Wordly Pleasures

Prelims – The Forbidden Fruit

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FourPlay – where it all begins

1. Decrypt : Always a football club without weight (4) (Four points)
2. Give all four letter words which have 3 consecutive letters of the alphabet. (Four points per word)
3. Change THIS to THAT by changing one letter at a time in FOUR (duh!) transitions. (4*2 points)
4. Fill in the blanks with meaningful four letter words which make another word with the preceding four letters.

BARE ( _ _ _ _ ) ( _ _ _ _ ) ( _ _ _ _ ) ( _ _ _ _ ) ROBE

Four points per word.

BDSM – Basic Deciphering of a Scrambled Mix

Unscramble! 15 points per word, 30 point bonus for getting them all.

1. CREATIONISM
2. ENGRAILED
3. ORIENTATORS
4. SATIRICAL
5. INVEIGLER
6. REINVENTED
7. DECORATIONS
8. BANALITIES
9. STRIPTEASE

Alphabet orgy

26 letters of the alphabet. 26 free cells. You know what to do. 10 points per word 30 point bonus for the full grid.

BASE FOUR

The four blanks within the slashes are same throughout the set. Fill in the blanks with the clues given. (Ten points per word)

1              /_ _ _ _/ _ _ _ _ _ _               To a significant degree

2              _ /_ _ _ _/ _ _ _ _ _              Unprofessional

3              _ _ /_ _ _ _/ _ _ _ _              Irrelevant

4              _ _ _ /_ _ _ _/ _ _ _              In a vibrant manner

5              _ _ _ _ /_ _ _ _/ _ _              In the end

6               _ _ _ _ _ /_ _ _ _/ _              Adapted

7               _ _ _ _ _ _ /_ _ _ _/              Lawful

Cunning linguist

There are two sets of words – set (1) and set (2). The five letter word in set (1) is obtained by adding one letter to the four letter word from set (1) and anagramming it.  (Similarly the five letter word in set (2) is obtained by adding one letter to the four letter word from set (2) and anagramming it.)

Proceed to finally get a ten letter word from set (1) and a nine letter word from set (2)

Find an(other) anagram of the ten letter word and the nine letter word to get a phrase which is analogous to Worldly Pleasure (hint : evil temptation).

Ten points per blank. Twenty points for filling fully. Thirty points for the phrase.

I hate doggies!

They say a dog is a man’s best friend. I beg to differ. If one _ _ _ _ _ _ _₍₂₎ the imbecilic things they do, they are nothing more than huge pains in places you don’t want to mention. For one, they make too much _ _ _ _ _ ₍₁₎ at the mere sight of anything strange. Even more irritating is their tendency to meddle with your wardrobe for no apparent reason when they are irritated! Nothing is spared – not your shoes, nor your trousers, shirts, _ _ _ _ ₍₂₎ – not even your underwear! Just last week I had to throw away my new Nike shoes because my stupid dog ripped out the _ _ _ _ _ _ ₍₁₎             

My friend Arsene Wenger thinks dogs are worked up when they have too many fleas on them. He _ _ _ _ _ ₍₂₎ the example of the noodle incident. (Of course I’m not allowed to talk about that, you can ask Mr.Watterson yourself if you like.) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ₍₁₎  my dog became top priority upon hearing this. I soon discovered that it was no mean feat. It is not like there are just one or two fleas – the _ _ _ _ _ _ ₍₂₎ multiplies and forms _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ₍₁₎ of fleas and most of them are war-trained. Finally upon Arsene’s advice, I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ₍₂₎ my dog clean using a vacuum cleaner. It didn’t help one bit! Arsene is a jackass!

People claim that it is fun to walk a dog. Well it's not! The stupid creatures move in a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _₍₁₎  manner. It is almost as if they read De Bono’s Lateral Thinking books! And of course they chase anything and everything and they run like mad. Believe me when I tell you this – I once had to chase my dog across two _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _₍₂₎ ! The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ₍₁₎ indicated that we were in a different time zone altogether! That’s how much we had run. I haven’t given my dog a walk in _ _ _ _₍₁₎  . Hmmm may be I should! Doggy!!! Where are you??

The 69

If you have ever observed the number 69, you’ll notice that it makes sense upside down as well. Extending the analogy, the clues (double definition) refers to two words which are reversals of each other (example STRESSED – DESSERTS). Find them!

8 * 10 points

1. Creature on a plate (6)
2. Conveyed by metro for first appearance (5)
3. Napkin refunded (6)
4. Prize for artist (6)
5. A hit sport (4)
6. Toss again to steal (6)
7. Excavated fabric (5)
8. Again douses the arachnid (6)

What’s Les Bien word?

A classic case of what’s the good word. (For the uninitiated, “Les Bien” is “the good” in French.) 10 points per blank. 50 point bonus for completing it.

Come now!

Come now! you didn’t expect the ending to be so simple eh? Well apparently it is! Go ahead and Score dear deprived soul! May you have a smashing climax!

List out all the possible 6 letter or greater anagrams using letters of the word “COPULATION”. Three points per word