OPPOSITE OUTCOMES
Credit: GAMES Magazine - Dec. 1999

Patricia Dombrink (adapted)

Contrary to what you might be thinking, the word fragments below will easily become complete words if you insert a pair of familiar opposites in the blanks for each set.

Example:

_ _ _ _ T

_ _ PHER ............. could change to COMEt and GOpher

1)
S _ _ _
S _ _ _ _

2)
_ _ CE

SC _ _ _

3)
C _ _ _ _
_ _ _ DOW

4)
SH _ _
SH _ _ _

5)
_ _ _ _ _ CAKE

INS _ _ _ _

6)
C _ _
_ _ _ _ FALL

7)
QU _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ LY

8)
_ _ AP
_ _ _ EP

9)
BOG _ _

_ _ _ _ E

10)
_ _ _ M
_ _ _ _LY

HINTS:

The first letters of the opposites are:

1. H/C

2. O/O

3. L/W

4. I/O

5. S/T

6. U/D

7. E/H

8. H/S

9. U/T

10. F/N

Answers:

1)
sHOT

sCOLD

2)
ONce

scOFF

3)
cLOSE
WINdow

4)
shIN

shOUT

5)

SHORTcake

insTALL

6)
cUP
DOWNfall

7)
quEASY
HARDly

8)
HEap
SHEep

9)
bogUS

THEMe

10)
FARm
NEARly