monkeygrl99   
Jul 31, 2006
| Gonna go to my faves!
Yay! First one!! |
scallio
Jul 31, 2006
| Darn it! Got it wrong. Antonym of foul I was certain was sweet. I was thinking foul as in nasty rather than foul ball. Next time...
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blagh
Aug 02, 2006
| I started with flow... need more coffee... |
speedqueenkmw
Aug 04, 2006
| I was way off base on this one but good job  |
gaylewolf
Dec 31, 2006
| I got this one and can't believe I did. I love the backwards sequence!  Could my name have anything to do with it?  Good teaser! |
(user deleted)
Dec 31, 2006
| These aren't homonyms; homonyms are spelled and pronounced EXACTLY alike, but with different meanings. Such as "quail"-the bird and the verb. Homophones are what are used here.... sound the same but spelled slightly different. |
Funky_Munky
Dec 31, 2006
| Wow I loved this teaser, but it was really hard, I agree with erkgirl, so I was a little miffed with the homonym thing.  |
coachpisco
Dec 31, 2006
| Whew! I had to take a deep breath on that one. Way to go.  |
khedron
Dec 31, 2006
| "Homonyms are, in the strictest sense, both homophones and homographs, alike in spelling and pronunciation, as the two forms bear. Homonym, however, is used more frequently than homophone, a technical term, when referring to words with the same pronunciation without regard to spelling. Homonym is also used as a synonym of homograph. Thus, it has taken on a broader scope than either of the other two terms and is often the term of choice in a nontechnical context."
-Dictionary.com |
OwenKL
Dec 31, 2006
| Hmm, I'd neverknown a pair of homonyms could be spelled the same! I use the term homophone easily enough (I construct Cryptic crossword puzzles), but the term for two words with the same spelling but distinctly different meanings (like fair being light-skinned, evenhanded, or a carnival) was graphonym, and they were expressly NOT homonyms. And then there are the heteronyms, like "I'm content with the content of this post." |
Aarghonauts
Dec 31, 2006
| Loved this one!! It made the brain work a little but it was solvable....and fun. More of these, please!!!!  |
bradon182001
Dec 31, 2006
| HUH?? You sure lost me.  |
Pizzazz2u
Dec 31, 2006
| This is and was fun! Quit worrying about the other comments, and make a comment toward the teaser. If you work long enough on any given words, you should be able to find a few appropriate words to fit this condition Keep up the totally awesome work!  I enjoyed it, immensely! |
roaddevil
Dec 31, 2006
| Homonyms are spelled the same, this one used homophones. Sorry, I don't think they can be interchanged, but good puzzle anyway. I will pass it on with corrections! |
feste
Dec 31, 2006
| I'll give this a try once I learn the diff between homonyms, homophones & homographs. All very thoght provoking. |
bill78094
Dec 31, 2006
| Very good teaser. I've been visiting this site a lot lately and this is one of the best I have seen (but I did like the chemistry one as well). What would be the point of doing an anagram of a word spelled the same?
I will continue to enjoy this site. |
jabdr
Dec 31, 2006
| I thought this was great.Something like grated cheese that slipped though the grates of my mind and never grated on my nerves. It got me smiling - which is a good thing |
gaylewolf
Dec 31, 2006
| This is my second comment - but I had to comment on the comments. Reading THEM is half the fun! Now let the New Year commence. |
jcann
Dec 31, 2006
| I like this teaser because I love working with words. By the way, homophones sound alike, homographs are spelled alike, and they all fall under the category of homonyms. (Use your dictionary!)
I believe we've had this discussion before. |
katjojo
Dec 31, 2006
| Good one!! |
I_Write_Books
Dec 31, 2006
| Nice one! Unique and confusingly fun! |
PunnettSwears
Dec 31, 2006
| Very good teaser. I got it right, but I needed a thesaurus to get the antonym of foul. |
Badger
Dec 31, 2006
| I enjoyed this one. Quick & easy, but very fun! Even a little bit of a tie-in with the title, wolf, and fear. Well done! |
FatHead
Dec 31, 2006
| How weird. I thought, there are several antonyms to FOUL, and homonym and homophone mean differently, right? (See above.) However, a little imagination and I was able to get it, not to mention that I've been wrong before. |
FatHead
Dec 31, 2006
| Oh yeah, and I thought how cool it was to have such a compact, yet challenging, teaser. |
Synlapse
Dec 31, 2006
| I thought of "fear" right away but I ended up getting the answer by going from the last word back to the first. I was taught eons ago that homonyms sound alike but are spelled differently. All the comments on the other homo... types were quite confusing. |
breathesunshine
Dec 31, 2006
| Fantastic teaser. Keep them coming! |
sweetblood
Dec 31, 2006
| great teaser !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! keep them comming |
tintiniscool
Dec 31, 2006
| That was great! |
Moon_Girl_
Jan 01, 2007
| the first one i got by myself!!!
YAY!!!!!! |
Qrystal
Jan 02, 2007
| Wow, that was great fun!! I was so intrigued about what the solution would be, and now I'm feeling chilled that I was actually in search of FEAR all along.
But I started with FLOW like someone else above, and then of course I couldn't find an antonym for FLOE. My sister, who is visiting this week, noticed that the WOLF was also hiding FOWL, and we gleefully progressed from there. I eventually thought of baseball FOUL and its antonym FAIR, though immediately after that I thought of Frodo's comment about how if Strider was a spy he would "seem fairer and feel fouler". |
cuteandditzy
Jan 04, 2007
| i could'nt keep that one straight in my mind long enough to figure it out.  |
i_luv_2_read
Jan 05, 2007
| i love this....more please!!! |
sweetblood
Jan 08, 2007
| it was challenging since i ament good at word things
but fun
nice teaser keep then comming
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Cat-Lady
Jan 09, 2007
| I'm barking and my High School English teacher mom is laughing at my complete ineptitude at solving this teaser I learned alot by reading the answer. Txs for the mind-blower |
jsdodgers
Jan 11, 2007
| Yay! got it right! great teaser! |
vlerma
Jan 17, 2007
| Great job. More please? |
lukeschett
Mar 29, 2007
| Kind of confusing but still good. |
lukeschett
Mar 29, 2007
| Kind of confusing but still good. |
rexlamos
Sep 14, 2008
| That was fun! |
rexlamos
Sep 14, 2008
| That was fun! |
doehead 
Dec 31, 2009
| Antonym of new is old,just like this teaser. |
etwizard
Dec 31, 2009
| This teaser was just plain wrong. Homonyms are two words that are spelled the same but have two different meanings. Fowl and foul are heterographs. |
glowtmickey
Dec 31, 2009
| Fowl is defined by the webster dictionary as
1 : a bird of any kind
Foul is defined by the webster dictionary as
1 a : offensive to the senses
They mean different things. They are homenyms. |
dani4w45t
Dec 31, 2009
| That was EXCELLENT! How did you ever think of such a puzzle? |
auntiesis
Dec 31, 2009
| I got flow and bogged down. Never thought of fowl. |
patiencewithaP
Dec 31, 2009
| Oh, this one hurt my brain. Great sequencing though! Good job! |
kittygirl19
Sep 23, 2011
| jibblyjibblyjibbly |
Yvadd
Dec 11, 2011
| That's a good one. I picked the wrong antonym of foul so I got lost. |
Babe
Dec 31, 2012
| I did not even try! |
JQPublic
Dec 31, 2012
| Only got up to 'foul'. Nice teaser. |
Quocalimar
Dec 31, 2012
| XD I got it using common sense. I saw all of that homo, syno, anto, confusion and was like....duuuuuuuh.
Wolf = Fear. Then i looked at the answer and boom bam, I got it.
Best teaser i ever read, for the sheer compact size and level of challenge. |
gaylewolf
Dec 31, 2012
| Even though I am a "Wolf" I "fear" I didn't get it! |
iggy39
Dec 31, 2012
| HA HA gailwolf that was funny. I didn't get it either. I usually don't but it took some thinking to make this one up.
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thecatladycac
Dec 31, 2012
| I like this kind of puzzle and usually do well with them - but - I got as far as an anagram of wolf = flow, and was stuck right there! Ended up just looking up the answer - /really great puzzle regardless of how far off I was!! |
spikethru4
Jan 01, 2013
| I missed the first 'anagram of' so only got as far as 'fare'. References to 'homonym' should be corrected to 'homophone' to avoid confusion. For example:
row (to propel a boat) and row (a line of objects) are homonyms. They have the same spelling and pronunciation, but different meanings.
row (to propel a boat) and row (to argue) are homographs. They have the same spelling but different pronunciations and meanings.
row (to propel a boat) and rho (the Greek letter) are homophones. They sound the same, but have different spellings and meanings.
Fair/fare and fowl/foul are therefore homphones, not homonyms. |
