Each pair of clues refers to a pair of answers that are the same aside from switching the first sound of each word. Typing either answer will get you the point.
Yep hard enough for me as well. I think as a non-native I experience these as more difficult than natives do. At least I have a hard time to realise something is pronounced roughly the same way even though in writing it's completely different.
Maybe I could change it to something about a Mayberry marathon.. as in "Fife Night"... Barney Fife, popular character played by Don Knots on the Andy Griffith Show. But that is probably too obscure for clues at this difficulty level. It would go better on one of the harder quizzes I made, even if the rhyming would work better.
Not sure if it is intentional to include half of each pair, but it would be "Tom and Jerry" or "Itchy and Scratchy" for one of the clues if you just meant one duo.
Great and challenging quiz. Pretty happy to get 16. One of the answers doesn't quite fit the rules though: airplane/pear lane, which doesn't involve a switching of the first sounds. air plane would switch to plear ane (meaningless), and pear lane would switch to lair pane (window in a wild animal's home?).
If not, then there's not really a full switch. At the moment you've moved the p to the front of the word, but haven't switched anything back in its place. "Air" and "Ane" have the same initial sound, so "plair ane" would constitute a full switch, but of course have no meaning. "Lair pane" and "Pair lane" would be a full switch also, to match all the other answers.
Accepting the singular form doesn't match with the clue, so I don't understand why you would be trying the singular. Is there another case where it doesn't matter?
I know you are exaggerating, but, just to see, I clicked the "random quiz" link above and it took me to "Fun with Unicode," which I have not commented on yet. So, no.
Great idea, fun but tricky. "Purchased half-eaten apple" doesn't quite work for "sold core" - I tried "bought core" before I twigged you'd really given the opposite. Maybe "peddled" or "auctioned", or "disposed of half-eaten apple for money"...
i got really stuck on paris, thinking city should be at the end but not knowing a word meaning that beginning with f. I have only ever heard americans/american movies put the country name after the city and don't do it myself so it didn't occur to me. I'm pretty sure they do it because the US has so many copies of place names in different states. We just assume its the original one if you don't say the country so it sounds really odd when it's added in.
Interesting observation, and this may be *more* true in the United States where there are, for example, 69 different places called Springfield than it is true some other places... but even outside of the United States I can think of many, many examples where this could be useful. For example, there are at least a dozen cities named Alexandria. There's London, England and London, Ontario. There are lots of place names in the Portuguese, Spanish, Russian and Arabic speaking worlds that echo other, older place names.. Santiagos, Toledos, Cordovas, Portos, Pueblos, Medinas, and so on. There are tons of cities named after the same saints in different places. There are multiple Novgorods in Russia.
If you're not in the habit of being specific with your place names maybe you should get in to it! :)
I think it is common practice that you normally mean the original one. Like when speaking of paris london etc. No need to add anything especially in an international conversation. Only when you live close to a town with a similar name it is usefull to specify.
Some of these were really funny! I deliberately tried not to read them cause I would get too distracted. So hoped (and worked for most I got) I could get them by just reading one part. And definitely not try to visualize it ;)
Wouldn't pear lanes become lear panes ? This one doesn't work imo. Otherwise you could make it "lanpear es" in theory (I know the words dont exist) if you can take off a random amount of letters from the beginning and add none to the other word. No switching involved
Great fun, and very pleased with 19/20. Would never have got the Lady Gaga one as I didn't understand the reference. But now I do - more knowledge courtesy of JetPunk! (Not quite sure how useful this particular knowledge is, but you never know when it might come in handy...!)
I enjoyed this. Just note that one of the words in the example shows up as an answer. That's unusual for this site and you may want to consider changing that
Pord Wuzzle (Hard)
Pord Wuzzle (Impossible)
Not sure if it is intentional to include half of each pair, but it would be "Tom and Jerry" or "Itchy and Scratchy" for one of the clues if you just meant one duo.
It was the Paris France / Ferris Prance that I didn't get.
Excellent quiz. 19/20 and only one attempt.
If you're not in the habit of being specific with your place names maybe you should get in to it! :)
These are described in this epic video, starting at 5:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hup_8uDXJx8
Do I dare tackle the harder ones now?!