Bethump'd with Words

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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS EDITION: "One of the best word games of all time" (Home Education Magazine) ... "The Best new word game" (Games Magazine) ... "A Top 10 game" (Chicago Tribune) ... "Your favorite word nerd will flip over this game" (Boston Globe) ... "Bethump'd has won rave reviews from critics and our staff alike" (The Discovery Channel) ... "We can't leave it alone, it's terrific!" (Home Education Magazine) ... "A favorite from our top 10" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) ... "This game is sure to intrigue language and history buffs" (Parenting for High Potential Magazine)

GAME RULES

OBJECTIVE: Be the first player to earn all 7 letters of the Game Word and get back to the Starting Block.

TO START: A player draws a card from the deck of Game Word cards and enters each of the 7 letters of its game word in the blocks at the top of the Score Pad. All players must earn the letters of this word.

1. The first player rolls the die and an opponent draws and reads aloud a question from the question card deck corresponding to the value of the die (i.e., I, II, III, IV, V, or VI). Questions from Level I are easy while those from Level VI are the most challenging. The others are intermediate. If the player answers correctly, he/she may move out of the Starting Block any number of spaces up to the value of the die. For example, if the player rolled a four and correctly answered the question from Level IV, he/she may move 1, 2, 3, or 4 spaces. If the answer was not correct, he/she must remain in place and allow the next player to take their turn.

2. Only one letter of the Game Word may be won per turn and must be won by landing on its space. The letters may be earned in random order.

3. When a player lands on a space occupied by an opponent, he/she may move the opponent to any other space on the playing track, excluding the Starting Block. Players may not enter or jump across the Starting Block until they have earned all 7 letters.

4. When a player lands on "Roll Again", "Move to Vowel (or Consonant) of Choice", or "Go To Any Letter" he/she may take the appropriate action immediately. "Roll Again", however, requires answering another question.

5. When a player earns all 7 letters of the Game Word he/she must work their way back to the Starting Block. The first to do so wins the game.

SAMPLE QUESTIONS

The questions in this edition are arranged in six levels of difficulty, each of which features these aspects of words and the English language: Accents * Acronyms * Americanisms * Australianisms * Borrowed Words * Briticisms * Calques * Canadianisms * Dinosaur Words * Eponyms * Euphemisms * History * Holorimic Phrases * Homographs * Homonyms * Homophones * Idioms * Jargon * Letter Words * Names & Nicknames * Portmanteau Words * Quotations * Sexist English * Slang * Spoonerisms * True or False * Evolving Words * Word Origins.

HOMOPHONES What homophones complete this sentence: "If she has her ___ and eats all the curds and ___ Ms Muffet might ___ enough to mash her tuffet"? (See Ans.1)

ACCENTS According to humorist Alistair Morrison, Australians combine the words "air" and "fridge" when they pronounce what word defined as 'an arithmetic mean'? (See Ans.2)

WORD ORIGINS What type of comedy has a name derived from a sixteenth century device made of two flat sticks fastened at one end and which was used by Italian actors as a noisemaker during a time when mock violence was in vogue? (See Ans.3)

HOMOGRAPHS What homographs are defined as "to tighten by turning" and "an air current stronger than a breeze"? (See Ans.4)

PORTMANTEAU WORDS What word did English dramatist, poet, and critic John Dryden coin in 1651 by blending the words "witty" and "criticism"? (See Ans.5)

EPONYMS What nut (non-human) was discovered in Australia during the nineteenth century by chemist John Macadam? (See Ans.6)

AMERICANISMS What letter did America's rebellious Noah Webster say was wasteful and should be dropped from the British spelling of "labour" and "harbour"? (See Ans.7)

BRITICISMS In Britain, is a "nappy" a brief nap before tea, a small napkin, or a baby's diaper? (See Ans.8)

BORROWED WORDS In 1513, explorer Ponce de Leon used the Spanish word for "flowery" when he bestowed the first European name on what part of North America? (See Ans.9)

IDIOMS Was the popular idiom "It's Greek to me" coined by Plato, William Shakespeare, or Mark Twain? (See Ans.10)

ANSWERS
1. way / whey / weigh
2. average
3. slapstick
4. wind / wind
5. witticism
6. macadamia
7. the "u"
8. a baby's diaper
9. Florida
10. Shakespeare (Julius Caesar, Act I, Sc.II, Line 288)