Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Junkyard Fodder
by Sandy Wood - March 30, 2010 - 7:30 AM

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Tuesday’s Brain Game:  Following are eight anagrams; unscramble the letters to solve them. Solve all eight anagrams correctly and identify what they have in common. Good luck:

HOT LUMPY
BUN DEGREES
SOOTED
IDLE BLOOMS
HOUNDS
BEAK DUSTER
DARK CAP
CAMERA MONITORS

Here are the ANSWERS.
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Comments (8)
  1. Wow. Only got Hudson and was looking for rivers. Oh, well. Great as always, Sandy. Hope you enjoyed your birthday.

    reCap: Union desists (hope this never happens)

  2. @Kevin:
    I had one of the same issues. I got the same one as you and then a second. I got stuck looking for famous explorers. Grrrr.

  3. I got Desoto and my mind was stuck on explorers. I couldn’t get another one and gave up.

  4. This is where the name of the game really came in handy…

  5. I got the 3rd one first and then the 7th. From there it was pretty easy once I realized there some of the answers were fairly recent.

    What a shame.

  6. I got the 3rd one first and then the 7th. From there it was pretty easy once I realized some of the answers were fairly recent.

    What a shame.

  7. I got Hudson (out of luck), plymouth, packard an oldsmobile (I cheated– I was so stuck i jumped ahead and looked just at the common theme).
    I couldn’t get any of the others.
    And no wonder–the only other one I’d heard of was steudebaker.

  8. i got studebaker first (and was certain i knew the theme) and then desoto. duesenberg confirmed it and then i clicked through, depriving myself the chance to puzzle out the remaining answers.

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