BANANAGRAMS I
Credit: GAMES Magazine
September, 2001
Edmund Conti

Complete each rhyming couplet by filling in the blanks with two words which are anagrams of each other.

1. Unless you're in the Foreign Legion,
Skip the Sahara: _______ the _______.

2. It's an urban myth and a big mistake
To ask for 13: Give the _______ a _______.

3. Moses said, when he saw the Sea,
"_______, Red, it's God's _______."

4. Nostalgia may be overblown,
But a nickel _______ could buy a _______.

5. Semper fi? What does it mean?
That you must always _______ a _______.

HINTS:

The second words are:

1. region

2. break

3. decree

4. cone

5. Marine

Answers:

1. ignore / region
2. baker / break
3. Recede / decree
4. once / cone
5. remain / Marine