Rhyme Groups Word Puzzle

You’re listening to A Way with Words. I’m Grant Barrett.

And I’m Martha Barnette. And we’re joined once again by our quiz guy, John Chaneski.

Hello, John.

Hello, Grant. Hello, Martha. How are you guys?

Super duper. How are you doing? How are the kids?

I’m doing okay. The kids are fine. He’s getting big. Max is starting preschool soon.

Oh, that’s great. How old is he now?

Yeah, he’s four.

Four. Yeah.

So, hey, is Max short for something?

Max is short for Maxwell.

Maxwell.

Yeah.

Middle name House or no?

Middle name Joseph.

Joseph.

But Jessie’s middle name is very interesting.

Jessie’s middle name is Leo.

Yeah, she is named for her mom’s grandfather’s.

I like that.

Yeah, Jessie Leo.

Very pretty.

And speaking of very pretty, here’s a very pretty little quiz I came up with.

Nice segue.

Yeah, it’s a pretty segue.

Here’s a quiz that features that most basic form of wordplay, the rhyme.

Now, I’ll give you a category, and then I’ll give you three words.

Your job is to find rhymes for each of the three words that fit that category.

For example, if the category is numbers and the words are sun, brew, and free,

Your answers would be…

One, two, three.

One, two, three. Right. Real simple.

Phew. Okay.

Got to do the first one. Okay.

Good, good.

Again, you just have to tell me the three things that fit the category

That rhyme with those three words. Got it?

Okay. And what’s the name of this game?

Well, I call it rhyme groups because if I find another puzzle called rhyme time again, I’m just going to blow my brains out.

I just call it rhyme groups.

Rhyme groups doesn’t rhyme.

It doesn’t have to.

Don’t want it to.

Ready to go?

Here we go.

First category is units of time.

And the words are flower, peak, beckoned.

All right.

So hour, week.

A week.

And second.

How are we going second?

Yes, very good.

One, two, three.

Boom, boom, boom.

Okay.

Here’s the next category.

U.S. Postal Service street suffixes.

I’m afraid that’s the shortest way to categorize this.

But when you hear the words, I think you’ll understand what I’m going for.

Okay, sure.

Thrive, grace, ferris.

So drive, place, and terrace.

And terrace.

Yes, very good.

Here’s the next one.

Singers who use just one name.

Dual, sink, spork.

Dual, sink, spork.

So Bjork is the last one.

Right.

And jewel is the first one.

Right.

It was the first, yeah.

So who’s the sink?

Right.

Beck?

No.

Sink.

Sink.

Pink.

Pink is correct.

Oh, pink.

There we go.

There’s a case where you could kind of just run through the letters eventually.

Okay, next category is, you know what?

I want to do this one different.

I’m just going to give you the three words and see if you can guess the category.

See how that works, okay?

Because you’re doing so well.

Okay.

Knocker, menace, thicket.

I have it.

Yeah, what do you got?

These are sports.

These are sports.

And they’re soccer, tennis, and cricket.

Very good, Martha.

Very nice.

Let’s try again with the next one, okay?

These are the three words.

Motion, cuddle, fond.

Sounds naughty.

It does.

I went right to lotion.

This particular one does sound a little…

Motion, cuddle, and fond.

Right.

Oh, bodies of water.

Yes, bodies of water.

So ocean, puddle, and pond.

Very good.

Very good.

A sweep.

A sweep from Grant.

Good job.

But let’s try this last one.

Here we go.

Just the words.

Darling, cloth, gumbo.

Darling, cloth, gumbo.

Yeah.

This one’s tough.

I’m going to have to give you the category.

Wait, wait, wait.

Give me a shot.

Oh, no.

What?

You think you have it?

Are these Disney characters?

You’re close.

Cartoon characters.

Cartoon animals.

Are they elephants?

I’m thinking gumbo is dumbo.

Gumbo is dumbo.

Or it could be jumbo.

It could be, but it’s not.

It’s definitely dumbo.

Oh, dumbo.

Okay.

But the more specific the category is things that fly.

Oh, so starling.

Good.

What was the second word?

Cloth.

Moth.

Moth.

And Dumbo.

And you got it.

Very good.

Wow.

That was tough.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, that was a nice cob, you guys.

Well.

Rank Lou.

Oh, there was a word for a welcome.

All right.

Well, thanks, John.

It was great fun, as always.

And I know everyone at home is going, yeah, yeah, yeah, bring me some more.

So you’ll have some more for us next week.

I’ll have some more for you next week.

Super duper.

All right.

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