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Gremmie’s
Gremmie’s

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Edited by Gerald Muus

Here is last issue’s brain puzzle:
Our winning entry came from
Last issue’s brain teaser was designed to stimulate Skip & Vickie Larrington:
the connections or associations between words in
your temporal lobe. You will see pairs of words, and Here is our answer to your Winter Brain
your goal is to find a third word that is connected or Puzzle. Some were definitely easier than
associated with both of these two words. others. The only one we struggled with was

For example, the first pair is PIANO and LOCK. The number 8 – Army and Water. We came up
answer is KEY. The word key is connected with both with a few answers for that one, but we think
the word piano and the word lock: there are KEYS on Tank is the best.
a piano and you use a KEY to lock doors. Key is what
is called a homograph: a word that has more than one 1. Key (you explained that one)
meaning but is always spelled the same. 2. Deck (a ship has a deck and cards come in
decks of 52, or 54 including the Jokers)
1. LOCK — PIANO 3. Trunk (Trees have a trunk as do cars – at
least in this country)
2. SHIP — CARD 4. Pupil (Students in school are called pupils,

and part of an eye is a pupil)
3. TREE — CAR 5. Case (Pillows are covered by a pillowcase
4. SCHOOL — EYE and there are cases are adjudicated in court)
6. Bank (Rivers have banks and money is kept
5. PILLOW — COURT in banks)
7. Sheet (Beds are covered with sheets and a
6. RIVER — MONEY piece of paper is called a sheet of paper)
8. Tank (Tanks are used in the Army and
7. BED — PAPER
Water Tanks are used to hold water for
8. ARMY — WATER communities)
9. Racket (One uses a racket to play tennis,
9. TENNIS — NOISE and also racket is a loud, annoying noise)
10. Mummy (Egyptian kings were preserved
10. EGYPTIAN — MOTHER as mummies and mothers are sometimes

11. SMOKER — PLUMBER called mummy)
11. Pipe (Plumbers fix the pipes in a house
and some smokers smoke a pipe)

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