Faculty advisor: Scott Weiss (See
solution)
To relieve the stress of the freshman year, you've decided to
take up skeet shooting. The words below are your targets. The
questions below them eliminate twenty of the words. The remaining
four will give a helpful hint for the "required" freshman year
puzzles. Oh, one more thing...nah, you'll figure it out yourself.
| BRAVE CHILL COLLAGE COMMITTED CONCERT DEPORTING DO EVALUATE HEARD LESTER MOUSE MUDDY |
PLANES PLATING PRANCE PRAY PUNT ROBIN RODE SALOON SLAKE SPLITTER TRACE WORDY |
Which word:
anagrams to the name of a planet?
appears elsewhere in these questions?
becomes a new word when you remove both T's?
becomes its own synonym if you drop its first and fifth letters?
becomes the name of a fish if you swap the letters on its ends?
changes gender by having SS added to the end?
contains three pairs of double letters?
forms new words upon removing its first, second, or both first and
second letters?
has been a name in the news of late? (Errata: the "name in the news" is not the name
of a human being)
has the same cryptographic pattern as FLOODED?
is a first name of a famous director with the same cryptographic
pattern as the director's last name?
is also the name of a fictional rat?
is a name sounding like a famous film monster?
is Pig Latin for a name meaning "king"?
is pluralized by adding three letters?
is the name of a cable channel?
is transformed to a new word when its first letter is changed to a
D and moved to the end?
sounds like a word meaning "gospel" when pronounced with a lisp?
spells a word meaning "jelly" if its last letter is moved to the
front?
uses all the letters that appear in the last seven words of a
popular Christmas song?