#1265463 - Fri May 15 2020 08:16 PM
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Rule of thumb (from experience with the game) when there are two similar pairs: Avoid matching the ones with the common term. Unless it also has a -ise/-ize or -or/-our variation as well.
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#1265519 - Sun May 17 2020 12:26 AM
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Prolific
Registered: Tue Apr 30 2013
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Loc: New York USA
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Today's mind melt.
alcoholic is related to drunk
You said: juicer
alcoholic means "a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually"
drunk means "a chronic drinker"
drunken reveler is related to juicer
You said: drunk
drunken reveler means "someone who engages in drinking bouts"
juicer means "a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)"
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So having put alcoholic is related to drunk, I saw the second set of relationships, went back and changed it to alcoholic/juicer and drunken reveler/drunk.
WRONG!! (again, sigh!) Another clue is the word endings. Reveler and juicer both end in -er, a doer of the thing. I know, I know ... While your brain is screaming "Hurry up! Seconds are ticking away, you are taking too long!" who wants to look or search the memory for silly things like "What words end in what?" When I was a foolish new player that didn't know any better, I enjoyed Mind Melt. Then I began to care about the score and the time and I quit playing it.
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#1265526 - Sun May 17 2020 04:17 AM
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I don't worry about the time and the score, just enjoy the fun of trying to out-think the database. As fast as I can, but no panic when it takes a bit of time (sorry, team).
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#1265795 - Sun May 24 2020 07:41 AM
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Ah, at last ... I have found the place to rant about bl***y Mind Melt: I wouldn't play it at all if it weren't in the team quizzes.
Today's gem: "the opposite of 'lift' is 'lower': you said 'depress'."
paired with "the opposite of 'lift up' is 'depress'."
I should, of course, have guaranteed 29 by putting the same answer twice, but really?
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#1272227 - Thu Aug 27 2020 06:09 PM
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This has been raised before, earlier in the thread. The match is in Part 3, where the terms are related, often by way of several invisible definitions. In this case, a juke house is also known as a juke joint, and a joint is another term for a marijuana cigarette. The link is the joint, which doesn't actually appear in either of the immediate definitions.
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#1272230 - Thu Aug 27 2020 07:16 PM
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Mainstay
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The link is the joint, which doesn't actually appear in either of the immediate definitions. That doesn't make it right!
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#1272233 - Thu Aug 27 2020 08:01 PM
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It is a link that relates the two terms, and that is all the Part 3 requires. They are not being presented as being the same, as if they were in Part 1 (where, by the way, today I had the definition used here for a juke house matched with jook joint).
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#1272234 - Thu Aug 27 2020 09:01 PM
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Prolific
Registered: Tue Apr 30 2013
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Loc: New York USA
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The link is the joint, which doesn't actually appear in either of the immediate definitions. That doesn't make it right! In the case of Mind Melt logic, yes, it does make it right.
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#1272322 - Fri Aug 28 2020 06:36 PM
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I get the connection, and I get that part 3 is a different sort of matching. But by that logic I could make almost any two words/terms work. E.g., "miter box" would be a match for "juke house."
In any event, when it's just one set of terms it should be match-able by elimination, which it usually is.
I also agree it can be fun.
I really enjoy the puzzle solving I sometimes encounter when I see no obvious connection. When I can nail down the possible definitions (or examples, synonyms, etc.) that might be in a dictionary entry that could make the leap to establish the link, it is very satisfactory! Now, a miter box is used to cut wood so that the pieces can be connected with a precise fit at a joint. Since we already know that juke house matches to marijuana via a joint, this match could also be made. 
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#1273331 - Mon Sep 14 2020 10:55 AM
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Mainstay
Registered: Thu Jul 09 2009
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Since when is "observably" the opposite of "perceptibly"? I would say these are synonyms, and the "Free Dictionary" supports my sentiment.
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#1278078 - Tue Dec 01 2020 07:34 AM
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Registered: Tue Jun 04 2013
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Loc: Wales UK
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Sometimes, a shrug is the only appropriate response.
agriculturist is related to husbandman
You said: farmer
agriculturist means "someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil"
husbandman means "a person who operates a farm"
sower is related to farmer
You said: husbandman
sower means "someone who sows"
farmer means "a person who operates a farm"
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#1278174 - Wed Dec 02 2020 09:14 PM
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beguiler is related to wrongdoer You said: offender beguiler means "someone who leads you to believe something that is not true" wrongdoer means "a person who transgresses moral or civil law" evildoer is related to offender You said: wrongdoer evildoer means "a person who sins (without repenting)" offender means "a person who transgresses moral or civil law" All these words are related to each other 
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#1279537 - Sat Dec 19 2020 05:01 PM
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Someone explain this one  scramble is related to locomote You said: travel scramble means "to move hurriedly" locomote means "change location" plough is related to travel You said: locomote plough means "move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil" travel means "change location"
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#1279551 - Sat Dec 19 2020 09:17 PM
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Someone explain this one scramble is related to locomote You said: travel scramble means "to move hurriedly" locomote means "change location" plough is related to travel You said: locomote plough means "move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil" travel means "change location" I think I got it figured out. Scramble and locomote both contain the letter M. Plough and travel both have six letters. That is not meant to be a serious answer.
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#1279552 - Sat Dec 19 2020 09:31 PM
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When I got those definitions in part 3 (which is looser relationships rather than definitions), I thought about the various ways each might be used in context, and plumped for the correct pairing. They just seemed closer - scrambling is a more flustered motion than the trudging progress described as ploughing on, and travel feels to me more relaxed than locomotion. But, of course, that may just be because of the song!
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#1282785 - Sun Feb 07 2021 09:12 PM
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Eczema and Prurigo. Skin condition and skin disorder. Tough.
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