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2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

So here's a new game.
The question setter gives a clue using only two words. The answer is a snooker player. I've no idea if this will work. Here goes.

Here's the first clue:

Matthew Perry

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

Juddernaut88 wrote:Matthew Selt

I'm afraid not, no

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

McManusFan wrote:Chandler Riggs?

Sorry, I haven't heard of this player :(

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby McManusFan

chengdufan wrote:
McManusFan wrote:Chandler Riggs?

Sorry, I haven't heard of this player :(


He may not be a snooker player, the name just came to me. He might be an actor.

Matthew Perry was the bloke who was Chandler in Friends wasn't he?

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Iranu

Harvey Chandler

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

McManusFan wrote:
chengdufan wrote:
McManusFan wrote:Chandler Riggs?

Sorry, I haven't heard of this player :(


He may not be a snooker player, the name just came to me. He might be an actor.

Matthew Perry was the bloke who was Chandler in Friends wasn't he?

Chandler Bing, yes.

I just looked up Chandler Riggs. He's an actor who played Carl in The Walking Dead, which I'm actually midway through watching. Good show :)

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

Juddernaut88 wrote:Joe Perry

Not the Gentleman I'm afraid

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

Iranu wrote:Harvey Chandler

Ooh, good guess. It could have been Harvey Chandler. I'd forgotten about him :chuckle:
I have someone else in mind though.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

McManusFan wrote:Stuart Bingham!

I perhaps should have done an easier one for the first try :chuckle:

Not Ballrun, sorry

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

McManusFan wrote:Chang BINGyu?

Yay! That's it. Nice one McManus Fan :)

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby McManusFan

chengdufan wrote:
McManusFan wrote:Chang BINGyu?

Yay! That's it. Nice one McManus Fan :)


Got there in the end, even if it took me an embarrassing number of guesses.

Here is my one:

Articulated bareback

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

McManusFan wrote:Articulated bareback

This is a good one. I'm stumped (for now. Will give it some more thought)

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Juddernaut88

This is a very hard one, I will just make a random guess and say Anthony Hamilton

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby McManusFan

Juddernaut88 wrote:This is a very hard one, I will just make a random guess and say Anthony Hamilton


I may have gone a bit far with this one. Not the Sheriff, no.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby McManusFan

Juddernaut88 wrote:Ronnie O'Sullivan


If it was Ronnie, I'd have gone for hairy bareback!

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby McManusFan

LDS wrote:Gary Baldy?


I think he was a character on Babylon 5, and not a snooker player.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby LDS

Hmmm...

Let's see now....

Articulated? That could mean, like, an articulated lorry. I think there's a brand of truck called DENNIS, I'm sure I've seen that on the front of trucks before.

The only Dennis I know off the top of my head is Taylor, but how does Taylor fit with... oh, wait, a Taylor would often be dealing with a customer's bare back, it can work!

Dennis Taylor?

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby McManusFan

LDS wrote:Hmmm...

Let's see now....

Articulated? That could mean, like, an articulated lorry. I think there's a brand of truck called DENNIS, I'm sure I've seen that on the front of trucks before.

The only Dennis I know off the top of my head is Taylor, but how does Taylor fit with... oh, wait, a Taylor would often be dealing with a customer's bare back, it can work!

Dennis Taylor?


I like your reasoning, but sadly not Den.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

Similarly outlandish reasoning from me.

Neal Foulds

The KNEE is where the leg is articulated. Neal
Someone who takes their top off, then FOLDS it to put it away.

Reading this back, I'm embarrassed!

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby McManusFan

chengdufan wrote:Similarly outlandish reasoning from me.

Neal Foulds

The KNEE is where the leg is articulated. Neal
Someone who takes their top off, then FOLDS it to put it away.

Reading this back, I'm embarrassed!


Afraid not, I love the justification for Foulds.

I think I've made this one a bit too hard, so I'll give away that I'm going for a cryptic crossword vibe with the clue (although it's probably too messy to be a good clue), I'll also say that you should be thinking of the other meaning of articulated.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

Zhou Yuelong?

The emperors of the Zhou Dynasty all had lots of horses for their chariots. So that’s the bareback. Long... as in articulated?

I’m stumped! But love the game :-)

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby HappyCamper

articulated in crossword parlance could just indicate an homophone (to articulate = to speak). so something that sounds like bareback, or a word meaning bareback.

bare sounds like bear, which is ursa in latin. so ursenbacher is my tenuous guess.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby McManusFan

HappyCamper wrote:articulated in crossword parlance could just indicate an homophone (to articulate = to speak). so something that sounds like bareback, or a word meaning bareback.

bare sounds like bear, which is ursa in latin. so ursenbacher is my tenuous guess.


Exactly, perfect reasoning.