CRYPTIC CONNECTIONS

BIG BOOK OF GAMES

Scott Marley

 

Fill in the blanks in the following sequences and analogies. Wordplay is fair play. For example, the answer to #1 below is not "Fourth." 

1. First, Second, Third, _______

2. Black:White:: Whack: _______

3. Goatherd, Coat hanger, _______some

4. King, Queen, _______, _______

5. Daze:Knights::Eye: _______

6. Boredom:Bedroom::Thicken: _______

7. Cousin:Unconscious::Imps: _______

8. Plover:Plunder::Shin: _______

Answers:

 

1. Home (baseball)

2. Blight (spoonerisms)

3. Loathsome 

4. Double, Twin (beds)

5. Neigh (homophones of opposites)

6. Kitchen (anagrams)

7. Mississippi (same letters)

8. Shout (same beginning letters, opposite ending words)