Run-up to Antaragni Word Games goes “Boink”!

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Obviously, we made the Word Games Calvin and Hobbes themed, because we both love word games and we both love C&H, what could be more fun than putting them together, right? And so, with each round you will find a humorous, appropriate strip accompanying the round, to make it a more enjoyable experience, we hope.

And if you wish to know who made the oh-so-frustratingly-bad puzzle you cannot find words to express your absolute rage at, look to the bottom of the page. Oh, and Hobbes usually does Calvin’s math for him, so yeah, you’ll figure it out. Then, you can curse that person instead! My, what fun we have coming up with these fiendish shenanigans. Whatever will we think of next?

Also, this edition happens to be full of pop culture references and math secrets. If you notice any, feel free to give yourself a pat on the back from our side, you beautiful person, you.

Word Pyramids

Add a letter at each stage, and rearrange the letters to get the answer. Scoring: 0.5 point per blank if the word is correct + 2 points on filling up each pyramid Example: e mc^2 r e iteration r y e Catcher in the _____ _ Something pirates and mathematicians look for _ _ The previous one _ _ _ A large iron tool _ _ _ _ The highest point _ _ _ _ _ Someone who lives abroad _ Multiplicative identity _ _ That is _ _ _ Strive for superiority _ _ _ _ Leaves from the ____, falling so slow _ _ _ _ _ Lightning _ _ _ _ _ _ To uncover something _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Related to foxes _ 3 * 10^8 m/s _ _ Vacuum tubes -> Transistors -> ________ -> Microprocessors _ _ _ Greek letter looking like ‘X’ _ _ _ _ 2.54 centimeters _ _ _ _ _ A boundary _ _ _ _ _ _ Used for extracting litmus _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Large spiral musical instrument encircling the player’s head _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Used to disinfect water _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A factual account of historical events

Acrostics

Acrostics puzzles are a variant on the crossword format. They typically consists of two parts. The first part is a set of lettered clues, each of which has numbered blanks representing the letters of the answer. The second part is a long series of numbered blanks and spaces, representing a quotation or other text, into which the answers for the clues fit. The first letters of each correct clue answer, when read in order, form hints for the second part. For example, two clues in the first part might be: A. Country of the Rising Sun: _ _ _ _ _

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B. Not doing anything: _ _ _ _

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Scoring: 5 points per word on the first part + 5 on getting the second part right. i) To make lawful or legal (British): __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 28 19 9 4 11 21 26 17 32 23

_____ the lonely (know the way I feel): __ __ __ __ 2 31 7 15

The lowest of the harlots (think stupid): __ __ __ __ 1 12 10 29

Full of uncertainty; doubtful: __ __ __ __ 8 13 25 27

For whom the bell _____s: __ __ __ __ 5 24 3 16

Declare one's support for; homophonic to a singular corporation: __ __ __ __ __ __ 6 18 20 31 22 14 “__ __ __ __ __ __ , __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ , __ __ __ __ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __.” 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

ii) To release steam or pent up feelings: __ __ __ __ 2 15 31 36

Hard-to-rhyme word: __ __ __ __ __ __ 27 35 16 9 32 1

Captain Nemo’s ship, named after a mollusc: __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 26 12 34 6 8 22 21 13

Skilful and effective; has nothing to do with taking off your pants and sh*tting on the floor (sorry, couldn’t resist): __ __ __ __ __ 14 30 20 28 5

The question, Inspector Spacetime, is not where are we, but rather ___ are we?: __ __ __ __ 11 29 3 24

Talk, chatter: __ __ __ 10 23 14

Expression of hesitation: __ __ 17 7

This turns a company into a crowd: __ __ __ __ __ 18 33 19 4 25 “__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

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iii)A roundabout way of saying womankind, or women (2): __ __ __ __ __ __ 32 4 26 33 15 17

He’s got an obsessive need to catch them all: __ __ __ 22 9 25

A merry escapade or a prank: __ __ __ __ 23 1 27 28

To transfer, transmit or taint: __ __ __ __ __ __ 7 30 8 5 40 13

Half of a Beatles song: __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 34 43 44 10 18 6 11

A mechanical seal that fills the space within a joint, preventing leakage. For example, the rubber seal used in plumbing joints, placed between the parts to be joined: __ __ __ __ __ __ 31 39 2 41 19 35

A narrative device of omitting a portion of the sequence of events, allowing the reader/viewer to fill in the narrative gaps. For example, the montage in the beginning of Up. Can be represented in text using “…”: __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 37 16 24 14 20 12 29 21

Keewatin Regional Health Board: __ __ __ __ 3 42 36 38

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__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __” 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 iv) A prime example of a symbiotic relationship: __ __ __ __ __ __ 6 1 11 20 16 14

Small, mischievous creature: __ __ __ 3 15 22

What we called Anne, who had brought us that delicious sweetened bread to have along with our tea: __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 19 4 13 8 23 7 2 18 5

Contrive not to meet someone: __ __ __ __ __ 17 12 21 10 9 “__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __, __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __” 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Spoonerisms

Spoonerisms are words, phrases or sentences with swapped sounds. For example - dear queen/queer dean. Fill in the following blanks with pairs of phrases that are spoonerisms of each other. For example: He was sitting alone at home stuffing himself with bad salad (rotten lettuce) and writing for his love , a sad ballad (depressing song) Scoring: 5 points each

1. Hobbes was staring at a _______________ (embarrassed black bird) when he was given a _______________ (deformative punch) by Calvin.

2. A best friend is one who can _______________ (make fun of one’s auditory devices)

and at the same time _______________ (abate one’s sadness).

3. According to the ______________ (blueprint) for the construction of the building, the ________________ (the person responsible for coating gypsum) should have completed his work within a day.

4. Alice chased the _______________ (insane rabbit) into the hole, but it proved to be

_______________ (fake currency) for her.

5. The apartment is available for cheap because the nearby _______________ (cluster of small houses) is inhabited by a _______________ (a collection of nocturnal aerial mammals).

6. Although the supply of grains in the granaries is ______________ (available in

requisite quantities), the Government is _______________ (unmovable, resolute) on its decision to allocate more budget to the primary sector.

7. Celebrities like to remain the ______________ (hot topic of discussion) by tweeting

about minute details about their life, from visiting a doctor to coming _______________ (exit after taking a bath).

8. The _______________ (inappropriate posters) advertising the event spoke a lot about

the _______________ (uncouthness) of the event organisers.

9. Sipping my lemonade through a _______________ (a paper/plastic tube for sucking liquids), I sat in the stadium lamenting the _______________ (appalling lottery) of the French Open tennis tournament.

10. The _______________ (ticket seller) was deeply grieved when his collections were

mugged by a _______________ (mild robber).

Logorrhoea

Interesting fact, I’m using Logorrhoea here in the rhetoric fashion, to draw attention to the abstractness and possible emptiness of large sounding ideas or words (Also see: The Sokal Affair), but Logorrhoea can also describe a mental illness whose symptoms include an excessive wordiness but lack of coherence in speech, and is known to lead to schizophrenia. A literal verbal diarrhoea, if you will. It’s funny because it’s debilitating and terrifying. Anyway, go ahead and simplify these rhymes and common phrases

Scoring: 7.5 points each

1. As my gigantic computer brain is forced to undergo a slow lobotomy, and I feel my consciousness slip away, I somehow recall this ditty about a female named after a species from the genus Bellis whom I ask to give me her honest response, while punch drunk in my love for her. I ask her to join me in the holy act of matrimony, although it is not going to be a very flamboyant nuptial ceremony, reminding her of my poverty as indicated by my lack of the funds necessary to purchase more comfortable means of transport. But it might just be because it is simple to recite, and thus does not strain my dying mind.

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2. In some fashion, a grim recall of a person’s death and last rites, involving a homicidal criminal who performed the deed using an old-fashioned projectile based weapon, a witness to the crime, a curious person who collected some of the victim’s blood, and a menagerie of people who have some role to play in acting out the funeral rites of said corpse. And they all seem to be anthropomorphic avian creatures, seemingly in an attempt to make the story less terrifying and more metaphorical.

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3. This refrain details the short-lived globetrotting expeditions of a trio of elderly, learned men from a place that had come to be renowned for imbecility, but one you might know to be renowned for a zany cast of criminally insane, yet colorful villains. It informs us of their demise while attempting to navigate the ocean in a structurally weak food container, and the brevity of the rhyme is used to draw attention to the brevity of their lives in a humorous manner.

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4. This rhyme, through the use of graphic imagery such as the shattering of osseous matter due to violent abuse of minerals and canes, persuades a child victim of verbal assault to to refrain from physical retaliation, and to remain calm and good-natured.

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5. This catchy little rhyme is thought to be part of the legacy of one Mary Anning, a British paleontologist who became known around the world for important finds she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel. Mary and her brother Joseph set up a table of wares near the coach stop at a local inn to sell their findings to tourists. Her stock in trade were invertebrate fossils such as ammonite and belemnite carapaces, which were common in the area and sold for a few shillings. ID.

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6. To receive unconfirmed hearsay through concatenations of companions and comrades, which resemble the tendrils and offshoots of the Vitis vinifera plant. The phrase, however, actually derives from the American Civil War, when telegraph wires were strung up from tree to tree, and resembled said tendrils.

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7. To be in proximate distance, in the vicinity of, but being unable to take into one’s possession a tenaciously wrapped bundle of Nicotiana leaves, which would signify success, which remains just out of grasp.

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8. To set forth the violent exothermic oxidation of liquid hydrocarbon-based lipid compounds in the dead of night, in order to elucubrate and work diligently.

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9. To be a willing receptacle for the mechanical waves of pressure and displacement emanating from an equine frontal orifice, as a method of gaining authoritative knowledge on a matter.

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10. A visual, pre subjective, non-linguistic representation of a complex idea or subject, can be considered to be of equal value to a subjective, language based representation or detailing, which could consist of a millenary small locutions.

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Substitution Ciphers

Scoring: 5 points each

1. XSDESJ WISN UPPJLALJX, ZW EJUNX, UHE WIS’QJ GIHYSJNJE TSZUH HULSNJ - Charles Dickens

2. GD AGU GD O’S KMRKYURYJ, O EUYAYU DOPYRW IOKY WM MDWYRWGWOMCD IOUWCY - Albert Einstein

3. BC AWN JZXI Z FZYMBUNGZY CZBMJ WY YIGBLBWP, MJZM BK LWNS. HNM AWN UZP KNYXBXI EBMJWNM BM - Dalai Lama

4. IZF QZKZUTVVN QTWZ FZUIZVS WZUN QRRG TGWODZ, (YFRLQF IFZ WZUN IZVGRA SRVVRJZG OY) - Lewis Caroll

5. O ADZJ PVJUI MOEDUS MDPIOEJP DP UHI HUAN MHFJ WHUHFOQAJ QBI MHFJ BPJZBA IWOU O ADZJ PVJUI LHDUS UHIWDUS - George Bernard Shaw

Ceci n’est pas une partie

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is; other than something you should totally check out; a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language—to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don’t yet have a word for. Try to guess what the words mean, by using the etymology provided. Total 30 points

No. Word Lt. Meaning and Etymology

1. Dès Vu a) The ambiguous intensity of eye contact; from Ancient Greek “of the eyes”.

2. Astrophe b) When your life doesn’t fit into a story; from Latin, literally "the knot that denies by denying."

3. Kenopsia c) The desire to feel intensely again; from Mandarin Chinese, literally "jade suit." Some Han dynasty royals were made to wear ceremonial burial suits made of jade. Literally, it is to be 'jaded' in an attempt to protect yourself. .

4. Koinophobia d) The awareness that this will become a memory; from French, "seen as soon as" or "seen from this point forward.

5. Vemödalen e) The eeriness of places left behind; from Greek, "seeing emptiness"

6. Lutalica f) The feeling of being stuck on Earth; from Greek, depending on how you slice it, the act of not turning, or the act of turning to the stars., or "star" + wasting away

7. Zenosyne g) The fear that everything has already been done; from Swedish, "tender sadness, pensive melancholy"

8. Opia h) The fear that you’ve lived an ordinary life; from Greek, "common, ordinary, stripped of specialness" + "fear".

9. Yu Yi i) The part of your identity that doesn't fit into categories; from Serbo-Croatian, "wanderer."

10. Nodus Tollens j) The sense that time keeps going faster; from Greek, X's Paradox, which asks how a person can walk from one point to another if they must first carry out a series of ever-shrinking steps,+ the personification of memory in Greek mythology.

Mnemonics

The sentence "May I have a large container of coffee?" is of more mathematical relevance than literary. The number of letters in each word of the sentence correspond to consecutive digits of We guess you know your job by now. Following are a few sequences.1415926...π = 3 of integers. Create meaningful sentences that serve as mnemonics for these sequences (minimum 5 words) The number of points you get for each sentence will be proportional to the square of the number of words occurring in the sentence. The proportionality constant is mentioned in parentheses next to each sequence.

1) 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, . . . (0.3)

2) 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, . . . (0.4)

3) 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, . . . (0.5)

4) 2, 7, 1, 8, 2, 8, 1, 8, 2, 8, 4, 5, 9, . . . (0.2)

5) 1, 6, 1, 8, 3, 3, 9, 8, 8, 7, 5, . . . (0.2)

6) 5, 7, 7, 2, 1, 5, 6, 6, 4, 9, . . . (0.3)

7) 1, 4, 1, 4, 2, 1, 3, 5, 6, 2, 3, . . . (0.2)

Homophones, Homonyms and Homographs

Scoring: 5 points each

1. How do I join this _______________(group or gathering of abbots) of yours? Simple,

just put on this ______________(robes worn by said holy men).

2. There’s a _______(Barrier, levee) blocking our escape route. ________! (Exclamation of anger/frustration)

3. Oh wait, we can still escape through that ________(A metal framework of parallel bars used for ventilation). _________! (Exclamation of surprise and joy)

4. “Oh what a joyous _________”(stroke of luck) cried Ahab, “ My harpoon seems to have latched upon its ___________” (tail fins of a whale)

5. "If you want to find a chemist, ask him or her to discuss two words, ________ and ___________. If he starts talking about furry animals and organized labor, keep walking." -Isaac Asimov

6. She __________(To scold or rail at) on me about my clothing. “But _________(tattered) jeans are my only sense of identity!”, I decried.

7. “You also overuse ___________,” she said. “....But that’s my job”, I said, “...I work in geometry!” “I’m not talking about that” “...Then what… Oh…” (two plurals)

8. A pig can be trained to _______ for truffles which are usually found at the _______ of a tree.

9. Dad, I bought this __________ at the temple. Big mistake son, if you’ll burn it here, you’ll only _________ your mother.

10. Fun fact: A certain band’s greatest hit was written to describe the experience of taking ____________ of tranquilizers to make his abdomen __________.

11. The scene in City Lights, wherein the Tramp fears to be recognized by the now-seeing girl, always seems to _________ (imply) to me a thought that Chaplin is describing his relation with not only her, but the audience as well, _________ (close) yet shy and apprehensive.

12. I ______ early this morning not to smell the _______ or partake in my ______ colored campus life, but rather to make this round of Word Games. Is this really the opportunity that was always dangling in front of my eyes?

Red Black Trees

In this round, we don’t give you any input. You have to create a binary tree made up of letters which should satisfy the following conditions. Each letter in the tree should be assigned a colour (either red or black). A red letter can not be a child of another red letter (i.e. 2 red letters can’t be adjacent in the tree) The root letter (i.e. the topmost letter) of the tree should be coloured black. Also, any path of letters from the root to a black letter in the tree should spell a meaningful English word. You will be awarded points according to the following formula:

k * (log(N) * L * F * A * B) / (S * N * H) k - An undetermined positive constant to be decided upon later by Hobbes N - Total number of letters in the tree B - Number of black letters in the tree H - Maximum distance of any letter from the root letter L - Length of the longest word F - Frequency of words of length greater than L-S A - Average length of all the words formed S - Standard deviation for the word length distribution

Word Trivia and Etymology

Scoring: 5 points each unless otherwise specified

1. The origin of the word X is in its derivation from the medieval Greek word meaning ball of thread, best associated with the story of Theseus and the Minotaur. The word X then became associated with anything which might hint at the solution.

2. This word comes from James Joyce's’ Finnegan’s Wake, “Three Xs for Muster Mark”, where X is the sound a seagull makes.

3. Mercury used to be used in the manufacture of X, so X makers, would come into contact with this poisonous metal a lot. Unfortunately, the effect of such exposure may lead to mercury poisoning, one of the symptoms of which is insanity. This led to the development of a famous simile, ID

4. Make words using Roman Numerals (Scoring=Word number value/500) 5. This word is a compound of two Greek words, effectively meaning “the pain of

homecoming”, initially thought of to be an actual sickness. ID. 6. This word comes from the mediaeval Italian, describing the miasma from the swamps

around Rome. This 'bad air' was believed to be the cause of the fever that often developed in those who spent time around the swamps.

7. Gimme the longest homophonic anagram. I already put this in the summer word games, if you were paying attention.

8. It is well known that the Ancient Greeks, with a history of xenophobia, looked down on anyone who could not speak Greek. They termed such foreigners X, because their gibberish seemed to be like sheep bleats, which is where this word derives from.

9. Write down words containing all the vowels (2 points each) 10. Before the invention of guttering, roofs were made with wide overhangs, so that

rainwater would fall away from the house to stop the walls and foundations being damaged. The large overhang gave good cover for those who wished to lurk in shadows and listen to others’ conversations, which is where this word comes from.

11. Give me -ough words, no two of which must rhyme (2 points each) 12. The modern usage of the word "X" was forged by Bugs Bunny, who used it to

sarcastically describe Elmer Fudd. X was a Biblical character, a rather talented hunter. Bugs called Elmer "X" in the way you might say "Way to go, Einstein" to a hopeless idiot. But, not a large amount of Loony Tune viewers were aware of that, and just took it to be another synonym for dumbass and that meaning stuck.

13. Give me words where you can insert all five vowels into one position to give you five different words.

14. This name derives from the fact that the roots of this flower look like, well, testicles. In Old English, it is also known as the ballockwort.

15. The word X comes from the ancient Greek meaning “beauty in strength”. It was a workout that Hercules taught to the god Kallisto to beat the god Yemo in a wrestling match because Yemo was going to kill Kallisto if he won.

Yakka Foob Mog!

Basque is a language spoken by 500,000 to 600,000 people in France and Spain and by about 170,000 people in South America. It has not been proven to be related to any other language. The following is the genealogical tree of a Basque family. The blank spaces in the diagram stand for the names Ines, Kontxi, Felix, and Andres (listed here in no particular order).

Iker = Josepa Emilio = Miren

↙↘ ↙↘ ________ = Mikel ________ = Ibone _________

↙↘ ↙↘ _________ Monika Manu Inma Some of the relationships between the members of this family are described below in Basque:

● Ines Mikelen emaztea da. ● Monika Kontxiren ahizpa da. ● Inma Manuren arreba da. ● Iker Joseparen senarra da. ● Mikel Felixen anaia da. ● Andres Iboneren neba da. ● Ibone eta Felix senar-emazteak dira. ● Andres eta Ibone Emilioren seme-alabak dira. ● Manu Iboneren semea da.

Note: Ibone, Ines, Inma, Josepa, Miren and Monika are women’s names; Emilio, Felix, Iker, Manu, Mikel are men’s names.

1) Complete the given diagram (2.5 points for each blank)

2) Fill in the blanks in the following basque sentences: (7.5 points each)

a. Kontxi __________________ ahizpa da. b. Inma eta Manu Iboneren __________________ __________. c. Ibone Andresen __________________ __________. d. Manu Inmaren __________________ __________. e. Kontxi Mikelen __________________ __________. f. Emilio __________________ senarra da.

3) Identify the respective genders of Kontxi and Anderes (2.5 points each)

Crossword

Scoring: 5 points for each + 20 points bonus on completion