TRIPLE PLAY IV
Credit: GAMES Magazine
July, 2001
Stephen Sniderman

Complete each sentence below by filling in the blanks with three words that differ by only one letter. The changed letter will be in the same position in all three words. For example, "_____ visiting SeaWorld, the _____ class cheered Shamu, the killer _____." would be completed by the words WHILE, WHOLE, and WHALE.

1. The carpenter was plagued with _____ after he spilled wax on the _____ while staining the bed he'd just _____.

2. That taxpayer _____ about his income, so the IRS opted to put a _____ on his house in _____ of a monthly payment.

3. As he finished his third glass of _____, the beat _____ began _____ when the audience laughed at his free verse.

4. The _____ of this note was an eager _____ in chemistry lab today - so eager that she'll have to pay for the _____ she broke.

5. During the company re-organization, the employment director found the _____ and _____ of workers very _____.

6. That milk will go _____ before you _____ it. You've been holding the carton for an _____!

7. Far from their home _____ and burdened by too many _____ of supplies, the camel caravan had to stop and rest at several desert _____.

8. Don't be _____ if you have to _____ in Hyde Park standing on an orange _____ rather than a soapbox.

9. When politicians _____ the _____ of moral values in America, it's usually just a _____ to rope in conservative voters.

10. I _____ any gardener to _____ that _____ grass can clog a lawn mower.

Answers:

1. Guilt, quilt, built
2. Lied, lien lieu
3. Port, poet, pout
4. Bearer, beaver, beaker
5. Hiring, firing, tiring
6. Sour, pour, hour
7. Bases, cases, oases
8. Irate, orate, crate
9. Decry, decay, decoy
10. Defy, deny, dewy