Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Who Wants to Get Things Started?

Q:


This week we have multiple challenges.


Take the phrase
Native Beagle Cheered

First challenge -  how many four letter animal names can you come up with?  I came up with fourteen singular animal names, six of which have a homophone.

Second challenge - take one of the more common animals and add a consonant.  The five letters can now be rearranged twice to make a pair of homophones.  What are they?

Third challenge - using the letters of  Native Beagle Cheered only once, complete four common phrases that each begin with one of the above five letter homophones.

Good luck!!



A:

Common animals - bear, crab, hare, deer, bird, gnat 

Crossword animals - erne, tern, rhea

Crazy animals - hart, hind, ling, teal, rail

Add a "K" to bear to get "brake" and "break".

Using the letters in "Native Beagle Cheered" gives you four phrases beginning with "break".

The title hints at - break the ice.

Good luck hints at - break a leg.

The other two are - break bread and break even.



2 comments:

  1. I got nowhere with the phrases, but I did find 3 animals -- all of them fish -- that aren't listed above: char, dace, and tang. Plus a couple of near misses: lice, veal.

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  2. I was concerned that part two was too time consuming and should have been watered down.

    Nice job on the fish!

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