Puzzles with words and things

[The Saviour]

Place names with no duplicates...

Pitlochry
Bocastle
Stalybridge


poor show

[The Statman]

Bocastle is actually Boscastle, but it does have the distinction of being hit by that flooding a few years ago and it is slightly ironic, seeing as it was an obstacle in the path of the surging river, that it is an anagram of 'Obstacles'!

Is 'cong' a word? I've not heard of it!

[chasmmi]

Thinking of Viet Cong?

[snookersfun]

Definitions of cong on the Web:

res: Snow Pillows
http://www.pistehors.com/articles/av...e/glossary.htm

A cong (Wade-Giles ts'ung) is a form of jade artifact from ancient China. The earliest cong were produced by the Liangzhu culture (3400-2250 BC); later examples date mainly from the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cong_(jade)

Cong (Conga Fheichín or Cúnga Fheichín in Irish) is a village in County Mayo, Republic of Ireland, next to the Galway border. It is located on the north shore of Lough Corrib, near the town of Ballinrobe and the villages of Neale and Cross. Cong is known for its underground streams that connect Lough Corrib with Lough Mask to the north. It was also the home of Sir William Wilde, historian and father to prominent playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer, Oscar Wilde.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cong_(Mayo)

The Cong are an indigenous people of about 1,300 living in Vietnam.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cong_(Ethnic)

[atthebookies]

For sure, The Americans still remember The Vietcong!!

[davis_greatest]

Is 'cong' a word? I've not heard of it!

The Statman, does this mean that snookersfun's answer is correct, or is it merely an incidental observation? Assuming the former, I hope not to be out of line in taking the liberty of posting the next round - my sincere apologies if this is premature and we should still be on round 44.

So....

(hopefully not premature) ROUND 45...

Find the missing first letters of these common English words. Then re-arrange the letters you find to make a snooker-related word.

-OON
-ITHER
-REAK
-ITE
-NTO
-HEN
-TTER
-ASE
-ESERVE

[chasmmi]

GOON
FITHER
FREAK
HITE
INTO
SHEN
ITTER
TASE
RESERVE

Griffiths

[davis_greatest]

GOON
FITHER
FREAK
HITE
INTO
SHEN
ITTER
TASE
RESERVE

Griffiths

Interesting, chasmmi! If you can use those common English words in a common English sentence, you can perhaps have half a point ... otherwise, I'm afraid that no, that is not the answer I am seeking. The 9 words are all used in everyday English...

[chasmmi]

I shall RESERVE judgement on that frightful GOON of a man till later. All this hither and FITHER talk of whether he is a FREAK or not is distasteful.

After a trip to the pub and a few bottle of imported HITE beer from Korea. The men decided a schoolyard game of It was in order. But then there was the question of whom the ITTER shall be.

Delving INTO their collective minds, it was decided that Billy the policeman shall be the one. As a policeman he had many cool gadgets including baton and Taser.

It was his decision that instead of merely tagging each other they could play 'Extreme It'. Where instead of tagging people, you TASE them with your Taser.

During the game, things got ugly. Drunkardness and electricity sadly do not mix and as such Mr Jones the librarian was victim of a nasty tase from Mr Briggs the builder. The spectators were not best please and drunkardly shouted:

"SHEN him off!"

It was then that fighting broke out and the game was abandoned.



How is that. I want my 1/2 point.

[snookersfun]

how about Robertson then

SOON
EITHER
BREAK
RITE
ONTO
THEN
OTTER
NOSE
RESERVE

[chasmmi]

Boon
Either
Creak
Lite
Into
Then
Utter
Case
Reserve

Crucible T

[davis_greatest]

I shall RESERVE judgement on that frightful GOON of a man till later. All this hither and FITHER talk of whether he is a FREAK or not is distasteful.

After a trip to the pub and a few bottle of imported HITE beer from Korea. The men decided a schoolyard game of It was in order. But then there was the question of whom the ITTER shall be.

Delving INTO their collective minds, it was decided that Billy the policeman shall be the one. As a policeman he had many cool gadgets including baton and Taser.

It was his decision that instead of merely tagging each other they could play 'Extreme It'. Where instead of tagging people, you TASE them with your Taser.

During the game, things got ugly. Drunkardness and electricity sadly do not mix and as such Mr Jones the librarian was victim of a nasty tase from Mr Briggs the builder. The spectators were not best please and drunkardly shouted:

"SHEN him off!"

It was then that fighting broke out and the game was abandoned.



How is that. I want my 1/2 point.

LOL Very good! But I'll be mean... especially as you have another answer that I need to respond to...

[davis_greatest]

how about Robertson then

SOON
EITHER
BREAK
RITE
ONTO
THEN
OTTER
NOSE
RESERVE

You and your blo0dy Robertson! I panicked for a moment until I saw NOSE - I thought that I might have to give you a consolation eighth-of-a-point for having found a perfectly good alternative answer...

[davis_greatest]

Boon
Either
Creak
Lite
Into
Then
Utter
Case
Reserve

Crucible T

Hehe, another very nice effort! But "Crucible T" is not the word I seek.

And I would not accept Lite as a valid, common English word.

A clue - the snooker-related word is the name of a player. But it's not that Robertson!

[snookersfun]

Werbeniuk any better than bloOdy Robertson?

NOON
EITHER
BREAK
KITE
INTO
WHEN
UTTER
EASE
RESERVE

I like it, no cheating either...