Think Twice

The Game Room
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My Mensa puzzle-a-day calendar had this for today:

There are two correct answers for each clue. Answers share the same letters and blanks.

  1. Wedding VIP: _ R _ _ _

  2. Fruit: _ E _ O N

  3. Disney dwarf: S _ E E _ Y

  4. Southern U.S. state: _ _ O R _ _ A

  5. Game with wickets: C R _ _ _ E T

Now I’m trying to come up with some more – can you?

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Middle-Eastern country: I R A _
Container: B _ _
Action in a classroom: _ E A _ _

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Man, I can only think of one answer here…Lemon I feel dumb.

Mesh used for catching: _ E _ (Now that’s an oddly specific one!)

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Nice game! Very easy to answer, but very difficult to think of good questions. I’ll be back.

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Melon

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Body parts: Ton_ _ _

OK, that’s an easy one.

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Fight: _ R _ _ _

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:smack:

Yep, I’ll be over here, feeling dumb.

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African country: _ A M B I A

U.S. president Andrew: J _ _ _ S O N

Pepsi or Coke: _ O _ A

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A type of tree found in the UK: the _ _ RCH

(A three-fer) A POTUS: _ _ AM _

A POTUS on Mt. Rushmore: _ _ _ _ E _ _ _ _

A Deadly Sin: _ _ _ TH

An Astrological Sign : _ _ _ _ _ S

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1. Bride and Groom
2. Lemon and Melon
3. Sneezy and Sleepy
4. Georgia and Florida
5. Cricket and Croquet

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1. Iraq and Iran
2. Box and Bag
3. Teach and Learn

Tonsil and Tongue

1. No answer. It’s ‘The Gambia’.

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(A three-fer) A POTUS: _ _ AM _ = Adams, Adams & Obama

A POTUS on Mt. Rushmore: _ _ _ _ E _ _ _ _ = Jefferson & Roosevelt

A Deadly Sin: _ _ _ TH = Wrath & Sloth

An Astrological Sign : _ _ _ _ _ S = Taurus & Pisces

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[spoiler]Number one…the larch. Number two…the larch.

Also, birch[/spoiler]

Nobody’s guessed mine? I thought it was so easy.

Here it is again:

Mesh used for catching: _ E _

And here’s a clue. The descriptor could also be ‘Where this board is (short form)’.

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Mesh used for catching: _ E _

net, web

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That’s what I thought. There’s The Gambia and Namibia, unless I’m missing something.

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Zambia. As far as The Gambia… the official name is actually Republic of The Gambia, and as Wiki notes it’s “commonly known as Gambia” so I don’t think being a pedant about the “the” is called for.

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I actually had a different answer to #2, but they all work.

bin, bag

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Fun game.

  1. Capital: L _ _ _ O N
  2. (A three-fer) Band who topped UK charts: B _ _ _ L E S
  3. (A three-fer) Make of car: _ _ _ D A
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London, Lisbon

For the next ones, I could only think of two each:

Bangles, Beatles, and ?

Honda, Mazda, and ?