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Identify the fruits and vegetables from the following clues:
(Don't assume that you know how part of a clue is pronounced. There may be more than one way!)
1. "Mom, may we please go outside? Will you please let us play? PLEASE! PLEASE!"
2. Another name for a taxi + the rings in a tree indicate what? = ___________________.
3. A pool stick + C + a burnt brownish color = ______________________.
4. Your mother pairs socks at the toes.
5. A drink + me + the end of the word "talon" = _____________________.
(Don't assume that you know how part of a clue is pronounced. There may be more than one way!)
1. "Mom, may we please go outside? Will you please let us play? PLEASE! PLEASE!"
2. Another name for a taxi + the rings in a tree indicate what? = ___________________.
3. A pool stick + C + a burnt brownish color = ______________________.
4. Your mother pairs socks at the toes.
5. A drink + me + the end of the word "talon" = _____________________.
Answer
1. Lettuce2. Cabbage
3. Cucumber
4. Tomato
5. Watermelon
Explanation of each answer:
1. The words "let us" point to lettuce.
2. Cab is another name for a taxi, and the rings in a tree tell its age. When we combine cab and age, cabbage is the result.
3. A pool stick is called a cue stick. Burnt umber is a brownish color. When we combine cue, c, and umber, cucumber is the result.
4. Mating socks is an expression for pairing socks. When mating socks at the toes, tomato is the result.
5. Water is a drink. When we combine water, me, and "lon", watermelon is the result.
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Written very good. Fun and a bit on the hard side. Enjoyed it a bunch. Keep them coming.
i only got 3 answers
GREAT TEASER MYST
i only got 3 aswell, but it was a great teaser
MY GOODNESS BUT THAT WAS CUTE AND FUN.
That was good. The tomato one made me laugh
I was passing the 'peas' on one. But the rest I passed along to my esl students. Good one, thanks
that was a good one took me a minute to figure it out but finally got it! Keep up the good work!
Some were hard, some were easy, they were all great.
I liked it.
Nice and Easy
Fun - missed one.
Church Lady
Church Lady
i only got three!! these were cute...i enjoyed them!
Since you made a reference about the clues and how they might be pronounced, I thought #1 was PEAS....ya know when some small children say please it sounds like peas! #4 made no sense at all to me. Great job though!
Wonderfully fun and creative! Got me thinking (and in the morning, too!!)
very cute! I got most of them...lol. Nice teaser
I got 4 of them. Ididn't get the 5th one. It's really confusing!
that was a good one it had me thinkin but i figured them out
It was good, but I don't really understand how #4 works.
Cute!!
I thought of "tomato" for #4 but didn't see how it fit ... I would have gone crazy if I couldn't get the right answer; very interesting
Fun and hard. Really enjoyed it.
These tickled my fancy ... and for a change, I got most of them. I only missed on the tomato!!!
Great teaser. But I came up with "Rude a Beggar" for #1. and I didn't figure out #4. Enjoyed this even if it is still Monday morning. Nice job Mysterious.
I didnt get many of them but oh well I usually dont so it was cool anyway.
i thought that was soooo cute. only i didnt understand number 4
keep these up!!!!!!!!!!
keep these up!!!!!!!!!!
Good one got all but one
Good one! Actually got it!
had a hard time with no. 1, that was the best one too. They were all good though, altho the absence of the "o" at the end of tomato seems to have thrown some people off.
Thanks! `
Thanks! `
Loved this one! Got three of them. Although lettuce and tomato seem to be from a different salad. Thanks for the fun!
hey this was an immunity challnge in wtb
Great one! That was fun. Epecially w/the hint. You just never really knew!
golly, that was difficult! lol j/k
GREAT!! Got 4 out of 5 Just loved it Keep up the good work!!!It was fun, thank you.A favorite
Great! I loved it!
LOVED IT!
i thought clue #1 was peas, cuz of please...haha well great job! very unusual and unique! FUN FUN
i thought clue #1 was peas, cuz of please...haha well great job! very unusual and unique! FUN FUN
sweeeeeeeeeeeeet ( thats my word of the week) i totally injoyed this teaser its goin to the faves!!
this was fun but i only got one!
Fun, funnier & funniest! Loved this one.
I got apples for the first one.
I think it was cute! they were really clever. i got 4 of them!
AGAIN......MORE LAME TEASERS
HOT ON FIRE, FRUITS ROCK MY WORLD........WAIT WASNT IT VEGETABLES?
IS TOMATO A FRUIT OR A VEGETABLE??????
DON'T BOTHER TO ANWSER I DONT CARE@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ OOPS I MEANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IS TOMATO A FRUIT OR A VEGETABLE??????
DON'T BOTHER TO ANWSER I DONT CARE@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ OOPS I MEANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good teaser! Number 3 stumpt me though!!
Great teaser. I got most of them
#4 should've been pair/pear. The tomato part just BARELY makes a little bit of sense. Otherwise, a good teaser.
Myst, this one was easy - as I remember doing it in the WTB game. So glad you shared it with everyone else. Very enjoyable
Hey, first comment this year! I got cucumber quickly ...and looked at the answers for the rest. I'm lazy!
NOT SURE WHAT TO SAY,
AS A TEASER, IT IS GOOD,
AS A RE-RUN, IT'S BORING.
I AM SURE MANY OTHERS CAN REMEMBER THE ANSWERS FROM YEAR TO YEAR AS WELL
didnt get #4 due to cultural gap! I'm from the UK, you say tom-ay-to, I say tom-ah-to!
You stumped me on tomato. But I got all of the rest. Yeah!! Such a fun way to start my morning.
Plus, IMURRAY, not all of us know that these are re-runs. I have never seen it before!
Plus, IMURRAY, not all of us know that these are re-runs. I have never seen it before!
#4 was a bit of a stretch I think and like someone else I thought #1 was peas. Good thought provoking teaser
I really liked this one. I didn't get tomatoes and lettuce so no salad for me!
A fantastic teaser! Keep up the great work! As for Lmurray.. you have to realize that he doesn't know how to keep from tearing a teaser apart. No matter what! LOL Otherwise! No big deal! He doesn't realize that anyone can say something to *run down* an item, an action or an individual, even on the best of days.
The "mating pairs" reference was a bit too obscure for me. Fun overall though.
I agree the solution to #4 (toe + mate + toe) was too obscure for me. I came up with pear (from pair), but knew it was wrong. After I saw the answer, I came up with a more gestalt explanation: toe + ma (short for mama) + toe, which solves the problem of how to pronounce the ma segment, even though this solution is a bit short on logic. But who cares? The teaser was fun.
Wonderful teaser!! I got all but one of them so not that bad for me!! Good job!!
Tomato was a stretch, but the rest were a piece of cake. Does cake go with veggies?
Anyway, fun teaser.
Anyway, fun teaser.
I only got cabbage and cucumber!!!
Wasn't so sure about tomato...oh well nicely done
I got tomato after I saw the answer to number one. The other three were easy, but fun.
I really did enjoy it although I thought it was hard. THX
I assumed #4 was explained as, what mother does is "to mate toes" hence tomatoes. Sadly, the only one I didn't get was #1, which was pretty simple, especially since it's the only one where the homonym was right there in the clue. I kept trying to think of a fruit or vegetable that sounded like "kids beg." :~}
~Luca
~Luca
GREAT teaser apart from the tomato which i still dont get
Liked it! Keep them coming!
This was a fun one~Great job Myst!
I also got "pear" for #4. Good teaser though.
I didn't come up with tomato either. Maybe I need more fertilizer (although I've been told at times that I'm full of it already!) Fun teaser!
I THOUGHT IT WAS BURNT AMBER,NOT UMBER. OR AM I WRONG?? ANYBODY??
I thought tomato was kind of a stretch but the rest were fun.
Tomato was good , lettuce was a stretch.
It was an ok teaser because it took a bit a braingling to figure out. I liked the rebusy ones.
I have to honestly admit that it seemed clumsy to me. To combine different formats for the clues made it seem rather random and awkward.
sorry but that is my honest opinion
It was an ok teaser because it took a bit a braingling to figure out. I liked the rebusy ones.
I have to honestly admit that it seemed clumsy to me. To combine different formats for the clues made it seem rather random and awkward.
sorry but that is my honest opinion
tis indeed UMBER patpat
sorry
sorry
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought "peas" for # 1. The repetitive use of "Please" and in caps led me to that. I didn't even think "lettuce". I thought "pear" for #4...because mama was pairing (pearing) socks. Tomato didn't even cross my mind.
I got all except the one I was sure was pear. Oh well!
As for amber vs umber: amber's a golden yellow colour, umber's a brown colour.
Overall, I agree with tamjp, except that I thought the lettuce one was okay and the tomato one was a little odd... I've never associated pairing of socks with mating! And it's the socks that are being matched with their mates, not the toes! I don't know. I guess it works alright, but the pear idea seemed too similar to the lettuce one to not be the answer.
As for amber vs umber: amber's a golden yellow colour, umber's a brown colour.
Overall, I agree with tamjp, except that I thought the lettuce one was okay and the tomato one was a little odd... I've never associated pairing of socks with mating! And it's the socks that are being matched with their mates, not the toes! I don't know. I guess it works alright, but the pear idea seemed too similar to the lettuce one to not be the answer.
I liked it - didn't get tomato, but the rest were good!
I thought of PEAS for #1. I didn't get Tomato either. Good teaser!
Your teasers are always genius
Like TV in the summer. All reruns!!!!
I didn't get the tomato one either...that was a little confusing. Otherwise, well-written!
I, too, missedtomato. Otherwise very cute.
A combination of easy and hard ones. Perfect!
Not bad, but #1 and #4 needed hints, I think.
Different for everyone. I did not get # 1, but found #4 to be quite easy. Not my favorite teaser though . Just so so!
easy, but fun
Not one of my favorites. Hi PCV.
SGS = 4+. Easy but okay
Great teaser! I didn't get the tomato one. Should have read the instructions ...
nice one
missed a couple, but a good mind stretch
I found them to be pretty easy -- except for tomato - I even had to think about it for a while after I saw the answer, then finally caught on! - and I am familiar with "mating socks at the toes"! Over all, very good teaser!!
#1 Believe it or not gave me fits. I kept fo cussing (yes, I meant to say that on the PLEASES. "Let us" went right over my head. But the rest were easy.
Tuh-May-Tuh
Two-Ma-Toe
Two-Ma-Toe
Nice ezy teaser thanks!
#1 had me searching for a fruit/veg with beg or mom in the name!
also didn't get tomato, but perfectly tickled when I saw the explanation....wondered if I pondered much longer, perhaps I'd have figured it out??
seems I'd done this before....well, it was fresh again
also didn't get tomato, but perfectly tickled when I saw the explanation....wondered if I pondered much longer, perhaps I'd have figured it out??
seems I'd done this before....well, it was fresh again
It was great! So great, I got none right!
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser; I not only got them all but I breezed right thru this one it was so easy.
Although I got it, "tomato" for " Your mother pairs socks at the toes.", is a bit of a stretch.
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