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Etymologic

Here’s one for dad: Etymologic.

> In this etymology game you’ll be presented with 10 randomly selected etymology (word origin) or word definition puzzles to solve; in each case the word or phrase is highlighted in bold, and a number of possible answers will be presented. You need to choose the correct answer to score a point for that question. Beware! The false answers will often also seem quite plausible, and some of the true answers are hard to believe, but we have documentation!

On my first run through, I got four out of ten. Gotta work on that…

iTunes “Hymn” by Front 242 from the album 06:21:03:11 Up Evil (1993, 3:26).

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By Michael Hanscom
January 6, 2006

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  1. Royce said
    on January 7, 2006

    Fun! Some of it’s about test-taking skills rather than straight etymology. I got 8, but this may be the luck of the draw.

  2. Dad said
    on January 7, 2006

    You did better than I did; I only answered three correctly. I was dissapointed tghey did not give the answers.

    Love to you and Prairie

    Dad

  3. Dad said
    on January 7, 2006

    Never mind; I looked again - the answers were at the top.

  4. Tim Who? said
    on January 9, 2006

    Well I got 1, I guess thats better than a zero?

  5. Becky said
    on January 20, 2006

    Great game, thanks for bloging it. I can claim only 6 correct.

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