Reverse Empathy

The original Reverse Empathy thread is 4.5 years old with over 1000 posts. While it may be of historical interest, it's taking too long to download for everyday play, so let's continue in this new thread.

So far we've established they're chemical elements, but the topic is not "radioactive elements" or "elements named after ancient gods".

1. Uranium
2. Plutonium
3. Thorium
4. Neptunium
5. Radon
6. Bismuth
7. Mercury
8. Iridium
9. Rhenium
10. Hafnium

1. Uranium
2. Plutonium
3. Thorium
4. Neptunium
5. Radon
6. Bismuth
7. Mercury
8. Iridium
9. Rhenium
10. Hafnium
11. Ytterbium
12. Thulium
13. Holmium

Chemical elements that *mostly* end in -ium? :p

14. Terbium
15. Neodymium
16. Lanthanum

I was disappointed that my Egyptian Hieroglyphic topic lasted such a short time, so I don't mind that this one's taking a while. Pretty soon I'm going to have to start giving hints.

well, they are all elements that are in the last two rows of the periodic table, but that includes more than half of all known elements, so I guess there must be something more... And since I'm no chemist, I have no idea what.

I know little or no chemistry, and it wouldn't help anyway.

1. Uranium
2. Plutonium
3. Thorium
4. Neptunium
5. Radon
6. Bismuth
7. Mercury
8. Iridium
9. Rhenium
10. Hafnium
11. Ytterbium
12. Thulium
13. Holmium
14. Terbium
15. Neodymium
16. Lanthanum
17. Xenon
18. Tellurium
19. Tin
20. Cadmium

elements with an odd number of letters in their name?

Yep

That was evil.

If you think *that* was evil, what did you think about "10-point scrabble words" not so long ago?

Well, at that time I wasn't registered on littlegolem yet, so I didn't see it, hence it never happened.

1. band
2. bread
3. free
4. egg
5. dumb
6. harm

1. band
2. bread
3. free
4. egg
5. dumb
6. harm
7. race
8. track

1. band
2. bread
3. free
4. egg
5. dumb
6. harm
7. race
8. track
9. ship
10. trek
11. nest

words where if you change one letter, it becomes another word?
(bane, breed, tree, ego, bumb, hare, face, trace, slip, tree, rest)

Doesn't that cover about 80% of english words? :p

1. band
2. bread
3. free
4. egg
5. dumb
6. harm
7. race
8. track
9. ship
10. trek
11. nest
12. soot
13. triple
14. tryst

Rhymes of body parts.

MrMoto, yes!

:)

1. Leg
2. Muscle
3. Tooth
4. Pork

1. Leg
2. Muscle
3. Tooth
4. Pork
5. Stunt
6. Weight

Things that you pull / are pulled.

Good.

1. rat
2. mole
3. shrew
4. tenrecs
5. voles

small mammals

1. rat
2. mole
3. shrew
4. tenrecs
5. voles
6. bears
7. walrus
8. horse
9. manatee
10. seal
11. zebra

mammals that can't climb trees? (well, many bears can climb trees, but the rest can't)

Rats can climb trees too.

Animals you could use for the firesomething plugin?

More seriously, placental mammals?

1. rat
2. mole
3. shrew
4. tenrecs
5. voles
6. bears
7. walrus
8. horse
9. manatee
10. seal
11. zebra
12. monotreme

vertebrates
chordates

mammals without the letter i

most of them have at least an eye!

;-) another thought: are some animals in plural and some in singular on purpose?

1. rat
2. mole
3. shrew
4. tenrecs
5. voles
6. bears
7. walrus
8. horse
9. manatee
10. seal
11. zebra
12. monotreme
13. wolverine

placental mammals?

oops.

Representatives of each of the mammal families? (although monotreme is more a family itself than a representative of a family)

1. rat
2. mole
3. shrew
4. tenrecs
5. voles
6. bears
7. walrus
8. horse
9. manatee
10. seal
11. zebra
12. monotreme
13. wolverine
14. ichneumon

Animals in a folk story, legend or myth?

1. rat
2. mole
3. shrew
4. tenrecs
5. voles
6. bears
7. walrus
8. horse
9. manatee
10. seal
11. zebra
12. monotreme
13. wolverine
14. ichneumon
15. nemertean

(I assume there no mythologies about nemertea :)

mammals that have more than one species? For example, black bear and grizzly bear, or plains zebra and mountain zebra, etc

never mind, ichneumon is a type of wasp....nemertean is a type or worm.

Not sure for ichneumon:

Aren't those also mammals:

"Ichneumon" is ambiguous.

1. rat
2. mole
3. shrew
4. tenrecs
5. voles
6. bears
7. walrus
8. horse
9. manatee
10. seal
11. zebra
12. monotreme
13. wolverine
14. ichneumon
15. nemertean
16. sandworms

musical artists?

1. rat
2. mole
3. shrew
4. tenrecs
5. voles
6. bears
7. walrus
8. horse
9. manatee
10. seal
11. zebra
12. monotreme
13. wolverine
14. ichneumon
15. nemertean
16. sandworms
17. elasmosaurus
18. steneosaurus

It seems as though these beasts are being listed in some kind of order: perhaps along an evolutionary tree or according to fossil dates.

I thought music was correct....tenrec is a band (not tenrecs). So are the monotremes, and also montreme records is a group. Ichneumon is a solo artist. And there is a band called Ichneumon Fly. I get a hit on a song by Taylor Swift called "nemerteans" but I can't seem to get any info on it. Sandworms is a FICTIONAL beast (from DUNE) and it is also the name of a band...There is an artist named Matt Costa who has an album called The Elasmosaurus E.P. The others I believe all are musical groups, too, Rat and Zebra are bands I am familiar with. The only one I could not connect with music was steneosaurus.

One hint should be that some are plural, others are not. another hint is that sandworms is fictitious. Another hint is that the words are generally getting longer and longer...