Nice whistle mate! (I like your suit, from whistle and flute).
It’s fun to figure them out.
According to this 1941 Life Magazine issue, teenage girls in Atlanta were making up rhyming pairs like this at the time under the name "stinky pinky". https://archive.org/details/Life-1941-01-27-Vol-10-No-4/mode... Webster's Dictionary from the 60s has the game listed under that name, https://archive.org/details/webstersthirdnew0000phil_l0b1/mo... and that name also seems to continue to today, e.g. by the radio show Loveline.
It's possible I found this decades ago and the origin of how I learned this game was lost to time :)
i have five clean references to "as a mason jar" so my collection is fairly complete ;-)
note: ripgrep 4.079s wall; ag (silversearcher) 5.916s wall; grep 6.940s wall
Sorry about that.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8785/brain-strain
I made a proof-of-concept daily game: https://awfulwaffle.jonabrams.com/
Homophones and proper nouns are considered acceptable.
So for example: (Fox, Lone, Crossed)
The answer would be: Star
Star Fox - a well known rail shooter originally on the SNES
Lone Starr - the only man who would dare give a raspberry to Dark Helmet
Star Crossed - a Shakespearean reference to two people whose relationship is doomedThere have been occasions where the answer was not the intended one, but it still fits all three and that's considered fair game!
Here are some examples with answers in rot13:
Strange, this reunion = Zntvp gur Tngurevat
Boat pork refuge = Nexunz Nflyhz
Donkeybutt taverns gospel = Nffnffvaf Perrq
Caring for the elderly = QBGN
Belongs to me create = Zvarpensg
Superclock = Birejngpu
Top Stories = Ncrk Yrtraqf
Skyline no morning = Ubevmba Mreb Qnja
What makes it fun is trying to reverse-engineer the original rhyme from the clues. It's like solving a little logic puzzle. It's easy to come up with new puzzles, but cracking them can be surprisingly tricky. Still, the structure gives just enough to keep it solvable most of the time.
1. Somewhat described here https://bestlifeonline.com/jeopardy-rhyme-time-opera-version... It's actually quite difficult to find a description of the category many of us are already familiar with.