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The following clues below refer to words. These words are all anagrams, and the anagrams of the words all rhyme with each other. Can you figure out all the words that rhyme with each other?
Clues:
1. The longest river in the world.
2. Beverages usually made from grapes.
3. Machines used for moving heavy objects.
4. Evergreen trees with needle-like leaves
Clues:
1. The longest river in the world.
2. Beverages usually made from grapes.
3. Machines used for moving heavy objects.
4. Evergreen trees with needle-like leaves
Hint
They all rhyme with the word "fine."Answer
The words that rhyme with each other:1. Line
2. Swine
3. Sign
4. Spine
The answers to the clues:
1. Nile
2. Wines
3. Gins
4. Pines
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Ah, the first to leave a comment! Another good teaser lb cd!
Cool, but too easy.
Easy, except #3....what the heck is a 'gin'??? American slang for tractor perhaps? Hmmm
Have you ever heard of the "cotton gin"? That is the most known type of gin.
I like these...didn't get #3..but now that i see your "cotton gin" answer i get it....good teaser
didn't know "gin" rhymed with sign - thought it was a short "i"
"gins" doesn't rhyme with "sign" they are anagrams
Hadn't heard of 'gin' in the sense used. Got the others pretty fast.
TOO EASY!!
I like my 'gins' strong, aromatic and colorless, not working like an old style enGINe. Well done.
Can someone please explain to me how a 'gin' can be defined as a 'machine used for moving heavy objects'. The only (relevant) definition of 'gin' or 'cotton gin' in my dictionaries and encyclopoedia refers to the SEPARATION of cotton fibres and seeds.
Gins? I think that is a stretch, to say the least.
Could be my southern US upbringing, but the only mechanical "gin" I'm familiar with is associated with Eli Whitney, and it is used in processing cotton rather than moving large objects.
Interesting.
Gin as a machine for moving heavy objects? Not according to the MerriamWebster.
Much better clues could have been provided.
Not good.
Much better clues could have been provided.
Not good.
I liked that this puzzle involved rhyming anagrams, but I thought that two of of the clues rhymed without finding their anagrams (I didn't pluralize wine or pine). And please, no more puzzle clues that reference the river Nile!!!
I didn't have any problem with the use of "gins"- that was a good one.
"The term "gin" is an abbreviation for engine, and means 'device'..."
-Wikipedia
I didn't have any problem with the use of "gins"- that was a good one.
"The term "gin" is an abbreviation for engine, and means 'device'..."
-Wikipedia
I'm sorry but a gin is used to sepparate lint in cotton from the seed. so where did u get this from
Yeah all mixed up is a good name for this teaser! I got wine and pines, but Gin? Not gonna do it dude!
Wasn't a cotten gin used for removing the seeds from the cotton?
Positively Amazing This is a fun and amusing teaser, no matter what..lol Even though using a plural and a singular, makes it hard to get a rhyme.
that was different... I iked it
That was a fantastic teaser!!! I loved it... it really made me think!!
My Webster's dictionary says a gin is a machine used for lifting and moving heavy weights. I didn't know that until I looked it up.
Nice teaser, Cd! As a side note, "wine" is technically already plural and "wines" would refer not to the beverage but rather to the act of wining someone (she wines and dines her friends).
... but if you are talking different varieties, then you could say "wines." For example, "France is where many fine wines are produced." Right?
Yes, right! Wines is perfectly OK, so the smarty pants comment about that isn't valid. However, I'm putting on my smarty pants for "gins". I suppose that if it's defined somewhere as machine for..., then it's maybe OK, but I've never heard of that, and apparently neither has anyone else, and its not in several dictionaries as "machine...", so I don't think that's a good clue. You could have used the "spirit" definition for a clue, there would have been many good clues you could make for that. I got them all but no. 3, yay!!!
This is the kind of thing that I wonder about. Many, many teasers are rejected all the time. Then there are daily teasers, and its not that rare, that have errors or clues that are not good, or other probs, that weren't fixed when they went through the review process.
Anyway, sorry cdrock about everyone being smarty pants including me, it was still a good teaser, nice and difficult. I'm sure it took quite a while to come up with. Thanks!
This is the kind of thing that I wonder about. Many, many teasers are rejected all the time. Then there are daily teasers, and its not that rare, that have errors or clues that are not good, or other probs, that weren't fixed when they went through the review process.
Anyway, sorry cdrock about everyone being smarty pants including me, it was still a good teaser, nice and difficult. I'm sure it took quite a while to come up with. Thanks!
i agree with everyone's comments about 'gins'. thanks for the effort.
"hand to the chest....hand to the chest" Jeffy didn't get it.
I didn't get the GINS either, but the others were extremely easy. Didn't even need paper.
well at least this teaser got a lot of people to look up the word gin. my 10th collegiate merriam-webster says "any of various tools or mechanical devices" but the examples it gives are "a snare or trap for game" and of course the cotton gin. so now we know it can also be a machine for moving heavy objects as well. well, well, you learn something everyday.
10 seconds to get 1, 2, and 4... and anagrams for them... #3 Gins? Never would have thunk it. Really? Oh well. Thanks for submitting it.
This was definitely a good one! Not too difficult, not too easy.
Unfortunately I agree with almost everyone else on the use of "gins"; a different clue would have been better.
Overall, a great teaser that made most of us think and some of us crack open a dictionary or two!
Unfortunately I agree with almost everyone else on the use of "gins"; a different clue would have been better.
Overall, a great teaser that made most of us think and some of us crack open a dictionary or two!
Jul 05, 2006
got everything but the #3 i don't even no wat a gin is
Isn't the whole idea of teasers to have a little fun and maybe do a little learning?
'Gins' is an older short form of engines, used in things that do heavy or hard work. From Google's online dictionary reference: 'any of several machines or devices, especially: A machine for hoisting or moving heavy objects. A pile driver, A snare or trap for game, A pump operated by a windmill, and even your famous cotton gin.'
So what so bad about learning something new or finding out that we don't know it all?
A well-done teaser... Thank you.
'Gins' is an older short form of engines, used in things that do heavy or hard work. From Google's online dictionary reference: 'any of several machines or devices, especially: A machine for hoisting or moving heavy objects. A pile driver, A snare or trap for game, A pump operated by a windmill, and even your famous cotton gin.'
So what so bad about learning something new or finding out that we don't know it all?
A well-done teaser... Thank you.
nu rob roy, you put it all in a nice little nut shell. As usual, cdrocks.
Made us use the thing between our ears. Great job.
Made us use the thing between our ears. Great job.
Good one. I got three of them!!
YEAH!!
YEAH!!
Got most of this. Good one
nys... good job... o, n [advanced] hapi bday...
in my dictionary it says {1}: gin is a trap, snare {2}:machine used to separate seeds from cotton. the second listing says aliquor distilled from a grain mash and flavored juniper berries. i got 2 and 4. for 3 i put crane, and for 1, i'm too embarassed to say. but i was interesting anyway
[quote]Isn't the whole idea of teasers to have a little fun and maybe do a little learning?[/quote]
No.
The "whole" idea is to state a problem and then find a solution to that problem. In the process, you often can learn to look at something in a new way, or when you can't answer it you learn something you didn't know. But when you use an extremely esoteric definition, one that's not even in many dictionaries, in your teaser, you are not allowing people to use their "brains" to solve it. I personally, that is PERSONALLY, don't much care for a teaser or a clue that requires most people to scan several dictionaries, or even scan dictionaries at all. As we found out, many dictionaries have differing definitions or the same word, and some don't have certain obscure definitions at all.
None-the-less, it was ONLY that one clue that I had any objection to. I am just addressing this quoted poster's hugely assumptive statement.
No.
The "whole" idea is to state a problem and then find a solution to that problem. In the process, you often can learn to look at something in a new way, or when you can't answer it you learn something you didn't know. But when you use an extremely esoteric definition, one that's not even in many dictionaries, in your teaser, you are not allowing people to use their "brains" to solve it. I personally, that is PERSONALLY, don't much care for a teaser or a clue that requires most people to scan several dictionaries, or even scan dictionaries at all. As we found out, many dictionaries have differing definitions or the same word, and some don't have certain obscure definitions at all.
None-the-less, it was ONLY that one clue that I had any objection to. I am just addressing this quoted poster's hugely assumptive statement.
Well, I thought it was fairly easy. Shawneeo gave the wrong picture to future solvers. "Gin," a word that isn't in several dictionarys would force people to USE THEIR BRAIN!!! What about tenable, a word that means "defensible against attack," prosaic, a word that means "common," and farce, a word that means "absurd to watch." I use those a ton, but they aren't in my dictionary. WHO CARES ABOUT THEIR DICTONIC (another word not in my dictionary) STATE??? NOT ME!!!
Whoops, I mean dictionaries
did not enjoy this gin thing
got 1., and 2., 3.and 4.,not this time
I was confused by the directions. Now, admittedly, I apparently have a knack for misunderstanding. When I first read
"The following clues below refer to words. These words are all anagrams," I assumed they were anagrams of each other, such that if the first answer was "Nile" the other answers would be words like "line," "lien," and the name, "Neli." I read "the anagrams of the words all rhyme with each other." As I read it, the answers were anagrams and anagrams of them rhymed, but two of the answer words I got, "pine" and "wine," already rhymed and were not anagrams.
I don't think I would have been so misled if the directions had stated more clearly, "The following clues below refer to words. These words all have anagrams that rhyme with each other." I know that misunderstanding is part of the fun of wordplay, but the instructions should have been clear. I might even have gotten it then.
"The following clues below refer to words. These words are all anagrams," I assumed they were anagrams of each other, such that if the first answer was "Nile" the other answers would be words like "line," "lien," and the name, "Neli." I read "the anagrams of the words all rhyme with each other." As I read it, the answers were anagrams and anagrams of them rhymed, but two of the answer words I got, "pine" and "wine," already rhymed and were not anagrams.
I don't think I would have been so misled if the directions had stated more clearly, "The following clues below refer to words. These words all have anagrams that rhyme with each other." I know that misunderstanding is part of the fun of wordplay, but the instructions should have been clear. I might even have gotten it then.
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