Saturday, October 24, 2009

The homonym game

Most of you know this game. You get a clue and the answer is a set of homonyms. Here are some bad examples:

The entire emptiness? Whole hole.
The only being? Sole soul.

The relationship between the clue and the answer is sometimes like the one you roll your eyes at when you're doing a crossword puzzle. So the answer isn't always exactly synonymous with the clue. I also like answers that aren't strict homonyms, or they're a stretch, literally. More bad examples:

Arborial snack? Tree treat.
Soda for a tree? Oak Coke.

Onto the game!

Altercation between rodents?
Problem with teaching stupid kids?
Treat's ability?
Door to a squirrel's abode?
Spooky bird's nest?

6 comments:

ben said...

batspeaker batspeaker

Chris Yarrison said...

Wow and they're all homonyms, not stupid rhyming words, great job.

Chris Yarrison said...

Okay, they're pretty good, but the game is still open.

Chris Yarrison said...

And, yeah, fine, "idiots shitiots" might be better than the one I had in mind. Looks like Ben's still in the lead.

Sterling Alexander Schlegel said...

mice mess
fool foul
dessert desert
port hole's portals
an armpit!!!!!

Chris Yarrison said...

Yes! None of these had crossed my mind, except "rat spat", duh Annie, still not right. This is going swimmingly. We might have to have a run-off ( / dance-off).