Word Puzzles

terrance806's word game add a word drop a word reminded me at a word puzzle. Here are 2 random examples taken from the thread:

blue ... pressure
solution: blood (blue blood, blood pressure)

razor ... looks
solution: sharp (razor sharp, sharp looks)

If you know/find a good one, please post it here.

runner ... stairs
shrugged ... beat
rock ... up
yellow ... rafting
brain ... right
elbow ... venture
table ... court
academy ... winner
sting ... Charles
handed ... under
tea ... smoker
dirty ... queen
mister ... ray
can ... over
foul ... along
hard ... out

tea pot / pot smoker
table tennis / tennis court

runner UP stairs
shrugged ... beat
rock CLIMB up
yellow RIVER rafting
brain PAN right
elbow JOINT venture
table TENNIS court
academy AWARD winner
sting ... Charles
handed DOWN under
tea POT smoker
dirty ... queen
mister MAN ray
can KICKED over
foul MOVE along
hard KNOCK out

dirty... queen is probably "dancing."

Dirty Dancing
Dancing Queen

Better -
can DO over

shrugged OFF beat ?
sting RAY Charles

Actually I meant post your puzzles here, but it's also good to have the solutions.

correct:
runner UP stairs, shrugged OFF beat, yellow RIVER rafting, elbow JOINT venture, table TENNIS court, academy AWARD winner, sting RAY Charles, handed DOWN under, tea POT smoker, dirty DANCING queen, can DO over

also some solutions may work too, I have a different one for:
rock ... up
brain ... right
mister ... man
hard ... out

I haven't got a solution for this one, but if would be funny:
rock ... roll
N isn't working, rock N and N roll are not good. More something like solid or pay, at least for one pair.

\* although, not also
mister ... ray (not man)

i just noticed, you can also make symmetric ones:
run ... run (not FOREST ;-)

run over
over run

hard work
work out

rock hard
hard up

Mister
Miracle

Miracle Man

correct: run OVER run, hard WORK out, (mister MIRACLE man, this was a mistake, see below)

missing:
rock ... up
brain ... right
mister ... ray

I just noticed the mister in the last puzzle is not a common English expression, you only know him if you played a certain board game.

Ah, I didn't realize the puzzle "mister man" was a mistake. Well, then I created a new puzzle!

Your board game clue was too easy: mister X ray

"rock HARD up" must surely be as equally valid as a solution as the one you came up with.

Still working on brain... right.

Yes Ed, you've got it (mister X ray).

Indeed, I didn't knew the expression 'hard up', I've got another one there.

The word pairs for the remaining two puzzles can all be found in dictionaries (as they should).

run...run can also be
run out
out run

brain dead
dead right

Good work Ray.

yep! One to go:
rock ... up

new ones (feel free to add some puzzles yourself):
love ... box
real ... saver
horse ... polish
oil ... tyre
cycle ... station

real LIFE saver
horse SHOE polish

thanks Ed :)

love SQUEEZE box

electrical ... plug ... crowd ... code

Yes Ed, correct once again. I don't know love squeeze, have something different there.
love ... box, rock ... up

Marley's puzzle:
electrical POWER plug IN crowd SOURCE code?

upper ... study

electrical SPARK plug IN crowd CONTROL code

ooh...multiple solutions!

I had in mind a third solution,
electrical SPARK plug IN crowd SOURCE code

Erm, isn't that just two thirds of the first solutions combined with one third of the other prior solution?

And I guess I now have to be vaguely original, so I'll scrape the bottom of the barrel (AKA my head, it's turned into that shape after drinking so much beer and whisky) and go:

electrical NETWORK plug IN crowd DYNAMIC code

Yeasss!!!!!

upper CASE study

love LETTER box

rock ... roll

could be

rock LOBSTER roll

but I don't think that's a very satisfying solution.

Are you kidding? That's a great solution. Good work.

agreed! excellent solution...I was thinking about rock... roll with no good ideas. Well done, duncecap!

bringing this forum back to the first page with two new puzzles:

old...trick
tip...track

in case you did not know, there is a long standing game in the empathy forum called reverse empathy which has been going solid for years....highly recommended fun!

old HAT trick

tip OFF track