I'm pretty stumped on both of them. The closest I got to the NO PORT CURE is "corruption", (switching an "i" for an "e"). I can't figure out the NICE BURL either. Either both are words I'm not familiar with, or I'll be smacking my forehead when I see the answer(s).
OOPS chiming in late here... holy cow, you guys are doing this game like a house afire! MEA CULPA: I stupidly was trying to anagramize "corruption", & substituted an e for an i. so just skip "no port cure" SORRY!This message has been edited. Last edited by: bethree5,
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But we still don't have STUCCO PENS ("consuscept")
The scrambled for STUCCO PENS was following a sort of theme with "epitome". Hint: the word was more synonymous with "synopsis", if anyone is still trying to guess it.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Tom,
If he ATE a PELT, I hope he had a good PALETTE. and gave it A BEST DUSTing that he could. (Okay, kind of bad, but the best little quip I could think of.)
Nice one: PHILATELY (Groundhog's Day kept us all waiting this year?)
Speaking of stamps, they keep falling off my mail. I asked the Postmaster what would he advise to rectify the problem, and he suggested I use an EAVE DISH. Twice, as a matter of fact.
Originally posted by Proofreader: Does this game ever feature two-letter anagrams?
Call that a "degenerate" problem * , if you're a mathematician, or a "minimalist" problem if you're in the Arts, so - since it yields too easily to brute force - no. The only challenge is whether you ever heard of the word, Three and four-letter anagrams are kinda trivial too. The "Jumble" puzzle published in many newspapers - which inspired this and all previous such threads originally - starts at five letters.
* (like Hofstadter's "headache" problem, which asked for a word that began and ended with the same two-letter pair "HE." The word "he" was offered, and rejected as a solution. Degenerate. )
Is "INCRIMINATORES" a word? If so, please raise my PAI GRADES. (actually, I don't remember what that one was, but I'll refigure it out if I got this one right)
Dear me. I certainly didn't mean to bring the thread to a screeching halt like this.
If you put "a humorous play on words" into the Reverse Dictionary function of Onelook.com, I think you'll find it in the first two hits, the other one being "pun."
Meantime, for AM I A SOPRANO, no I'm not, I'm more like a baritone these days. I take it back. TEAR CRT.
Well RETRACT it or not, I just wasn't familiar with that last one. I was so mixed up I couldn't even figure out which side was the FOCUS END of my camera.
Well that word was simply a MASTERPIECE so you can have a champaign for your "touchdown". Mine just isn't as good, but it counts, so I'll have some PUNT-TIME ALE for it.
Penultimate was it. I am not sure what "something else" you meant. I know you talk in riddles that I don't get sometimes but I get them EVENTUAL(ly).
Anyway, the only thing I can think of is NIFTY AIL for a clue for the next one, and I'm not all the proud of it, but I had to think of something in the end....