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Initial Time We Play A Game With Two Letters During Hanukkah

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Just in case the guy on KFAN has got his intellectual property ducks in a row with his Kickstarter thing, I will not refer to this game by the same name he has given his version. Instead, this will be the initial time I "host" a game for the second on this platform with the following rules:

1. I will give you two letters (for example, "K.P"). All the items that week will be a two-word answer in which each word begins with letter in the appropriate spot. The answer can be a person, place, thing, or other two-word phrase. For example, if "K.P." are the letters, then one answer might be Kirby Puckett. Another answer might be "Krakow, Poland." And so on.

2. I will provide six clues for each answer. The clues will be provided one-at-a-time.

3. If you believe you know the answer, make a Spoilered guess in the thread. The point will go to whomever correctly identifies the answer first. If you submit an incorrect response, then you can no longer submit for that particular answer.

4. The participant with the most correct answers at the end of the week wins. (If there is a tie, then I will have tiebreakers for only the participants in the tie.)

5. You're going to be on the honor system, but you should not be using the internet or other resources.

The letters will be revealed, and clues for the first phrase will commence at about 10:30am.

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115 thoughts on “Initial Time We Play A Game With Two Letters During Hanukkah”

  4. First phrase clues:
    1. Created by the man who invented the lie detector
    2. Songs by both Trey Songz and Kacey Musgraves

    Next clue at 1050

      1. I forgot that guessing after 1 clue was a thing we did. So I waited for the second one. 🙁

        I suppose it helped, because even though I don't know either song I have a vague sense of who Musgraves is, and a song named "Wonder Woman" matches that vague sense?

  11. Phrase four clues
    1. Suffered permanent disfigurement after hockey injury

    Next clue at 10:40

  12. Phrase four clues
    1. Suffered permanent disfigurement after hockey injury
    2. Received high school degree posthumously

    Next clue at 10:50

  13. Phrase four clues
    1. Suffered permanent disfigurement after hockey injury
    2. Received high school degree posthumously
    3. Died after a business trip to Boston; some attribute the death to eating bad shellfish

    Next clue at 11:00

        1. Mine was mostly a stab in the dark. I was lost enough that I figured I’d take a chance on about the only thing I could think of.

  14. Phrase four clues
    1. Suffered permanent disfigurement after hockey injury
    2. Received high school degree posthumously
    3. Died after a business trip to Boston; some attribute the death to eating bad shellfish
    4. Won a coin flip, but failed in his attempt

    Next clue at 11:10

  15. Phrase four clues
    1. Suffered permanent disfigurement after hockey injury
    2. Received high school degree posthumously
    3. Died after a business trip to Boston; some attribute the death to eating bad shellfish
    4. Won a coin flip, but failed in his attempt
    5. Party to a patent dispute that reached the US Circuit Court of Appeals

    Final clue at 11:15

  16. Phrase four clues
    1. Suffered permanent disfigurement after hockey injury
    2. Received high school degree posthumously
    3. Died after a business trip to Boston; some attribute the death to eating bad shellfish
    4. Won a coin flip, but failed in his attempt
    5. Party to a patent dispute that reached the US Circuit Court of Appeals
    6. Co-recipient of US patent 821393 for "new and useful improvements in Flying Machines"

      1. dangit

        A matter of seconds.

        I'm gonna blame TSC as I'm typing one handed, holding her in the other arm.

        1. This was actually the first clue of the day that I was around for right away. Just lucky, I guess.

  19. Phrase five clues
    1. Associated with Charles Barkley
    2. Uses points-based scoring

    Next clue at 1:50

  20. Phrase five clues
    1. Associated with Charles Barkley
    2. Uses points-based scoring
    3. Used to have many franchises

    Next clue at 2:00

  23. Phrase six clues
    1. Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia
    2. Salix babylonica

    Next clue at 2:50

  24. Phrase six clues
    1. Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia
    2. Salix babylonica
    3. Originally from northern China

    Next clue at 3:00

  25. Phrase six clues
    1. Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia
    2. Salix babylonica
    3. Originally from northern China
    4. First reached England in 1730

    Next clue at 3:10

  26. Phrase six clues
    1. Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia
    2. Salix babylonica
    3. Originally from northern China
    4. First reached England in 1730
    5. A painting by Claude Monet

    Final clue at 3:15

  27. Phrase six clues
    1. Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia
    2. Salix babylonica
    3. Originally from northern China
    4. First reached England in 1730
    5. A painting by Claude Monet
    6. Known for its pendulous branches and twigs

  30. Phrase seven clues
    1. Sometimes comes with green or blue feet
    2. Is often yellow

    Next clue at 920

  31. Phrase seven clues
    1. Sometimes comes with green or blue feet
    2. Is often yellow
    3. Associated with flutes

    Next clue at 930

  32. Phrase seven clues
    1. Sometimes comes with green or blue feet
    2. Is often yellow
    3. Associated with flutes
    4. Uses sulphur dioxide

    Next clue at 940

        1. I just showed up, but that one was the confidence tipping point...something about sulfates in wines...

        1. I didn't nest the reply, so I reposted calling myself a dummy, then deleted the first one, then realized there was an out-of-context insult, then edited the second one.

  36. Phrase eight clues
    1. Douglas Corrigan
    2. A song about Annie
    3. A Q*bert character

    Next clue at 230

  39. Phrase nine clues
    1. Once damaged on Christmas Eve
    2. Designed by McKim, Mead & White

    Next clue at 1150

  40. Phrase nine clues
    1. Once damaged on Christmas Eve
    2. Designed by McKim, Mead & White
    3. Currently has solar panels

    Next clue at 1200

      2. I had this one in my head with the initials, but I thought of it as both the show and political environment, not at all as an architectural feature. These clues were tricksy.

  43. Phrase ten clues
    1. Has a different name in native UK than in the US
    2. First found in September 1987

    Next clue at 250

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