. a joke ...............................................gag
6. eskimo boat ......................................kayak
7. the sound a tugboat makes
8. an exclamation .................................wow
9. another exclamation
10. you see with it ................................eye

 

[Weird Harold]

Palindromes

7. the sound a tugboat makes: toot
9. another exclamation: aha or oho

Decipher the following "fractured phrases" (normal sayings that have been slightly changed)

Just to be mean and make others work for the answers, these are the ones I don't know:

2. Scissor something from its place.
12. Initial items at the beginning
15. When the elm topples, there it will remain
17. Dial immoral acts do not constitute moral propriety
19. Immature around the breathing apparatus

 

[Myrrdin]

1) Know the ropes
2) To cut loose?
3) Last straw
4)Read between the lines
5) Bird in the hand, is worth two in the bush
6)Apple of one's eye
7)Green with envy.
8) Catch one's breath.
9)Face the music
10)Adding insult to injury.
11) Kept in the dark
12) First things first
13) Silence is golden
14)Pain loves company ?
15)
16)Variety is the spice of life
17)
18)Greasy spoon
19)Young about the gills ?
20)Fuelling the flames

 

[Ksss]

Palindromes

1. a female sheep - ewe
2. a baby wears one - bib
3. paper showing ownership of land - deed
4. used for defense against aircraft
5. a joke -gag
6. eskimo boat - kayak
7. the sound a tugboat makes -toot
8. an exclamation -aha
9. another exclamation -oho
10. you see with it -eye



1. Understand the cords! -
2. Scissor something from its place. -cut from the same cloth
3. Final drinking tube - last straw
4. Peruse words below one line but above another - read between the lines
5. A blue jay in the fist is twice as valuable as one in the shrub - a bird in hand is worth two in the bush
6. Winesap of one's oculus -apple of ones eye
7. Verdant from coveting -green with envy
8. Recapture one's respiration -catch one's breath
9. Confront the tune - face the music
10. To heap disparagement upon a wound -
11. To be maintained in the total eclipse -kept in the dark
12. Initial items at the beginning -from the start
13. Absence of sound is aureate -sounds of silence
14. Anguish adores association -misery loves company
15. When the elm topples, there it will remain -
16. Diversity is the seasoning of existence -diversity is the salt of life
17. Dial immoral acts do not constitute moral propriety -two wrongs don't make a right
18. Oily ladle -greasy spoon
19. Immature around the breathing apparatus-green around the gills
20. Put more combustible fluid on the blaze -stoke the fire

 

[Barb Dwyer]

Mea Culpa

Well, now, don't I look pretty with egg all over my face?

This is what I get for teasing someone else about their spelling/typos (sorry Mensa!)

Weird Harold PM'd me with his guesses, most of which were correct. One stood out - it was really amusing and very clever on his part. However, it pointed out to me that I made a typo.

#17 should be dual not dial! Hope that helps.

I'll wait awhile to give others a chance before I post the answers.

 

[lavender]

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: Mea Culpa

#17 should be dual not dial! Hope that helps.

I'll wait awhile to give others a chance before I post the answers.

So "Phone sex is cheating, but two wrongs don't make a right?

 

[Barb Dwyer]

Re: Re: Mea Culpa

So "Phone sex is cheating, but two wrongs don't make a right?

I don't think so!
(in my best Joan Rivers voice) Can we talk?

(in my best Blondie singing voice) Call me! On the line. Call me any, any, anytime. Call me!