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Wordplay (Requires a monospaced font)       Copyright (c) 1992-1994 Protronics

Try to decipher each braintickler into a word or short phrase. The answers
are at the end of this document. Don't do more than five at a time. Enjoy!

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     MIND         MAN         STAND                      WEAR        LE
    MATTER       BOARD          I      |R|E|A|D|I|NG|    LONG          VEL


      7            8            9            10           11           12

    CYCLE       --------       KNEE        WEATHER      HISTORY         B
    CYCLE       | SAND |      ------       -------      HISTORY       A   E
    CYCLE       --------      LIGHTS       FEELING      HISTORY      D U M R


      13           14           15           16           17           18

       R            T         SEARCH     TAKE 1 MEAL       O      FALL BONJOUR
     ROAD           O                    TAKE 1 MEAL              SUMMER  HOLA
       I            W                    TAKE 1 MEAL              WINTER HELLO
       L            N           AND      TAKE 1 MEAL    SILVER    SPRING ALOHA


      19           20           21           22           23           24

      WAY           T            0           ii           ME      GETTING
                    O         -------        OO
                    U           M.D.         OO        --------
     ----           C           B.A.         OO        IT IT IT
     PASS           H          PH.D.         OO          IT IT        IT ALL


      25           26           27           28           29           30

    ECANLG   SHE'S/HERSELF  DEATH LIFE   A CHANCE N    OHOLENE  NOITANIMINRCSID


      31           32           33           34           35           36

  ALL/world      LU CKY      NIGHT FLY      SOU P       MOMANON  TIMING TIM ING


      37           38           39           40           41           42

PARKED/PARKED    BR EED     ME REPEAT   ESROH RIDING   COLT, JR.   YOU JUST ME


      43           44           45           46           47           48

   EMNIOTO      NOXQS4IT     PICT RES     B ILL ED    SOMEthing      VAD ERS


      49           50           51           52           53           54

  I       Q    LOVE           HAMLET        HEAD          MAN         M  M
 H JKLMNOP R   SIGHT SIGHT     WORDS      LOHEELSVE     campus        A  P


      55           56           57           58           59           60

       U         3. O           ho        SPRING              ALL    E E Q
       S         2. U           ho         SUMMER     GRATIS  ALL    U A L
       T         1. T         + ho        AUTUMN              ALL    S M C
       I                      ----          WINTER            ALL


      61           62           63           64           65           66

   VIT MAN      BUSINES    GETTINGITALL     MAUD         ELIF       TILL IME


      67           68           69           70           71           72

  1+T < HOLE    The SaNd       ACUM        JJJ BBB      DR. DR.        LOV


Solutions                                Copyright (c) 1992-1994 Protronics

 1 Mind Over Matter
 2 Man Over Board
 3 I Understand
 4 Reading Between the Lines
 5 Long Underwear
 6 Split Level
 7 Tricycle
 8 Sandbox
 9 Neon Lights
10 Feeling Under the Weather
11 History Repeating Itself
12 Bermuda Triangle
13 Railroad Crossing
14 Downtown
15 Search High and Low
16 Take 1 Before Every Meal
17 Hi-O-Silver
18 Season's Greetings
19 Higway Overpass
20 Touchdown
21 3 Degrees Below Zero
22 Circles Under the Eyes
23 It's Beneath Me
24 Getting Away from It All
25 Backwards Glance
26 She's Beside Herself
27 Life After Death
28 An Outside Chance
29 A Hole in One
30 Reverse Discrimination
31 It's a Small World After All
32 Lucky Break
33 Fly by Night
34 Split Pea Soup
35 Man in the Moon
36 Split Second Timing
37 Double Parked
38 A Breed Apart
39 Repeat After Me
40 Horseback Riding
41 Son of a Gun
42 Just Between You and Me
43 Mixed Emotions
44 No Excuse for It
45 You Ought to Be in Pictures
46 Sick in Bed
47 The Start of Something Big
48 Space Invaders
49 High I.Q.
50 Love at First Sight
51 Play of Words
52 Head over Heels in Love
53 Big Man on Campus
54 Time's Up
55 It's Up to You
56 Outnumbered 3 to 1
57 Tally ho
58 A Man for All Seasons (GENT)
59 Free for All
60 E = mc^2
61 Vitamin 'A' Deficiency
62 Unfinished Business
63 Getting It All Together
64 Mad About You
65 Change of Life
66 Til the End of Time
67 The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts
68 Head in the Sand
69 See You in the Morning
70 Birds and the Bees
71 Paradox
72 Endless Love

Proverbs

 1 Provide the privilege of affranchisement, or I will feel that life in not worth living.
 2 A condition characterized by tardiness is more desirable than one that systematically marked by eternal absenteeism.
 3 An ignoramus and his lucre are readily disjoined.
 4 In the absence of the feline race, certain small rodents will give themselves up to various pleasurable pastimes.
 5 A plethora of culinary specialists vitiate the liquid in which a variety of nutritional substances have been simmered.
 6 A winged and feathered animal in the digital limb is as valuable as duet in the shrubbery.
 7 The warm-blooded class aves who is governed by promptitude can apprehend the small, elongated, and slender creeping animal.
 8 Impetuous celebrity engenders purposeless spoilage.
 9 Illegal transgression has no remuneration for its perpetrators.


Solutions                                Copyright (c) 1992-1994 Protronics

 1 Give me liberty or give me death.
 2 Better late than never.
 3 A fool and his money are soon parted.
 4 When the cat' away, the mice will play.
 5 Too many cooks spoil the broth.
 6 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
 7 The early bird catches the worm.
 8 Haste makes waste.
 9 Crime doesn't pay.


Acronyms  (Sample "The 12 D of C" = "The 12 Days of Christmas")

 1  2,000 P in a T
 2  10 L I
 3  30 S over T
 4  7 D with S W
 5  20 Q (A, V, or M)
 6  15 M on a D M C
 7  66 B of the B (in the K J V)
 8  3 S and Y O at the O B G
 9  20000 L U the S
10  76 T that L the B P
11  10 D in a T N (incl. the A C)
12  9 J of the S C
13  8 D a W
14  7 Y of B L for B a M
15  6 P on a P T
16  5 T on a C (incl. S in T)
17  4 S on a V
18  3 L K that L T M
19  2 G of V
20  1 R A in E B
21  26 L of the A
22  7 W of the A W
23  1001 A N
24  12 S of the Z
25  54 C in a D (with the J)
26  9 P in the S S
27  88 P K
28  13 S on the A F
29  32 D F at which W F
30  18 H on a G C
31  90 D in a R A
32  200 D for P G in M
33  8 S on a S S
34  3 B M (S H T R)
35  4 Q in a G
36  23 H in a D
37  1 W on a U
38  5 D in a Z C
39  57 V of H K
40  11 P on a F T
41  1000 W that a P is W
42  29 D in F in a L Y
43  64 S on a C
44  40 D and N of the G F
45  B and B (C S)

Solutions                                Copyright (c) 1992-1994 Protronics


 1  2,000 Pounds in a Ton
 2  10 Little Indians
 3  30 Seconds over Tokyo
 4  7 Dwarves with Snow White
 5  20 Questions (Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral)
 6  15 Men on a Dead Man's Chest
 7  66 Books of the Bible (in the King James Version)
 8  3 Strikes and You're Out at the Old Ball Game
 9  20000 Leagues Under the Sea
10  76 Trombones that Led the Big Parade
11  10 Digits in a Telephone Number (incl. the Area Code)
12  9 Justices of the Supreme Court
13  8 Days a Week (Beatle's Song)
14  7 Years of Bad Luck for Breaking a Mirror
15  6 Pockets on a Pool Table
16  5 Tires on a Car (incl. Spare in Trunk)
17  4 Strings on a Violin
18  3 Little Kittens that Lost Their Mittens
19  2 Gentlemen of Verona
20  1 Rotten Apple in Every Barrel
21  26 Letters of the Alphabet
22  7 Wonders of the Ancient World
23  1001 Arabian Nights
24  12 Signs of the Zodiac
25  54 Cards in a Deck (with the Jokers)
26  9 Planets in the Solar System
27  88 Piano Keys
28  13 Stripes on the American Flag
29  32 Degrees Fahrenheit at which Water Freezes
30  18 Holes on a Golf Course
31  90 Degrees in a Right Angle
32  200 Dollars for Passing Go in Monopoly
33  8 Sides on a Stop Sign
34  3 Blind Mice (See How They Run)
35  4 Quarts in a Gallon
36  23 Hours in a Day
37  1 Wheel on a Unicycle
38  5 Digits in a Zip Code
39  57 Varieties of Heinz Ketchup
40  11 Players on a Football Team
41  1000 Words that a Picture is Worth
42  29 Days in February in a Leap Year
43  64 Squares on a Checkerboard
44  40 Days and Nights of the Great Flood
45  Billions and Billions (Carl Sagan)

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