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Lez
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Jan 15, 2018 05:27PM
I didn’t know about a specific cave, I only know a bone cave as one containing fossil bones. There are some at Inchnadamph.
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Take Good Care of My Baby - Dick Brave & The BackbeatsThe Loco-Motion - Grand Funk Railroad
I'm Into Something Good - The Bird and The Bee
Swoops in with they're all Carol King/Gerry Goffin songs. Finally! - something I do know about.
Martin wrote: "Swoops in with they're all Carol King/Gerry Goffin songs. Finally! - something I do know about."Correct!
Over to you.
Or even sooner!Cleopatra's Cat ~ Spin Doctors
Children On Parade ~ Men At Work
Past The Point Of Rescue ~ Dixie Chicks
needle?Cleopatra's Needle
needlework
needlepoint
...
To Sir With Love - LuluBe-Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps
Or Nah - The Game, Ft. AV, Eric Bellinger, Problem & Too $hort
Not Fade Away - Buddy Holly and The Crickets
To Know Him Is To Love Him - The Shirelles
Be Quick or Be Dead - Iron Maiden
That Don't Impress Me Much - Shania Twain
Is This the Way To Amarillo? - Tony Christie
The Man with the Child in His Eyes - Kate Bush
Question! - System of A Down
Hints
. Not a word in common
. Each line yields an ordinary English dictionary word
. The order of the words (and therefore the songs) is important and gives a well-known oft-quoted phrase
Handybird wrote: "TwoddleBungler wrote: "To Sir With Love - LuluBe ....
Hamlet perchance?
Yes HB, you're right of course! :-)
Are you sure you don't want to have a go at setting one? I don't have another one ready.
Very clever, TB, and well solved Handybird. Go on, have a go!
Great work, both of you! 😀Just came to me, it’s called an acrostic.
Okay, let's throw it open. Anyone got a puzzle ready?
Handybird wrote: ... I suspect my effort may prove too easy ...Don't worry, my first attempt was guessed in one go - for my second I had to give several hints before anyone could get it. As far as I was concerned they were equally easy/difficult!
I'll employ my usual strategy and try a word in common:time?
time-frames
show time
daytime
I don't think the rules are well-defined. Also there's no hurry. If there's no progress after a while you could give another song or perhaps a clue as to what sort of puzzle it is (or isn't). Currently I'm looking for another word in common. If I can't find one I'll look for a different kind of connection!
picture?picture frames
picture hook
picture perfect
As TB says, rules aren't well -defined, in fact there aren't any, just habits that evolve over time. Currently we tend to add another clue after 24 hours. Having said that, TB's latest try looks promising....
To answer your question, we would probably frown on homophones - for example if 'fair' was actually 'fare' in your above set, then that would be a bit unfair :). On the other hand, words which look the same but are pronounced differently (eg lead/lead) are OK. Something to do with this being a written puzzle, I think.
This is just my understanding of it, others may take issue with me. As they said about the pirate code in 'Pirates of the Caribbean' ," It's more just guidelines really'.
Handybird wrote: " ...Under the boardwalk - The Drifters
Child in Time - Deep Purple
Scarborough Fair - Simon and Garfunkel"
Normally the person who guesses correctly is supposed to set the next one. Since you didn't know that and I haven't got anything ready, I'm happy for you to take my turn :-)
P.S. I haven't detected any link(s) yet!
ground?underground
ground-in
fairground
Handybird wrote: "Under the boardwalk - The Drifters
Child in Time - Deep Purple
Scarborough Fair - Simon and Garfunkel"
play?
(to) underplay
playtime
fair play
Handybird wrote: Not play TB but again, it fits :O/How many words correct this time? :-)
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Under the boardwalk - The Drifters
Child in Time - Deep Purple
Scarborough Fair - Simon and Garfunkel
Strange Brew - Cream
Eliminated: ground, play
Impossible: hand, y
's' ?sunder
sin
sand
scream
(floundering now!)
Aha!'skin'
Under the skin
skin deep
fair skin
skin cream
skin and bone
skinflint
skin alive
Good one, H. And two or more words together is fine, as long as they are together.
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Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers - The Continental, The Gay Divorcee, 1934
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers - Isn't This a Lovely Day, Top Hat, 1935
Fred Astaire - Puttin' on the Ritz, Blue Skies (1946)
Haven't come up with anything, apart from the obvious, but just wanted to say thanks for the links, I've loved watching these again :)
I’ll have a go at types of biscuit:Continental
Ginger
Ritz
Lez wrote: "I’ll have a go at types of biscuit:Continental
Ginger
Ritz"
Great idea - better than mine! Not what I'm looking for though.
One correct
Hint
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Or maybe just 'on the shelf'? Looks good, I'd thought of Continental shelf, but didn't get any further.
Shelf is correct. My solution was:-Continental shelf
Top shelf
on the shelf
It was a joint effort with nocheese but think I'll have to give it to HB!
Absolutely, my contribution was tiny. Another cracker, Mr T.
red?red queen
red spine (this has to do with books but I'm not sure what it indicates - something to do with classics I think)
red wine
Well, having tried red, I'll try white!white queen
white spine (a type of cucumber)
white wine
(by the way, how many did I get?)
Haha!ash
pine
elder
fir
Excellent!
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Human Torn
We Are the Champions
The above are song titles. Who's the artiste in common?
Human Torn
We Are the Champions
Baby One More Time
Hint: Not a singer or musician or band
TwoddleBungler wrote: "Human Torn
We Are the Champions
Baby One More Time
Hint: Not a singer or musician or band"
Very surreal - it's either Salvador Dali or Marcel Marceau 😕!
Martin wrote: ... Very surreal - it's either Salvador Dali or Marcel Marceau 😕!"You're on the right track!
So are we looking for an 'artiste' such as an actor, a painter, a dancer?
nocheese wrote: "So are we looking for an 'artiste' such as an actor, a painter, a dancer?"Was Marcel Marceau any of those?
Well I think he was an actor and a dancer as part of being a mime artist.
nocheese wrote: "Well I think he was an actor and a dancer as part of being a mime artist."Fair enough.
Human Torn
We Are the Champions
Baby One More Time
Careless Whisper
Eternal Flame
I could give a hint about how to find the answer but then it would become trivial!
