NEW: Common Words

[boatbuilder]

Something a little different to get the brain cells working. Everybody is welcome to submit a set of five pairs providing the previous ones have been resolved by somebody and confirmed correct by the originator.

Get your thinking caps on and determine what word can follow the first word and precede the second word in each of the following five pairs:

An example is: Steam ___IRON___Age

1. Jail______Seed
2. Carpet______Bean
3. Paper______Board
4. Table_____ Ears
5. Water______Bearing

[Dave]

I hope these are right, number five is a bit iffy.

1/Bird
2/Runner
3/Clip
4/Cloth
5/Main

[boatbuilder]

The first four are what I have Dave, but the fifth, although fully acceptable is different from my 'Wheel'

[Dave]

Here's my five, boatbuilder.

1/ Cell ______ Book
2/ Tea ______ Dress
3/ Clock _____ Bridge
4/ White _____ Bowl
5/ Roof ______ Shed

[boatbuilder]

How about these answers Dave?
1. Phone
2. Party
3. Tower
4. Rose
5. Garden (or maybe even 'Timber')

[Dave]

My number four was 'Sugar', that cancels out 'Wheel'. All correct, over to you.

[boatbuilder]

Here are another five:

1. Drinking______Fibre
2. Sun______Light
3. Foreign_______Fill
4. Sea_____Side
5. Public_____Book

[Dave]

Are these right?

1/ Straw
2/ Day
3/ Land
4/ Port
5/ Library

[boatbuilder]

I have different ones for the first two Dave, though I guess there will often be alternatives.
1. Glass
2. Spot

I have some more lined up but over to you (or someone else).

[Dave]

Another five to keep you up tonight.

Forest ____ Bucket
Double ___ Dog
Hard _____Trick
Pin ______ Toe
Fence ____ Game

[boatbuilder]

How about these five?
1. Fire
2. Top
3. Hat
4. Hammer
5. Panel

They didn't keep me up too late Dave.

[Dave]

All correct, boatbuilder, I'll have to do some in Swahili next time, make it a bit tougher. If only I spoke Swahili.

[boatbuilder]

As you don't know Swahili Dave, I thought I'd better do my next one in a language that you might - Japanese.

1. 映画______ホール
2. スチール______ トップ
3. 古くなった______ビン
4. ゲーム______州
5. ダブル______ハット

But in case you don't, here it is in English.

1. Film______Hall
2. Steel______Top
3. Stale______Bin
4. Game______State
5. Double______Hat

[Dave]

I've been stuck on these five, boatbuilder, but as nobody else has had a go here are my, very dodgy, answers. Two and four are the dodgiest and five is an answer from before, although you might be being crafty there. I bet I'll kick myself when you reveal the answers.

1. Festival
2. Tank
3. Bread
4. Member
5. Top

[boatbuilder]

These are my five Dave:
1. Music
2. Tank
3. Bread
4. Over
5. Top

Of course there's nothing to say that none of the pairs can have multiple answers. I have 11 more sets of 5 ready for posting. The 'top' was already in my compiled list before your previous one but as one of the pair of words was different, I saw no reason not to include it.

It's disappointing that nobody else seems to want to participate. It's good 'brain exercise'. I got the idea from one of the puzzles that appears in 'The Times' at the weekends. I just used one of their pairs from last weekend as my example in the first post.