Screenhog.com » Wordplay http://screenhog.com/blog Because, apparently, I have to have a tagline on a Wordpress blog. Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:52:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 XI/XI/XI http://screenhog.com/blog/2011/11/11/xixixi/ http://screenhog.com/blog/2011/11/11/xixixi/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:51:37 +0000 Screenhog http://screenhog.com/blog/?p=956 In honor of today being 11/11/11, here’s a quick puzzle. Every one of these answers has XI in it:

  1. _ _ XI _ _ – Country south of the United States
  2. _ XI _ – Leave
  3. _ XI _ – Planet’s center of rotation
  4. _ _ _ _ XI – Mississippi city
  5. _ _ XI _ _ _ – Nervous, experiencing worry
  6. _ _ _ _ XI _ _ – Hydrogen ____, hair bleaching liquid
  7. _ _ XI – Cab
  8. _ _ XI _ – Poisonous
  9. _ _ XI _ _ _ – Upper limit
  10. _ _ _ _ _ XI _ _ _ – Die from lack of oxygen

Answers:

  1. MEXICO
  2. EXIT
  3. AXIS
  4. BILOXI
  5. ANXIOUS
  6. PEROXIDE
  7. TAXI
  8. TOXIC
  9. MAXIMUM
  10. ASPHYXIATE
]]> http://screenhog.com/blog/2011/11/11/xixixi/feed/ 5 Puzzle – Animals Eaten http://screenhog.com/blog/2009/10/10/puzzle-animals-eaten/ http://screenhog.com/blog/2009/10/10/puzzle-animals-eaten/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:54:55 +0000 Screenhog http://screenhog.com/blog/?p=518 Uh oh! It looks like a large group of animals has been eaten by a different large group of animals! Each word on top is the name of an animal with some letters missing, and the letters missing are the name of an animal from the bottom. Each animal on the bottom is only used once. Can you place them all?

Expert challenge: See if you can complete the puzzle without looking at the animal names on the bottom!

Answers:
HOWLER MONKEY
FOX
REINDEER
WILDEBEEST
WOMBAT
BEAGLE
ANTELOPE
KINGFISHER
STALLION
CATERPILLAR
LEMUR
HEDGEHOG
MUSKRAT
MONGOOSE
PIGEON

P.S. If you said “MUSKOX” instead of “MUSKRAT”, I’ll give you half points, but that would turn “FOX” into “FRAT”, and I’m pretty sure that’s not an animal. :)

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These little animations inspired me seven years ago to create an alphabet animation of my own, and while I’d like to do a better one someday, this type of thing still brings back memories of my early childhood.

]]> http://screenhog.com/blog/2009/10/03/alphabet/feed/ 0 Word Search Puzzle – Over and Under http://screenhog.com/blog/2009/10/01/word-search-puzzle-over-and-under/ http://screenhog.com/blog/2009/10/01/word-search-puzzle-over-and-under/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:06:57 +0000 Screenhog http://screenhog.com/blog/?p=504 This is just a regular old word search puzzle… except for one thing. Every word or phrase that you have to look for contains the word “OVER” or “UNDER” at least once. That word is replaced in the puzzle by an appropriate symbol… for instance, “DISCOVERY CHANNEL” is in the far right column, going down from the first D. Can you find all of the words and phrases?

Word List:
ANIMAL LOVER
APPLE TURNOVER
DANNY GLOVER
DISCOVERY CHANNEL
DOVER, DELAWARE
FOURLEAF CLOVER
FLOUNDER
GOVERNMENT
GROVER CLEVELAND
HOOVER DAM
HOVERCRAFT
MIND OVER MATTER
MONEY LAUNDERING
ONE UNDER PAR
OVERHEAD
OVERLOAD
OVERWHELMED
OVERWORKED AND UNDERPAID
PIANO MOVER
POVERTY
QUARTER-POUNDER
RED ROVER
SOVEREIGN
THUNDERED
UNDER ARREST
UNDERCOVER AGENT
UNDER SIEGE

Click here for answers.

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The puzzle below is an almost-finished network of real words. The only things missing are the letters in my name… all single C, H, R, I, and S is gone. Can you figure out how to complete it?

Click here for the answer

]]> http://screenhog.com/blog/2009/08/21/chris-crossword/feed/ 0 Twelve Words http://screenhog.com/blog/2009/08/19/twelve-words/ http://screenhog.com/blog/2009/08/19/twelve-words/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:25:28 +0000 Screenhog http://screenhog.com/blog/?p=416

P.S. I’ve been a bit busy lately (those who know me personally will understand why), and while I plan to maintain my twice-a-week update schedule, I doubt I’ll be able to do much more than that. Just letting you know in advance.

]]> http://screenhog.com/blog/2009/08/19/twelve-words/feed/ 0 Sometimes, I Don’t Feel So Artistic http://screenhog.com/blog/2009/07/28/sometimes-i-dont-feel-so-artistic/ http://screenhog.com/blog/2009/07/28/sometimes-i-dont-feel-so-artistic/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:43:57 +0000 Screenhog http://screenhog.com/blog/?p=447 Way back at the beginning of May, I said I’d participate in a challenge to do 50 sketches before August 1st. Well, there were a few days when I had time to work on drawings, but didn’t feel particularly artistic, so I took my sketches in a slightly different direction.

First, I did a wacky little drawing exercise that you can do at home! You take a piece of paper, and make some wacky shapes on it, as though you were drawing strange blobs. Then, you have to turn that blob into some kind of creature. Here were my blob monsters:

Beautiful works of art? Hardly… but it did push my brain in a different direction, and drawing should do that sometimes. Next, I tried my hand at taking the names of regular objects and trying to turn those names into those things:

Some are obvious, some take a bit of squinting to get.

Only 4 more pictures to go! The challenge concludes this week!

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Can you figure out the other movies and characters?

1. WTOOYOSTDOYRY
2. ALGEANDIDINE
3. LISIOMBNKINAG
4. GEPIPENOCTCHITOO
5. CAMARTSER
6. WEAVELLE
7. JUMNOGLWEGBLOOKI
8. SPETMEREPANE
9. OARISMATOCLATLESY
10. HEMEGERCURLEAS

Answers:

1. Toy Story / Woody
2. Aladdin / Genie
3. Lion King / Simba
4. Gepetto / Pinocchio
5. Cars / Mater
6. WALL-E / EVE
7. Jungle Book / Mowgli
8. Peter Pan / Smee
9. Aristocats / O’Malley
10. Hercules / Megera

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_ U P _ _ _ _ _ Kryptonite-fearing man of steel
_ _ _ _ _ _ U P _ Start talking in the middle of a conversation
_ _ U P Restaruant side dish choice
_ _ _ _ _ U P _ _ _ _ Five identical siblings
_ U P _ _ Love-maker of mythology
_ _ _ _ – U P Gym class exercise
_ _ _ _ _ U P Put your foot into this when you’re riding a horse
_ U P _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Brand of plastic containers
U P _ _ _ _ _ _ Type of punch in boxing
_ U P _ _ _ Kermit or Miss Piggy
_ _ _ U P Bunch of people
_ U P _ _ _ Evening meal
_ _ _ _ U P You can ride and spin in one of these in Disneyland
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ U P _ _ _ _ Big Bird’s brown buddy
_ _ _ U P _ Sudden, without warning


Answers:

1. SUPERMAN
2. INTERRUPT
3. SOUP
4. QUINTUPLETS
5. CUPID
6. PUSH-UP (or PULL-UP)
7. STIRRUP
8. TUPPERWARE
9. UPPERCUT
10. MUPPET
11. GROUP
12. SUPPER
13. TEACUP
14. SNUFFLEUPAGUS
15. ABRUPT

]]> http://screenhog.com/blog/2009/05/29/the-up-puzzle/feed/ 0 Stretch Words – Movies http://screenhog.com/blog/2009/05/10/stretch-words-movies/ http://screenhog.com/blog/2009/05/10/stretch-words-movies/#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 23:15:59 +0000 Screenhog http://screenhog.com/blog/?p=354 In this puzzle, the words only go across, not down. Some of the letters in each word will stretch across to other words, as shown with the words SHREK and SCREAM. When you’re finished, every word will be used.



Click on the puzzle if you’d like a longer version for printing out. Click here for the solution.

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