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Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby AlfGit

Prop wrote:Ben Woolaston?

Big Ben, and ‘last on’.

Correct!


Grand > Big > Big Ben
Finale > Finale (act) > Last On > Woollaston

Little Weed was a character in Bill and Ben.

I said it was a groaner. <laugh>

All yours, Prop!

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby LDS

Since we're at a natural breakpoint of a new year, a long gap while waiting for a question, and (about) a quarter of a century of pages since the last tally, I think it's time for a rankings update:

(Previous position in brackets)

No.1 - Prop (1) - 51 wins
2. LDS (2) - 35
3. Chen (2) - 34
4. Iranu (4) - 33
5. Alf (4) - 30
6. McFan (6) - 19
7. Bentley (8) - 5
8. Judd (7) - 4
9. Holden (8) - 2
10. HC (10) - 1
10. Mantrk (10) - 1

Since the last scores update, prop has won the most with 8 new wins, closely followed by Iranu and LDS with 6 and then chen with 5. McFan, Bentley and Alf all gained 3 more.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

rubbish, forgot all about this! Sorry guys. Will have a new one up some time today.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

Eviscerated city

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

LDS wrote:Yan Bingtao?

Manchester minus the middle is Master.


A fair crack, but no.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Iranu

Stuart Bingham?

Remove some of the ‘guts’ from Birmingham. Remote Medical Imaging also lets you see into a person’s guts.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

Iranu wrote:Stuart Bingham?

Remove some of the ‘guts’ from Birmingham. Remote Medical Imaging also lets you see into a person’s guts.


Got it :D And I’m betting LDS wasn’t far off solving it judging by his last go. Well played.

I didn’t go as far as the RMI bit, just gutted Birmingham to make Bingham. All yours sir!

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

LDS wrote:Kind of, though it may have been a long time before I got to Birmingham. My next guess would have been Cao Yupeng, being CY, with the IT removed.


I was expecting the early attempts to be along the lines of using the word city itself, rather than a specific city. So you did pretty well to immediately set your sights on the correct logic.

I had to think carefully about my reply. If I’d said you were using the correct logic I think you’d have got it within minutes. So I tried to be a bit ambiguous about it, without saying you weren’t using the correct logic and unnecessarily putting you off the scent completely.

Impressive quizzing, all the same.

And I did briefly look for an acronym for RMI to neaten things up. I came up short. Pretty cool that Iranu then found an appropriate one in his own workings :-)

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Iranu

Behind Partition

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby McManusFan

Patrick Wallace? Partition -> Wall, Behind -> ace (clutching at straws there!)

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

Chris Wakelin?

A wake is behind a boat etc, and lin could be construed as ‘line’ or a border/partition.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Iranu

Not Wallace or Wakelin

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby McManusFan

Judd Trump?

Partition -> Divide -> Div -> Judd Trump

Not entirely serious with this one!

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

McManusFan wrote:Judd Trump?

Partition -> Divide -> Div -> Judd Trump

Not entirely serious with this one!


rofl

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

Actually, it could be Judd. But I’m struggling with making it work completely.

T(rump) > rump is the rear/behind.

I just can’t make the association between T and partition.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

Peter Lines?

If you take ‘line’ (partition) out, you’re left with ‘peters’. If something peters out, it fades away, or gets left behind.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Iranu

It’s not Judd <laugh> or Lines

McManusfan’s first logic isn’t a million miles away. Think morbid.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

Tom Ford?

He’s as morbid as it gets. Can’t really find the logic though. I suppose a ford could be described as a partition :chin:

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

Ohh hold on. Ford make a car called an ‘Edge’.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Iranu

Not Ford

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

Hmm. When you say morbid, do you mean in terms of someone’s character - gloomy, negative etc - or more literally regarding death and disease?

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Iranu

The latter, death specifically.

Brickwork

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

Ricky Walden

Walled in

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

chengdufan wrote:Ricky Walden

Walled in


Welcome back! :hatoff:

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Iranu

chengdufan wrote:Ricky Walden

Walled in

What a way to storm back onto the Island :D

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

I had totally forgotten about this :emb:

Here's a new one:

Cheers House

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

LDS wrote:Cliff Wilson

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