Have a great three-day weekend!
“Alternative Bonus, 5/27.”
- From what can you take away the whole, and still have some left?
- I am more microscopic than microscopic; I am more minuscule than minuscule. I am smaller than small and I am tinier than tiny. Yet surprisingly, I am still big. What am I?
- Wacky Wordy. What 6-word phrase is represented?
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A
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W
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N - Wacky Wordy: (2 words, one hyphenated)
1. Do Do
2. Dew Dew
3. Due Due - If men have two hands, and monkeys have four hands, what has three hands?
- A cat had three kittens: Mopsy, Topsy, and Spot. What was the mother’s name. Remember to please capitalize the name of the momma kitty when you write.
- What do these three things have in common? Corn, Weasel, Balloon
LET’S PLAY SCRABBLE.
Scrabble Practice Round.
- Each person draws a letter. The letter closest to A goes first. (Blank beats A.)
- Draw continues clockwise (to the left) after that.
- If no one volunteers, the person with the letter farthest from A is scorekeeper.
- Put those letters back and draw seven (7) each.
- Keep score like this (don’t write what’s in the parentheses):
| Jimmy (First Player) 17 (first turn) 6 (second turn) 23 (total so far) 14 (third turn) 37 (total so far) |
Johnny (Second Player) 23 15 38 7 45 |
- First player must put the word down with a letter on the Star (2x word) in the middle.
- Left to right, top to bottom; not diagonal, not bottom to top!
- Suggestion: no more than 2 minutes per person.
- NO! NO! NO!
- NO abbreviations or contractions
- NO foreign words
- NO proper nouns (nouns you would normally capitalize)
- (Check the dictionary.)
Multiplier squares are one use only!
Extra credit for anyone who breaks 75.