Guess the Animals #2
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Find out what the animals are! (for example, "To run away or escape" could be a "flea")
1. A strong body tissue
2. Government head of a town/city
3. To sound low, husky, or grating
4. Relating to a group of singers
5. Stealin'
6. A parent's female sibling
7. A mythical curse or bond
8. A second-person pronoun
9. Thin thread-like outgrowth from the skin
10. To exist. A form of 'am' or 'was.'
Answer
1. Mussel (Muscle)
2. Mare (Mayor)
3. Horse (Hoarse)
4. Coral (Choral)
5. Robin (Robbin')
6. Ant (Aunt)
7. Geese (Geas)
8. Ewe (You)
9. Hare (Hair)
10. Bee (Be)
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Comments
Ill-Logic-Al 
Jun 20, 2005
| Good Teaser. Mayor and mare in my part of the country are pronounced different.  |
vikingboy 
Jun 20, 2005
| they're pronounced differently in all parts of the country!
Beyond that one I did like the rest |
ginny322  
Jun 20, 2005
| but in australia ant and aunt are pronounced differently.  Oh well but i liked it anyway.  |
PCDguitar
Jun 21, 2005
| well in baltimore mayor is like mayr so i see how that could sound like mare bc i have lived in baltimore my whole life |
sgfreak555
Jun 21, 2005
| Nice! i never heard of "geas" before though. |
Javian
Jun 21, 2005
| Thanks for the feedback. 
I know this "Guess the Animals" wasn't as great as the first one; I guess I was starting to run out of words to use. I know the mayor one was a bit of a stretch, I was hoping it would be solveable. |
sassy_101
Jun 21, 2005
| I liked this, it was fun |
MTK_90
Jun 25, 2005
| GREAT TEASER!!!!! |
amc7996
Jun 26, 2005
| Nice Teaser
PSo You Think You Will Make A
Guess The Animals #3? |
amc7996
Jun 26, 2005
| (Do) |
Javian
Jun 26, 2005
| hmmm I'll work on it, but thinking up 10 more animals will take me some time |
dolphingurl12
Jun 28, 2005
| In my part of the country, mayor and mare is pronouced close enough to guess. Then again, I've moved several times, so I don't have one paticular accent. Anyway, good teaser! |
Javian
Jun 29, 2005
| --I've submitted a "Guess the Animals #3", awaiting approval by the editors-- |
spookboy0
Aug 12, 2005
| very cool. |
EVOLNI
Aug 12, 2005
| A friend of mine was having a playful debate about #6 and said u should clearify it by saying in relation to the child becuz of how it could still be a soster other than that great teaser never heard of gease tho magic huh?  o well |
jessjspieks
Aug 12, 2005
| Very clever ...the geas one stumped me  Lots of fun. |
shanniesue
Aug 12, 2005
| very clever... I also had difficulty with the pronunciation of mayor.
And I thought that "in relation to a group of singers"-- fly (as in fly dancers)... I was thinking bands not choirs |
stalker
Aug 12, 2005
| i got mussel and ant and guessed mayor but didn't make the connection to mare. was thinking "projection from skin" was mole. i guess moles can't be "long" unless there is something wrong. good one. made me think hard. |
thetaylors_2002
Aug 12, 2005
| I thought this was a good one  |
horse_luver
Aug 12, 2005
| Got all of them but the Geas one. Mare, right away, made me smile. An easy, but fun, teaser. |
pawz73
Aug 12, 2005
| GEAS? Never heard of that one either. Only other one I missed was horse.  Was looking for a verb, not a noun. Was still fun guessing the others. Mar Love those animals---let's see #3. |
lisha_kc
Aug 12, 2005
| fun!!! I enjoyed it...I got some and it made me think...great job! |
Javian
Aug 12, 2005
| Thanks for the feedback , I'll add some corrections. #3 didn't work out, it was rejected but I was suggested to resubmit it with some corrections. But I still like the first 2 better, I don't think I'll resubmit the 3rd. |
elu93
Aug 12, 2005
| I liked the teaser! I think that mare and mayor sounds close enough to guess though...  |
MAroxmysoxonice
Aug 12, 2005
| i really liked these. u should definetely resubmit #3. good luck. |
Angel3000
Aug 12, 2005
| hey Javian, i think you should submit #3 becuz the 1st 2 were really fun, good luck getting it submited |
Javian
Aug 13, 2005
| ok I resubmitted it |
karma48
Aug 15, 2005
| ? |
sambean
Aug 18, 2005
| That was hard!!! |
Javian
Aug 22, 2005
| Guess the Animals #3 has been accepted, with some deletions. |
smarty_blondy
Oct 02, 2005
| Way to go, great teaser'ish teaser! |
bladd
Oct 16, 2006
| Very fun but kinda tricky!  |
lmurray 
Oct 16, 2006
|  |
OldChinaHand
Oct 16, 2006
| An interesting and fun teaser. A little stretching at times, yes, but still a fun way to workout the animal's names. |
Badger
Oct 16, 2006
| Missed geas (geese) I was hoping that I learned a new word today, but dictionary.com doesn't have it either. Any help out there? Thanks for submitting! |
coachpisco
Oct 16, 2006
| That was tough. One or two were a stretch, but it was a good teaser. |
marschie
Oct 16, 2006
| I got 7 out of 10. Try Googling GEAS -- lots of hits. It's sort of a club curse. |
schmedley9
Oct 16, 2006
| it was great. A few of them stumped me but other than that, I got most of them. NICE ONE!!! |
bradon182001
Oct 16, 2006
| I'm with everyone else, got most but not all of them. Did give my brain a workout, and that is the object of this site. .  |
Badger
Oct 16, 2006
| Thanks Marschie! Gotta love Wikipedia, and I learned something about Irish mythology today! Cool. |
FatHead
Oct 16, 2006
| That #5 was cute! |
locutus13ds
Oct 16, 2006
|  Whew! |
4kai2lyn6
Oct 16, 2006
| That was great! I had to work on this one for a while. I didn't get geese though. Oh well; Great teaser! |
FeaerFactorY666
Oct 16, 2006
| nice! |
scallio
Oct 16, 2006
| Goodness Gracious me, I didn't even know what GEAS was and I also missed MAYOR and CHORAL. I too kept thinking about mayors, representatives, managers, councilors, but couldn't make the connection to MARE.
Fun teaser. Got my brain revving this morning. |
MalcolmReynolds
Oct 16, 2006
| Liked it a lot, though I have no idea what Geas is/are. Didn't get choral... I kept thinking Choir. I also thought of orchestral, so thought maybe it was Kestral, or Orca. |
heyman
Oct 16, 2006
| Excellent. This one was tough. |
speedqueenkmw
Oct 16, 2006
| didn't get the geas one. lotsa fun! |
Firemoon
Oct 16, 2006
| Hmmm...Mayor/Mare..How does that work? |
angelacd
Oct 16, 2006
| that was a really smart one, most of these riddles are stupid, but yours was very good. |
tdbrsun
Oct 16, 2006
| good going. I liked it. |
evan_0819
Oct 16, 2006
| hello....!
friends..... |
Trishgal
Oct 17, 2006
| Only got about half , but i really enjoyed it. Congratulations on getting your 3rd teaser accepted. i am looking forward to it. thx, |
RRAMMOHAN
Oct 27, 2006
| Could get 7 out of 10. Not too bad, considering that English is not my mother tongue!
This is a very cleverly created teaser. Even Imurray has no comments!
Thanks for making us think. Could we request for more such ones, please? |
vlerma
Oct 28, 2006
| Nice job. This was fun to figure out. Took me a little while, but am happy to say I won. More please? |
Qrystal
Nov 08, 2006
| That was fun, even though I only got 7/10 -- and English IS my mother tongue 
Like most of the others, geas got me. I also missed horse and coral, though after reading the answers I had to groan because I probably should've gotten them! Good job. Off to check out #1 and #3 now! |
dalfamnest 
Oct 16, 2009
| Good one, thanks! I took a while over the ant until I remembered that we kiwis, with our pure pronunciation patterns (ha!) are a minority on the planet. Didn't know geas. Great teaser, and worthy of a re-run (before anyone complains!!!)
|
doehead
Oct 16, 2009
| dalfamnest-you haven't been around long enough to make that defaming remark!!! |
shannmo
Oct 16, 2009
| If you are allowed to say anything you want to because you are being "honest",then why can't dalfamnest give his own opinion. you don't have to agree but he can say things also. |
auntiesis
Oct 16, 2009
| I guessed aunt, ant, but they are pronounced very differently here. I didn't get geas, and for the first answer I guessed heart (hart), so I think I did pretty well. |
patiencewithaP
Oct 16, 2009
| Missed mare and geas...fun though! |
EMB92
Oct 16, 2009
| Also for #3, I think Bass would work. Great teaser though, I really enjoyed it. |
Babe
Oct 16, 2012
| Good teaser. I got some, but not all. I know it is not thread like, but the only thing I could think of forming or coming out of the skin was "mole" Oh well, it was a fun one to do. |
HABS2933
Oct 16, 2012
| I also enjoyed it and was able to solve most of them. No idea what a Geas is though.
As with some previous posters I agree that Mare and Mayor don't sound alike (close but not like the other questions do) and I am among those who don't pronounce my mothers sister the same way as the insect, but as I am aware of that being an alternate way to pronounce it was able to get that one. To whomever thought "Bass" could be another answer to #3 - Bass could not work for the answer because as an animal it it pronounced like the word BASE and as the sound or instrument it is pronounced BAA se. |
HABS2933
Oct 16, 2012
| before it is pointed out to me, yes I got those sounds reversed, I edited the post to reword something and somehow rearranged what I was saying.
I am well aware of the sound being BASE and the animal being BAA se!
I really should just retype stuff instead of taking the easy way out and doing a cut and paste. |
lukasiwicz
Oct 16, 2012
| To say that "geas" is a rare word rather understates the case, and, though I am 77, with a long history of extensive reading, and usually deem vocabulary and word usage to be one of my long suits, "geas" is an entirely new one on me. Consequently, it's the only one I didn't get. Live and learn. |
cutebug
Oct 16, 2012
| This might be old,but I enjoyed it. Although I thought it was easy.Need more of a challenge. |
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