wordgames - origins 2013: solutions

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PROLIX [3x5]

Mission Objective: Cut through the complex maze of verbose descriptions to obtain

a popular phrase, idiom or proverb.

Ex: Fend off conflagration via conflagration.

Fight fire with fire.

1.Long, sharp steel blades have less potency than an object usedfor application of coloured dyes onto bleached wood pulp.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

2.The direction of increase of entropy and the lunar influence onthe water bodies are highly impatient.

Time and tide wait for none.

3.Visual examination is an indispensable precaution to beundertaken before one projects oneself onward.

Look before you leap.

4.Those deprived of their vital state do not spin yarns.Dead men tell no tales.

5.Unremitting merriment is to be gained from an aestheticallypleasing entity.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

HOMOPHONES [5x10]

Mission Objective: Find two words having different spellings but similar

pronunciation. OK? Okay?

Ex: I could see the blue sea all the way to the horizon. (3, 3)


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1. Medicine for war (6, 6) Battle tablet2. Delicate yet energetic movement (6, 6) Subtle bustle3. Instructing in the art of deception (8, 8) Teaching cheating4. Most protected dinners (6, 6) Safest feasts5. Intelligent shops (5, 5) Smart marts6. Frodos descendants (5, 5) Shire heirs7. Delivers poems (6, 6) Serves verses8. Coaching territory (7, 7) Trainer terrain9. Thieving Balls (8, 8) Stealing genitals10. The Chinese connection (8, 8) Oriental relation11. Faked the process of giving nourishment (7, 7) Feigned

feeding

12. Disclosed suffragist (5, 5) Overt voter

PALINDROMES [3x10]

Mission Objective: Find a phrase or sentence which when read backwards reads

the same. Yes, really!

Ex: Hey guys, Im the real Slim Shady. (3, , , 2, 6)

Men, Im Eminem.

1. Fornication at midday is liable to be charged. (3, 2, 4, 5)Sex at noon taxes.

2. Adams rib condemned paradise, foolish her. (3, 6, 4, , , 3, 3)Eve damned Eden, mad Eve.

3. Temperatures too high for the owls to even make a sound. (3,3, 2, 4)

Too hot to hoot.

4. Did I just see a Gallardo or Garfield? (3, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 3, 1, 3, ?)Was it a car or a car I saw?


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5. Dull as a dimwit, distant as a poet. (4, 2, 1, 4, , , 5, 2, 1, 4)Drab as a fool, aloof as a bard.

6. The Supreme Evil Beings existence itself was a lie. (5, 5, 4, 5)Devil never even lived.

7. An order to The Supreme Evil Being to move the first personspeakers metallic instrumental compositions in a periodic

motion back and forth about a fixed point. (5, , , 9, 2, 8, 7)

Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.

8. An indefinite number of males construe nine notes. (4, 3, 9, 4,5)

Some men interpret nine memos.

9. Is it not possible that amorous couples will rebel presently? (4,6, 6, 3, ?)

Wont lovers revolt now?

10. Go, hang limply with disdain laterally inverted becomesDupe a pitiable canine. (2, 5, 5, 5, 8, 2, 4, 1, 4, 3)

Go droop aloof, sides reversed, is Fool a poor dog.

This One Time At Band Camp... [ each]

Mission Objective: Fill in the blanks using words which in turn are formed using

only the following letters:

O-V-E-R-H-A-N-G-I-N-G

My name is James. Ignore(6) the challenge of this paper for a while

and get comfy, for I have(4) an interesting tale to tell. My story

begins not unlike a dream as described in Inception, in that having

(6) begun to perceive an experience; I fail to remember how it

precisely began.

Dusk was nearing and the fiery orange/raging (6) sun brought an

unnatural glow upon all in sight. I became conscious of my location

without any deliberate thought. Brewed Awakening was my


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favourite Bed and breakfast. Their ginger (6) tea was spectacular, as

was the waitress, Jill. Today though, her (3) countenance was

marked with a grave (5) look as she took my order. She suggested a

few egg (3) dishes to me. It surprised me because she had known me

as a staunch vegan (5) for over a year.

Hearing (7) her suggestion, anger(5) welled up inside me for no

apparent reason. An evil grin(4) spread across my face as images of

unspeakable gore (4) flashed across my mind. She went on to list the

soup of the day which turned out to be Chicken Manchow,

angering(8) me further. I felt like a caged rhino(5) trying to break

out. The animal in me was finally out. Knowing all this to be a dream

I lashed out at the nave (5) waitress with a fork fearing noconsequences. To further add insult to her injuries I poured an entire

vat ofvinegar (7) over her wounds just to hear her groan (5).

Guilt soon overtook me and I rang (4) up the police to confess my

crime. Soon a van (3) full of cops pulled up near the inn (3).Fearing

arrest I tried to wake myself up but found all my efforts were in vain

(4). I could hear the police choppers hovering (8) overhead. It wasnow apparent that I was in reality and the end was nigh/near (4). A

masked policeman entered the room carrying a rocket launcher and

proceeded to hit me over the head with it.

The next thing I know I wake up to find myself on the roof my

apartment, my head aching from the hangover (8) of drinking all that

gin (3) last night.

PSYCHE!

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