Wordplay

Quizzes
Jim Fishwick
 Table of Contents

Quizzes
2016: Films ........................................................ 5
2017: Videogames ........................................................ 7
2018: Musicals ........................................................ 9
2019: TV Series ........................................................ 11
2020: Books ........................................................ 13
2021: Agatha Christie Novels ........................................................ 15
2022: Board Games ........................................................ 17

Solutions
2016: Films ........................................................ 20
2017: Videogames ........................................................ 22
2018: Musicals ........................................................ 23
2019: TV Series ........................................................ 25
2020: Books ........................................................ 27
2021: Agatha Christie Novels ........................................................ 29
2022: Board Games ........................................................ 31

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 Foreword
In 2015 I did a quiz that changed my life. Well, it changed my
life a bit. It was by Richard Osman, and it was a fun little thing full
of puns. I solved it over two days with my family, and enjoyed it
immensely.
The following year, I thought it would be nice to make one of
my own for Christmas. So I did. And every year since then, I’ve
made another. This is a collection of all of them.
It’s become a ritual of sorts for me — I start thinking about it in
August, and then begin a flurry of work in November.
What’s quite lovely, though, is that it’s become a ritual of sorts
for some of you as well, to settle in on the couch with family each
year. That’s very, very special to me. So thank you very much to
you, for solving these. Without a solver a puzzle is meaningless.
Thank you also to Kirsty, Elaine, Rob, Marcie, Kieran, Matt and
Jen, who have all been excellent test solvers, cheerleaders and
guest contributors over the years. Their feedback is what makes
these quizzes what they are.
Thank you also to Ellie Featherston, for laying out my nonsense
words so beautifully.
Finally, thank you also to my supporters on Patreon, who make
this work possible. To join them visit patreon.com/jimfishwick
You can send me feedback on these quizzes by emailing me at
boop@jimfishwick.com or on social media at @fimjishwick.

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 How It Works

Every quiz contains a list of questions, and a list of answers.

Each question is a clue to one of the titles on the list of answers.
The clues are all some form of wordplay. Some are cryptic
crossword-style nerdery. Many are horrendous puns.
Crucially, they all only refer to the title, so a clue in the Films
quiz won’t have anything to do with the plot of the film, for
example.
The answers are themed lists of existing titles of things. Not
every title has a clue, but every clue has an answer. Googling is
encouraged, if that’ll help.
Simply match each clue to an answer and try not to be angry at
me for making them.

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 2016: Films
Clues
1 Queer bandits doing the
rounds
2 Excellent neckwear
3 Hodor detects heart
4 Aqua Navy rose sadly
5 The CD doesn’t suck
6 Every You Take
7 A pageant hitherto
presented
8 Something
9 TSHIENRGAIINN
10 Exhale Incorporated
11 ‘Mr Gore, stop booing’ ‘No!’
12 Suburban Tea Set
13 Anozira
14 A hastier Jamaican
15 Jumping after everyone else
16 Golf club is fine-ish
17 Going out during Earth
Hour
18 Green villain, almost
19 Quarter 34
20 Finish a Pixar film
21 Thomas is replanting
22 When Serena doesn’t feel
like scoring
23 How George Bernard got
his knife back
24 ‘Maybe I’m really really
ordinary,’ Rachel starts
25 Security! Security!
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26 Kim Kardashian’s child made
a point
27 A range of taxis
28 Myth Mash
29 River Warriors
30 All Roads
31 Do maths as Snoop drops it
32 … But knickers are healthy
33 Past Facing
34 If Brandon Flowers
transitions
35 My regular client knows
something’s up
36 AH
37 Miles Per Damage
38 Shop Dog
39 This group of bowmen
40 … and praises The Man
Who Fell To Earth
41 Love at the Rivers’ bend
42 Old Age Pensioner
43 Toilet Ace
44 Pretend to be a herb
45 This salmon ring is on fire
46 Pier in Los Angeles
47 A Level
48 Someone who has a
handbag
49 … the Mortal Closer
50 The one we couldn’t be
bothered to do
 2016: Films
Answers
Compiled from best film lists made by the BFI and Film4, in order of rank.
1 Vertigo 38 Fight Club
2 Citizen Kane 39 The 400 Blows
3 The Apartment 40 La dolce vita
4 North by Northwest 41 The Wizard of Oz
5 Chinatown 42 Some Like It Hot
6 All About Eve 43 Cabaret
7 The Searchers 44 Play Time
8 2001: A Space Odyssey 45 Close-up
9 The Passion of Joan of Arc 46 A Night At The Opera
10 8½ 47 Shoah
11 Apocalypse Now 48 Donnie Darko
12 Withnail & I 49 Raising Arizona
13 One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s 50 The Breakfast Club
Nest 51 Breathless
14 Pulp Fiction 52 Fanny and Alexander
15 Late Spring 53 Le Mepris
16 Double Indemnity 54 Metropolis
17 Persona 55 The Ladykillers
18 The Usual Suspects 56 Back To The Future
19 Singin’ in the Rain 57 Three Colours Blue
20 Touch of Evil 58 The Shawshank Redemption
21 L’avventura 59 Brazil
22 The Godfather 60 Trainspotting
23 Ordet 61 La Jetée
24 In the Mood for Love 62 The Battle of Algiers
25 Rashomon 63 Mirror
26 Stalker 64 Tokyo Story
27 Scarface 65 Pink Flamingo
28 Mulholland Dr. 66 Dawn of the Dead
29 The Terminator 67 Princess Mononoke
30 This Sporting Life 68 Journey to Italy
31 Taxi Driver 69 Secrets & Lies
32 The Silence of the Lambs 70 This is Spinal Tap
33 Bicycle Thieves 71 The Seven Samurai
34 City Lights 72 Alien
35 Psycho 73 The General
36 Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du 74 Man with a Movie Camera
Commerce 1080 Bruxelles 75 Sunrise: A Song of Two
37 Pan’s Labyrinth Humans
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 2017: Videogames
Clues

1 Dribs 18 Genital, or other junk

2 Hit the bench
3 Lupine lager
4 Aztec cheesemaker
5 Name of my underwear
6 Elder leisure industry
askew
7 ‘You can’t have that
point’
8 Go soft on gearhead
9 Mood swings
10 Crazy about the French
11 The Third Element
12 Freak-sitter
13 Arya’s barge
14 A stunning resumé
15 Evil computer finds love
16 ‘Is Liza there? It’s her
mother’
17 Give thanks after party
19 The sound posh ducks
make
20 Never look at soft drink
again
21 Alternately, mess up a
nano-file
22 Get ready for the holiday,
dude!
23 The person who gives Mr.
Felton cornrows
24 Live wildly after Trump is
decapitated
25 No room in Palpatine’s,
but there’s...
26 Maybe you should try
starters?
27 Fail at giving it everything
28 Lisp or talk secretly
29 Lenin pardoned
30 He’s in Tim’s

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 2017: Videogames
Answers
This is Time Magazine’s list of the top fifty games of all time, presented in that
order.
Individual game titles on the list have been reduced here to their franchise names
(eg. ‘Grand Theft Auto III’ appears here as ‘Grand Theft Auto’).

1 Tetris 26 StarCraft
2 Super Mario 27 Mortal Kombat
3 Ocarina of Time 28 Donkey Kong
4 Doom 29 Myst
5 Pac-man 30 Pokemon Red & Blue
6 Minecraft 31 The Sims
7 The Legend of Zelda 32 Wolfenstein
8 Super Mario Bros. 33 Super Mario Kart
9 The Oregon Trail 34 Red Dead Redemption
10 World of Warcraft 35 Galaga
11 Sid Meier’s Civilization 36 Fallout
12 Final Fantasy 37 Braid
13 SimCity 38 Portal
14 Quake 39 Castlevania
15 Counter-Strike 40 Pong
16 Grand Theft Auto 41 ESPN NFL
17 Half-Life 42 BioShock
18 Tomb Raider 43 Call of Duty
19 Space Invaders 44 Super Smash Bros.
20 Zork 45 Gran Turismo
21 Diablo 46 Resident Evil
22 GoldenEye 47 Guitar Hero
23 Microsoft Flight Simulator 48 Angry Birds
24 Final Fantasy 49 Dota
25 Halo 50 King’s Quest

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 2018: Musicals
Clues
1 Tina
2 Airship
3 Be born wealthy
4 No German arrangement
5 Puts me away, holding ring
6 Between a femur and a tibia
7 Large rabbits go to church
8 Revolutionary communist
meets fascist paramilitaries
9 Condemn those who get
pulled
10 He eats mutton and drinks tea
11 Heh, eight
12 Desert animal, mostly hot
13 Ritchie, Rag, Fawkes, Voodoo
14 Monopoly property is missing a
noblewoman
15 Revitalised interior
16 Where you keep half your nails
17 Eyes went crossed; that’s
unusual
18 ‘You met Ed and Evan Rachel?’
‘Yes, I bumped...’
19 Run a meeting with no leader
20 Laugh at 17th Century poet
21 Refrain
22 Cold? Turn on front light
23 How Florence stopped being a
solo act
24 Slughorn’s boutique
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25 Adam gets lit and goes back
26 Alabama’s capital
27 Pussy is naked inside
28 X.I. Middleton
29 ‘Bond, what’s another word for
a location?’
30 Missed two games then got
one under par
31 Fashionable freight
32 Migrate with difficulty
33 Disregard enemies
34 ... or d’yer only see girls?
35 People who write articles
36 Gay apes eye some seconds
37 Succubi
38 A change of mind
39 La BOOheme
40 Rex ego
41 What I’ll probably do for the
rest of my life
42 Two donkeys in circus finale
43 Us, turned manic after them
44 I ate all the cake, but none...
45 The Cadbury Foundation
46 Avoid Ho Chi Minh City
47 Liebovitz, fetch Habermas
48 Oil a corner
49 1600 – 0400 GMT
50 Two
 2018: Musicals
Answers
Presented in alphabetical order.

1 1776 26 Company 51 Matilda

2 110 in the Shade
3 The 25th Annual
Putnam County
Spelling Bee
4 42nd Street
5 A Chorus Line
6 A Day in Hollywood,
A Night in the
Ukraine
7 A New Brain
8 Adding Machine
9 Ain’t Misbehavin’
10 Annie
11 Annie Get Your Gun
12 Anything Goes
13 Assassins
14 Avenue Q
15 The Best Little
Whorehouse in
Texas
16 The Book of
Mormon
17 Bye Bye Birdie
18 Cabaret
19 Camelot
20 Caroline, or Change
21 Carousel
22 Cats
23 Chess
24 Chicago
25 City of Angels
27 Damn Yankees 52 Merrily We Roll
28 Dreamgirls Along
29 The Drowsy 53 Miss Saigon
Chaperone 54 The Music Man
30 Evita 55 My Fair Lady
31 Fiddler on the Roof 56 Nine
32 The Full Monty 57 Of Thee I Sing
33 Guys and Dolls 58 Oklahoma!
34 Gypsy 59 On Your Toes
35 Hair 60 The Phantom of the
Opera
36 Hairspray
61 Priscilla, Queen of
37 Hamilton
the Desert
38 Hedwig and the
Angry Inch 62 The Producers
39 Hello, Dolly! 63 Ragtime
40 How to Succeed in 64 Rent
Business Without 65 The Secret Garden
Really Trying 66 She Loves Me
41 In the Heights 67 Show Boat
42 Into the Woods 68 The Sound of Music
43 Jerry Springer – The
69 Sunday in the Park
Opera with George
44 Jersey Boys 70 Sunset Boulevard
45 Jesus Christ 71 Sweeney Todd
Superstar 72 Sweet Charity
46 The King and I 73 Urinetown
47 Kiss Me Kate 74 West Side Story
48 Les Miserables 75 Wicked
49 Little Shop of
Horrors
50 Man of La Mancha

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 2019: TV Series
Clues
1 A gentleman diner won’t, but
a…
2 The night before a lot of
money
3 Irregular meter
4 Both sides met by text
5 Red Hot Chili Peppers
merchandise
6 Professional and their
international governing body
7 Loud Ben Affleck film
8 Electronics brand protests
9 Why Gritty needs a hat
10 Label on a juice bottle from NY
11 Correct if you’re content
12 Sick of plot’s boundary
13 Sonny is honourabyl, and…
14 This venue has been slimed
15 Smashing Michael Jackson’s
record
16 Kukla
17 Games between Barcelona &
Sydney
18 These deliveries aren’t right
19 ...then a Claudio and a
Benedick
20 Rosa making it again
21 Sirius’s parents passed away
22 One who calculates loan
repayments
23 Venice
24 Mr Pratchett makes a mistake
25 Is twice entered like so
26 Gambling equipment
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27 The top of my head
28 Boxer portraying Ms. Kelly
29 Break up near a chemist
30 Jagger with fresh drink for
Spooner
31 Best way to open an advent
calendar
32 Endless irritation from behind
33 Time set aside for blowjobs
34 I stand in for a comeback from
Sigourney
35 Equal parts black and white
36 Extremely grammatical
overview
37 More pointed
38 Peach market, amber sheep,
etc
39 Batman villain kidnaps woman
40 Don’t quite submit 50
41 Jewellery covered in iron
42 My moggy won a prize
43 Internally undividable
44 … and I’m the frankfurter
45 Endoxyla cinereus will get you,
finally
46 I haven’t met the Cat in the
Hat’s sidekicks
47 Spinner starting the cricket’s
order
48 Taking more drugs to avoid
sobriety
49 135°, 0°, 135°, 8
50 EN
 2019: TV Series
Answers
The following list contains 75 of The AV Club’s top 100 TV series of the 2010s.

1 Breaking Bad 38 Archer

2 Mad Men 39 Gravity Falls
3 Atlanta 40 Adventure Time
4 Parks and Recreation 41 Sharp Objects
5 The Americans 42 Terriers
6 The Good Place 43 Lodge 49
7 The Leftovers 44 Black Mirror
8 30 Rock 45 American Vandal
9 Fleabag 46 Killing Eve
10 BoJack Horseman 47 Orange Is The New Black
11 Hannibal 48 Girls
12 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 49 Better Things
13 Rick and Morty 50 High Maintenance
14 Review 51 Big Mouth
15 Veep 52 Treme
16 Justified 53 Orphan Black
17 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 54 Lady Dynamite
18 Enlightened 55 Person of Interest
19 The Great British Bake-Off 56 Penny Dreadful
20 Rectify 57 Chernobyl
21 Nathan For You 58 Catastrophe
22 Russian Doll 59 Drunk History
23 Game of Thrones 60 Fringe
24 Key & Peele 61 Tuca & Bertie
25 New Girl 62 Sense8
26 Succession 63 Grey’s Anatomy
27 Broad City 64 The Crown
28 You’re The Worst 65 Undone
29 It’s Always Sunny in 66 O.J.: Made In America
Philadelphia 67 Vida
30 Documentary Now! 68 Last Week Tonight
31 One Day At A Time 69 Banshee
32 Steven Universe 70 The Good Fight
33 Pose 71 Over The Garden Wall
34 Stranger Things 72 Doctor Who
35 Schitt’s Creek 73 This is Us
36 Fargo 74 Alias Grace
37 GLOW 75 Show Me A Hero

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 2020: Books
Clues
1 A Yell atoms, these are…
2 Giles had to stop being quiet 28 El Gringo Loco
3 The anly thang better than har 29 Where my clothes are
blouse is... 30 ‘He’s no monster, Gaston; you are!’
4 Where rabbits go shopping, 31 Flying shot oddly lacking
according to Spooner 32 Uranium and Manganese after
5 Stuart’s memoir Gold, the last element
6 Frida and Sunda 33 ‘With a T’
7 Aristocrat one mentored at the 34 Magazine from the op shop
centre 35 Blimey, a queue!
8 What’s in d’gallery 36 Horse head bling: these can all
9 The Emerald Aisle go…
10 Hugs and kisses 37 The opposite of a sundial
11 Usually after the main payment 38 San Marino on day demonstrators
12 Eat the Rich (a US comedian) were hidden
13 C, F or T 39 Stop, bend to the right and hump
14 I ____ present in a pretty bow the D
15 Sarah and Louise Watts 40 Mon Oncle director is in sight
16 A letter from Mr. Kawara 41 Organise everyone to be proud of
17 Two Fathers the word ‘lavished’
18 Anaemia or Leukocytosis 42 Kanendin
19 ‘S’ is to touch down 43 Juliette Danielle, Greg Sestero,
Tommy Wiseau (arguably)
20 Try hearing everyone sing Imagine
(eg. early beginners) 44 Run off with Grace before double
date starts – I’m extremely excited
21 A group of contestants on The
Weakest Link 45 Get to third base with the Eleventh
Doctor
22 Former Vice President swallows
anger, upset 46 Story touching a 70s rock band
23 Hit it, Jack! 47 Don’t upgrade to Windows XP!
24 A Posh child 48 Phonetically, E and Y contribute…
25 Franki Valli 49 ‘Pee ends’
26 Neil 50 You, for doing this puzzle
27 Those are the wrong charged

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 2020: Books
Answers
The following titles were on The Guardian’s list of 100 best books of the 21st Century.
1 Wolf Hall
2 Gilead
3 Secondhand Time
4 Never Let Me Go
5 Austerlitz
6 Amber Spyglass
7 Between the World
and Me
8 Autumn
9 Cloud Atlas
10 Half of a Yellow Sun
11 My Brilliant Friend
12 Plot Against America
13 Nickel and Dimed
14 Fingersmith
15 The Corrections
16 The Road
17 Shock Doctrine
18 Curious Incident
of the Dog in the
Night-Time
19 Sapiens
20 Tenth of December
21 Noonday Demon
22 A Visit from the
Goon Squad
23 Normal People
24 Capital in the Twenty
First Century
25 Rapture
26 A Death in the
Family
27 Underground
Railroad
28 Argonauts
29 Fun Home
30 Outline
31 Experience
32 The Green Road
33 Line of Beauty
34 White Teeth
35 Year of Magical
Thinking
36 Atonement
37 Moneyball
38 Levels of Life
39 Human Chain
40 Persepolis
41 Night Watch
42 Why Be Happy
When You Could Be
Normal?
43 Brooklyn
44 Small Island
45 Women & Power
46 The Omnivore’s
Dilemma
47 Underland
48 Postwar
49 Dart
50 Mother’s Milk
51 On Writing
52 Gone Girl
53 The Silence of the
Girls
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54 The Constant
Gardener
55 The Infatuations
56 Notes on a Scandal
57 Age of Surveillance
Capitalism
58 Nothing to Envy
59 Days Without End
60 Drive Your Plow
Over the Bones of
the Dead
61 Thinking, Fast and
Slow
62 Signs Preceding the
End of the World
63 Fifth Season
64 The Spirit Level
65 Harvest
66 Coraline
67 Tell Me How It Ends
68 Cost of Living
69 Adults in the Room
70 Priestdaddy
71 Noughts & Crosses
72 Bad Blood
73 Visitation
74 Light
75 The Siege
76 Darkmans
77 The Tipping Point
78 A Little Life
79 Broken Glass
 2021: Agatha Christie Novels
Clues
1 Payment you get for 9 marmalade
sandwiches at 50p each
2 Hugh Laurie’s medical drama
3 Father keeps crows at his place
4 They have time on their hands
5 Butcher isn’t playing hard-to-get
6 Whistler’s Moth
7 The queer romance with Harry
8 Stiff erection with no practical use
9 Mount Blanc
10 Why is Thomas sad?
11 The Fringe
12 Word riddle (eg. Sea Arrangement)
13 Villainy lurks beneath Murdoch
paper
14 He was busy founding Snapchat
15 Lad laughter (sad laughter) with
Noël
16 Chill, Sleep, Short and Lebowski
17 Arm herder
18 Pain from ground bones
19 … But netted mum instead
20 Comedian McDonald (1959-2021)
21 He’s in the coffee clubs
22 Did you make her?
23 Asphyxiation by choking or assault
by chainsaw, for example
24 Sandra in Mambo No. 5
25 Quarantine me, sister, inside
26 Disappeared down the well
27 How narcissists practice kissing
28 The toes of one foot
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29 Nice day
30 Meeting Queensland’s health and
ambulance minister, taking drug
31 … Come the gameseral
32 Making a killing from bonds
33 Whiskey stored in a pool table
34 Clay Persian stool
35 Dufinite
36 If you don’t like Ernie Ewe’s house,
trying staying…
37 Elle Macpherson’s Dewey number
38 Wood, boner, or happy ending on
moor
39 Bobby Nelson
40 There’s torture in The Frogs, but
no…
41 In which Liam Neeson uses a
particular set of drainage skills
42 Jumbled renter’s mix-up: he enters
door
43 King and Queen are up for
discussion
44 Imminent
45 You could deal according to
guilt…
46 80% of an elephant watcher
47 Aaron and Theodosia’s rumpus
room
48 Down County emptied by the
media
49 Where /?;:P is heading
50 TE
 2021: Agatha Christie Novels
Answers
The following are all novels published by Agatha Christie.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles Towards Zero

The Secret Adversary Absent in the Spring
The Murder on the Links Death Comes as the End
The Man in the Brown Suit Sparkling Cyanide
The Secret of Chimneys The Hollow
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Taken at the Flood
The Big Four The Rose and the Yew Tree
The Mystery of the Blue Train Crooked House
The Seven Dials Mystery A Murder Is Announced
The Murder at the Vicarage They Came to Baghdad
Giant’s Bread Mrs McGinty’s Dead
The Floating Admiral They Do It with Mirrors
The Sittaford Mystery A Daughter’s a Daughter
Peril at End House After the Funeral
Lord Edgware Dies A Pocket Full of Rye
Murder on the Orient Express Destination Unknown
Unfinished Portrait Hickory Dickory Dock
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? Dead Man’s Folly
Three Act Tragedy The Burden
Death in the Clouds 4.50 from Paddington
The A.B.C. Murders Ordeal by Innocence
Murder in Mesopotamia Cat Among the Pigeons
Cards on the Table The Pale Horse
Dumb Witness The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
Death on the Nile The Clocks
Appointment with Death A Caribbean Mystery
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas At Bertram’s Hotel
Murder Is Easy Third Girl
And Then There Were None Endless Night
Sad Cypress By the Pricking of My Thumbs
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Hallowe’en Party
Evil Under the Sun Passenger to Frankfurt
N or M? Nemesis
The Body in the Library Postern of Fate
Five Little Pigs Curtain
The Moving Finger Sleeping Murder

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 2022: Board Games
Clues
1 Nommag
2 War’s cool!
3 Can’t he, Ada?
4 Mandarin inspectors
5 Both ends of county and country
6 Lady Alice cameo at jazz gala
7 Girl disheartened after New Moon
8 From catamaran A to. . .
9 A vocal ensemble
10 Repairing an organ in the theatre,
for example?
11 I’m up in d’chive
12 Eclipse or New Moon?
13 There’s carrion on South-West, and
a...
14 501 + 11 (maths, essentially)
15 Make odourless
16 More brazen run
17 Trunks with elephant’s tail missing
18 What replacement makes Lear
leak?
19 Do the limbo, Miss Gray!
20 Firearm for display purposes only
21 Spread sex parties, where good
head comes up
22 Criticise half of 100
23 First-rate golfer’s hidden secret
24 Result of sunbathing in California
25 Breaking Dawn tries swag
26 An adult return to space, for Sally
27 Muse, think, imagine, question,
ponder, doubt, speculate
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28 One of fifty here
29 Not one of fifty, but still paying tax
30 Is it Whittaker or Gatwa?
31 Noah, realising what he has to do
with the pigs
32 Hunting for three small jars
33 Turns on, ignoring the odds
34 By way of stone, bronze and iron
35 Key nil-all score
36 Epergency call that says ‘Rescue
pe!’
37 No small talk
38 What comes before, after all
39 Much Ado About Nothing villain
40 Extremely out greeting
41 Minerva, hello! Bend me over and
look inside!
42 White gum? Trim lip? I correct
these
43 Brown carpet with Jacob’s
property step
44 Add what comes between twenty
and seven
45 Cliff Richard’s band defeated
Biblical husband
46 How to get kicked out of a
Trappist monastery
47 Archer star appears in periodical
48 What crazy people do with
bananas
49 Sleep with the King of Crete
50 If you don’t like this year’s quiz
 2022: Board Games
Answers
The games below appear on Ranker.com’s list of the best board games.

1 Chess 38 Twilight Imperium

2 Monopoly 39 Chinese Checkers
3 Scrabble 40 Mastermind
4 Risk 41 Cranium
5 Catan 42 El Grande
6 Clue 43 Don’t Break The Ice
7 Ticket to Ride 44 Scattergories
8 Uno 45 Dixit
9 Battleship 46 Mahjong
10 Apples to Apples 47 Say Anything
11 Dominion 48 Dominos
12 Puerto Rico 49 Dominant Species
13 Yahtzee 50 Guess Who?
14 Trivial Pursuit 51 Dungeon
15 Stratego 52 Othello
16 Checkers 53 Mancala
17 Sorry! 54 The Invasion of Canada
18 Agricola 55 Taboo
19 Carcassonne 56 Diplomacy
20 Pictionary 57 Descent
21 Pandemic 58 Hi Ho! Cherry-O
22 Connect Four 59 Wits and Wagers
23 Go 60 Caylus
24 Backgammon 61 Key to the Kingdom
25 Arkham Horror 62 Snakes and Ladders
26 Axis and Allies 63 Blood Bowl
27 Power Grid 64 Uno Attack
28 The Game of Life 65 Shogun
29 Candyland 66 Operation
30 A Game of Thrones 67 Through the Ages
31 Battlestar Galactica 68 Pay Day
32 Cosmic Encounter 69 Shadows Over Camelot
33 Small World 70 Alhambra
34 Twilight Struggle 71 Balderdash
35 Trouble 72 Le Havre
36 Tigris and Euphrates 73 Acquire
37 7 Wonders 74 Scotland Yard

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 Beware!
The following pages
contain solutions to all
quizzes.

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 2016: Films
Solutions
1 Bicycle Thieves 19 8½
Queer = Bi, bandits = thieves, 20 Close-up
rounds – cycle. Written by 21 Trainspotting
Marcie. Train’s potting
2 Scarface 22 In The Mood For Love
Scarf/ace.
23 The Shawshank Redemption
3 Ordet
hodOR DETects 24 Mirror
Starts = Acronym of Maybe I’m
4 Three Colours Blue Really Really Ordinary Rachel
Aqua, Navy, Rose = colours.
Sadly = blue 25 Double Indemnity
5 The 400 Blows 26 North by North West
Do you know your Roman Trivial as long as you know
numerals? Kim’s kid’s name.
6 Breathless 27 Cabaret
Cab Array. You’re welcome
7 A Night At The Opera
Anagram of ‘A Pageant 28 Pulp Fiction
Hitherto’ 29 Seven Samurai
8 The General The Severn is one of the
A Marcie Fishwick special largest rivers in the UK. There’s
also a Severn River in the
9 Singin’ In The Rain Murray-Darling basin, so you
It’s the word SINGIN inside the really don’t have an excuse for
THE RAIN. not getting this.
10 Psycho 30 Journey To Italy
Sigh Co. (Courtesy of Kirsty) You know what they say about
11 The Battle of Algiers where all roads lead
Al jeers, Algiers? Close 31 Sum Like It Hot
enough.
32 Brazil
12 Chinatown Bra’s ill...
13 Raising Arizona 33 Back to the Future
14 Rashomon 34 Ladykillers
Rasher Mon Originally this was just going
15 Late Spring to be the names of the Killers
From my dad. in feminine forms, but that
16 Taxi Driver would probably have been too
If it’s a bit like a fine, it’s tax-y. obscure
17 City Lights 35 The Usual Suspects
18 Vertigo 36 The Apartment
Green = Vert (in French), Villian A Flat
= Iago 37 Le Premis

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 2016: Films
Solutions (cont.)
Anagram of Miles Per 43 L’avventura
38 Stalker Toilet = Lav, Ace Ventura
Store Cur. Sorry. 44 Play Time
39 The Searchers Time/Thyme
These/Archers 45 Pink Flamingo
40 Pan’s Labyrinth Pink Flaming O
RIP, David 46 La Jetee
41 The Passion of Joan of Arc 47 All About Eve
Hence the weird capitalization 48 Persona
of Rivers Purse Owner
42 Citizen Kane 49 The Godfather
Cane/Kane. Thank my mum for 50 Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du
this one. Commerce 1080 Bruxelles

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 2017: Video Games
Solutions

1 Angry Birds 17 Dota

‘Angry’ indicates anagram Party = Do; Thanks = Ta
2 Counter Strike 18 The Oregon Trail
3 Wolfenstein ‘Junk’ indicates anagram
4 Minecraft 19 Quake
Mayan Kraft? Minecraft? Close 20 Final Fantasy
enough. Final Fanta See
5 Braid 21 ESPN NFL
Bra ID Alternately [every other letter]
6 Gran Turismo = mEsS uP a NaNoFiLe
Elder = Gran, Leisure industry 22 Pac-Man
= Tourism, Askew = Anagram Pack, Man!
7 Goldeneye 23 Tomb Raider
Goal deny. You’re welcome. Tom Braider
8 Pong 24 Resident Evil
Go soft = p [for piano, in Wildly indicates anagram,
music]; on = on; gear-head = g so Live = Evil; President,
9 Doom decapitated = Resident
10 Galaga 25 Space Invaders
Crazy = gaga; the [French] = la …In Vader’s. It’s your fault for
11 Half-Life choosing to do this.
Half of ‘Life’ = Li [Symbol for 26 Myst
Lithium, 3rd element of the Starters = First Letters of each
periodic table] word
12 Tetris 27 Fallout
‘Freak’ indicates anagram Fail = F; Giving it everything =
13 Starcraft All out
Stark Raft 28 Portal
14 Bioshock Lis [p or tal] k
15 Halo 29 Red Dead Redemption
Evil computer = Hal; Love = O 30 The Sims
[in tennis] T [he s] ims
16 Call of Duty
Call of Judy. Garland. Fight
me.

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 2018: Musicals
Solutions
1 Ain’t Misbehavin’ 17 Sweeney Todd
The word AINT is misbehavin’ Anagram of EYES WENT is
2 Show Boat SWEEEY T + ODD (unusual)
To air = to SHOW. Ship = 18 Into The Woods
BOAT Ed Wood? Evan Rachel Wood?
3 How to succeed in business Well then, I would too.
without really trying 19 Hair
#bornrichordietrying CHAIR minus its leader (C)
4 Nine 20 Hamilton
‘No’ in German is NEIN. Ha! Milton.
Arrange it and you get... 21 A Chorus Line
5 She Loves Me eg. ‘Hey now, you’re an all star’
SHELVES ME with a ring- 22 Carousel
shaped letter Cold = C (like on a cold tap),
6 Annie turn on = AROUSE, the front
A knee. Sorry. of LIGHT = L
7 Hairspray 23 Adding Machine
Hares pray. Guest question (Although this isn’t an accurate
from Kirsty McGuire history of Florence and the
8 Chess Machine)
CHE (Guevara) + SS 24 Little Shop of Horrors
9 Damn Yankees If Horace Slughorn from Harry
Not as bad as the yank-ers Potter owned a small store?
10 Man of La Mancha 25 Matilda
Man of Lamb and Cha ADAM gets LIT = AD(LIT)AM,
11 In The Heights then read it backwards
It’s quite literally in tHE 26 The Full Monty
HEIGHTs The capital of Alabama is
12 Camelot Montgomery, which Monty is
CAMEL + (h)OT short for
13 Guys and Dolls 27 Cabaret
Guys Ritchie and Fawkes, with No, it’s not rude. CAT with
Ragdoll and Voodoo Doll BARE inside it.
14 My Fair Lady 28 Kiss Me Kate
MAYFAIR missing A, followed X = KISS, I = ME, Middleton =
by Lady KATE
15 Evita 29 Avenue Q
rEVITAlised Bonus point if someone did a
Connery impression when you
16 On Your Toes solved this one
I think this speaks for itself
30 Bye Bye Birdie

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 2018: Musicals
Solutions (cont.)
31 Chicago 42 Assassins
Chic Cargo Ass + ass + in + s [the last
32 Ragtime letter of circus]
Anagram of MIGRATE 43 The Music Man
33 The Secret Garden THEM + US + ICMAN
There’s a secret hidden word in (anagram of MANIC)
disreGARD ENemies 44 Of Thee I Sing
34 Jersey Boys Of the icing? Close enough.
D’yer see boys? Guest question from Matt
35 The Producers Powell
Words like ‘the’, ‘an’, or ‘a’ are 45 Sweet Charity
called articles, so the people I don’t know if Cadbury
who make them are… actually runs a charity though.
36 Gypsy 46 Miss Saigon
Take every second letter of But really, don’t. I hear it’s
GaYaPeSeYe lovely!
37 Dreamgirls 47 Annie Get Your Gun
Succubi are mythological ‘Your gun’, ‘Jurgen’, same
women who appear during same. I laughed for half an
sleep hour after coming up with this.
38 A New Brain 48 Caroline, or Change
39 Phantom of the Opera An anagram of CAROLINE OR
You try coming up with ghost- 49 A Day in Hollywood, a Night in
themed opera puns the Ukraine
40 The King and I Factually accurate!
Good chance to brush up on 50 Company
your Latin … three’s a crowd
41 Rent
I mean, I chose to work in the
arts

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 2019: TV Series
Solutions
1 Lady Dynamite 16 Russian Doll
A gentleman diner won’t, but a One of the rare questions
lady diner might where the answer is technically
2 Killing Eve the question
The night before (eve) a lot of 17 Atlanta
money (a killing) 1996 Summer Olympics
3 Treme 18 The Leftovers
Anagram of ‘meter’ Deliveries (overs) aren’t right
4 Justified (left)
The document alignment 19 Show Me A Hero
where the text is spaced to Any Much Ado fans in tonight?
occupy the full width 20 Parks and Recreation
5 Fleabag Rosa (Parks) and Recreation
Flea is the bass player for the (making it again)
Red Hot Chili Peppers 21 Orphan Black
6 Doctor Who Sirius Black, from Harry Potter,
Who = World Health in fact fell out with his parents
Organisation Orion and Walburga after he
7 Fargo was sorted into Gryffindor,
F (for Forté) + Argo against family tradition. Of
8 Sharp Objects course.
9 It’s Always Sunny in 22 Person of Interest
Philadelphia 23 Broad City
You may have needed to 24 Terriers
google who Gritty is. You’re Terry errs
welcome. 25 This Is Us
10 O.J.: Made In America Th(is + is)us
11 Rectify 26 Better Things
Hidden inside ‘corRECT IF 27 The Crown
You’re’ Y’know, what Jack broke?
12 Over the Garden Wall 28 Alias Grace
Sick of (over) the garden (plot) (Muhammad) Ali as (plays)
wall (boundary) Grace (Kelly). Thanks to Kieran
13 Chernobyl Boyd for suggesting this one.
Is this pun worse than the 29 The Americans
actual Chernobyl accident? Anagram (break up) of ‘near a
Who can say. chemist’
14 The Good Place 30 Rick and Morty
Apologies. A spoonerism of Mick and raw
15 Breaking Bad tea

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 2019: TV Series
Solutions (cont.)
31 One Day At A Time 40 Lodge 49
Unless you’re buying them in 41 Fringe
bulk the day after Christmas, in ‘Ring’ with Fe (iron) around it.
which case go for your life. 42 Catastrophe
32 VEEP Cat has trophy. This is a
Endless irritation (Peeve, minus reference to an old Tim Brook-
the last letter) from behind Taylor joke from I’m Sorry I
(reverse the letters) Haven’t A Clue. RIP.
33 Succession 43 Vida
Sorry. undiVIDAble
34 Review 44 You’re the Worst
Sigourney = Weaver. I stand in 45 Big Mouth
for a = Weiver. Comeback = A Big Moth with the last letter
Review. of ‘you’
35 Grey’s Anatomy 46 Stanger Things
36 GLOW 47 Schitt’s Creek
Take the extremes of First letter of ‘spinner’ +
Grammatical (GL) and anagram of ‘the crickets’.
Overview (OW) Thanks to Kirsty McGuire for
37 Archer suggesting this one!
38 Orange is the New Black 48 High Maintenance
It was easy to find phrases with 49 Sense8
‘black’ in them, hard to find SE + N + SE + 8
non-ludicrous synonyms for
‘orange’. 50 Enlightened
EN, lightened
39 Banshee
Bane, with ‘she’ in the middle

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 2020: Books
Solutions
1 Half of a Yellow Sun 17 Priestdaddy
2 Gilead eg. Andrew Scott in Fleabag
Gile(sh)ad: take away the ‘sh’ 18 Bad Blood
to stop being quiet Guest clue from Kieran Boyd
3 Harvest 19 Small Island
4 Moneyball S (Small) is land
Aka the bunny mall 20 The Siege
5 A Little Life ‘Beginners’ of each word in the
Stuart Little, geddit? clue
6 Days Without End 21 The Human Chain
Frida(y) and Sunda(y) 22 Experience
7 Atonement Former (EX) Vice President
Aristocr(at one ment)ored: ‘at (PENCE) swallows IRE,
the centre’ telling you to look backwards: EX-P(ERI)ENCE
for hidden words 23 The Road
8 Dart And don’t you come back no
I’d say I’m sorry but more …
apologising means you won’t 24 Brooklyn
do it again Brooklyn is a child of Victoria
9 The Emerald Aisle ‘Posh Spice’ Beckham
10 Noughts and crosses 25 The Fifth Season
xoxo Franki Valli performed with
11 The Tipping Point the Four Seasons (the band,
not the hotel or landscaping
12 Wolf Hall centre)
Eat (WOLF) + Rich HALL, a US
comedian 26 Outline
It’s the letters from LINE, but
13 Capital in the Twenty First they’ve been put out
Century
27 The Corrections
14 Rapture Correct. Ions. Corrections.
15 Women and Power 28 Gone Girl
Watts being the unit for Anagram (loco) of El Gringo
measuring power. Louise Watts
also happens to be a singer 29 Between the world and me
from Chumbawumba. Thanks to Matt Powell for help
finessing this one
16 On Writing
On Kawara is a great 30 Line of Beauty
conceptual artist, whose Y’know, Belle from Beauty and
letters would of course be On the Beast
Writing.

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 2020: Books
Solutions (cont.)
31 Light 41 Drive your plow over the bones
fLyInG sHoT, lacking all the of the dead
odd letters ‘Organise’ indicating an
32 Autumn anagram
Gold (AU) and the last letter of 42 The Goon Squad
element (T) with Uranium (U) ‘Go on.’
and Manganese (MN) 43 Adults in the Room
33 Tell me how it ends Actors in the cult film The
An early draft for this clue was Room
‘with a giant spider puppet’ 44 Nickel and Dimed
34 Secondhand Life Run off with (NICK) + grace
35 Coraline (ELAN) + starts of double date
Cor, a line! (DD) + I’m + the extremes of
36 Postwar ‘excited’ (ED)
Warhorse, Warhead, Warbling 45 Fingersmith
37 Night Watch Allons-y!
38 Noonday Demon 46 Plot against America
Another hidden word: Meri(no 47 Never let me go
on day demon)strators ME being the last version of
39 Signs preceding the end of the Windows before XP
world 48 Nothing to envy
Stop and Hump are road signs, Similar words include Queue,
the end of ‘the world’ is D. Arty, Excel, Icy
Thanks again to Kieran. 49 Sapiens
40 Visitation Go on, say it
Jacques TATI in VISION 50 My brilliant friend
<3 <3 <3

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 2021: Agatha Christie Novels
Solutions
1 4.50 from Paddington
That bear loves his marmalade
sandwiches.
2 Crooked House
3 Murder at the Vicarage
4 The Clocks
5 Murder is Easy
To butcher is to murder, yeah?
6 Unfinished Portrait
If it were finished, it’d be
Whistler’s Mother
7 The Mysterious Affair at Styles
It’s good fun to watch old
films and see stuffy old men
say ‘How terribly queer!’
when something mysterious
happens.
8 Dead Man’s Folly
Stiff = Corpse
Folly = Decorative building,
usually in the grounds of some
rich person’s estate
9 The Pale Horse
Blanc = White
Mount = Horse
10 The Mystery of the Blue Train
Presumably Sir Toppin Hat was
mean to him
11 The Moving Finger
If you move the letters of
‘finger’ you get ‘fringe’
12 Lord Edgeware Dies
‘Arrangement’ tells you it’s an
anagram of ‘Word riddle eg.
Sea’
13 Evil Under The Sun
14 Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
Or more accurately, Evan S
15 A Daughter’s A Daughter
The trick here’s to read Noël
out loud, so it becomes ‘No L’
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16 The Big Four
The Big Chill, The Big Sleep,
The Big Short, The Big
Lebowski
17 A Murder is Announced
‘Arm herder’ more or less
sounds like… Guest clue from
Kieran Boyd.
18 Giant’s Bread
Bread in French is ‘Pain’.
And of course a giant will
grind your bones to make his
bread…
19 They Came to Baghdad
20 N or M
21 The Man in the Brown Suit
Coffee is a shade of brown,
and clubs is a suit in cards
22 The Caribbean Mystery
If you say ‘Did you make her’
casually and quickly enough,
it sounds like the country
called…?
23 The ABC Murders
They’re both acronyms
24 The Third Girl
‘I like Angela, Pamela, Sandra
and Rita’
25 Nemesis
QuarantiNE ME SISter (inside
tells you to look within the
words)
26 Absent in the Spring
27 They do it with Mirrors
28 Five Little Pigs
Wee wee wee wee
29 Sparkling Cyanide
Sparkling tells you it’s an
anagram of Cyanide
 2021: Agatha Christie Novels
Solutions (cont.)
30 Appointment with Death
A meeting with Yvette D’Ath,
then add a drug (E) in the
middle
31 After the Funeral
It’s all Fun and Games…
32 Murder on the Links
33 A Pocket Full of Rye
34 Clay Persian Stool
‘Clay’ and ‘Stool’ can both
be followed by Pigeon, and
‘Persian’ is a type of cat
35 Curtain
Definite is to Dufinite as
Certain is to Curtain
36 At Bertram’s Hotel
37 The Body in the Library
38 Hickory Dickory Dock
HICKORY (wood) DICK (boner)
OR (or) Y (ending of ‘happy’)
DOCK (to moor)
39 The Floating Admiral
Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson,
of course
40 Death in The Clouds
How well do you know your
Aristophanes?
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41 Taken at the Flood
Courtesy of Kieran Boyd
42 Murder on the Orient Express
Another beloved, unnecessarily
long anagram, indicated by
‘Jumbled’
43 Cards on the Table
44 Endless Night
Without an ending, ‘night’
becomes ‘nigh’
45 Ordeal by Innocence
46 Dumb Witness
‘Dumb’ is 80% of ‘Dumbo’
47 The Burden
The Burr Den. Thanks again to
Kieran
48 Sad Cypress
Down = Sad
CY = County having been
emptied
Media = Press
49 Towards Zero
Look at your keyboard!
50 The Hollow
TE is The, but Hollow
 2022: Board Games
Solutions
1 Backgammon 14 Dixit
‘Nommag’ is ‘gammon’, 501 = DI in Roman Numerals.
backwards 11 = XI. The centre of Maths is
2 Battleship ‘T’
Battle’s hip! (written by Kieran 15 Descent
Boyd, who also definitely 16 Balderdash
endorses the message of this 17 Chess
clue) Chests (trunks) with the ‘tail’ of
3 The Invasion of Canada elephant (T) missing
‘The’ is in the middle of 18 Risk
‘Canada’ To turn the word ‘Lear’ into the
4 Chinese Checkers word ‘Leak’, you change the R
5 Candyland into a K. So the replacement
The ends of ‘county’ are ‘C and that makes this happen is ‘R is
y’, and country = ‘land’ K’, which spells Risk. Possibly
6 Apples to apples the most annoying clue I’ve
Lady Alice, Cameo, Jazz and written for one of these. You’re
Gala are all types of apples welcome!
7 Monopoly 19 Diplomacy
Take the heart out of the Dip Low, Macy!
feminine name ‘Polly’ to get 20 Shogun
‘Poly’, and put it after a ‘new’ (It’s a show gun)
version of ‘moon’, which is 21 Scattergories
‘Mono’ Scatter = spread. Sex parties
8 Yahtzee = orgies, but G (the head of
Yacht Z ‘good’) comes upwards in the
9 Acquire word.
A choir (also by Kieran Boyd) 22 Pandemic
10 Operation Criticise = Pan. Half = Demi.
THAT sort of organ and THAT 100 = C
sort of theatre. 23 Stratego
11 Dominion firST RATE Golfer
Send ‘IM’ upwards to get ‘Mi’, 24 Catan
and put it inside of D’Onion It’s a CA tan
(d’chive) 25 Wits and Wagers
12 Twilight Struggle An anagram (breaking) of
This is the real Twilight one ‘dawn tries swag’
among all the decoys 26 Ticket to Ride
13 Carcassonne RIP to Sally Ride
Carcass on NE 27 Seven Wonders

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 2022: Board Games
Solutions (cont.)
28 Clue also accept Hi Ho! Cherry-O,
Just straight up what it says on which would be a very out
the tin greeting as well.
29 Puerto Rico 41 Le Havre
‘No taxation without Reverse (bend over) ‘Minerva
representation’, yeah right Hello’, then look inside it:
30 Guess Who? ‘olLEH AVREnim’
I mean really it should be 42 Twilight Imperium
‘Guess The Doctor’ but that’s Anagram of ‘White gum trim
not as fun. lip I’
31 Arkham Horror 43 Snakes and Ladders
Ark/Ham/Horror Brown and carpet are both
32 Trivial Pursuit types of snake. ‘Jacob’s’,
Tri-Vial Pursuit ‘property’ and ‘step’ can all
33 Uno come before ladder.
If you ignore the odd letters 44 Connect Four
of ‘turns on’, that gives you Add = Connect, four comes
‘_U_N_ O_’ in the middle of the phrase
34 Through The Ages ‘Twenty (Four) Seven’
Stone Age, Iron Age, Bronze 45 Shadows Over Camelot
Age Cliff Richards and The Shadows
35 Taboo defeated (overcame) Lot from
‘Tab’ is a key on your The Bible.
keyboard. A nil-all draw is 0-0. 46 Say Anything
Tab0-0. I don’t believe they actually
36 Pay Day have vows of silence anymore,
No, it’s not a typo. No, it but I’m not here to spoil the
doesn’t really make sense. fun.
37 Don’t Break The Ice! 47 Mahjong
H. Jon Benjamin is the star of
38 Small World Archer. Put ‘H Jon’ inside of
It’s a small world, after all ‘mag’ (magazine, periodical) to
39 Dungeon get maHJONg.
Don John. Dungeon. Repeat 48 Go
until they start to sound the They go bananas.
same. Now keep talking in
your new accent. (“HULLA, MA 49 Dominos
NAYM ES DUN JUN”) Do/Minos
40 Othello 50 Sorry!
Extremes of ‘OUT’ are O and I tried to warn you.
T, a greeting is ‘hello’. I would

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