Here’s a silly word game to help you while away your Sunday afternoon. Below are ten clues, each of which suggests a one word answer. To make the game easier, here is a hint: Every answer can be spelled using the letters in SPAGHETTI.
Put 5 minutes on the clock and see how well you can do. Answers and scoring after the jump.
1. “Crazy†card game
2. Meanness
3. Rose has the most
4. Consumes
5. Slang for being drunk
6. Lacunae
7. Kind of Infection
8. One is Black, one is Yellow, one is Red and one is White
9. Touts and servers love them
10. __________ cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.
ANSWERS
1. Eights
2. Spite
3. Hits
4. Eats
5. Tight
6. Gaps
7. Staph
8. Sea
9. Tips
10. Age
Scoring
0-2 Noodle head.
3-5 Weak sauce.
6-8 You Gotta Lotta Tomatta!
9-10 Multo Bene!
Keith_Humphreys says
Mark tells me by email that I should have explained #3 — it's Pete Rose, lifetime hits leader in Major League Baseball. He also tells me I should have used phages…wish I'd thought of that.
Ken Doran says
Easyish, but I do a lot of boggle and jumble stuff. Tell mark "Duh" on Rose, but he should tell you to tell us where the White Sea is.
Keith_Humphreys says
The White Sea is an inlet of the Barents Sea next to Russia.
Allen K. says
11. Dawkins
12. Hostess
13. 10%
14. Burger units
15. Keith's favorite movie type?
grep -v "[^spaghetti]" /usr/share/dict/words | grep -v "s.*s" | grep -v "p.*p" | grep -v "a.*a" | grep -v "g.*g" | grep -v "h.*h" | grep -v "e.*e" | grep -v "i.*i" | grep -v "t.*t.*t"
Keith_Humphreys says
Very good indeed — wish I had consulted you!
Warren Terra says
I got 7/10
Of the remaining three:
"Rose has the most … hits"? Huh? I don't even understand this. Rose hips, I've heard of, though still wouldn't have gotten.
I consider myself fairly widely knowledgeable, and I'd never heard of "The White Sea.
No excuses for "staph", though.
Keith_Humphreys says
Well done Warren — see comments upthread for explanations of the ones you missed.